Oh my. A pro-lifer, anti-gay marriage candidate got himself elected by the populace only to be disavowed by party leaders? Sounds like a little discord here. Wonder who'll win... the voters or the DNC? Tennessee Democratic Party disavows Senate nominee Aug 3, 2012 The party of Cordell Hull, Estes Kefauver and Al Gore Sr. and Jr. wont have a standard-bearer or at least not one it can stomach in Tennessees next U.S. Senate race. Less than 24 hours after a man espousing conservative and libertarian views surprised the states political scene by winning the Democratic nomination, the Tennessee Democratic Party disavowed him, saying hes part of an anti-gay hate group. The party said Friday that it would do nothing to help Mark Clayton, 35, who received nearly twice as many votes as his closest challenger in Thursdays seven-candidate primary, winning the right to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker in November. "The only time that Clayton has voted in a Democratic primary was when he was voting for himself, the party said in a news release. 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. Mark Clayton is associated with a known hate group in Washington, D.C., and the Tennessee Democratic Party disavows his candidacy, will not do anything to promote or support him in any way, and urges Democrats to write-in a candidate of their choice in November. Clayton defended his work for Public Advocate of the United States, the pro-life, pro-marriage group in question, and said he was disappointed with the Tennessee Democratic Partys zero-sum politics. Its not necessarily surprising, unfortunately, he said in a phone interview. But thats not the way I deal with my political opponents. I have good friends who are liberals. read more here... Imagine a conservative libertarian Democrat. The Dim's own unicorn! ROFLMAO
(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)bag bigot posing as a Democrat? Based on the information at hand, sounds like disvowing him is the right thing to do.
It sez establishment Dems aren't supporting him... it doesn't say voters won't still support him. See the recent GOP runoff election for a Texas Senate seat where the estabishment candidate was soundly beaten by a candidate supported by the tea party. Voters have the final say. It's the American way.
More evidence Democrats reflexively vote for (D).... so known, understood and exploited by their herders, they cried like 8 year old children when, in an effort to inspire voters to familiarize themselves with a candidate's position on ISSUES, a proposal was made to remove party affiliation identifiers from the ballot (After the Alvin Greene debacle in South Carolina, if memory serves)
Poor Dems don't have a Sarah Palin in their ranks, do they? A national figure, capable of leading party voters to make informed decisions? I guess the closest they've got is Wasserman-Schultz. Oh brother, are they ever in trouble.
Another fine example of Neo-Liberal Tolerance, Inclusiveness, Open-Mindedness, and representation of the American Middle rather than the leftist Extremes. This is exactly why I no longer call myself a Democrat or a Liberal. It is not that I've Left the Democratic Party, its that the Party Leadership has chosen to pursue a radical leftist / socialist / FASCIST agenda. I'd be pround to be label a Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Rosevelt, JFK Era Liberal, I won't let myself be called an Obama Neo-Liberal. ( And they Hate and Malign and don't want Over-40-Pale-Males and their families anyway ... ) This is exactly why America NEEDS the TEA Party. Its time for the Neo-Liberal run Democratic Party to go the route of the Wigs, slowly diminish into obscure, radiacal, racist, small, fourth-rate party and which will eventually die off.
Good point! The party of Jim Crow and Slavery can't have bigots running around! That'd be like having a Senator who was a member of the KKK in you party as recently as two years ago! Oh, wait...
Of course it is but since the right wingers need everything they can get, even when it's NOTHING, they will sling it and see if it sticks. This was dead before it started.
Unfortunately for you, in this case it has nothing to do with the right but democrats eating their own. It is what they do.
Yes, now the left wing PC crowd labels those that are against same sex marriage and for protecting the innocent, "hate groups". The same SLPC that can never find a left wing hate group, even when people are killed by them.
I did a little research on "Public Advocate for the United States". It doesn't seem to be a bona fide hate group, but it does seem a bit conflicted in ideology. It supports the expansion of faith-based initiatives while cutting pork spending. Hmmmm... I wonder if they realize that faith-based initiatives are the same thing as pork.
