Would a Harold Ford, Jr./Mary Mancini ticket be remotely strong?
Why are you doing this?
I think that Bill Haslam will br THE most sane and reasonable governor of Tennessee for a long time to come... 3 or 4 next one will be Republican too, but - much more conservative...
Statewide elected TN Republicans have always been as close to "establishment"/generic R as you can get (Haslam, Corker, Alexander, Frist, Thompson, ...)
I know that. But doubt that will be so in the future. Too much open right-wingers in Congressional delegation and Legislature.. Haslam and Alexander are "the best" of those you mentioned in my opinion, but first is routinely attacked and second was heavily primaried from the right..
Mark Clayton was probably to the right of Corker on many issues, too. It's a shame that the national Democratic party abandoned and ignored him.
Don't know about that ... the death of the "archetypal Southern Democrat" was a symbolic cleansing of one of our nation's biggest embarrassments.
