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 ...
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat early in his career too
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?
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.
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.
This makes sense; the health care bill will gut locally owned oncology, MRI & surgical centers.
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.
Was wondering what it would take for this to start.
I am VERY leery of a Rat switching to the GOP at this point. Especially with the Rats circling the drain.
True enough, got ahead of myself there.
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.
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?
That explains it.
But, does he join the vast majority in viewing himself in the Governing Class?
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Question - is there any real empirical evidence to support this assertion, or is this based on feeling and emotion?
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