Good luck getting your hero Steve Cohen elected statewide. (Don't get me wrong, I like Cohen fine. I'm just getting pretty tired of people trashing Ford when they offer no real viable alternatives.)

I'd like a list, county by county, of which officials will support Cohen, especially given his habit of calling up other elected Democratic officials with whom he disagrees to scream at them - and airing his disagreements with them in the press, rather than out of public view; who's going to raise money for him and how; and who's going to chair his campaign. Oh, and how you're going to sell his positions on medical marijuana and gay marriage statewide. Once you do that, we can talk turkey.

For the record, the Ford thank-you reception here in Nashville last night was well-attended and generally pretty great. They didn't even run out of food in the first half hour, which nearly always happens at these things...