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Bad Idea:

1. You’re living in a dream world if you think the SEIU/ACORN/Moveon crowd won’t smell out closet conservatives at the primary level and make them unelectable.
2. Once elected, they will be mardinalized by the ever-more liberal remaining Democrats.
3. Trying to infiltrate the Democratic party dilutes the efforts to reclaim the Republican Party. If there is any direction to go outside the Republican Party, it probably ought to be in the direction of the TEA Party/New TRULY CONSERVATIVE Third Party
4. Pelosi’s seat aside, as a general rule, when Republicans run as centrists, they lose; when Dems run as moderates/right of general Dem politics, they win. When Republicans run to the right, they have tended to win. If you have conservatives get them into the business of reclaiming the Republican Party.
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1. You’re living in a dream world if you think the SEIU/ACORN/Moveon crowd won’t smell out closet conservatives at the primary level and make them unelectable.

A: I don’t advocate lying. People can smell it and it’s the wrong thing to do in any case. Honesty is the best remedy; you’re a conservative, but a Democrat. There is no ideological litmus test within the Democratic party. And even so, the idea here is to force the response. Winning the election is just gravy.

2. Once elected, they will be mardinalized by the ever-more liberal remaining Democrats.

A: Quite possibly they will. But you’d be surprised how pragmatic Democrats can be when they have to.

3. Trying to infiltrate the Democratic party dilutes the efforts to reclaim the Republican Party. If there is any direction to go outside the Republican Party, it probably ought to be in the direction of the TEA Party/New TRULY CONSERVATIVE Third Party.

A: Not really. The GOP has already read the tea leaves. It’ll move to the right in order to win, then do what it always does: screw over conservatives at the first opportunity. Conservatives need to be less of a captive audience. Much as I would like to see a conservative 3rd party, I don’t think it’s in the cards.

As the next election will likely be a rout, conservatives should have enough resources to spare.

4. Pelosi’s seat aside, as a general rule, when Republicans run as centrists, they lose; when Dems run as moderates/right of general Dem politics, they win. When Republicans run to the right, they have tended to win. If you have conservatives get them into the business of reclaiming the Republican Party.

A: Conservatives have claimed and reclaimed the GOP. They’ll reclaim it again this year. And sooner rather than later, they’ll be thrown under the bus. Again. Conservatives are truly the battered wives of American politics.

As to specific districts, you need to look at the district in question; many seats are not challenged by the opposing party because the district has been so carefully gerrymandered as to insure that the opposing party doesn’t have a chance.