BREAKING: Rep. Parker Griffith switches to GOP

proudgop

Welcome aboard

I would welcome Gene Taylor too or Boren of OK at this point

Third Street

Not anymore, anyway.

Welcome to the club, Parker. I was wondering just the other day why the heck you were still a Democrat.

To my knowledge this is the first D-to-R switch in Congress since Rodney Alexander (LA-05) changed his registration right before the GOP wave of 2004.

We will take the House.

izoneguy

That said: The democratic party has been hijacked by the socialists.
You cannot be a member of the democratic party and say that you
represent America.

Third Street

Taylor’s MS-04 is the most heavily Republican congressional district represented by a Democrat. Boren’s the lone congressional Democrat in a state in which Obama lost every single county.

Or they may not switch at all. I don’t know how serious Boren’s opposition is next year, but Taylor is facing only a token GOP opponent. Griffith, on the other hand, was a first-termer with two strong GOP candidates vying to oppose him.

Still, both may want to consider whether they want to be in the majority party next year…

AceInTX

we only need two more votes in the House than they got last time to kill this pig there…if this switch means one less Dem voting for health care…we only need to switch one more…

Only problem with that analysis is if Griffith was one of the Dem nos already….does anyone know how he voted on the House Bill?

http://conservativestateproject.blogspot.com/ SE-779

Bright or Minnick. They’re Conservative Democrats in arch-Republican districts.

clement

They see the writing on the wall. I don’t think switching parties is going to be of much help.

bs

Unless, of course, this is a fiendish Democrat plan to make the House vote on healthcare appear to be “bipartisan”. Which wouldn’t surprise me.

AngryMatt

This is a move to save his political career, so I’m not particularly interested in this switch except that it can be used to make hay against the bill, noting that it’s so unpopular and divisive even Dems who voted against it can’t stand being in the same party anymore.

Griffith is actually a decently conservative representative; certainly more conservative than guys like Kirk. I’ll welcome him into the fold… but that doesn’t mean he won’t get a strong primary challenge from the right, which he should. Just means that win or lose in that one, we have one more vote for our speaker come Jan 2011.

Third Street

In fact, I’d heard he’d said he would vote against Pelosi for Speaker in the next Congress.

Still, it’s always nice to be sure which team everyone is on…

proudgop

sadly all the dems retiring will vote for health care bill now too

redneck_hippie

My question is the same as Ace’s. Will he help KILL THE BILL???!!!!!

From day one, I have said nobody would defect on health care without having to R themselves. Think of it as a ceremony of knighthood. You can’t slay the dragon without submitting to the sword.

IJB

redneck_hippie

We The People vid. I can’t stand C&W music, but that is my favorite anti-Obama song & lyric.

Merry Christmas, bs!

earlgrey

Ok this is unrelated to Erick’s post, but I wanted it to be read!

Hoeven ND Rep considering going against Dorgan for Senate in 2010. Has 22 point lead in Rasmussen. I called the Hoeven committee today.

The person that answered the phone asked me to email her why I wanted to governor to run. She said the Governor wants to hear from the people that want him to run.

The number for his committee is 701-323-7660. If you have some time, I would suggest calling or emailing to encourage the governor. I did and asked to be on the mailing list to make donations to his campaign if he decides to run.

Third Street

The message to America (or at least the America who hears about it, as this won’t get a tenth of the coverage Specter’s defection got) is that the Obama agenda, particularly the health care bill, is so hateful, obnoxious and destructive that at least one Democrat congressman no longer wants to be in the same party as the people pushing it.

That can only help us.

IJB

I think we should help those guy(s?) out – none of the current Dems in Congress are really worth keeping around, even as Republican-switchers.

Besides, the record on party switchers is not all that great (see: Shelby of AL)…

neutron21sc

…considering he’s a first termer that won in an open seat election. And, considering the following:

“He has bucked the Democratic leadership on nearly all of its major domestic initiatives, including the stimulus package, health care legislation, the cap-and trade energy bill and financial regulatory reform.

He was one of only 11 House Democrats to vote against the stimulus.”

…there are quite a few true RINOs that have worse qualifications for our side than these…so let’s withhold fire until we determine intent…

AngryMatt

I think the groundswell may have been too much, too soon. It gives Pelosi a few extra votes to play with.

With some Blue Dogs leaving for good, we’ll see exactly how much they’re all about representing their constituents or even voting their conscience and how much they’re about getting cushy jobs after their legislative careers end.

Should note that Griffith did vote against cap and trade too, which makes him more conservative than a few members of our own caucus. Doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be challenged from the right, but it’s still a point that should be made.

Richard Mullins

Of course I wrong now. I hope you don’t continuing in given the idiots that make so called “rock and pop music” any money. They don’t need my money and I hope the never get yours.

pilgrim

Les Phillip is a candidate for U.S. Congress from the fifth district of Alabama. Believing that our great nation needs to return to its Constitutional roots, Phillip believes that the time has come to take the fight to Washington D.C. to restore our freedoms.

AngryMatt

He likely ran as a Dem since his district is heavily Democratic… but in a West Virginia way. Very much an artifcat of a different time; genuinely conservative democrats live in Alabama and vote for GOP presidential candidates while voting for the guy with a (D) next to his name for other offices out of tradition.

As you pointed out and I did as well above, he’s more conservative than some in our own caucus and now we’ve got a firm grip on one more vote against Pelosi in Jan. 2011.

Dave_in_Fla

I suspect that before it is over, we will see 10 or so come over. I really expect Al Boyd in FL-02 to be one to switch in the next few months.

As pointed out though, this doesn’t help us much. Most of these folks already voted against HC last time around.

http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

Perrin’s diaries the other day. It was referring to Senators who might switch parties but it applies equally to Representatives as well.

I’ll call Griffith a plant until he proves me wrong. It will take more than one vote with the Republicans to do that, too.

Third Street

You mean people like Ronald Reagan?

No, of course I’m not comparing Griffith to Reagan. I’m just pointing out that even though party-switchers are usually opportunists (Ben Nighthorse Campbell comes to mind), sometimes Democrats truly do figure out they’re simply in the wrong party. Especially southern Democrats.

Since Parker Griffith was already more conservative than a lot of Republicans I could mention, and since I wouldn’t take for granted that another Democrat couldn’t win back AL-05 in an open-seat situation (remember, it was supposed to go to us after Bud Cramer retired last year), I think this could be one of those situations in which we make the perfect the enemy of the good. Right now, I see no reason why Griffith won’t be a reliable conservative vote at least 90% of the time, and so I see no reason to endanger that seat in the quest for 100%.

wolfeman

Could we maybe get Richard Shelby to go away too? I hope a true conservative will step up and run against him in the primary next year.

Power_Pro

…and I welcome it. Whatever it takes to stymie and stall this administration’s agenda I’m all for it.

I am also for conservative primary challengers for not only any switchovers, but also for Republicans who’ve been there too long and who’ve forgotten who they work for.

We need challengers everywhere. Let them make the case to the people and let them decide whether to stick with the incumbent or go with the challenger. And then…when they choose…I’ll support whoever wins that primary.

Power_Pro

If that’s the case, then the timing of his announcement…right before the Senate dems link arms and plunge into the abyss…should send a pretty strong message to all of the so-called blue dogs.

The GOP would do well to highlight the fact he’s a Doctor.

AceInTX

let’s hope he proves more loyal to the R beside his name than some who have paraded it a lot longer!

Power_Pro

n/t

redneck_hippie

I do like some pop and rock, but I also like almost all the other genres as well. Like I said I can’t stand C&W, the other 2 that I don’t like are rap and most opera.

Redneck is my shorthand for Kansas freesoiler and hippie is shortand for naturelover. Both categories are stereotypically fringe elements. What’s in a name, anyway? I basically stick with it because I won’t be confused with anybody else. I’ve used it since the early days of the FDT campaign, because there were these t-shirts about punching hippies, and the kleptocrats labelled all conservatives as rednecks. So I wear it proudly.

IJB

Here are Griffith?s earmark requests.[link removed] He voted for Pelosi for Speaker. He?s actually been more regularly with Pelosi than Jim Marshall (D-GA). We can pick this guy off and get a real Republican in that seat.

If he’s been with Pelosi more than Jim Marshall, that’s hardly a good indicator for future votes.

I’d rather replace him with a *real* Republican. Some of us learned our lessons after the mixed record of the 1995 party switchers…

Third Street

MNConservative

n/t

Third Street

…you think a newly-elected freshman Democrat’s very first act in Congress would be to vote against the leader of his own party?

Don’t get me wrong — I’d prefer to see Les Philip or Mo Brooks in this seat. If no serious Democrat steps up to try to reclaim the seat, I’ll back one of them as a primary challenger. But the way I see it, we’ve got a conservative Republican in that seat as of today.

MNConservative

have always seemed very selfish to me. They send Republicans to their statehouse and governors mansion to provide responsible government at a state level, but they send Democrat leeches to Washington to bring home the bacon. This is a prime example of the attitude which has led to such insanity in our federal budget. Grow up, North Dakota. (spoken as a former ND resident)

martellus

God must love us because this is magnificent. In 1994 with the all of the retirements and the fact that the GOP ran a full slate of candidates coast to coast we forced the dims to defend every seat.

We need to welcome Griffith with open arms. This can grease the skids for other defections. They will defect if they see they are welcomed.

Let’s not blow this. We can force the dims to defend the entire map. They do not have enough money to do that. All we have to do is concentrate our resources in those Red districts held by blue dogs.

We can take the house back. Come on over boys and girls the water’s fine over here and the beer is cold. Welcome

Richard Mullins

I knew that you weren’t going to get it so I just drop it. When it comes to music, I have a fond appreciation for many genres(rap is excluded). My dad has man albums that I want to make .mp3′s out of them. When it comes to Opera, it hit me on 2 sides. First, the basis of it is very nortic and touches my nortic side(1/8 Norwegian). Second, it’s sung mostly by Italians and that pulls against my Italian side(1/4 Italian). Nice stuff but the music stays on classical side(I like but I’m not going to ohh and ahh over it). As for David Allen Coe, he called himself a long hair hippie(that was redneck). Pop doesn’t have a lot of satisfaction for me.

dwarfmama

http://www.mobrooksforcongress.com/Mo_Brooks_for_Congress-start.html

Richard Mullins

NOT!!!!! I don’t think that this should work since only now he seems to have a Revelation from Heaven. If he’s really changed, then we might give him the benefit of the doubt, but until then we promote the non-swaping Republican. We’ll work on Primaring him until then.

louisiana

As distasteful as this might be, we must start thinking like liberals in order to defeat them. I might be paranoid, but what if this is a strategy by the Dems to get their own reelected again? The Dems see the writing on the wall in 2010, and will do anything to minimize their losses. As a side note, Rodney Alexander is my rep., & I have completely satisfied with him. I’m going to withhold my support of Griffith until I know more.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

http://www.redstate.com/gamecock/2009/12/20/when-did-conservatives-lose-america/

The only true blue dawgs are Parker Griffith (D-AL) in the U.S. House of Representatives, who voted against the Stimulus, Cap and Trade and ObamaCare and who vows to vote against Nancy Pelosi as Speaker if he wins re-election in 2010; and Huckleberry Hound in the Dog House. (My apologies to Hound for the past use of his image to represent such a sorry lot. This will be his last appearance in columns related to that mythical creature called the moderate Democrat.)

Gamecock is well informed about Griffith thx to all my relatives in Northern Alabama.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

There is a fine black conservative already announced in that district, but I will now support this convert because they are often the most zealous. He has shown great courage in being the only house dem to vote against the stimulus, cap and trade and health care reform.

AceInTX

if this guy is more conservative than Mark Kirk as someone points out above…whom we are currently promoting for Senate….then why jump on this guy with both feet first jump out of the shoot?

AceInTX

TxCon

he would have done so in 1994 with Shelby, Tauzin, et al.

Minnick votes with the GOP more than he does the Dems. No point in blasting the guy.

Third Street

redneck_hippie

If Nasty Nancy is agin it I’m for it.

Swamp_Yankee

Just flipping through talk radio news stations to see how it was being reported outiside of partisan sources and two things stand out in every news report I’ve heard:

1. Sign Dems are in trouble
2. Parker is a doctor

I like the fact that he is a doctor. Right now my primary concern is beating health care. I know he voted no. But if he feels compelled to move Right, maybe its a sign that are drifting Right since the first vote. HE may also have some sway over some fence-sitting Blue Dogs.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

joayn

This might be a toe in the water to other Dems thinking of changing. We must welcome him with open arms FOR NOW – this is a major blow to Obama.

Gradgov.com grades him a C-, btw. If you read Griffith’s statement on health care at his website, he’s way closer to Republican thinking and proposals. And he was a doctor for more than 30 years.

So, I say, for now, welcome Rep. Griffith.

redohio

of where you stand on his switch. It is good for the GOP. This will more than likely force the DCCC to spend money on the research to explore Democratic candidates. Money they didn’t expect to spend because they had an incumbent in the race.

AKSteveB

The guy is in a one time yellow dog Dem state, he is a doctor who is probably scared by the Dems HCR and he already had broken with the party leadership. We have two good candidates in his district now, there really are worse things!

http://charlemagne-the-hammer.blogspot.com/ DerKrieger

Very conservative but very few Republicans in elected office outside John Boozman’s district at either the federal or state level.

Section9

Obviously, Boehner and Cantor have promised this spineless gigilo no primary oppo and a decent set of committee slots as an enticement to other Blue Dog Pimp Daddies to come over to our side.

That’s how the Beltway GOP works. If they can get enough Blue Dogs to come over to our side, things suddenly darken for NancyCare. The price for a Republican sinecure? Vote with Leadership.

Blue Dogs don’t have princples. It’s all about their Bride Price.

You didn’t think that the difference between Harry Reid and John Boehner was one of princple did you? Silly activist, you!

Section9

The problem is giving them these choice committee assignments when we retake the House. Long serving Republicans are going to be pissed, but if we can kill NancyCare, they will have to be convinced that the price was worth it.

Get your Pimp Shoes on!

Reagan weeps at this. He does.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

for GOP bills/amendments to have no HCR until we end state monopolies and have fed tort reform. Can’t get more conservative than that.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

Scope

and the noun conservatives have it deep in their bones and souls. It is a way of looking at policy issues and governing from a deeply withheld set of beliefs. I would be leary of anyone who was a Democrat, and ran as one last year. There may come a time when you have converted, and proven to be what you say you are, but, I don’t see it happening overnight. Ace, how long did it take you to go from being a Democrat to becoming a total convert to conservatism? I do understand his revulsion with the current Progressives, enough to switch, but, is he swithching to Dem Lite? But hey, for now we won’t argue with his votes against Pelosi’s path to putrid.

Scope

and the noun conservatives have it deep in their bones and souls. It is a way of looking at policy issues and governing from a deeply withheld set of beliefs. I would be leary of anyone who was a Democrat, and ran as one last year. There may come a time when you have converted, and proven to be what you say you are, but, I don’t see it happening overnight. Ace, how long did it take you to go from being a Democrat to becoming a total convert to conservatism? I do understand his revulsion with the current Progressives, enough to switch, but, is he swithching to Dem Lite? But hey, for now we won’t argue with his votes against Pelosi’s path to putrid.

http://guyaverage.blogspot.com guyaverage

This is the kind of “R” that starts the word RINO. This gentleman has no convictions, he just simply will do what needs to be done to get re-elected.

He is a perfect RINO. Exactly the kind of weak-willed agent of compromise that has destroyed the credibility of the Republican Party.

I have not read the thread, so forgive me if someone has already mentioned this: Arlen Specter was a DEMOCRAT, then became a Republican, and now he’s a Democrat again.. More importanly, Arlen never left the Democrat party when it came to his core beliefs.

Somebody prove to me that this politician (spits) from Alabama is any different than Specter.

Richard Mullins

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

http://guyaverage.blogspot.com guyaverage

the Democrat party left me”.

BIG difference.

I was once a Democrat and I marched in Solidarity Day during Reagan’s first term. Then once my brain engaged I saw that what I believed in my heart and mind was Conservatism, and what the Democrats believed was a danger to me and to my country, I left the Democrat Party, but I hadn’t changed, I had just become aware of which party my beliefs truly lined up with.

This turncoat politician from from Alabama has nothing but his own political survival in mind.

We need STATESMEN (like Reagan), NOT politicians.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

the 70s had enough info that should have caused them to switch earlier. I didn’t switch until 2000.

rejoice

Swamp_Yankee

… It’s where your headed that counts.

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

big govt obstacles and is about to be the big cahuna of health care socialism, which is why I think we need to be (and needed to be months ago) running ads against 11 dems in their districts to trya nd shame them into voting against the bill and at least against cloture.

Third Street

In his single term of office he certainly hasn’t been acting like a Democrat. Not even a so-called “conservative” Democrat — because there aren’t any.

A truly conservative Democrat eventually leaves the Democrat Party. You did. Most of the people on my mother’s side of the family in Louisiana did. And now Parker Griffith just did.

Achance

They were born Democrats, their friends are all Democrats, so they stay Democrats. They probably voted for GWB and McCain, but locally and in state elections their allegiances and alliances are with Democrats.

I too was born a Democrat, but I came to live in a state where the McGovernite wing of the Party took over very early, dominating the State Legislature by the mid-seventies. They became so radical that by the early ’80s they’d pretty much lost everything – including me. The last Democrat I voted for was Bill Sheffield for Governor in ’82 and he was a conservative as Democrats went. ‘Course, the “radicals” of the ’70s look pretty tame by the standards of Comrade Obama’s administration.

oldgeezerguy

The party probably had to promise him no opponent this time to get him to cross over.

It is tactically stupid to jump right on his case out of the box and thus discourage others who many be considering similar switches.

Not a good kneejerk reaction in my opinion and reflection for a bit may show giving him a pass may pay off more than and immediate stab in the back.

Hey Pelosi is their no room for moderates in your big tent.

(she deserves that one sooooooooo much)

jccbin

“I don’t give a Damn about the letter next to his name…as long as he votes conservative.

The Red State powers-that-wanna-be may not like that, but it is exactly how MOST of America feels about their representatives.

They do not give a crap about your egalitarian agendas and machiavellian manipulations for power. They hear you talk about manipulating the speakership vote and think that THAT is part of what is WRONG with Washington and the various state governments: TOO MUCH POLITIKIN’.

YOU political types have made this problem by making things intentionally complicated because YOU like playing the game.

We don’t give a crap about the game. We want it simple and direct and that means driving every one of you into the ground: all you pretty web sites and 527s and lobbyists have got to go. You just get in the way of the people making simple decisions. You are as bad as the trial lawyers, who also must go.”

What do we say to that?

proudgop

Via Hotline

Businessman Jack McDonald (D) will drop out of the race against Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) today, robbing Dems of a wealthy recruit in the race against what could be a vulnerable GOPer.

McDonald, the former CEO of information technology firm Perficient Inc., will cite business reasons in a statement. The Nasdaq-listed company reported last month that its profits had plummeted by some 95% during the economic downturn.
McDonald stepped down as CEO in Sept. but remained on board as the company’s chair while he began his run for Congress.
It is a blow to Dems who had hoped to give McCaul a top-notch challenger.

McDonald had raised a stunning $932K through the end of Sept., ending the quarter with $805K in the bank. McDonald is wealthy, but he lent his campaign just $26K, indicating he had real fundraising prowess.

Had he stayed in, McDonald would have faced the 3-term McCaul, who survived a closer-than-expected contest last year with atty Larry Joe Doherty (D). McCaul won the race by a narrow 54%-43% margin.

Interesting that he had 805,000 and he is dropping out??

http://pragmaticpachyderm.blogspot.com texasproud

Parker Griffith is an example of where the Blue Dog Democrat nominee ran as a truer conservative than the GOP candidate. When you factor in him questioning Pelosi’s sanity, and his votes against the leadership on the so-called stimulus, cap and tax, and the health care bill, I would say he can find a home here. Plus we have not had a GOP represent this district since 1869 (that’s longer than NY 23) and we have someone who can represent the physician view of this issue, I would say we have an excellent wedge to use against the Pelosicrats. We thought they key to a big wave was a series of retirements, when we just needed the handful of likeminded conservatives to join their real party. It will be interesting to watch and see what type of pressure Bobby Bright, who has a nearly identical record to Griffith, is brought to bear. The real question will be after November ’10, especially if we retake the House, will the last remnants of Blue Dogs like Boren from OK, Taylor from MS, Marshall from GA try to abandon ship

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

melanie

“Again, changing the letter next to your name does not magically make you one of us.”

Now more than ever, starting off with an “R” next to your name doesn’t magically make you one of us. The GOP needs to clean house before it’s too late, but in the meantime, I welcome anyone willing to try and help stop the socialization of America, regardless of the letter next to their name.

george_in_columbia

actually NY-23 was longer — 1850′s, but 1869 is still very impressive !

IJB

He already had two GOP opponents, and I doubt anyone in Washington can “force” them out, thank God.

Hopefully the locals won’t abandon those two, because every ‘party switcher’ should get a strong primary challenge out of the box, AFAIAC.

http://conservativestateproject.blogspot.com/ SE-779

But I was just stating the possibility that they might, might switch.

avgamerican

This guy makes me sick. Don’t let him in. Mr. Patrick do us all a favor. Go home and tell your constituents how you helped wreck the United States. You are just realizing that the dem party is communist and is pursuing massive gov’t intrusion? You don’t realize how angry real Americans are.

Richard Mullins

McCaul was one of 2 Republican congressmen here in Texas that didn’t put any earmarks this year. That should go well with voters in NW Harris county like Cypress and Tomball. It should help on the wayward voters as well.

SirGladiator

Its fantastic to see Dems jumping ship to the GOP in advance of the elections. I don’t know hardly anything about this fellow, or the GOP guy who was already running, but that Les Phillips fellow seems mighty cool. No doubt Griffith knew that Phillips was going to beat him in the general so he switched parties to try to keep his seat, kind’ve like how Specter up there in PA switched to avoid certain defeat. I’d like to know more about both candidates, but as far as Im concerned we should judge the Griffith-Phillips ‘primary’ race the same way we would have had they faced in the general, party labels are irrelevant, its all about where you stand on the issues. Whoever the better man is, thats who we should support. Either way we win. Of course the GOP Establishment will game the system in Griffith’s favor, and their talking points will be ‘If Griffith goes down in the primary it will discourage other Democrats from switching’, but that’s not entirely true, it will only discourage ‘inferior’ Democrats from switching. True Conservative Democrats will always have a welcome home in the Republican Party, as well they should. If Griffith can prove himself the better man, he should be welcomed. If he can’t, he should lose the primary the same way he would’ve definitely lost the general had he not switched in the first place. If Phillips is the better man, there is no reason on earth not to elect him, since this seat was already ours for the taking long before Griffith decided to switch parties. Whoever wins the GOP Primary will win the general, that was true yesterday and its still true today. We neither owe Grifith any hostility for formerly being a Democrat, especially since he was one of the most Conservative ones in Congress, nor do we owe him any loyalty for becoming a Republican, especially since he become one to avoid certain defeat next November. May the best man win!

Richard Mullins

Then we should make sure the change on his part is genuine. For Griffith and anyone else, a Trust but Verify routine needs to used.

archer52

I spend a lot of time up there hunting. The people are that socially conservative, somewhat moderate on funding type of democrat. Think Reagan democrats. I could see how a conservative democrat- anti-abortion, socially conservative, fiscally moderate, could get to the point where they would throw up in their mouths a little over what the Democratic party is like today. I don’t know this guy but he may not be as left as you think or a turncoat. Like Reagan said, I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, it left me.

Gmac

PG is a weezil who consistently showed that he would vote against illegal immigration reform, voted for pay raises and always gave the back of his hand to conservatives while he was in the Alabama legislature.

He voted WITH Nancy Pelosi 80% of the time.

He will have to face off against Mo Brooks and Les Philips for the Republican nomination and I can tell you right now it will be a cold day in hell before I vote for him.

Gmac

The free hint is that this clown is a weezil. He consistently voted against or suppressed votes on immigration reform, voted for pay raises and better insurance plans while in the Alabama legislature.

He is *NOT* a conservative..

He’s going to have to make it past to conservative Republicans in the primary and as far as I’m concerned he’s not going to get my vote.

Gmac

not a conservative as much as he would like for you to believe he is.

Gmac

is despised by conservatives here…

ltnowis

due to redistricting, it was 1850 for some parts of NY-23, but 1870, 1890, or even the mid to late 20th century for others.
http://www.thealbanyproject.com/diary/6516/amazing-political-history-of-ny23

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