Here's the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of 15 extremist political candidates:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

We have heard of many of them (Michele Bachmann, Steve King, Allen West); a few are candidates known only in their own areas. They are all pretty scary.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/19/polarized-election-season-marked-by-extremist-candidates/

[ProudProgressiveNow]

1. I am shocked that nobody from Arizona....

was on that list.... lol....

[SoapBox]

2. Major creepy...

Who needs the Halloween movie series...just read about these Evil Doer's...terrifying.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Can I say it?

Can I stay at DU if I say it?

Mark Clayton (D-Tenn.)

Office sought: U.S. Senate

Clayton won the Democratic primary for a Tennessee Senate seat in August 2012, after competing in a field of seven other candidates. Clayton, an anti-gay fringe conspiracy theorist who served a stint in the Army reserve and has worked a variety of odd jobs, won 26% of the vote despite raising no money. The Tennessee Democratic Party disavowed Clayton the day after the primary, but his name will remain on the ballot opposing GOP Sen. Bob Corker. Clayton’s views align more closely with those of the John Birch Society, which once called President Dwight D. Eisenhower a c ommunist, than the Democratic Party — though some of his ideas might be a little much even for JBS. He believes the government is building concentration camps to imprison Americans and that elites in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada are conspiring to form a “North American Union” (NAU) merging the three nations — both conspiracy theories common in the antigovernment “Patriot” movement. When he ran for a Senate seat in 2008, Clayton accused Google of censoring his campaign website on behalf of the Chinese government. That website, which has since been taken down, thanked supporters for helping defend Tennessee against the NAU, national ID cards and “radical homosexual lobbying groups who want to get in the Boy Scouts.” Clayton also claimed that Austrian-born California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was planning to amend the Constitution so he could run for president and “fulfill Hitler’s superman scenario.” Clayton’s current site is tamer, though he wants to eliminate “secret national ID cards” from Tennessee drivers’ licenses and to stop the government from mandating that “transexual[s] and homosexuals” grab children in “stranger-danger zones” in airports.

He's nucking futs! There - I didn't say it - I wrote it.

Suddenly Harold Ford doesn't look so bad eh?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. He's pretty awful, all right.

Unfortunately there are a few Dems out there on the fringe with the crazy GOPers.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. He's got to be another

Alvin Greene(sp?). The guy that ran for the house a few years ago. I'm blaming this candidate on the Koch brothers. At least our party disavows crack pots like this.

The Republican's embrace theirs - like Romney, Ryan, Boehner, McConnell, CantDo . . .

[Samjm]

5. wow

All kinds of scary crazy there.

[jmowreader]

7. Shaun Winkler is even more fun than you think

The article implies he only held one "cross lighting ceremony" on his property. Wrong, mother fucker...Shaun Winkler and his friends light a cross Every Fucking Week.

Matt Shea is also entertaining to extremes. This asshole went canvassing one day and found his opponent's house. He had his picture taken in front of her house, labeled the picture and posted a photo of the nearest street sign. She's only up to three death threats from Shea supporters.

Compared to Shea, my soon to be ex-state legislator is boring as shit-the best she can do is claim her opponent (who packs a gun) wants to take away our gun rights.

[MuhkRahker]

8. Great read, thanks!

Some of these white power nuts running for sheriffs are scary.