Posted on 02/03/2011 8:52:45 AM PST by Libloather
These elected officials aren't traitors. They're refugees...
Covington County is the home of the Opp Rattlesnake Rodeo. These guys are rural, white Democrats -- salt of the earth. As such, they are likely to be more conservative than the average FReeper.
They have been Democrats because there probably wasn't even a Republican party apparatus (or primary) in Covington County until just recently. I know there wasn't one in Lowndes County when I was last there, in 1999.
Previously, they've had to live within a liberal national party and an increasingly liberal state party structure. Now that liberal state party has gotten even more liberal, because the last election ended the careers of many of their rural, white conservative counterparts.
Accordingly, that state party is now run by liberal urban blacks, who tend to be remarkably corrupt (not to mention racist).
Previously, if they wanted to be elected, they had no choice but to be Democrats. Now they do.
And they've jumped ship and joined with the party that actually shares their principles.
They aren't "traitors", they're political refugees...
Nail on the Head
See #15
The problem I have with these crossers is they never had the wherewithall to know the difference in first place. Now that the heat is on, most likely because they know they will lose their jobs, they cross over. So we should be vary wary of these people, put em on “probation” based on voting, comments, etc. Once they have experienced the “shame” of crossing over, it will be much easier to then go back. So get some good votes from em, but be ready to kick em out as well. Too untrustworthy.
I've made that post (or something like it) at least a dozen times in the past month.
Salute to Covington County from an old Lowndes County pecan farmer. Do they still have the rattlesnake carnival over in Opp?
Don’t trust them. USE them.
You have to look at these folks one at a time. It is changing rapidly, and in some places has already changed, but there have been broad areas of the South where all the local officials were Democrats. And in many places they were just as conservative, if not more conservative, as Republicans in the rest of the nation. The rural Texas county I grew up in did not have a single elected Republican, below U.S. Senator. But I know a lot of the (then) Democrat officials voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984, and I would bet that a majority of them did.
That’s right. They haven’t seen the light, they just want to keep power.
I completely agree.....I would not put it past the DNC that this is a ploy to get people behind the scenes, and ruin the conservative movement from within...
See #15, 16 and 21 for clarity.
Having raised 5 youngins’ here we’ve dealt with Trippy over the years.Fair Man.Seems our grandson picked up where they left off.Trippy put the fear of GOD in him just last week.Don’t think the boy will travel over 50 mph now.
Rodeo still going on
http://www.rattlesnakerodeo.com/rr/
That’s right!
If you’re not from Alabama, then don’t come on this thread spouting off about RINOs. I’ve been on a one man crusade trying to get these guys and others like them to switch for about 15 years! I personally talked to Bobby Bright about it, yet he would not join us. Well he’s out of a job now.
Anyway, they are NOT RINOs. They WERE DINOs. Today they’re in the party that better reflects their political philosophies.
They’ll bring MORE conservatism into the Republican party and leave the democrats much more liberal. Good job, guys, and thank you!
No, because we don’t have massholes from Massachusetts moving into our state to screw it over. That’s not what’s happening in Alabama. Maybe in New Hampshire, but not down here.
Well I can see your point. My cousin tried to run for local office as a Republican a number of years back. The Dem machine made it tough on him all the way.
The south was a monolithic democrat voting block for decades. It takes time to build an opposition party, usually from the top down as we see in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.
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3 elected Mississippi Democrats switch to GOP
Shows, who is from Ellisville and has served in the House since 1992, said he's the same man he was when elected 19 years ago as a conservative Democrat. It's the Democratic Party, Shows said, that has changed.
Shows said there's an element of the Democratic Party leadership in Mississippi that believes the party is no longer a place for white conservatives.
"So I'm here to be a white conservative Republican," Shows said.
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I know many of the Shows family members, went to school with some of the Shows kids.
Dead on.
“Never trust a traitor. Now you just have RINO’s taking all the prospective conservatives funds from the GOP party.”
... and what party did Ronald Reagan originally belong to?
That was a long time ago in a different time. I don’t think the comparison is relevant.
: )
Will the last Democrat turn out the lights before he leaves.
This is in Alabama, they are very likely more conservative then many Republicans.
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