Keep on their lying liberal butts. This is straight out of their rodent playbooks. How many times do you hear DU’ers call into C-Span or other shows claiming to be “Former Lifelong Republicans” who never supported the GOP in their lives ?
You have to email her and demand an answer to stop her.
The media no longer even goes through the motions of objectivity. “Journalism” is a sick joke. Lie as often as these people do and you loose your soul. You loose the ability to even recognize truth.
We need to call these people on the BS every single day.
There is more than one version of “republican”. Some think the term means “friendly to business and industry so I can make buku bucks and retire on the French Riviera”, and others are Republican for the “freedom thing”. I am proud to be among the latter. It doesn’t surprise me if some of the others sell out, they always follow the money.
Those of us who actually knock door to door and listen to real voters know how mixed up some of them really are.
One couple in my precinct claim to be staunch Democrats. But they are also staunch Catholics, including staunchly pro-life. So in 2000 thru 2007 they voted for the most pro-life Republican they could find in the primaries and in other elections when they could find them.
Recently the pro-life Republican Township Committeeman switched to Democrat ... mostly because he ... and most people in the suburb, R and D, are pro-immigration. pro-path-to-legalization. Of course most staunch Catholics around here are pro-path-to-legalization.
But interestingly, the alleged Dems who vote Republican worried that now that the switch-hitter is a Dem, they have assumed that he will switch his position on pro-life and these Dems will not be able to support the guy now a Dem whom they supported as a Republican.
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In ‘98 primary, massive numbers of social conservatives left the GOP to vote in the Democrat primary. And in ‘92 massive numbers of good government Republicans left the GOP to vote against Democrat Al-The-Pal in the primary.
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The professional how-to-campaign schools don’t understand this. They tell conservative students eager to learn politics that the switch hitters are RINOs when in fact just the opposite is true. The switch hitters are the conservatives trying to send a message ... and message that is not getting through to the establishment GOOP.