- Jim Webb: Jim Webb was a candidate for president in the 2016 Democratic Primary who probably would have fared better had he ran as a moderate Republican, rather than a moderate Democrat. Webb, a former United States Senator from Virginia and Secretary of the Navy, was only in the race for three months, but was in it long enough to spend a debate complaining about having to wait too long to talk, and amazingly, when he was given a softball question to tout his service in our nation’s military, he said his proudest moment was trying to get a laugh about killing the soldier who wounded him in combat It… wasn’t the best way to boast about how you won the Navy Cross, really. There was also a memoir out written by a Pentagon official, Chase Untermeyer, who reflected on an anecdote Webb once told him in his office about nearly killing a biker in the 1970s with his bare hands, where he advised, “Moral: Show no mercy in a fight.” While such a tale might be a great thing to have on your resume if you’re trying to get hired as the new head of the Cobra Kai Dojo, it’s not the best look for a Democratic presidential candidate.
- Tom Brower: Somehow, don’t ask me how, Brower is a Democrat serving in the Hawaii House of Representatives who has served in that state’s District 23 since back in 2006. But as much as Democrats often talk about the GOP’s “War on the Poor”, Tom Brower does it literally. In 2013, he actually became “disgusted” with homeless people and began to go into the streets of his district to find homeless people with their things loaded in shopping carts, smash up what little they did have with a sledgehammer, and stop them from sleeping on the street to prove he’s serious about not giving them a free pass. After the story went viral nationally, Brower claimed he would stop harassing the homeless. Except Brower apparently didn’t stop, because this vigilante made the news again in 2015 when he was assaulted by two homeless teens after filming them and taunting them for being destitute.
- Debbe Leftwich: Back on July 9th, 2015, when CSGOPOTD profiled former Oklahoma State Senator Randy Terrill. Terrill, as you may recall, was charged with a felony count of bribery for offering Debbe Leftwich a job with an annual salary of $80,000 if she agreed to withdraw from running for the Oklahoma State Senate, and she apparently was willing to play ball on those terms. For her attempt at perverting our nation’s democracy through bribery, Debbe Leftwich plead guilty and received a staggering sentence of… one year’s probation. Her political career, of course, is over.
- Dan Lipinski: A lot of folks think Democratic Congressman Dan Lipinski, a political legacy whose father was in Congress and is the U.S. House Representative for Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District isn’t actually a moderate, but a DINO. And they’re probably not overusing the term. After all, Lipinski was a rare Democrat who voted against the passage of the Affordable Care Act, consistently votes anti-choice, and isn’t just opposed to gay rights… on gay rights he’s terrible. He’s one of only two Democrats who felt that the Violence Against Women Act shouldn’t be expanded to provide protections for lesbians and Native Americans. But it’s not just that he’s indifferent to adding new protections, he’d like to strip rights that the LGBT community fought long and hard for in radical ways. You see, Lipinski’s’s in favor of amending our country’s constitution to ban same sex marriage after the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
- Troy Brown: The tale of Louisiana State Senator Troy Brown is one loaded with hypocrisy, scandal, and rage. When Brown won office in 2012, it was on a platform of being a good family man, and in 2014, he was calling for the state legislature to create a commission on domestic violence. And that’s why it was a bit unexpected when Troy Brown got arrested at a New Orleans hotel in late November on misdemeanor domestic battery charge. Even worse, the woman he punched in the eye was not, in fact, his wife, but the secret “side friend” aka mistress he had been carrying on with for over a decade, which added a whole new layer of moral failure on Brown’s part. After the incident, Brown’s attorney told the media that his client did not remember striking the victim because of “a brain injury he suffered years ago”. That’s probably quite reassuring for voters, that their representative in d, by his own admission.Troy Brown’s legal woes don’t end there, either. A week after his arrest, he was sued by Daniel Becnel, Jr., a big donor in Louisiana politics who claimed that Brown had provided “fraudulent information” about whether or not he actually lives in the district he represents. Oh, and all of the health care companies he owns are now under investigation for Medicaid fraud, billing irregularities, and violations of client care standards.
- Chaka Fattah: Fattah was the U.S. House Representative from Pennsylvania’s 2nd Congressional District who was found guilty on 23 separate charges of racketeering, money laundering, and fraud stemming from a failed campaign to become mayor of Philadelphia in 2007. Fattah served in Congress from 1995 through 2016, when his massive corruption scandal resulted in his defeat in the Democratic Primary for his seat in the U.S. House. He was given a ten year prison sentence.
- David Clarke: Sheriff David Clarke was a four term sheriff of Milwaukee County in Wisconsin, and while he’s been a registered Democrat since he first took the job in 2002, his politics actually line him up with the most conservative Republicans you’ll ever find on the right. And trust us, Republicans have definitely noticed how embarrassing this guy has become to folks on the left, as he hasn’t just been a frequent guest on Fox News, or on Glenn Beck, or on Alex Jones’ InfoWars (where he called for a new American Revolution). Republicans invited him to be a speaker on the opening night of the 2016 Republican National Convention, where he decided to give a big “BLUE LIVES MATTER!” speech to stick it to Black Lives Matter protesters. In early October 2016, when it appeared Donald Trump was going to lose the presidential election, Clarke had the level-headed response that it was “torches and pitchforks time” against progressives, which sort of defeats the purpose of protecting law and order, like he’s supposedly sworn to do. Clarke has further advised personal gun ownership because he feels police response isn’t adequate to respond to help protect a person (again, he’s a sheriff), and believes anyone even suspected of supporting ISIS should have their rights of habaeus corpus ignored and just have them thrown in Guantanamo Bay Prison. Oh, and in April 2016, under Clarke’s watch, an inmate named Terrill Thomas had the water turned off to his cell, and over several days, Clarke’s underlings allowed him to die of extreme dehydration. Clarke will not comment on Thomas’ death, other than remind everyone that Thomas had a criminal record, which still is no excuse from denying him of a human right to water. Clarke resigned in 2018, and remains a cult hero to conservative circles while being investigated .
- Jarrett Maupin: Maupin, a minister and failed Congressional candidate from Arizona’s 7th Congressional District in 2014, who has also led several unsuccessful campaigns to become Mayor of Phoenix. Maybe he needed a better strategy than what he tried… just accusing Mayor Phil Gordon of being a child molester to the police. (Maupin was convicted of a crime in 2009 for falsely reporting a crime after the cops spent eight months… yes MONTHS trying to find evidence Maupin claimed he’d seen with his own eyes.) Maupin feels like he’s the victim in all this, though, referring to his treatment as “political lynching”. Perhaps the most damning statement you’ll ever find is that Maupin is “Arizona’s version of the Reverend Al Sharpton”. That’s frankly an unkind comparison to Al Sharpton, who can at least host a Black Lives Matter protest without incident. When Maupin does it, he’ll try to suddenly incite a band of untrained protesters, some with children, to block traffic by trying to walk down an on-ramp and onto the state’s busiest freeway in the dark, without any advanced thought to put some sort of lights on his flock so they can be seen without being run over (the cops thankfully stopped his idiocy). We’re going to underline this… Jarrett Maupin is such a brainless glory hound that the leaders of Black Lives Matter refuse to recognize him as their representative in Arizona, and disavowed his protest. His attempts at helping BLM got a “thanks but no thanks”.