Let’s take 3 names mentioned...
Zell Miller. Miller was, for lack of a better word, an opportunist. As Governor, he didn’t hesistate to appoint liberals to the bench and endorsed Bubba Clinton (for whom he professed a friendship with). After Roy Barnes appointed him to the Senate he clearly moved rightward and started endorsing Republicans. He would now be considered a DINO. He is also no longer in elective office.
Sen. Ben Nelson, who has often misrepresented himself as a Conservative, scored a VERY liberal 16% ACU rating in 2008. His former seatmate, the backstabbing Zero-endorsing RINO weasel Chuck Hagel scored a 73 in ‘08. Nelson had an opportunity to break with the moonbat left, but has voted with them in lockstep.
Bob Conley, who I endorsed, btw, merely because Graham was so odious and has given too much cover to Zero and his lunacy. However, we don’t know how Conley might’ve voted, so that’s speculation. I endorsed him on the basis of protest, so if he voted like a leftist as nearly all the Dem Senators do, he’d be out on his ass before long and replaced with someone better than Graham.
But let’s make this perfectly clear, the Blue Dog is a joke. Not a one voted against the Marxist Pelosi for Speaker, most have liberal voting records (both fiscally and socially), and most occupy districts that should be electing Conservative Republicans. In 2008, not a single Democrat voted more Conservatively than Mike McIntyre of NC, who scored a low 32% (68% liberal) rating. Most of the Dem caucus voted in the Stalinist 0-10% range.
These are not the Democrats of the early ‘80s or pre-Watergate era. A 32 was liberal in 2008, it was liberal in 1988, and was liberal in 1968. You had some Democrats into the ‘70s that voted upwards of 90% (or one, Larry McDonald of GA, voting 100%). McDonald would have little choice but to serve as a Republican today, because no Democrat can much hope to even win a primary who votes Conservatively. It just doesn’t happen. Even those few handful of Dems that voted above 50% were pulled hard to the left after Pelosi took over, and even worse now with Zero in charge. If any break away now, it is solely due to fear of reelection. In Zell Miller’s case when he was nearing the end of his tenure, he didn’t give a damn about appealing to liberals, he wasn’t up for reelection.
But make no mistake, Parsy, there IS no Conservative wing of the Democrat party at the federal level (and it isn’t much at the state level, because even locals are forced to get in line with the national party, especially if they want to get ahead). My local Congressman, who claimed to be a “Blue Dog”, especially when he served in an adjacent rural district from 1983-95, since he moved into my district in 2003, he’s been either the most or secondmost liberal member from the TN delegation. Calling any of these people “Conservative” is an insult to anyone’s intelligence, and only serves to demonstrate just how far to the moonbat extreme left the Democrat party has gone.
I can not rejoin the republican party. They are just too darn stupid. I have to believe there are conservative democrats because there is no where else to go. The GOP has been taken over by anarcho-capitalists. The face of the GOP nowadays is Sean Hannity clones.
Like you said, “Not a one voted against the Marxist Pelosi for Speaker, most have liberal voting records (both fiscally and socially), and most occupy districts that should be electing Conservative Republicans.”
But conservatives will have to leave the GOP sooner or later. The libertarians are taking the party down. Even if Obama screws up, and GOP gets back in, they can’t run squat. Too many anarchos who don’t believe gov’t can or should do anything.
One really good articulate intelligent democrat, and the GOP is complete toast.
So I am,
parsy, who has no choice but the democrats