Highlights split between TN Congressional Democrats and Fringe Leadership

NASHVILLE, TN - The Tennessee Democrat Party has demonstrated again today that it is now an arm of the ultra-liberal fringe of the national party by linking the TDP website to The Daily Kos, one of the most influential ultra-left organizations controlling the Democratic Party today.

“DailyKos.com operates on the far-left fringe of the Democratic Party, and is often filled with foul-mouthed, abusive rhetoric and unhinged rants against Republicans, conservatives, and even moderate Democrats who don’t toe the left-wing line,” said Bill Hobbs, communications director for the Tennessee Republican Party. “The site even, infamously, celebrated the deaths of four American contractors at the hands of brutal terrorists in Fallujah, Iraq, derisively dismissing them as ‘mercenaries’. The Daily Kos is not the kind of website most Tennesseans would want their children to read - but apparently it’s perfectly acceptable for the leadership of the Tennessee Democrat Party.”

Daily Kos is part of a group of far-left Democrat-supporting organizations, along with MoveOn.org, which slandered Gen. David Petraeus as a traitor, and Code Pink, which harasses military recruiting centers.

While the leadership of the Tennessee Democrats aligns itself with the far-left fringe and loudly trumpets the candidacy of Barack Obama, the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, not all Tennessee Democrats are fully on board.

Two Democrat congressmen from Tennessee - U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis and U.S. Rep. John Tanner - continue to withhold from endorsing Obama. And Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, a possible vice presidential pick who has endorsed Obama, has recognized that the Obama agenda of higher taxes, bigger government, more abortions and walking away from victory in Iraq, doesn’t sit will with most Tennesseans.

Bredesen told the Kingsport Times News that Obama is “not real competitive” with presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in Tennessee.

“Now that the Tennessee Democrat Party has decided to align itself with far-left fringe organizations like DailyKos, MoveOn.org and Code Pink, the Tennessee Republican Party invites moderate voters who no longer have a home in the Democratic Party to vote this November for John McCain’s common-sense policies, proud patriotism and plan for victory in Iraq,” remarked Hobbs.