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.
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Merry Christmas to you too.
Lovely, now the retard patrol has hit the thread. Give the guy a chance before you condemn him as a RINO/Trojan Horse. Or at least bother to actually know what the devil you’re talking about - you could start by actually looking at his voting record, people.
BTTT
I agree.
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?
Knee jerk ideological purity gave us a 60 seat Rat Senate. How's that working for us?
The capital should be moved to Omaha or Kansas City or something.
will the media make a big deal of this like they do when a RINO leaves us and joins with Marxists
Thank you.
Too bad it wasn’t a Senator. May Arlen Specter burn in Hell.
Wow, just what we need, another RINO.
Wonder where he stands on social issues?
No kidding. The idiots who think you have to run a FReeper in Massachusetts or else you're "selling out" are the Democrats' best friends.
WOW . . . I live in his district. I was a tough fight last year but the GOP ran a wuss. WOW I forget how long a Dem, Bud Cramer held this seat before Parker Griffith won it after Cramer’s retirement.
What percentage of the time did he vote with Pelosi?
Bud Cramer won because he was the ranking Dem on an appropriations committee that was important to North Alabama. When he retired the state lost that leverage.
“Run a conservative against him in the next primary.”
I’m sorry that I cannot agree. We need to encourage more of this behavior. We need to get back into the majority ASAP so 0bamacare and cap and tax never even make it to the floor.
Like all converts, I expect him to be among the most faithful - at least for the foreseeable future.
Seems to me that the Democrats who have switched to the GOP are rarely troublesome. It's the homegrown Northeastern (either in geography or mindset) Rockefeller Republican types - people who've been registered R since they started voting - are the ones causing most of the problems.
Ronald Reagan and Charles Krauthammer were once loyal Democrats. I’d keep either one of them.
I don’t know about Alabama, but in NC almost all local pols are Democrats even though many are extremely conservative. It is possible that he thought the DC crowd was just another bunch of home-boys but found out differently.
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