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To: paul in cape
NO, NO, NO! No more Democrats switching to Republicans! All this does is water down the Party creating more RINO's!

I don't care what democrat legislation this guy voted against as a democrat. Once a democrat, ALWAYS a democrat I say.

Don't let him switch, it'll just be one more RINO we'll have to throw out in 2012 anyway.

4 posted on 11/13/2010 7:06:52 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative
I agree! BTW, didn't some idiot up in the NY house switched to republican and gave them the majority only to have switched back to the rat hole for a higher position or something like that? I DON'T TRUST ANY RAT that stabs their own party...he is no good!! Throw him back to the rat hole he crawled out of!
14 posted on 11/13/2010 7:17:16 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: usconservative
NO, NO, NO! No more Democrats switching to Republicans! All this does is water down the Party creating more RINO's!

Usually. But there are exceptions.

As for myself, I was Democrat being raised in the South. Now I look at Atilla the Hun as a pinko-lib.

There was also another Democrat turned Republican, named Ronald Reagan, who was far from being a RINO.

Thus it is best to reserve judgement on people's words until they show some actions to define their character.

17 posted on 11/13/2010 7:22:06 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't skipper a boat, Can't drive, Can't ski, Can't fly. But they KNOW what's best!)
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To: usconservative
I agree 100 percent. I was getting ready to post the exact same thing. I pray that FREEPERS are not cheer-leading this monstrosity. It will make the Republican party more moderate than it already is. I thought we were trying to get the RINOs out. You will never convince me that a guy who switches from Democratic to Republican is going to be a conservative Tea Party type. Of course FREEPERS (some) never see the long term. That is why they love that new Illinois Senator and was going for some of these other liberal Republican. It is very strange for a conservative websites to have some many liberal Republican cheerleaders.
21 posted on 11/13/2010 7:25:18 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: usconservative

‘Once a democrat always a democrat’ is SO not true. I came out of UCBerkeley, very liberal, always voted Democrat. Voted for George Bush when I came out of the fog, because of his integrity. I had looked at Ralph Nader’s website that year (!!) thinking that I had always liked him, and realized that it was a load of hooey and that I didn’t believe any of that at all in any way.

Often a convert will be more convinced of his new stance because he has made the decision clearly, perhaps with gut-wrenching soul-searching. I say we welcome the converts. They know how the other side thinks, and they are ‘liberals mugged.’

Personally, it gives me hope to see this. I think it is a harbinger of things to come.


25 posted on 11/13/2010 7:34:28 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: usconservative
I don't care what democrat legislation this guy voted against as a democrat. Once a democrat, ALWAYS a democrat I say.

Wasn't Reagan a Democrat at one time?

27 posted on 11/13/2010 7:35:09 AM PST by Netizen
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To: usconservative
NO, NO, NO! No more Democrats switching to Republicans! All this does is water down the Party creating more RINO's!

Sometimes it works out,expecially in the south. Richard Shelby, Phil Gramm, John Connolly and of course Strom Thurmond turned out okay.
29 posted on 11/13/2010 7:40:24 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: usconservative

Give him a chance. He has just set him self loose from his Dem shackles and may turn out to really be one of us. At least for now, we can hope.


33 posted on 11/13/2010 7:53:36 AM PST by WellyP
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To: usconservative

Not to pile on, but “Ronaldus Magnus” wouldn’t have gotten through under your test, so how does that hekp us? I agree that it is generally problematic to accept party switchers, because such changes are normally nothing but self-serving opportunism, and you get what you pay for.

However, there is an important minority of cases that are the result of serious maturation of thought. They have really become convinced that the perspective of their old party is deeply flawed, and more importantly, they’ve seen those defects first hand, understand them from the inside, so they are totally inoculated against them, and are particularly good at opposing and defeating them. You don’t want to give up some of your best A-Team players if you don’t have to. I say we welcome everybody, but just like church, hold their feet to the fire if their “conversion” later fails to pass the test of genuineness.


35 posted on 11/13/2010 7:55:16 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: usconservative
Really? No party switchers?

Ronaldus Magnus and Phil Gramm were once Democrats....

36 posted on 11/13/2010 7:55:35 AM PST by Lysandru
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To: usconservative

Don’t be too hasty, there have been a few good conservatives come from the other side of the aisle. Reagan comes to mind.


37 posted on 11/13/2010 8:06:04 AM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: usconservative

Yeah, Ronald Reagan was suuuuch democrat/RINO!


38 posted on 11/13/2010 8:08:57 AM PST by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: usconservative

So Richard Shelby is dead to you?


39 posted on 11/13/2010 8:11:47 AM PST by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: usconservative

NOV 2010
Michael Willette (D / Inc.) 1,604
Jessica Chase Smith (R) 1,262

wonder what Jessica thinks.


47 posted on 11/13/2010 9:21:54 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
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To: usconservative

I hear what you’re saying, but you have the wrong attitude. Personally, I welcome disgusted, awakened Democrats to the Republican party much the way I welcomed Ronald Reagan to the Republican party when he left the... make that, when the Democrat party left him.

FRegards,
LH


56 posted on 11/13/2010 10:25:09 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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