I hear ya! I moved to TN only recently and wonder how Corker & Alexander could have gotten elected esp Corker. Then I recall the Sasser/Gore days and all wonder disappears. The only sane one in the bunch is Duncan. Wamp needs to get a real job and stop inflicting himself on us.
Duncan is the most Conservative Congressman in Tennessee as well as one of the more so in the House. I'd like to see him take Corker or Alexander's seat in the senate. It would be a major improvement.
The Republican Primary was a 3-way race between Corker and two more conservative candidates. The conservative vote was split between Hilleary and Bryant and Corker won. Then Corker ran a close race against Harold Ford Jr, with hardly a dime's worth of difference between the two.
Alexander has shown some conservative tendencies through the years but, unfortunately, has turned into a Beltway Republican that we have drag kicking and screaming back to his constituents' conservative values all too often.