Posted on 08/21/2009 7:25:06 PM PDT by Ocarterma
As we all know by now, Arlen Specter (rino PA) jumped to his true home, the Democratic party this year. One supposes he did what he felt he needed to do to survive politically (doesn't look like his plan worked).
My question to all of you is who are the Democrats most likely to jump the sinking 'rat ship to the GOP in the coming months as Cpt. Barack stirs the USS Obamatitanic into that huge iceberg called the 2010 election?
Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins...........................................OH WAIT!
Doggett and Edwards are true believers in what EMK calls “the dream.” No switches possible there.
Bah! You beat me to that joke!
That happened in 1994
And we lost the momentum Newt Gingrich gave us by electing a bunch of RINO’s
No way that Lloyd Dogshit would jump ship.
As long as the ACORNs, the SEIU and the Black Panthers are running our “elections,” I don’t think we’ll see any ‘RATS jump ship.
McCain?
That wasn’t really the problem. The “Class of ‘94” was by and large conservative. It was their (over)stay in Washington plus the elections that followed that ruined what was started in ‘94.
McCain jumped a missed, he’s in the water with a raft and Lindsey Graham is holding on to him for dear life!
I’ve wondered about this. But it doesn’t make any sense unless enough jump to switch control of the House - which makes unlikely to the nth degree.
Hopefully none. We don’t need more opportunisitic liberals, we have enough in the GOP as it is.
There could be no greater service to America than to turn out the people who have put us where we are.
I know some people will say, "I love my republican". But, we need to look at the big picture and send a messager to every person who thinks of runniong in the future. BESIDES: the dems have a majority in both houses right now. If we could dump every incumbent up for election which is all of the house and about 1/3 of the Senate, we would reverse the majorities.
We lost the momentum by allowing Clinton to win the “shutting down government” argument, as if that were a bad thing. If Newt hadn’t blinked, the people would have quickly realized that they didn’t need government. After that, they couldn’t pass crap.
That's right. No one jumps into a minority party. If GOP can make it close, like razor thin, in 2010, then we might see some action in 2012.
yes... but RINOS took over the party
LOL!!!
Ronald Reagan got threatened with that too. The democraps threatened to shut down the govt. Reagan said “Let’s shut it down- and see if anyone notices”
Do you know what your strategy will result in: More Democrats because there will be more conservative republicans voting against conservative (or even more than not conservative) republicans than we WILL get Democrats to vote against liberal Democrats: FAIL! It’s better to pick the best candidates (on an individual basis) whatever party they are in, than for conservative republicans to vote against conservative republicans “because they’re the incumbents”..where’s the logic in that??
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