Seven Mississippi democrats turn republican (Obama inspires party switches)

WLOX Channel 13 ^ | May 30, 2012

[Clintonfatigued]

Seven in one day, that’s quite a catch. There are other switches, some of which are posted in other threads.

[TexasFreeper2009]

more coming out of the closet blowback for Obama ... Im LOVING this!

[jdsteel]

The tidal wave continues...unreported but unabated.

[hoosiermama]

Seven going together in one day.....How many other non-office holders are joining the numbers?

[TrueKnightGalahad]

MUST mean that they're all RACISTS!!!

[edcoil]

Never trust a traitor. They are switching to get republican money will still vote as rino’s

[Breto]

Be careful what you wish for. What is a RINO but a democrat with an “R” behind their name. These switches just move the center of the republican party to the left and corrupt it from the inside even more.

A tiger cannot change its stripes no matter what color you paint it.....

[sten]

so come november as everyone is fed up with 0failure and vote straight R... they can keep their job

[married21]

Winston Churchill said that a young person who is not a liberal has no heart and an old person who is not a conservative has no brain.

Do you think his assumption that experience can teach people and change their outlook is wrong?

I will gladly entertain the possibility that ex-Democrats may become more conservative. Not everybody is on auto-pilot. Some people reflect and reconsider.

[Venturer]

Let me know when Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi switch.

Then I will believe in miracles.

[cripplecreek]

Number 15 on the communist goals for America of 1963.

15) Capture one or both of the political parties in the US.

I was fairly supportive of Bart Stupak as a "conservative" democrat and look what he did. Never again.

[Tupelo]

When some Mississippi Democrat muckymuck switched to the Republican party last year, he remarked that there was no longer any place in the Mississippi Democrat party for white men.
My guess is all of these brand new ‘Republicans’ are white.

[BitWielder1]

Bull. They just believe an (R) next to their names will keep them is office.

[EGPWS]

Seven former democrats are now with the ranks of the republican party after making their formal switch Wednesday.

Seven more liberal votes for the GOP to play with not including Mitt Romney.

But HEY it's a win for the GOP!

[ModelBreaker]

“Winston Churchill said that a young person who is not a liberal has no heart and an old person who is not a conservative has no brain. Do you think his assumption that experience can teach people and change their outlook is wrong? I will gladly entertain the possibility that ex-Democrats may become more conservative. Not everybody is on auto-pilot. Some people reflect and reconsider.”

I think Churchill said if you are 30 and not conservative . . . :)

Actually, White Mississippi Democrats have had almost nothing in common with the Democrat party for many years. We have relatives there who are both Democrat and more conservative than me—and that’s not easy. They vote R in national elections. But the local politicos are Dems and just as conservative as my relatives.

[GreyFriar]

Perhaps it is Obama’s way of taking control of the Republican party. Get enough dems in it and wala.

[luvbach1]

What is a RINO but a democrat with an “R”

You're so right.There aren't any Strom Thurmond-type Demonrats left in the South.

[Free America52]

“I think Churchill said if you are 30 and not conservative . . . :)”

I think the quote is:

If you are 20 and not a liberal you don’t have a heart. If you are 30 and not a conservative you don’t have a brain.

[ErnBatavia]

None of ‘em are legislators.