It won't stop the Obamunist march to Socialized Medicine.
Posted on 12/22/2009 11:07:33 AM PST by FromLori
What is this 1993 again?
We've got a huge vote coming up on a healthcare overhaul, and now southern Democrats are deserting their party in favor of the GOP.
Talk about a shift from last year. If someone told you in November 2008, that politicians would be jumping to the GOP, you'd have thought they were nuts.
POLITICO: 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.
Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional health care vote and will send a jolt through a Democratic House Caucus that has already been unnerved by the recent retirements of a handful of members who, like Griffith, hail from districts that offer prime pickup opportunities for the GOP in 201
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Well, couldn’t someone have found one in the Senate, so we could have a defection there... :-)
Griffith sounds sincere.
I just don’t want to see the DNC sneaking in new candidates in GOP clothing.
Hopefully one will come forth.
Granted, I am not familar with him, but I like what I hear so far. A Dem sticking with principles.
Believe it or not, there are conservative dems in the South. Many of them. Hopefully they are giving their Dem Reps an earful.
I wonder if there could be more. Bobby Bright, Dan Boren, Heath Shuler come to mind. Who does everyone think to be the most likely yet to change parties.
Anyone who has ever taken a course in US History or Polisci101 could have told you this was coming. It seems the the media believed their narrative on Obama which they made up in the first place.
“Believe it or not, there are conservative dems in the South.”
Sounds like an oxymoron...we can’t find a conservative Republican any to easy...
A radiation oncologist. When he says the bill is bad for America he is offering a opnion as a medical professional. I like it :-)
“In August — one month after Republicans picked up his former state legislative seat in a special election — Griffith told a local newspaper that he wouldn’t vote for Nancy Pelosi to remain as House Speaker because she’s too divisive. He joked that if she didn’t like it, he’d provide her with a gift certificate to a mental health center. “
Good enough for me
It won't stop the Obamunist march to Socialized Medicine.
Interesting....Rep. Griffith is an oncologist.
So much for support of this alleged health care reform by members of the medical community. AMA, are you paying attention:
Oh boy... anyone who has ever had a (D) next to his name had to have sold his soul to the devil to sign on to the party platform of death to the unborn and promotion of homosexuality.
Are the chickens starting to come home to roost??
Most of them *used* to be.
My whole family were Dems since there *were* Dems and we are so conservative it’s almost sickening.
Carter cured us of our ignorance about the Dems-morphing-into-Marxists, however.
All but 2 of the huge family [a public school teacher and her pedophile husband] switched to [R] for Reagan.
My in-laws are dems. My mother-in-law voted for Gore because “He’ll take care of us.” (Barf 1)
It takes alot to convince Southern dems (born a dem, die a dem) the party could not give a flip about ordinary people living outside the big cities in the South.
These are people who still see the party as the party of FDR...the man who saved this country with the New Deal. (Barf 2)
Just wait until they see cuts in their Medicare or have to pay for those expensive meds. Or they need that 2nd hip replacement.
My father-in-law had 2 knee replacements, with a s/p complication of MRSA in both. He had to have a course of IV antibiotics for 10 days. Wait until next time and there is no coverage for him to have it at home. One dose of the drug was enough to break the bank.
They are in for a rude awakening.
National Review today:
From deep within the archives of Politico, more on the NRCC gunning for Griffith during the election:
Democratic State Senator Parker Griffith has been under fire in recent weeks for comments made to a local Baptist association in which he suggested radical Islam isn’t a threat to the U.S. “We have nothing to fear from radical Islam. We have nothing to fear from any other religion if we are strong on our own beliefs. I don’t fear radical Islam,” Griffith said, according to an audio tape made of his appearance. Adding insult to injury, Griffith had already pointed a finger at American culture: “I think America’s greatest enemy is America and its materialism,” he said.
If he is a RINO...tell him thanks...but no thanks.
John
Carter is a sickening excuse for a man. I have endured that man as Govenor and President.
My son goes to college in South GA. I told him I would disown him if he ever took a trip to Plains, GA. Of course, being 19 his first response was “Huh?” and his next response was “Mom, you’re so gay, like I’m really going to go visit a town smaller than the one I go to school in “
Actually, he is quite the conservative. He is not going to school to make a living so he can pay for society’s slugs.
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