Tenn. Democrats disavow their Senate Candidate
This isn’t really related to the military, but it does illustrate how out of touch voters are with their candidates. In Tennessee, Mark Clayton won the nomination of the Democrat Party for their Senate seat. But the State Party got a bad taste in their mouth about him after they found out that the only times he ever voted for a Democrat candidate was when that candidate was himself. It seems that the voters in Tennessee voting in the primaries were so disconnected from the issues that they just voted for Clayton because he was at the top of the ballot. I’ve been saying for years that we need to rescind the 17th Amendment, and that proves my contention.
Anyway, the State Democrats announced that they’re withdrawing any support for Clayton because he belongs to a “hate group”. Which hate group? Public Advocate of the United States which apparently supports a social conservative agenda which has put them on the “Hate Map” of the Southern Poverty Law Center because they oppose same-sex marriage;
Yup, there they are among the white supremacists and the KKK in Virginia, just because they oppose same-sex marriage. Not that they’ve ever done anything to physically or verbally abuse any gays, but just by opposing the agenda, they’re a “hate group”. And the Tennessee Democrats are making their decision based solely on the word of SPLC that it’s a hate group to disavow their candidate.
Yeah, I checked to see if SPLC had listed the TAH Corporate HQs and Resort as a hate group and they haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Category: 2012 election
Don’t worry buddy, you keep hanging in there, get a few more followers and soon you too can be classified by the “Southern Poverty Law Center” as a genuine hate group. I know it can be frustrating. You spew hate day after day, week after week, year after year, and get absolutely no recognition. But look, if you don’t have a minimum following of maybe 30,000 hits per day you just don’t pack the gear to make it in the SPLC’s list of official hate organizations. A few tricks to make the cut a little quicker include changing your terminology. When you mean homosexual use the word “queer.” Throw in some “redistribution” and “racial entitlement” programs and you’ll be in like Flynn at the SPLC.
Clearly they’re not a hate group, though some of their mission statements seem contradictory.
If Public Advocate’s founder is any indication of the group at large….they are off their flipping rockers however. Eugene Delgaudio [also Loudon County, VA’s Supervisor] has been known to label nearly everything he dislikes, as part of the ‘homosexual agenda’.
From TSA patdowns to Tampa’s Gasparilla Pirate Fest…the gays are apparently the driving force. He seems to have quite the fetish for them….
SPLC running around calling everyone a hate group? Um, if you call someone out of their name, doesn’t that make them a hate group?
Remember, at one time the Leader of the Westboro baptist Church used to do work for the SPLC.
Right now, I can’t think of bigger hate groups than the DNC and its campaign tactics, and the GLAD/GLABT missionaries holding ‘kiss-ins’ at Chick-fil-A restaurants.
Since when is having a differing viewpoint hateful?
Oh, wait — it’s only hateful if they aren’t the ones doing it.
Did I get that part right?
You have a resort? Dang, I need to get out more often.
I may not agree with all of his (or PAUS) positions, but it’s good to see that Tennessee is where the people began to take back the DNC, and give the people a choice again.
If he were running in 2014, against Lamar Alexander, he’d have a decent chance of winning.
First Alvin Greene, now this guy. What next? Carol Shea-Porter running to get her old seat back?
Oh wait. She is. Damn, I got nuthin.
The Democrats co-opted Lincoln as their own and set about quashing many nasty facts that embarrass them. One of their icons is Woodrow Wilson. Old Woody segregated the military and the civilian federal workforce. What a guy! Then, of course, there were the many Civil Rights acts that were fiercely opposed by Democrats—including the sainted JFK as a US senator in 1957. School desegregation? You don’t want to go there for ammo if you are a Democrat and want to return fire. Ditto the voting rights acts. And if one were to ask 10 people on the street whether MLK was a democrat or republican, I’m guessing that not one of them would provide the correct answer. Me, I don’t much care for party politics and the attendant lies and gamesmanship. But it does piss me off that the Democrats have been so wildly successful in revising history and forcing good people to shrink from saying what the hell they want to say without organized recriminations from government at all levels. I wonder if the mayors of Philly, Boston, and Chicago know that Chick-Fil-A is closed on Sundays.