Tennessee, Maybe We're More Like Texas?

"Watch, I'll make my shoe secede from my socks!"

Zach Wamp, Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee has said this:

“I hope that the American people will go to the ballot box in 2010 and 2012 so that states are not forced to consider separation from this government.” (ThinkProgress)

This is the same crap Rick Perry from Texas pulled.  All it is is a base rouser. A way to make noise and get media attention. However, we'll see how positive the attention. I, personally, don't think the Volunteer State wants another Civil War. I don't believe Wamp does either. Unless he thinks there's a lot of votes to be gained with crackpot talk of secession, this is just desperation.

Wamp was quickly called out by Bill Haslam, opponent and mayor of Knoxville:

"I can assure you if I'm elected governor, we won't secede from the union. Period," Haslam said at a campaign stop in Columbia. "You know, the country had that experiment 150 years ago ... I think most Tennesseans are committed to making America better, not leaving it."

 Even the candidate who's slogan is "Give Washington the Boot" decried Wamp's position, calling it "trademark over-the-top temperament and overheated, sometimes crazy rhetoric." (The Tennesseean)

I suppose it's becoming fairly safe to put Wamp in the same category as, say, Sharon Angle.