[rabscuttle385]

fyi

[pistolpetestoys]

Could this be a case of Arlen Specteritis?
I don’t know enough about him to make a judgement.

[bamahead]

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[tflabo]

Deep six this new RINO in the Primary——replace him with a true youngblood conservative. Give Les Phillip a chance at it.

http://www.lesphillip.com/

[Batrachian]

I don’t see how a lifelong Democrat (if that’s what he was) suddenly turned Republican can possibly win in the primaries. Let him vote the right way for now (by opposing Pelosi in everything) and then let the primaries decide.

[tflabo]

[Nateman]

Oppose them in the primaries but at least wait to see if a few other RATS switch first. I’d hate to discourage RATS from ripping themselves apart.

[Gay State Conservative]

IMO it would depend largely on his past voting record.He could be another Sphincter,in that he’s afraid of the RAT primary.Given that Sphincter voted RAT 99% of the time,if this guy voted Republican the majority of the time he could be legit.We’re talking Alabama,after all....not Minnesota/Illinois/Vermont.

[4rcane]

i find it suspicious that anyone from the DEM are moving over to the GOP now. It suggest they’re more self serving becausing politica tide has changed. They should’ve known, growing adults, how left wing OBama is, long before now

This include Liberman. He should be voted our of the primary if he join the GOP

[TheOldSchool]

With Obama leadership taking the Democratic party to the extreme left, there is no longer room for a conservative Democrat in congress. Bud Cramer saw it coming and Parker Griffith experienced the shift when trying to work as a conservative in Washington. While a Democrat, he offered to give Nancy Peloci a gift certificate to a mental health facility. I have not seen him described as what he is, an INCUMBANT Republican member of Congress. He should receive some nice committee assignments as a reward for his switch. If you missed it, this was on Fox and Friends: http://clips.shadowtv.net/media/stv/3343/10/2010/021/06/3343_10_20100121_064641_230.wmv

[RnMomof7]

Excellent

[JLS]

Here is something I found on wikipedia about him:

The GOP had been courting Griffith since August, when he publicly criticized the Democratic House leadership in the wake of raucous town hall meetings in his district, stating that he wouldn't vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker as she is "divisive and polarizing".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Griffith We will have to see what his ACU rating is. He was first elected in November 2008 and the rating for 2009 is not online yet.

[SuperLuminal]

And well they should!

[Clinging Bitterly]

You really have to watch out for those party switchers. We have one in the name of Kevin Mannix in Oregon. Thought to be "conservative" by some, he is nothing more than a hard core big government authoritarian.

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.