Blue Dog!? No such thing. Dem=Marxist
Shuler played high school football with some of my family, and he’s an OK guy. I’m glad he’s out of politics, though. He didn’t handle the tradeoffs very well. He came from a traditional FDR/Truman kind of area, so far as democrats go, and that kind of mountain folk are rabidly conservative in everything except their political party. It always caused me to scratch my head, but the justification is always, “Gramps was a democrat, so our family is democrat.”
And that’s why I started out as a democrat, became a Reagan Democrat, eventually became a republican, and NOW am leaving them because the republicans are just liberals who give lip-service to balancing budgets.