Good for him. Now I wonder how long it will take Cory Booker to make the same change.
Yes, both are too liberal for my tastes, but if the Democrats start losing people like them it underscores how radical and statist the Democrats have become. (Besides both Ronald Reagan and John Stossel started out as liberals.)
Ronald Reagan started-out as democrat, not as a liberal! There was a diffrence back then!
Good for Mr Davis. Unfortunately it won’t be long until he figures out the people calling the shots in the GOP aren’t about to fix anything either.
[ Yes, both are too liberal for my tastes, but if the Democrats start losing people like them it underscores how radical and statist the Democrats have become. (Besides both Ronald Reagan and John Stossel started out as liberals.) ]
Yes, and some of the most Staunch Conservatives/Classical Libertarians are former liberals who when young bought the line that “we only want to help people” and they wake up and those people are far more “commited” to the conservative free market cause cause they have lived on the other side and have seen ALL the dirty laundry from that side.
Yes, both are too liberal for my tastes...
So are about 60% of Republican officeholders, for mine.
Which is why we’ll need a scorecard to sort out the “good” RINOs from the “bad” ones. If the GOP is to be the dominant political party for a generation or two we’ll need to be a fairly big tent.