By Douglas V. Gibbs
Being disavowed by your political party is nothing new. It has happened before. A recent example would be from the last election when the Republican Party turned its back on Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell, and Joe Miller. These Tea Party inspired candidates were all abandoned by the establishment leadership in the GOP for the crime, in the eyes of the RINOs at the top, for being too conservative.
Tea Party supported candidate Ted Cruz of Texas is beginning to feel the wrath of the Republican Party in this 2012 election season.
The liberal left crazies of the Democrat Party have an even stronger stranglehold on what they consider to be the acceptable ideological stances of their candidates. The collectivists of the Democrat Party demand that all candidates tow the party line, or be not only abandoned, but shunned and attacked as a hateful member of the opposition.
A party like the democrats that is willing to train their foot soldiers to portray conservatives as racists couldn't possibly tolerate any of their own having any conservative tendencies.
Enter into the picture Tennessee candidate Mark Clayton, a democrat with a number of conservative and libertarian views. He won the nomination for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee, pulling off the right to challenge Republican U.S. Senator Bob Corker, but is being disavowed by the Tennessee Democrat Party. Why? He is being accused of being a part of an anti-gay hate group.
Hate group? Oh, you mean that pro-life, pro-marriage group called Public Advocate of the United States?
As a result, the Democrats will refuse to promote him, or support them. He is totally on his own. The Democrat Party is urging the voters to write in candidates other than Clayton.
I guess according to the democrat leadership, you are either 100% for them, or you are to be kicked to the curb.
The Daily Kos called Clayton "anything but. . . a real Democrat."
Clayton said his affiliation with the Public Advocate of the United States was because the group protects “the rights of people who don’t want to live their lives differently.”
The pro-marriage group was labeled as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which Clayton says teaches a “gender-bending” curriculum and uses its national list of hate groups as a fund-raising strategy.
So, according to the Clayton Campaign, what are his major positions?
1) Strict adherence to the U.S. Constitution
2) Family stances that are pro-life
3) Keeping the country from turning into “AN ORWELLIAN SUPER STATE.”
He sounds more like a missionary to the heathens of the Democrat Party, doesn't he? Time to maybe slap an "R" after his name.
The local Democrat Party is even now working on a legal maneuver to try to get Clayton’s name off the November ballot, or at least off of the part that says he's a democrat.
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