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THE TENNESSEE DEMOCRATIC PARTY: WHO’S CRAZY NOW?
I’m from Tennessee. I don’t talk about it much – not since it started becoming known for its political landscape where voters tend to nominate pro-life, homophobic batshit conspiracy theorists for the US Senate.
And that’s just the Democrats.
Seriously. The Tennessee Democratic Party has just nominated its candidate to challenge Republican Bob Corker for one of the state’s two Senate seats – Mark Clayton, a guy who is vice president of Public Advocate of the United States (the conservative group led by Eugene Delgaudio, the guy who thinks TSA patdowns and Muppets are part of the Homosexual Agenda) and who spent much of his previous Senate campaign in 2008 talking about the dangers of national ID cards, the NAFTA Superhighway, and how Google was deliberately censoring search results on his web site by order of the Chinese govt.
Also, he reportedly believes Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to get the Constitution rewritten so he can become the new Hitler.
So. That’s the Democrat nominee.
To be fair, the TN Democratic Party has completely disowned Clayton, and is urging party voters to write in a more suitable candidate.
On the other hand, their explanation for how Clayton won the nomination in the first place does not reflect well on Democrat voters as a whole:
In other words: we couldn’t be bothered to actually get the word out on any of our candidates, and our constituents were too lazy to bother checking first, and so Clayton won by virtue of being the person who’s last name comes earliest in the alphabet.
So in that sense, it’s kind of hard to feel sorry for them.
And it probably doesn’t matter anyway – Sen. Corker is pretty standard-issue GOP material, which in the current state political environment means he’d probably be looking at a comfortable second term no matter who won the Demo nomination.
On the other hand, some of the laws the state govt has been passing lately, especially the ones intended to stop the Gay Muslim Takeover, are fuelled by the same batshit mentality that Clayton displays. So maybe Corker is TOO standard-issue by 2012 conservative standards, in which case he may have to up his Batshit game to keep up with Clayton.
Sane by comparison,
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And that’s just the Democrats.
Seriously. The Tennessee Democratic Party has just nominated its candidate to challenge Republican Bob Corker for one of the state’s two Senate seats – Mark Clayton, a guy who is vice president of Public Advocate of the United States (the conservative group led by Eugene Delgaudio, the guy who thinks TSA patdowns and Muppets are part of the Homosexual Agenda) and who spent much of his previous Senate campaign in 2008 talking about the dangers of national ID cards, the NAFTA Superhighway, and how Google was deliberately censoring search results on his web site by order of the Chinese govt.
Also, he reportedly believes Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to get the Constitution rewritten so he can become the new Hitler.
So. That’s the Democrat nominee.
To be fair, the TN Democratic Party has completely disowned Clayton, and is urging party voters to write in a more suitable candidate.
On the other hand, their explanation for how Clayton won the nomination in the first place does not reflect well on Democrat voters as a whole:
“Many Democrats in Tennessee knew nothing about any of the candidates in the race, so they voted for the person at the top of the ticket. Unfortunately, none of the other Democratic candidates were able to run the race needed to gain statewide visibility or support.”
In other words: we couldn’t be bothered to actually get the word out on any of our candidates, and our constituents were too lazy to bother checking first, and so Clayton won by virtue of being the person who’s last name comes earliest in the alphabet.
So in that sense, it’s kind of hard to feel sorry for them.
And it probably doesn’t matter anyway – Sen. Corker is pretty standard-issue GOP material, which in the current state political environment means he’d probably be looking at a comfortable second term no matter who won the Demo nomination.
On the other hand, some of the laws the state govt has been passing lately, especially the ones intended to stop the Gay Muslim Takeover, are fuelled by the same batshit mentality that Clayton displays. So maybe Corker is TOO standard-issue by 2012 conservative standards, in which case he may have to up his Batshit game to keep up with Clayton.
Sane by comparison,
This is dF