Democrats disavow their own US Senate candidate in Tennessee. His crime? Pro-life and Pro Traditional Marriage.

Democrat heads are exploding all over the country today as they pull another genius move by winding up with a US Senate candidate who is much more conservative than they knew... and now they look like a bunch of blithering idiots.

The bizarre "Party of the Big Tent," who's bigotry really knows no bounds if you disagree with them, has disavowed their own nominee for the US Senate.

Nice tolerance, that.

Tennessee Democratic Party disavows Senate nominee

5:31 PM, Aug 3, 2012   |  

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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.

"The only time that Clayton has voted in a Democratic primary was when he was voting for himself,” the party said in a news release. “Many Democrats in Tennessee knew nothing about any of the candidates in the race, so they voted for the person at the top of the ticket. Unfortunately, none of the other Democratic candidates were able to run the race needed to gain statewide visibility or support.

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