Or perhaps I should say, "Less of this one, please." Or how about just, "None of them. Ever again. Please....For the Love of God." Sunshine State Poll: Grayson In Trouble The latest Sunshine State/VSS poll shows controversial Democratic incumbent Alan Grayson trailing former state Senator Dan Webster by seven points, 43 percent to 36 percent. A majority of respondents -- 51 percent -- disapprove of the job that Grayson is doing. Independents have an unfavorable view of him as well, by a 36/47 margin. Grayson has ignored the conventional wisdom that a freshman should be a quiet member who carefully tends to the home fires. The latest controversy involves his " Taliban Dan " advertisement, where he explicitly compares his opponent to the Taliban, and shows a clip of Webster paraphrasing Ephesians 5:22 -- "wives, submit to your husbands." An unedited version of the clip shows that Webster was actually suggesting that husba...
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"Less than 24 hours after a man espousing conservative and libertarian views surprised the state’s political scene by winning the Democratic nomination, the Tennessee Democratic Party disavowed him, saying he’s 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 Thursday’s seven-candidate primary, winning the right to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker in November."
Every party has nuts. At least the Dems have disavowed him and stated that they will do nothing to help him. Can you give me examples of the GOP or Libertarians doing the same with their nuts? (Serious question, btw)
David Duke would be one.
You just turned this into one of your usual silly DL games, pandora. No surprise there.
So don't expect me to play by different rules. So-called "real" Democrats in Tennessee simply didn't work hard enough to keep this nut off the ballot, so they--and all other Democrats--now own him.
When you guys start playing nice in the first place, come back and talk.
No. Those "nuances" do not apply to Tennessee Libertarian candidates.
No one outside a party is going to trouble to influence a party primary when that party garners less than 1% of the total vote in a general election. In 2008, even Ralph Nader out-polled Libertarian Bob Barr by over 3,000 votes in Tennessee.
The Libertarian Party of Tennessee is just not big enough to be taken so seriously by the D and R parties.
As for Public Advocate, I have no idea about the organization, but you could pretty much take the Republican Platform's social agenda and find its mirror. That is hardly a hate group. It is mainstream. Now that is the real reason the Democratic party in TN is losing more and more. They are calling a large segment of their own party let alone a majority of the state haters and nuts for believing traditional values. Then refuse to acknowledge the duly nominated candidate based upon it. That is outrageous. The Democrat headquarters should be surrounded with protesters demanding the leadership's ouster. Your job is to listen to the people if you can't do it, leave.