No I'm not. But I can tell you know nothing of Tennessee politics especially Governor Don Sundquist. Here is what I posted earlier if you can understand it. Sundquist was the Dems man in a GOP suit. His agenda was theirs and theirs is his. Now follow me closely as to what happened next. About half the GOP followed the governor because of party loyality and as well helped usher in the Dems agenda. That left the other half the conservatives to fight the battle.
Now if he had lost the GOP would have at least been clear on an agenda and had a full fight against the pathetic leglislation being pushed. In other words a Dem governor would have been elected with a united GOP working against him. Instead we got a Dem Governor a RINO who did the Dems dirty work and split the party in the process. Do you comprehend? Sometimes there are far worse things than losing an office to another party.