WTH?

[jaxx]

Dems Nominate Anti-Gay Conspiracy Theorist for Senate

—By Tim Murphy
| Fri Aug. 3, 2012 7:51 AM PDT

Mark Clayton believes the federal government is building a massive, four-football-field wide superhighway from Mexico City to Toronto as part of a secret plot to establish a new North American Union that will bring an end to America as we know it. On Thursday, he became the Tennessee Democrats' nominee for US Senate.

Clayton, an anti-gay marriage activist and flooring installer with a penchant for fringe conspiracy theories, finished on top of a crowded primary field in the race to take on GOP Sen. Bob Corker this fall. He earned 26 percent of the vote despite raising no money and listing the wrong opponent on his campaign website. The site still reads, "DEDICATED TO THE DEFEAT OF NEO-CONSERVATIVE LAMAR ALEXANDER," whom Clayton tried to challenge in 2008. (That year, he didn't earn the Democratic nomination.)

On his issues page, Clayton sounds more like a member of the John Birch society than a rank-and-file Democrat. He says he's against national ID cards, the North American Union, and the "NAFTA superhighway," a non-existent proposal that's become a rallying cry in the far-right fever swamps. Elsewhere, he warns of an encroaching "godless new world order" and suggests that Americans who speak out against government policies could some day be placed in "a bone-crushing prison camp similar to the one Alexander Solzhenitsyn was sent or to one of FEMA's prison camps." (There are no FEMA prison camps.)

<..> Clayton's primary victory is only the latest blow for the Tennessee Democrats in a state that's becoming redder every year. Democrats lost three congressional seats during the 2010 midterms, plus control of the governor's mansion. Corker, a rising GOP star who edged Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. by just 2.7 points in 2006, is now virtually assured of another six years in Washington. The political shift is more pronounced at the local level, where Republicans have taken advantage of their new-found dominance in Nashville to advance far-right proposals like a bill to criminalize Shariah law and to ban the discussion of homosexuality from public schools.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/...ats-senate

This guy is no Democrat. Is TN so far gone that Democrats would vote for a rabid nut like this? Somebody needs to do some real explaining on why this guy won the nomination.

[pappy]

I think I have a new name for Dems like this guy. Fred Phelps Democrats(T)

[jaxx]

(08-03-2012 11:57 AM)pappy Wrote:  I think I have a new name for Dems like this guy. Fred Phelps Democrats(T)

That'll work. Does it include the Dems who voted for him?

[pappy]

(08-03-2012 12:02 PM)jaxx Wrote:  

(08-03-2012 11:57 AM)pappy Wrote:  I think I have a new name for Dems like this guy. Fred Phelps Democrats(T)

That'll work. Does it include the Dems who voted for him?

Yep, the Phelps Dems are replacing the Reagan Dems.

[sandnsea]

Ugh. There goes my theory that the difference between Democrats & Republicans is that we don't let our crazies near the levers of power.

[azmouse]

Yikes! It sounds like the TN Democratic party is being run by the Republicans.