personal gain? Ya think??
These born-agains need to withdraw from politics for six years and do pennance before reentering the fray as conservatives. Lipstick liberals.
“you really can’t be a conservative and be a member of the Democratic Party”
Well, he’s 100% correct about THAT!
Is he maybe trying to pull the GOP leftward? That would be rather difficult in that geographic vicinity.
No need to bring your personal bias into the argument. Conservative covers many more that just the religious ya know.
Reagan was a fairly effective convert, as was Phil Gramm, Dick Shelby, and a long list of others. Think David Horowitz. There are a lot of folks brought up in the Democrat party who come to see the light. Converts often make the strongest partisans.
At this point, I don’t think casting aspersions on Bell’s motivations and character is helpful.