But overall, its pretty piss poor and just makes him a left-of-center liberal Democrat.
If he's officially switching parties, his views will probably "evolve" on a half dozen issues and end up in line with the GOP mainstream.
Still don't trust the guy, though. But to be fair, how conservative was Ben Nighthorse Campbell before he switched parties though? Probably to the left of this guy, and he turned out OK.
Campbell was sort of all over the map. One year he’d be moderate, another left (when he was in the Dems). But when the Dems effed with his personal business, that estranged him from them and he pretty much got with the GOP program. As pointed out about Van Drew’s predecessor, LoBiondo, he had already moved into leftist RINO territory by his final year. I still think Van Drew will have a problem in the primary against one of the declared candidates who will point out he’s already pretty far on the left.
LoBiondo’s Dem predecessor, William Hughes (1975-95), who just died recently, was about as left-wing as Van Drew (had about a 19-20% Conservative rating) and even Rob Andrews had a 25%, and these were stalwart Dems. Shows how far the “mainstream” of the Dem party has moved hard core Communist when the former “liberals” have to leave for the GOP.