[lepton]

If you were in a Republican club in your hometown, and one of the officers stood up and announced that he had switched registration and was leaving the club, and provided a heartfelt explanation, would you hate him, rough him up, and throw him out in the street? No! You might gently ask him to resign his office, or initiate a recall, but you would respect his switch if it was conscientious and honorably done.

I think it's a bit different if he'd just gotten elected based on running on your platform - then he's obviously of lesser character.

[tom h]

Touche -- I agree with you on that one.

Of course, conservative Southern Democrats walk, talk, and act like Republicans and the switcheroos in Georgia may have just been biding their time before they switched to the party that truly represented their beliefs. And, no doubt, they probably campaigned on a conservative platform that did not resemble the national Democratic party's platform.

The worst you can call them, therefore, is opportunistic.