Never trust a traitor. Now you just have RINO’s taking all the prospective conservatives funds from the GOP party.
Some ‘Democrats’ in my family have seen the light too. They are realizing they are not democrats..aka communists.
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...
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...
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?