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Exclusive: Rep. Parker Griffith switches to GOP
Politico ^ | 12/22/2009 | JOSH KRAUSHAAR

Posted on 12/22/2009 8:05:01 AM PST by Danae

POLITICO has learned that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican.

According to a senior GOP aide familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place in this afternoon in his home district in northern Alabama.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: 111th; alabama; democratnomore; gop; griffith; housesenate; parker; parkergriffith; realignment; republican; switch
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To: Lou Budvis
Griffin actually thought he would have a voice in crafting the heathcare bill. It was my understanding he was frozen out of everything. Pi$$ed him off.
101 posted on 12/22/2009 8:35:22 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

Ronald Reagan was a Democrat early in his career too


102 posted on 12/22/2009 8:35:26 AM PST by vwbug
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I dont think that qualifies him as a limited government type conservative...

Let the voters in his district make the choice, and how does it split the vote to run someone against him in the PRIMARY?


103 posted on 12/22/2009 8:35:29 AM PST by myself6
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To: Danae

http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Parker_Griffith.htm

I always like this link. If you go to the very bottom it shows he’s flat in the middle of moderate and leaning a bit towards populist. Hard to tell on him though because he hasn’t had a lot of votes to judge him on.


104 posted on 12/22/2009 8:35:40 AM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: freekitty

I don’t know if infiltration is the right word. But, I do think that it was the influx of people abandoning the hard left democrat party in the 80s that made the rats even harder left, and the pubs soft progressives. In other words, the victories in the late 80s and early 90s sowed the seeds of our own destruction.

We just so desperately need to get some good old gridlock back in Congress.


105 posted on 12/22/2009 8:35:47 AM PST by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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To: Josephat
Parker Griffith--Moderate Democrate--Assessed a follower
106 posted on 12/22/2009 8:36:59 AM PST by notaliberal (Palin supporter)
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To: markomalley

This makes sense; the health care bill will gut locally owned oncology, MRI & surgical centers.


107 posted on 12/22/2009 8:37:02 AM PST by MSF BU (++)
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To: myself6; Bob Buchholz
Sorry... I have to assume that ANYONE who is a member of the Democrat party is a marxist.

Obviously this dummy has never heard of Zell Miller, or of the staying power of traditional party affiliation.

The joke is that Parker Griffith probably (and I say probably, because I haven't looked at every single last one of the 990+ votes the House has taken this year, only the "biggies") has a better voting record than myself6 would have if s/he were in the legislature.

108 posted on 12/22/2009 8:37:21 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Conservatives unite behind conservative Republicans in the primaries!)
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To: Danae

Was wondering what it would take for this to start.


109 posted on 12/22/2009 8:37:38 AM PST by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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To: Sybeck1

I am VERY leery of a Rat switching to the GOP at this point. Especially with the Rats circling the drain.


110 posted on 12/22/2009 8:38:13 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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To: myself6
and how does it split the vote to run someone against him in the PRIMARY?

True enough, got ahead of myself there.

111 posted on 12/22/2009 8:38:32 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Conservatives unite behind conservative Republicans in the primaries!)
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To: Danae
hmmm. Did Congressman Griffith look out on the Potomac and realize that he was on a sinking ship? Is that his motivation?

The GOP needs and welcomes genuine converts but we do not need another unreliable so called moderate. I'm sick to death of them. We have an enormous task ahead of us and there is no time to waste coaxing or pampering anyone just to keep them "on the porch". I'm sick to death of that, too. If Congressman Griffith is switching parties merely to stay in power and retain his position in the "sausage making factory" then we need to kindly show him the door and say, thanks but no thanks.

112 posted on 12/22/2009 8:38:54 AM PST by Darlin' (Stay well or the government will try to kill you.)
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To: Danae

Very nice. I hope this is true. May it start a landslide of moderates! Did he vote for the healthcare bill? In other words, is this just a devious snake trying to protect his own skin?


113 posted on 12/22/2009 8:39:35 AM PST by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated public is the biggest threat to our democracy)
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To: proudpapa
Against. Griffith received his medical degree from the Louisiana State University Medical School and served in residency at the University of Texas. He is a Board Certified Radiation Oncologist, now retired, and a businessman. Welcome aboard, Griffith!

That explains it.

But, does he join the vast majority in viewing himself in the Governing Class?

114 posted on 12/22/2009 8:40:32 AM PST by unspun (PRAY & WORK FOR FREEDOM - investigatingobama.blogspot.com)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I concur that there are some former Democrats who have proven to be staunch supporters of conservatism...I just believe we should always be suspicious of those who switch parties. His brief record looks good; but a good conservative should NEVER associate with democrats.


115 posted on 12/22/2009 8:40:49 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Lou Budvis

We are not going to get enough to change anything in the short term and keeping a person who was comfortable enough with the communist party (democrats) to run a campaign and be elected with them is not someone we want for the long term.

You guys can bring up Reagan all you want... But Reagan wasn’t part of the modern democrat party. This guy is, therefore he has earned my distrust.


116 posted on 12/22/2009 8:41:07 AM PST by myself6
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To: Danae

According to on the issues - John McCain is way right of this guy. But I don’t know why they would call McCain in the right conservative section.

I would encourage everyone to take the test at the bottom of the link http://www.ontheissues.org/john_mccain.htm

I am right but more toward the libertarian than either McCain or Palin.

The part they show as “populist” they used to show as “statist” which I thought was more descriptive.


117 posted on 12/22/2009 8:41:10 AM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I agree. As an Alabamian, I can say that most switch-overs are pretty conservative in the first place. I am hoping that Bobby Bright in the Montg. area will be next. If not, the numerous military retirees and seniors will show him the door in 2010. (He has been one of those ‘vote against Pelosi after it didn’t matter’ Congressmen) Hopefully, he will do a little soul searching...


118 posted on 12/22/2009 8:41:18 AM PST by Matt Hatter
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To: Danae

As a citizen of the great State of Alabama and a registered Republican, I am here to say that I will vote for my Olde English Bulldogge, Renegade, before I vote for any sitting politician from Alabama again, regardless of how they managed to slither into office.


119 posted on 12/22/2009 8:41:53 AM PST by steppinhi (God Bless & Protect Our Troops and their families!)
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To: edcoil
Do not trust them. Remember at 1994 and the large number of switches - what did it get us. More RINO’s.

Question - is there any real empirical evidence to support this assertion, or is this based on feeling and emotion?

120 posted on 12/22/2009 8:41:55 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Conservatives unite behind conservative Republicans in the primaries!)
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