Tennessee Democrats Show Their True Colors

It's a fact that's true not only in the presidential election but in Tennessee politics as well: Democrats will do anything to gain or retain power. They will turn on their own members if they dare to cross party lines and work with the other side--like Rosalind Kurita--while claiming to be a party of "change" that wants bipartisanship and cooperation.

Tim Barnes is proud of his stolen election and is basking in the glory of his party's political thievery. He's living in a fantasy world where there is nothing out of the ordinary about his coronation and he acts like the candidate who won the election that wasn't bogus. Choosing to disregard his own actions (which included voting for himself at the so-called "nominating convention"), he told The Tennessean: "At some point I think she'll probably accept that she's going to have to take responsibility for her own actions."

What it came down to was Republicans who had no candidate to support in Senate District 22 voted for Kurita instead of Barnes. There's no law in Tennessee against crossing party lines and voting in the other party's primary. Democrats are hypocrites if they think they're above doing such a thing in a Republican primary. State Democratic leaders didn't want Rosalind Kurita back in the state senate, so they came up with the excuse of an "incurably uncertain" election to overturn the will of some 9,000 voters.

Barnes' supporters were only too happy to belittle Senator Kurita's supporters in attendance after his coronation. According to The Tennessean:

Shortly after Democratic executives nominated Tim Barnes for the 22nd District state Senate seat, one woman stood outside the Riverview Inn with her mouth duct-taped shut.

Her shirt read, "You silenced 9,000 votes."

A Barnes supporter offered the woman a Tim Barnes sticker to put over her mouth, then placed it over his own mouth and stood next to her, seemingly mocking her, before walking away.

The Barnes supporter is a perfect example of the Tennessee Democratic Party: arrogant, belittling, mocking. They will turn on you in a heartbeat if you don't think like they do and support who they want you to support. They have this unreasonable lock on the hearts and minds of some Tennesseans that because someone's granddaddy was a Democrat, they have to be one too. And the Tennessee Democratic Party knows it and they take advantage of it in every election.

Rosalind Kurita will fight this injustice at the ballot box through a write-in campaign as an independent candidate while exploring her legal options in court. "This is America--you just don't steal an election, and that's why I'm doing a write-in candidacy," she told the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle.

I encourage Republican and independent voters in Cheatham, Houston, and Montgomery counties as well as any Democrat who respects the democratic election process and truly believes every vote counts to make the extra effort and write in Mrs. Kurita's name for state senate on November 4. Show the Tennessee Democratic Party that they cannot control our country's political system for their own power grab.

UPDATE: It didn't take Phil Bredesen long to fall into line with other state Democratic leaders in their support for illegitimate candidate Tim Barnes. They're hosting a $500-per-person fundraiser on his behalf in Clarksville September 29. I hope Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and other state Republican leaders and independent-minded Democrats unwilling to be led like sheep by the Democratic bosses will do their part to support Sen. Kurita and help her fight for her seat.