Tennessee incubator

Tennessee has become quite the incubator for Republican values over the past few years. And with that, it becomes quite the incubator for crazy, as well.

County GOP organizations (where the crazy is stepped up several notches) are passing resolutions taking issue with the Republican governor, who is not quite crazy enough for them. They want him to fire Democrats and replace them with Republicans. And they're really hopping mad because he hired a Muslim to an economic post.

Here's the funnest passage:

“To date, the Haslam Administration has displayed an unfortunate ignorance to the threat of Shariah,” (Kevin Kookogey, chairman of the Williamson County Republicans,) said in an email to TPM. “They seem willing to accept the claims and defense of the Muslim Brotherhood at face value, refusing to even consider that, perhaps, those bent on destroying Western Civilization might just be infiltrating our institutions. … It is not like this has never happened before. The Muslim Brotherhood is following the blueprint of the Communists, who infiltrated the highest levels of government and society in the 1950’s. Shariah, however, is an even greater threat, because it has cloaked itself under the auspices of a religion, thus confusing the uninformed.”

Awesome! And while some of the other counties mentioned in the story are podunk outposts where you'd expect crazy to thrive, Williamson County is actually a suburban Nashville county.

Another highlight, from the Williamson County resolution, is the misspelling of "offered":

“Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has elevated and/or afford [sic] preferential political status to Sharia adherents in Tennessee, thereby aiding and abetting the advancement of an ideology and doctrine which is wholly incompatible with the Constitution of the United States and the Tennessee Constitution,” the Williamson resolution, dated July 10, 2012, states.