If Oliverio wins in November, he should switch parties. Any Conservative credentials of his will be nullified the moment he votes for Pelosi for Speaker.
If Oliverio (I had been misspelling his name until now) can win the general by running as a solid conservative (although I, for one, think that McKinley has an excellent chance of winning an open-seat race in the most heavily GOP CD in the state), he will likely face a GOP majority in the House. His smartest play could be to vote “present” for Speaker (or for some conservative Democrat such as Gene Taylor or Mike McIntyre, assuming that they survive) so that it keeps his options open and he can either switch to the GOP as 2012 draws near or stay as a Democrat if redistricters draw a more Democrat WV-01.
Absolutely true! A vote for Oliverio in November is a vote for Pelosi to maintain demoRAT majority control, and for the House committees to be chaired & controlled by the radical leftist socialist wing of the socialist demoRAT party.