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Meet “Constitutional Clayton” Kelly

This is a Madison County Detention Center booking photograph taken Saturday, May 17, 2014 in Canton, Miss., of Clayton Thomas Kelly, 28, of Pearl, who was arrested Friday by Madison Police and charged with a felony, ... This is a Madison County Detention Center booking photograph taken Saturday, May 17, 2014 in Canton, Miss., of Clayton Thomas Kelly, 28, of Pearl, who was arrested Friday by Madison Police and charged with a felony, exploitation of a vulnerable adult, after allegedly going into a nursing home and photographing Rose Cochran, 72, the bedridden wife of Republican U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran without permission and posted an image online as part of a video. Cochran has lived at St. Catherine's Village, since 2000 and has dementia. (AP Photo/Madison County Detention Center) MORE LESS
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Some give the last full measure of their devotion for their country. Others toss their lives away to break into a decrepit dying woman’s room in an old folks home in a dooftastic scheme to send the latest clown show Tea Partier to the US Senate. (Because of course that would seal the deal, right?) Meet “Constitutional Clayton” Kelly, the guy who broke into the nursing home of Thad Cochrane’s wife (reportedly in a deep vegetative state) to photograph her because somehow this was going to get Chris McDaniel elected. Give it a read. I think you’ll actually end up feeling sorry for the guy – a seemingly otherwise decent enough guy with a family nevertheless encased in a polycarbonate bubble of derp and fanaticism where the all crazy about the progressive Kristallnacht and the KKK Democrats comes to settle. Meet Clayton Kelly.

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