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We need every R possible at this time.
Posted on 12/22/2009 8:36:07 AM PST by MissesBush
Why should we take him?
They will have a hard time making him into a hick as a physician opposing healthcare legislation.
Well he sure did better than Rrepublican Senators Susan Collins, Olympia Snow and (then) Republican Senator Arlene Specter, who voted with the Democrats flor the PORKULUS bill.
Because he’ll be *our* useful idiot, now?.....:)
He seems to vote with Republicans most of the time according to the article anyway. Hey, it gets us one vote closer to retiring Queen Beast Pelosi. I'll gladly take him.
I think the right to affiliate with a political party belongs to him.
Duplicate thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413007/posts
Amen!
only 40 to go..
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We need every R possible at this time.
Uh oh, he just got crossed off the thug in residence's "ripe to be bribed" list.
“While the timing of his announcement was unexpected, Griffith’s party switch will not come as a surprise to those familiar with his voting record, which is one of the most conservative among Democrats.
He has bucked the Democratic leadership on nearly all of its major domestic initiatives, including the stimulus package, health care legislation, the cap-and trade energy bill and financial regulatory reform.
He was one of only 11 House Democrats to vote against the stimulus.”
So far I like this fellow.
That’s what we need, another RINO
Not necessarily ... a party can reject members, e.g. David Duke was rejected by the Republican party. The Republican party is a private organization.
It was a serious question ... he seems like he has the "right" approach to politics/votes but did he unseat a Republican in the last election?
As a democrat, did he support the Democratic presidential candidate in the last election? Anyone foolish enough to be fooled by 0 is questionable IMHO.
I don't think there will be any trouble electing a Republican from that district in 2010. It seems to me he's being opportunistic. I would say let him compete in the primary like anyone else if he wants to switch. He took Demo money (just as Specter and Jeffords took Repu money) to get elected. I think it's poor practice, either direction. When Phil Gramm switched in the 80s he resigned and re-ran in a special election. Maybe that's extreme but I think more honest.
If he’s a Zell Miller kind of Dem, I’ll take him.
Doesn’t sound like a RINO to me. As someone else posted “He has bucked the Democratic leadership on nearly all of its major domestic initiatives, including the stimulus package, health care legislation, the cap-and trade energy bill and financial regulatory reform.”
A special election costs the states a lot of money at a time they’re in a crunch. Fine to have him run in a primary. No special election is needed.
Based on his voting record he appears to be a conservative, so I’m glad he switched. Do you have issues with him switching, and if yes what are they? Oh yeah, please don’t scream RINO because he definitely does not appear to be one. One more point, Richard Shelby, the senior Senator from Alabama (Parker Griffith’s State) was a Democrat before he switched to the Repubs in 1994, and he is definitely not a RINO either.
The current coup being staged by Obama, Reid and Pelosi is why.
We need numbers on our side. The radical, Marxist takeover of our health care system, is being passed by 1 vote in the Senate.
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