The national Republican Party is sending out an e-mail to bloggers that rips Tennessee U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford. Only problem is, it shows that he’s awesome.

From the e-mail:

After denying he attended a playboy party numerous times, Harold Ford has finally decided to come clean, explaining “I like football and I like girls.”

You can see video here.

Now wait a minute – this is supposed to make him look bad? Of course, the charge is that he previously lied about attending the party, which I guess isn’t great. I’m confused about why he would feel the need to deny it in the first place. What I can guarantee is that Ford is about to receive a large special interest donation from the Tennessee Association of Blind Guys with Hairy Palms.

When they introduce another campaign finance reform bill at the federal level, I propose it contain a provision allowing candidates to lie at least once about whether they like naked women. And someone might want to check into Mark Foley’s claims that he never attended a boy scout jamboree.

The RNC is running a TV ad against Ford accusing him of cavorting with playmates and accepting money from porn producers. As I’ve argued before, there’s nothing wrong with accepting money from purveyors of porn – they have First Amendment rights, too. The only problem would occur when Ford introduces the “Give It To Me Harder Act of 2007″ as a reward.

I might have to run down to Tennessee and cast my vote for Ford. Do you need a photo ID down there?

I hadn’t planned on posting anything tonight, but I was compelled to based on a ridiculous documentary I just viewed from my treadmill. The PBS show “NOW” aired an appalling hour-long love letter to the campaign finance reform movement, which they refer to throughout the show as the “clean elections movement.” And of course, they claim it’s bipartisan, since they find some Republican named Woodcock that’s funding his gubernatorial campaign with taxpayer money.

I’d be surprised if 90% of the show isn’t spent cheerleading for full public financing of campaigns. And the other 10% features some barely functional egghead trying to explain the basic concept of why not allowing voters to speak is an infringement on free speech. Rarely has a documentary been so clueless about how actual campaigns are run.

If you can stomach it, you can follow the link to watch the full hour long video here. I think my wife thought I fell off the treadmill, I was yelling at the TV so much.

It seems fitting that a public television system that wastes taxpayer money on slanted garbage like NOW finds no problem in wasting taxpayer money to run political campaigns.

P.S. – On the main page, there’s a poll question that asks, “Are campaign contributions a form of free speech?” The results – “Yes,” 8%, “No” 86%. Any question about who watches PBS again?