Hard times make for hard choices. Party discipline.
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More seriously, many politicians pick their party not on ideology, but on opportunity. If you're in a super-liberal district, there's not much point in dabbling in politics as a GOP candidate.
I just think that its so nice of the younger Democrat politicians to go and jump on the grenades to try to coverup the crimes of the old criminal Democrat leaders.
All those younger Democrat politicians standing around with their guts on the floor.
Im sure that Soros and the Clintons will send them some lovely flowers while they are eating caviar they bought with stolen US Taxpayer money.