Chip Forrester And The Cash Money Millionaires

By Kleinheider Posted on January 29, 2009 at 8:33 am

Ken Whitehouse explains why the election of Chip Forrester as TNDP chair may end up turning off the money faucet for the Democrats:

What has conservative Democrats chagrined about Forrester is both superficial and substantive. Superficially, outside of the Nashville beltway it is hard for these Democrats to see Forrester being able to relate to farmers and factory workers. Substantially, they still remember the fact that Forrester forsook his political family and mounted a quixotic campaign against entrenched Democratic Congressman Bob Clement in 1992. The timing couldn’t have been worse because not long after Forrester mounted the challenge, Gore became Bill Clinton’s running mate and Forrester was shut out of the campaign.

While Forrester has rehabilitated his political image with this election, the question still remains whether he will have the gravitas to move his party forward. Right now, his election is simply a personal accomplishment, time will tell if it is anything more than that.

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