To: Tall_Texan
U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall of Texas will be switching parties from Democrat to Republican. He is being pushed into a heavily GOP district with the new boundaries and he is known as a conservative Democrat.
Hmmmm...so....if his district didn't tilt Republican, one could assume he'd stay a Democrat? More about personal survival?
Course I'm a natural-born cynic and maybe he'll be freer to support conservative positions and nominees than as a Democrat. We'll see.
All the best and GO TEXAS!
To: CounterCounterCulture
With the primaries coming up, he has to file. If he stayed dim, he would be running against another incumbent, Max Sandlin. I think (hope) he could beat maxie.
He is a conservative, and often voted that way. Redistricting changed a lot here. Of course, the courts still have not ruled on that.
14 posted on
01/02/2004 4:21:18 PM PST by
mathluv
To: CounterCounterCulture
Ralph Hall has a lifetime conservative voting record only 1% less than Ron Paul. We should can the cynicism and welcome him. He's a good guy.
To: CounterCounterCulture
Ralph Hall was one of the 5 Dems to vote to impeach Clinton. Yea, he'll do just fine as a Republican. He is more of a Republican than the Republicans we have now.
41 posted on
01/02/2004 5:02:55 PM PST by
nightowl
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