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Tennessee Democrats disavow own Senate candidate, citing hate group ties
AP via FoxNews ^ | 8/3/12

Posted on 08/03/2012 4:43:02 PM PDT by SmithL

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Democratic Party is disavowing the winner of the party's nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Bob Corker in November, saying the little-known candidate belongs to an anti-gay hate group.

The winner of the seven-candidate Democratic primary, 35-year-old Mark Clayton, reported raising no money and campaigned little but received more than 48,000 votes. . . .

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: antigay; bluedogvoters; bobcorker; clayton; hategroup; markclayton; publicadvocate; rats; splc; tennessee; ussenate
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The Rats have given up on the Volunteer State's Senate campaign.
1 posted on 08/03/2012 4:43:16 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Good! We need as many seats in the Senate as possible!


2 posted on 08/03/2012 4:45:31 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: SmithL

How can any DemocRAT NOT be associated with a “hate group”. That’s what the DemocRAT party is! Geeesh.


3 posted on 08/03/2012 4:46:11 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The NRA did not create James "The Joker" Holmes. Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood did.)
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To: SmithL

Complete disarray. No one understands anyone anymore. Tower of Babel.


4 posted on 08/03/2012 4:47:10 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: SmithL
That's the way to do it ~ should you end up, even by accident, with a candidate who does not represent to some degree every part of your party coalition, YOU DUMP HIM.

Running a doufous who has a real draw of less than 8% of the Republican coalition is elementally stupid.

No wonder the Democrats keep figuring out how to stay in the government.

5 posted on 08/03/2012 4:47:59 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Erik Latranyi

The good news is that there won’t be a high-visibility candidate like Ford with a family machine built to steal elections.

The bad news is that we will still have Bob Corker.


6 posted on 08/03/2012 4:51:59 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

This seat wasn’t going to be competitive anyway. It’s easy to disavow someone who has no hope of winning.


7 posted on 08/03/2012 4:54:57 PM PDT by Random_User_250
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To: SmithL
The winner of the seven-candidate Democratic primary, 35-year-old Mark Clayton, reported raising no money and campaigned little but received more than 48,000 votes. . .

Poster boy for Dem voter fraud? Probably easy when you know how!!

8 posted on 08/03/2012 4:58:19 PM PDT by GoldenPup (Comrade "O" has got to GO!!)
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To: SmithL

The race for control of the Senate is going better than I could have ever hoped.


9 posted on 08/03/2012 5:07:34 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks SmithL.
The Tennessee Democratic Party is disavowing the winner of the party's nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Bob Corker in November, saying the little-known candidate belongs to an anti-gay hate group. The winner of the seven-candidate Democratic primary, 35-year-old Mark Clayton, reported raising no money and campaigned little but received more than 48,000 votes...

10 posted on 08/03/2012 5:11:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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This seat wasn’t going to be competitive anyway. It’s easy to disavow someone who has no hope of winning.
Yeah, maybe, but I doubt that they would have been willing to disavow Park Overall if she had won.
11 posted on 08/03/2012 5:14:26 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

I wonder if this Democrat is actually a “stealth Republican conservative”?

Corker probably has the Republican establishment all tied up, so they would block any serious primary challenger. But if somebody runs as a Democrat, and is able to convince the Tea Party that he is doing so just to beat Corker, I wonder if they would bite?

That is, if the party gives them choice but to vote for Corker, this might be an “end around” to take him out, by giving the Tea Party somebody else to vote for.


12 posted on 08/03/2012 5:20:31 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: SmithL

Yes sir, another stunning display of Democrat tolerance.


13 posted on 08/03/2012 5:23:40 PM PDT by mazda77 ("Defeating the Totalitarian Lie" By: Hilmar von Campe. Everybody should read it.)
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To: SmithL

How did a red state like TN end up with two RINOs like Corker and the other clown? Makes no sense. RINOs like Brown in Massachusetts are fine, but red states should have hardcore conservatives.


14 posted on 08/03/2012 5:42:19 PM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
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Same as in GA. Every state office is held by a Republican, and yet we have two RINO Senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson.


15 posted on 08/03/2012 6:00:34 PM PDT by Atlantan
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To: Erik Latranyi

Yes, but now in Tennessee we might have a valid protest vote.


16 posted on 08/03/2012 6:02:04 PM PDT by Ingtar ("As the light begins to fade in the city on the hill")
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To: nhwingut

In the primaries, the state GOP always pushes for two or more Conservatives and one Moderate. The vote in the primary is split just enough to insure that we end up with Moderate winners. If they slip up and the Conservative wins the primary, the GOP-E pushes people to vote for the Dim. It ought to sound familiar. We just went through similar nationally.


17 posted on 08/03/2012 6:06:32 PM PDT by Ingtar ("As the light begins to fade in the city on the hill")
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To: SmithL
The real story here is not that a kook won the Dem primary, but that no Democrat with any significant qualifications or experience entered the race. So, rather remarkably, Senator Corker gets a free ride.

There was a similar story in South Carolina in 2010, where the Dems failed to put up a credible candidate to run against the incumbent Senator DeMint.

How fast things change. In several Southern states, the Democratic Party, until recently the unchallenged majority party especially at state levels, has catastrophically imploded. At the Presidential level, Republicans have been winning Southern states for a few decades. They started winning Senate and Gubernatorial races in significant numbers in the 1970s and later. But to have the Democrats fail to even put up a fight in Senate races is amazing. And now, the Democratic wall is rapidly falling even at State Legislative levels, including in my home state of NC, where the GOP took both houses of the General Assembly for the first time since Reconstruction, and by a comfortable margin, now secured via redistricting.

Senator Corker isn't consistently conservative enough for my tastes, but he's no New England-style RINO; he'll do until someone better comes along. And someone will, maybe in 2018.

18 posted on 08/03/2012 6:32:47 PM PDT by southernnorthcarolina ("Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." -- Aesop)
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To: SmithL

Clayton is vice president of the Falls Church, Va.-based Public Advocate of the United States, which calls itself a conservative advocacy group. The Southern Poverty Law Center calls the organization an anti-gay hate group.

Clayton did not immediately return messages. Public Advocate says on its website that it “offers strong and vocal opposition to,” among other things, “same-sex marriage and the furtherance of so-called gay rights

MAYBE A good Democrat worth voting for?

Isn’t Corker a RINO?

So maybe this isn’t so bad for Conservatives afterall?


19 posted on 08/03/2012 6:56:36 PM PDT by JSDude1
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To: SmithL

Conservatives~have given up on getting a non-RINO from Tennessee too.!!


20 posted on 08/03/2012 7:13:38 PM PDT by jch10 (Fail to the Chief!)
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