Posted on 03/22/2008 8:06:08 AM PDT by Cacique
HARRISBURG - It wasn't a light decision. But Debbie McKee had grown to believe that the Republican Party no longer represented her beliefs, and recently switched her registration to Democrat.
"I'm so anti-Bush and Bush politics, I couldn't stand to be a member of that party anymore," said McKee, 57, a retired public school teacher from West Chester who switched just in time for Pennsylvania's April 22 primary.
For state Republicans, voters like McKee could quickly become a problem.
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I don't know why this woman would be considered representative of a trend. The NEA doesn't exactly support Republican politics.
Free trade, globalism, willing to offshore jobs has cost the GOP voters in manufacturing states like PA. Add being lukewarm to enforcing immigration laws and the Reagan blue collar Dems are leaving the GOP in droves. 2006 election was a warning shot and GWB/free trade GOP’ers ignored the signs and the party will pay for it in 2008 if the election is close.
Best wishes to them in Obama’s “Kingdom on Earth”.
She’s a former Republican like I’m an Obama/Hillary supporter. Somehow these Dem dweebs think claiming they ‘were’ Pubs increases the power of their arguments. Pure BS.
I tell you--those Democrats! They are a crafty bunch!
I can’t speak for PA but I KNOW in CA; elections are turned by the registered “I” voters.
McCain needs to get the “I” & Reagan Democrat voters in America to win.
Of course, “if” Obama & Clinton continue cockfighting;
McCain will slide right into the WH.
I still think Obama is toast no matter what happens.
White folks don’t like Black racists much less lying Black racists. And Alan Keyes must be salivating at the chance to run against Obama again for the U.S. Senate seat from IL.
I have yet to see one article about dems switching to repubs.
I wonder why
Yes, and if you talk to them privately, they will express the same frustrations/issues that conservatives do. Nevertheless, they don’t get the disconnect between their values and their lemming-like allegiance to the dark side.
People like this woman shift with the wind. If the Democrats gain power, they’ll be back in the camp after things get so bad. We saw it with LBJ, Carter, and Clinton.
Because the Democrats cringe at the phrase “Reagan Democrats.” They have collectively resolved that no such appellation shall ever become the word again.
Free trade and NAFTA were centerpieces of Clinton economic
policy. Did not Clinton renew China MFN status?
Anyhow, resisting free trade is like resisting gravity.
Its a fact of life; jobs are going to get done where
its most economically efficient. Its not like the Pres
has a Rovian machine in the basement contolling this.
Yeah, a member of a teachers union that is conservative.
P.T. Barnum fodder.
I think the public school teacher is a phony or if anything, a Lincoln Chafee Republican.
What a load of horse feces did you ingest?
High corporate taxes, onerous regulations, and the union mentality is what killed manufacturing in states like Pennsylvania.
Under your theory, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia should be decimated......instead they are booming manufacturing states despite losing textile and furniture to more efficient offshore locations.
This whole dribble by so-called conservatives against free trade is just liberal union-loving in disguise.
All the Republicans who switched over in the primaries to vote for a Democrat to screw the Dems can now also use that line “. . . switched parties” come the November elections.
These left-wing reporters just can’t give it up, can they?
West Chester is a nuclear free zone and location of a very bad state teachers college, part of the Penn State group, but not up to par with PS main campus.
Many GOPers aren’t leaving the party, we’re leaving the state. Taxes, excessive regulation, and bad homeschool laws have sent many of us to greener pastures. In addition to myself I personally know three other families who have left in the last year.
Not exactly hard to see why.
The GOP better wake up and be a voice for the productive, small-gov’t, tax-cutting people in this country or it is DOA.
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