No, I think he was GOP for a very long time. He served in the Reagan administration. Also, remember that in Dade county politics one does not need to be nominated by a party to run for office. So there still would have been no need for him to change to GOP if he was a dem to begin with. But like I said, he was a GOP from way back in the Reagan administration.
Oh.
So are we going to go with the "He's not a real republican" or "He was setup by the MSM"?
Frankly, he never sounded much like a republican to me...