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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a19695474/marsha-blackburn-tennessee-senate/Marsha Blackburn Is the Result of 40 Years of Republican Lunacy
And she's 10 points down to a Democrat in the Tennessee Senate race.
By Charles P. Pierce
Apr 5, 2018
Oh, what hard luck stories they all hand me
The Tennessean passes along a poll from Middle Tennessee State University that seems to indicate that Republican chances of holding on to the Senate seat presently held by retiring Bob Corker are slimming up quite a bit.
There is a real problem in sharp relief here. Bredesen is a former mayor and governor and a fairly standard Democratic candidate. Blackburn is a Tea Party loon and she is the most likely nominee the Tennessee Republican Party could find to hold onto a seat to which Corker was first elected in 2006. This has the potential of turning the Republican side of an important campaign into a real carnival. Blackburn launched her campaign with an announcement video that was so nutty on the phony issue of the sale of "baby parts" that Twitter 86d it almost immediately. This allowed Blackburn to bleaton Twitter, natchabout how the liberals who run Silicon Valley were out to squash her proud conservatism.
Blackburn is the pre-eminent drum-banger on the whole sale-of-baby-parts fable, as well as several other issues guaranteed to gin up the rubes for several years now. In 2014, as Joan Walsh detailed at Salon, Blackburn even briefly had delusions of running for president. I guess we should be glad shes adjusted her ambitions to be a little more, ah, realistic. Nevertheless, when Blackburn announced her intention to run for the Senate, according to Steve Benen at Maddowblog, the Tennessee Republican establishment dove for the bourbon bottle.
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Blackburn is what the national Republican party has left. Its what the national Republican party has left after 35 or 40 years of entertaining irrationality for political advantage. It did not have to happen this way, but the reason that it happened this way is that the Republican Party, at every level of government, committed itself to positions that guaranteed that, one day, someone like Donald Trump would be president*. It also guaranteed that, one day, in a place like Tennessee, there would be nobody to run for Senate except someone like Marsha Blackburn. Thats the way things like this work out. Id find it fascinating if we all didnt have to pay the price for it.
tblue37
(65,503 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,813 posts)Matthew28
(1,798 posts)sick of the koch brothers elitist policies that screw over the little guy and give everything to the richest in our society.
pecosbob
(7,547 posts)like Sharron 'pay for your doctor visits with chickens' Angle.
TNNurse
(6,931 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,946 posts)in Charlie's latest - it truly blows your mind!
I'm starting a post elsewhere about dear Betsy DeVos' home state of Michigan (where she got her "education" boots ) and how screwed up the state is from some of their "for-profit" schools have helped to "MAGA" (you know what that means by now!).
Read this whole article, but you'd be better off doing it on an empty stomach. And if you're on blood pressure meds, do a double dose.
robbob
(3,539 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)spanone
(135,919 posts)she's a full-fledged POS
TNLib
(1,819 posts)Before the Roy Moore debacle.
Hassler
(3,395 posts)Aren't her glasses enough?
mcar
(42,426 posts)This cannot be said enough. She, and other loons like her, are the mainstream of the Republican party.
Initech
(100,121 posts)And this is how you drain it. People have had enough of the bullshit. November is going to be fun!
kimbutgar
(21,237 posts)Hillbillies.
That said I have been to a Tennessee about 15 years ago. I met some lovely people and Beale St was fun.
paleotn
(17,994 posts)Seems the ole home state is coming back to its senses.