Time will tell. I’ll wait and see what happens. Don’t forget Virgil Goode. He was first a blue dog until he was too at odds with his party. There is such a thing as ‘conservative democrat’. Whether one exists today is the only real question. — FRegards
Goode dumping the rats was 10 years ago.
Only 1 house democrat you could call based on his past voting record conservative enough that he should be a Republican is Gene Taylor of Mississippi. He famously voted for pro-life John Murtha as Speaker several times over Gephardt and Pelosi. Until 2007 when was a good little rat and voted for Pelosi. In 2008 his voting record soured, a 24 from the American Conservative Union. If he was gonna switch it would have happened long ago. He’s not a really a conservative or else he’s and enabler and a fool. A wife who can’t leave her abusive husband because she “loves him”.
And in almost every instance a “conservative” democrat holds a district that should be Republican. If democrats hold seats like that, they have the majority and the liberals are in charge.
If Palin/Gingrich want to be support relative moderate democrats in the primary if they sit in safe democrat seats (this is what Gingrich said), that’s not a terrible idea but I feel that is a waste of our very limited resources. Some freepers gave money to Joe Lieberman, a near total liberal in 2006. Meanwhile conservatives Jim Talent, George Allen and Conrad Burns went down in close races and took the majority with them.
And being associated with Republicans is the last thing that would help anyone win a democrat primary.
It would be nice to create a fifth column of DINOs in democrat areas just like a fifth column of RINOs exists in the GOP but that’s a hard act to pull off.
If we’re going for a project that grand I’d rather it be trying to make the GOP competitive again in democrat areas.