Posted on 01/23/2010 10:10:25 AM PST by bjorn14
Rep. Parker Griffith, the Alabama Republican who recently crossed over from the Democratic Party, is facing a mini-revolt from some home-state GOP officials who question his loyalty to his newly adopted party.
The local Republican operations for two counties inside Griffith's 5th District passed a set of resolutions in the past week urging Republicans to elect anyone but Griffith in the state's June primary.
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I disagree. I’ve lived in the Tennessee Valley most of my life and am very familiar with how things are run.
The “Dixie Mafia” is alive and well here. Griffith wouldn’t have switched parties without their approval.
And well they should!
With anything in particular, or just in general?
I have told this in several threads since he switched parties. I went to Montgomery a couple of years ago with a chamber of commerce group. My senator had conflicts for part of the morning, so he sent Parker Griffith to talk to us for about an hour and a half. I never heard so much liberal tripe strung together in all my life. The Chamber executives were embarrassed. I was physically exhausted from keeping my mouth shut.
This guy changed parties for political expediency. He is a certified, kool-aid drinking liberal with papers. He is another Benedict Arlen waiting to happen. I would rather have a real Democrat than liberal Republican waiting to ambush us. He is not worth spit.
Thats what I was referring to when I said I disagree.
Les is our choice. Since we met him last year at a Tea Party in Decatur, that had not more than 75 people in attendance and also was before the April 15th Tea Parties we were encouraged to hear from him. He is a real people type guy. Saw him again at July 4th Tea Party in Huntsville. He spoke and so did Mo Brooks. Mo Brooks was a smooth orator. Very comfortable speaking in front of lots of people. Les had a few more stumbles of speech but most people who were there agreed with us that Mo was too polished. Les was a little more of the real deal. We later met Allen West in person and heard him speak, he is a more eloquent than Les Phillip but they remind me of each other in other ways. Their passion for conservative ideals and family.
Should have said “most people we have talked to that were there agreed”.
He does not have the kind of hold on the district a Ralph Hall or Richard Shelby long-time Dem would have. -- I don't think disagreement on this point is reasonable. It would be extremely rare for a pol in office one year, especially one who has received so much criticism from both sides, to have the popularity of a long-time incumbent.
If he had run as a dem, he would have lost. -- Griffith's district was rated one of the most vulnerable Democrat districts. I think it exceeedingly unlikely that he would have been renominated and elected while constantly attacking and apologizing for his own party, angering his Democratic base and making Republicans realize they could just elect one of their own who wouldn't vote for Nancy Pelosi.
You obviously don’t know how this valley is run. If you think that we the people have the power your are very, very wrong.
After switching to the Republican party after a bitter loss in a Democratic primary race for state Attorney General, he was appointed to a state House position, and subsequently he has run as a Republican for Attorney General, Governor (twice), and most recently for Representative in US Congress. Lost every time.
But dig this - he has actually been appointed to and served though a couple election cycles as Chair of the Oregon Republican Party!
The papers all call him a conservative still, but as I said he is nothing but a big government authoritarian who loves high taxes, regulation, and gun control, and that is NOT conservative in my view.
Finally he is out of the party chairmanship, but I wish he would go away altogether. He keeps sticking himself into statewide or national office races, where he runs as a more or less pure lock up all the druggies and kill all the queers so-con, and there are plenty in the left and the right (anyone above the authoritarian/libertarian dividing line) who will not stomach the idea of him having that kind of power.
Ya this is not the exactly same thing they have in Va (yet) but anyone once elected as a Democrat needs first to be NOT made out some kind of hero but examined with plenty of skepticism.
Dang I said Va meant ‘bama.
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