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VIDEO: Rep. Griffith Switches Parties: Democrats "Do Not Represent My Values"
RealClearPolitics ^ | December 22, 2009 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 12/22/2009 11:14:13 AM PST by ianschwartz

Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama announces he is switching his membership to the Republican party.

Griffith says Democrats do not represent his "convictions."

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gop; parkergriffith
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1 posted on 12/22/2009 11:14:16 AM PST by ianschwartz
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To: ianschwartz

Parker “Windsock” Griffith

Parker “Weathervane” Griffith


2 posted on 12/22/2009 11:15:16 AM PST by GeronL
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To: ianschwartz

At least one of them has a brain


3 posted on 12/22/2009 11:15:47 AM PST by ignorancerunsrampant (Where is the Court of Common Sense?)
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To: ianschwartz

They represented his values last year.


4 posted on 12/22/2009 11:15:51 AM PST by LdSentinal
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The floodgates will open up next year.

These people must not be welcomed-in with open arms!!

At best they will be Rinos.

WARNING!!!

5 posted on 12/22/2009 11:16:40 AM PST by PALIN SMITH (Show them our respectable contempt!)
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To: ianschwartz

and you had to get elected to congress to figure that out?


6 posted on 12/22/2009 11:17:03 AM PST by tm61 (somewhere in chicago, a ward is missing it's crook)
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To: ianschwartz

Sorry, dimwits have taught me to not believe a thing they say.


7 posted on 12/22/2009 11:18:21 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: LdSentinal

He stated that he ran as an independent conservative.


8 posted on 12/22/2009 11:19:00 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: ianschwartz
A means test............

The only way they should be welcomed is if they name their next child or grandchild,

George or Georgia Bush ___________________!!

9 posted on 12/22/2009 11:19:03 AM PST by PALIN SMITH (Show them our respectable contempt!)
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Do Not Represent My Values

I wonder what his values were before he cashed in on the anti Bush sentiment sweeping the country and before the Obama backlash began.

10 posted on 12/22/2009 11:19:18 AM PST by libh8er
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To: LdSentinal

You may be right, but in his defense, we have never been able to get a republican elected in this district(Griffith’s district). It’s been very frustrating. He could not have been elected had he ran on the republican ticket.


11 posted on 12/22/2009 11:19:18 AM PST by ToKillaMockingbird
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To: ianschwartz

The democrat party begins to crumble—can’t happen too soon.


12 posted on 12/22/2009 11:19:29 AM PST by liberalcide1
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Democrats know whats going to happen next year. Expect to see alot of this, so’s to infiltrate Republican ranks, and thus Dems ACTUALLY hold on to both houses.


13 posted on 12/22/2009 11:20:41 AM PST by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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He might not be as bad as he could be. I heard Rush talking about him today and that his district where he is is a pretty conservative area of Alabama, one that has turned more conservative the last few years. I think Rush said it had turned more conservative since Obama was elected.

At least he appears smart enough to not want to fall on the sword for Obamacare/Reidcare/Pelosicare.

Either that or he really doesn’t care if he loses next time, and wants to be the “one republican” who votes for it so the Dems can say it was “bipartisan”.


14 posted on 12/22/2009 11:22:29 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: mountn man

I wonder if a couple of others might defect, like the “moderate” from MS or those guys in GA who are in GOP leaning districts.


15 posted on 12/22/2009 11:23:51 AM PST by TNCMAXQ
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To: Secret Agent Man

It was said elsewhere that if all the Pubbies left there could be no vote as at least one of the opposition party had to be present. Maybe this is a scam to have one there hence allowing the vote?


16 posted on 12/22/2009 11:27:46 AM PST by NCjim ("You can't pick up a turd by the clean end", Bob Lonsberry on Obamacare)
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To: ianschwartz

http://theattackmachine.wordpress.com/

http://www.lesphillip.com/


17 posted on 12/22/2009 11:30:16 AM PST by pookie18 (Palin/Cheney '12)
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To: NCjim

Oops, this guy is not in the Senate. We need one to switch there and be serious about it. Doubtful that will happen, though. Pray for our country!


18 posted on 12/22/2009 11:30:44 AM PST by NCjim ("You can't pick up a turd by the clean end", Bob Lonsberry on Obamacare)
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To: ianschwartz

Good. 40 some to go. Get the US House and we can investigate Hussein all day long.
Let’s remember our primary task here. No matter how bad the Republicans have been, no matter how squishy moderates have misbehaved, everything bad that is happening right now is the fault of the DIMS. We’ve called faxed and shouted at DIM senators, congressmen and what do they do for us- NOTHING! And they NEVER will! Even the 2 squishy Maniacs voted against the socialists, but not one DIM.
The Roman Senator Cato used to end every speech in the senate whether it be about building a road or temple or staging a gladiatorial fight by proclaiming that “CARTHAGE MUST BE DESTROYED”
We must have this single-mindedness. The DIMS MUST BE DESTROYED! The only good DIM is a defeated DIM! No whining, no third parties, no lamentations that Republicans and DIMS are just the same. This is serious. We must do this by any and all means necessary.


19 posted on 12/22/2009 11:35:39 AM PST by grumpygresh
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To: ianschwartz

Oh goodie. Another Democrat in the GOP.


20 posted on 12/22/2009 11:40:35 AM PST by all the best
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