Mark Clayton believes the federal government is building a massive, four-football-field wide superhighway from Mexico City to Toronto as part of a secret plot to establish a new North American Union that will bring an end to America as we know it. On Thursday, he became the Tennessee Democrats' nominee for US Senate.
Clayton, an anti-gay marriage activist and flooring installer with a penchant for fringe conspiracy theories, finished on top of a crowded primary field in the race to take on GOP Sen. Bob Corker this fall. He earned 26 percent of the vote despite raising no money and listing the wrong opponent on his campaign website. The site still reads, "DEDICATED TO THE DEFEAT OF NEO-CONSERVATIVE LAMAR ALEXANDER," whom Clayton tried to challenge in 2008. (That year, he didn't earn the Democratic nomination.)
On his issues page, Clayton sounds more like a member of the John Birch society than a rank-and-file Democrat. He says he's against national ID cards, the North American Union, and the "NAFTA superhighway," a non-existent proposal that's become a rallying cry in the far-right fever swamps. Elsewhere, he warns of an encroaching "godless new world order" and suggests that Americans who speak out against government policies could some day be placed in "a bone-crushing prison camp similar to the one Alexander Solzhenitsyn was sent or to one of FEMA's prison camps." (There are no FEMA prison camps.)
To repeat, Mark Clayton is the Democrat in this race, and I wouldn't vote for the man. Yes, that's right, there exists a Democrat I wouldn't vote for against a Republican. In this race, current GOP Sen. Bob Corker, is actually the sane person and the Democrat is the Tea Party assclown, and this really is an example where banking minion Corker is no different from his Democratic opponent. This really is Evil vs Stupid.
Oh well. Good luck with that, Tennessee Dems. (The same assholes that gave us Harold Ford, Jr. I might add.)
You make us here in Kentucky look good.
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