Tennessee Republicans Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory

Jah bless their little stone encrusted hearts, the Tennessee Republicans. Given the choice of having a Republican leader of the General Assembly or getting a little payback on a wayward soldier (Speaker of the House Kent Williams) they chose to push a stick in old Kenny’s eye and kick him out of the party.
I suggested [...]

Mutiny on the Bow: Will the Progressives Actually Take Over the Tennessee Democratic Party?

Some mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore type exuberance is part of the brute force shown by what the kids like to call the Netroots. It helped Obama raise about seventy gazillion dollars during the Democratic primary. It sent Joe Lieberman into the waiting arms of the GOP (where he belongs, really, [...]

Nashville! Otsukaresamadeshita!

おつかれさまでした　ナスヴィル！
I wanted to be able to write-in “Aw Hell Naw” but it wasn’t possible, so now say it with me in your best Will Smith imitation.
Conventional political wisdom foretold the victory, though. As much as journalists and bloggers were on about English Only, most people did not really care, and the 9 or 10% turnout [...]

Y’all Stupid

Wanna-be (RNC chair) Michael Steele has set his sights on the Volunteer state, offering up a few coins to the TN Republican Party from GOPAC, paying lip service to the anger and resentment still floating around amongst TN republicans over Kent Williams power grab.
These locals apparently do not understand that local electoral politics is [...]

Republicans Got Served

Don’t hate the playa, hate the game, is a now clichéd missive towards losers of any stripe. That Republicans are wetting their Huggies over the power move run on them by former Speaker Jim Nafieh makes me think the GOP House members should have watched more 90’s hood movies, then they’d learn to take their [...]

Eric Crafton: Spotted!

I had my head down listening to Little Dork chattering on as we entered the Bellevue YMCA last night. As we entered I noticed a rather non-descript gentleman meandering through the glass double doors, in plain grey sweats, shoulders hunched and chin tucked — either in self defense from the chill or in a natural [...]

Crafton-San

Eric Crafton, Mr. English Only, doesn’t even have to use the old “my best friends are foreigners” routine to defend himself against accusations of being racist. He married one. At the time they married, he was the foreigner though, when he married his wife in Japan.
I don’t think I’ve ever run into Crafton [...]

Black Birds Singing in the Dead of Night

I tend to think stories about how the TN Republican Party is getting really good at running code worded, racist campaigns are old. I’m not terribly interested in Hobbs these days though I am surprised at how good he is at getting people to notice him, and thus making a name for himself and Robin [...]

In Defense of — Somewhat — The TN Democratic Party (updated)

There’s been some back and forth between Gray Sasser, Chair of the TN Democratic Party and some area bloggers regarding his comments about the recent lackluster results in local House and Senate elections. Follow these.
Goldln

Sean
Aunt B
Newscoma
It isn’t exactly the job of the chair of the party to oversee all races and “pay attention” to them. [...]

Young Tennessee Not Getting Out

Last night on our radio show FREESTYLES (WFSK) one of our guests was a representative of the Obama campaign from the Nashville office. She told us that their internal numbers showed young voters (we could only assume she meant college age) were not getting out to vote early. While not surprising given how far Obama [...]