Posted on 07/05/2013 5:20:06 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn
You should have voted third party. That rat Clayton is conspiracy theory kook and Paulbot who was “undecided” on whether he was voting for Obama, despite being conservative on “some” issues.
“Ron Paul Democrat” is not my cup of tea.
He didn’t have the most remote chance of winning. Purely a protest vote on my behalf. What was astonishing is that Clayton managed to carry Shelby County (Memphis) by 8% (and nearby Black majority Haywood, the only two counties he carried). Proves that Blacks will vote for ANY Democrat on the ballot, almost regardless of ideology. Corker carried my county of Davidson-Nashville, but by a narrow plurality, with some White liberals breaking for a Green candidate that deprived Clayton of a win.
I know he couldn’t win but would you wanted to him to win? I certainly wouldn’t have.
Did the TN rats official back the Green? If you don’t put the word to the robots (Black voters) they just stick with their default programming, what else would they do?
Would I have wanted him to win ? As an academic exercise, it would’ve been curious to see what he would’ve done. I enjoy electing people who are the fly in the proverbial ointment, the pain in the ass (now I’m quoting Detective John McClane) to the political establishment. The kind of Democrat I would vote for is highly unlikely to ever be nominated... and if they are, they would never win a general election.
As for TN Dems endorsing the Green over Clayton, they wouldn’t have openly done that (unless he’d done something really horrid, in which case, they’d have forced him off the ballot). I think White liberal voters (in Nashville, to be precise), some clearly decided to vote for Corker and for the hard-core left, for the Green nominee (I believe nearly all of his votes came from this county, he got 4%).
As you can see, here’s a comparison in that same election:
Davidson County - 2012
(D) Zero
143,120
(D) Clayton
105,631
(R) Willard
97,622
(R) Corker
111,176
You can see that at least 10% of Zero’s voters went to Corker. But about 25,000 chose not to vote for either in the Senate race (of which about 8,000 voted Green).
Shelby County/Memphis - 2012
(D) Zero
232,443
(D) Clayton
181,253
(R) Willard
135,649
(R) Corker
152,612
Here again, you can see around 6 or 7% of Zero voters went to Corker. However, you’ll also notice the numbers don’t add up. While just under 370,000 cast votes for the two leading Presidential candidates, 10% boycotted the Senate race (with only 1% voting for the Green).
So obviously faced with the choices, Democrat Presidential voters stuck with their nominee with a majority of their vote, but with that last quarter of the vote, chose either to vote for Corker or boycott, with the smallest group voting Green.
If the Dems had nominated someone more ideologically to their liking, such as the moonbat actress Park Overall, she probably would’ve taken Davidson County, but unlikely that the Dems would’ve won more than just those three aforementioned counties (and add to that, Overall had no money for her candidacy, a problem that plagued all of the primary candidates). Clayton primarily won because his name was first alphabetically on the primary ballot, which was good for giving him a 2-to-1 victory over the second-place finisher (named Davis, who was 3rd on the ballot, edging out Overall narrowly).
He didn’t want to give up his last 2 years on the Governorship to the Conservative Democrat Lieutenant Governor. Had he run and won, it’s almost certain that Gore would’ve run for Governor in 1986 and would’ve won (and from that position, almost certainly would’ve ended up as VP in ‘92, as he would’ve been even closer to Clinton). These guys just take different routes to power.
Still, I can’t imagine having had Lamar! as a Senator since 1984. He would’ve eventually become floor party leader and even worse, might’ve been foisted on us as a Presidential candidate (a la Dole) by 1996 or 2000. Blech.
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