Does anyone remember Alvin Greene? He was the Democratic nominee for the Senate from SC in 2010. What made him so remarkable is that, on an idiot scale of 1 to 10, ten being a total idiot, Greene would have scored a 38. As much as I hoped that would never happen again, it has, only worse.

The party of Cordell Hull, Estes Kefauver and Al Gore Sr. and Jr. won’t have a standard-bearer — or at least not one it can stomach — in Tennessee’s next U.S. Senate race. Less than 24 hours after a man espousing conservative and libertarian views surprised the state’s political scene by winning the Democratic nomination, the Tennessee Democratic Party disavowed him, saying he’s part of an anti-gay hate group. The party said Friday that it would do nothing to help Mark Clayton, 35, who received nearly twice as many votes as his closest challenger in Thursday’s seven-candidate primary, winning the right to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker in November… [emphasis added]

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Even the article does not present Clayton in all his Republican glory, but Rachel Maddow did.

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The party claims that voters just voted for the top name on the ballot. Rachel did not offer a precise explanation. I just can’t believe that many people could have been so disrespectful of their right to vote as to choose a candidate only because he was first on the list. Primary voters are the ones that care most. But there is an alternate explanation. I cannot prove it, but if fits the facts better than the official reason. Seventeen states use an open primary system. That is a system, in which any voter can vote in any primary, regardless of political affiliation. Tennessee is one of those states. With Harold Ford’s Republican nomination locked-in. There was nothing to prevent Republicans from voting in the Democratic primary to sabotage the Democratic nomination. In my opinion, that is most likely what happened.