Posted on 12/22/2009 8:05:01 AM PST by Danae
POLITICO has learned that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican.
According to a senior GOP aide familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place in this afternoon in his home district in northern Alabama.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Do we know that? Being from AL - he might actually be relatively conservative. How has he voted?
This and Hussien’s plummetting poll numbers (-21 today at Ras.) is proof that something is very amiss on the Dum side.
Believe me, Deathcare is causing this and it will be more and more difficult to pass in January or February.
Don’t knock it. He’s a DOCTOR and likely sees the downside of Obamacare. Hopefully he’ll be an ally.
Infiltrating the right is more likely. I don’t put anything past these thugs.
Well said. He voted against the bill so he does have some blue dog credibility.
Here’s what our local talk radio host is saying about his switch:
http://theattackmachine.wordpress.com/
In what way ? The district is Republican at the Presidential level, it was merely about the last one to fall at the Congressional level in AL. If he is defeated in the GOP primary, we’ll still likely hold it. He won only narrowly last year against a GOP retread candidate from the ‘90s.
Oh, THAT'LL encourage others to make the jump. Endorse him and give him money.
BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!............
[Run a conservative against him in the next primary.]
Exactly. The last thing we need are more RINOs.
good.
AMEN!!!!
So between this guy and Abercrombie(HI) resigning, that’s 2 less votes for Brutus Pelosi.
Against.
Griffith received his medical degree from the Louisiana State University Medical School and served in residency at the University of Texas. He is a Board Certified Radiation Oncologist, now retired, and a businessman.
Welcome aboard, Griffith!
I agree!
GOP should play up the fact that he’s an oncologist.
According to the House clerk's website, Griffith:
- Voted against the Wall Street Consumer Reform and Protection Act (more government takeover of private finance)
- Voted against the Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers, and Small Businesses Act of 2009 (a Democrat bill that actually REPEALED a provision in the tax code preventing certain types of tax increases)
- Voted against the Affordable Health Care for America Act (i.e. Obamacare)
- Voted against the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 (IIRC, this was the bill that can be construed as prohibiting private gardens as a step towards federal control over the food supply).
- Voted against the recent increase of the debt ceiling that allows the fedgov to continue spending more and more
Seems to me that he already is a conservative, if his voting record on major recent issues means anything. Sounds like a conservative who came home. why on earth would we need to "run a conservative against him in the primary"? So we can split the vote and let the Dems have the seat back?
What is his rating from the ACU and NRA?
He is a conservative and he is a responsive and responsible one in an area of Alabama that has a large contingent of liberals.
He’s bucked the system throughout this. I’ll vote for him as a Republican.
This guy hasn’t been around long enough to have an ACU or NTU rating. We will have to wait and see.
He’s a Blue Dog. Maybe he has now realized that the Blue Dog thing is a scam.
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