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Exclusive: Rep. Parker Griffith switches to GOP

Strucky said:
Will this be the first of many rats abandoning a sinking ship?
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He's not the first, there are a number of Dem's "retiring" this year. 2010 is gonna be a massacre for the left.
 
Orius said:
Switching parties should be against the law. His constituents voted for a democrat, not a republican. If he wants to switch he should wait until the next election.
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If the only reason his constituents voted for him was because he was a Democrat, and that being the only reason, they deserve what they get. There is much more to a politician than what party he is in; like how much pork he can send to his district.
 
MrVicchio said:
He's not the first, there are a number of Dem's "retiring" this year. 2010 is gonna be a massacre for the left.
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You'd better hope that all the economic signs are wrong. If they are...you are correct, the GOP will pick up a ton of seats. However, most every indicator is showing the economy improving...which will be disaster for the GOP if it continues.
 
disneydude said:
You'd better hope that all the economic signs are wrong. If they are...you are correct, the GOP will pick up a ton of seats. However, most every indicator is showing the economy improving...which will be disaster for the GOP if it continues.
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Most economists acknowledge the coming recovery, in a job market perspective, will be "soft."

I'll try to find the right numbers, but there was a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed piece which basically detailed if the job market suddenly rebounded this quarter (which it didn't), and proceeded to recover at some job-number unseen since the 80's... It still wouldn't be enough to get the unemployment number down to a reasonable number in time for the 2010 elections. Quite simply, within the next year, the unemployment/underemployed number cannot shrink from seventeen percent to four or five or even six. It's, quite simply, not physically possible.

Anyhow, I'll try to find the numbers for you.

http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/number-of-unemployed-americans-soars-over/

This site is the best for all your unemployment numbers.
 
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Strucky said:
Will this be the first of many rats abandoning a sinking ship?
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Probably not. This guy has always been a conservative. I'm not sure why he was in the Democratic party to begin with.
 
Missouri Mule said:
The biggest skunk at the party was the turncoat Spector who guaranteed this benighted health care takeover. That man has not one scruple in his bones. The Republican establishment backed him and then he turned around and stabbed them in the back.

This defection by this lone representative will be a mere blip on the pond and quickly forgotten. Next November we'll see if the people want totalitarianism or Democracy. If they want Democracy, the "Democrats" will be tossed out of office by the dozens as they should be. Obviously few of them have ever bothered to read the Constitution. All they care about is power and the power they wield over the peons out in the boondocks.
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Right.... So that is the difference. Please expand. In what way are democrats supporters of totalitarianism and republicans supporters of democracy?? All evidence points that republicans may not be totalitarian, but they do not care much for republican government. This is clearly shown by all the republicans rejection of Obama even though he is the democratically elected leader of this country. I dislike obama, but he is the president, and if you support democracy you can oppose obama politically, but Republican opposition goes beyond that. They have no respect for the fact that he is democratically elected. They irrationally hate him, and the fact that he was elected would not stop them from removing him from office by any means necessary!! I have seen secession threads!! If that is not a rejection of the democratic process in this country, I do not know what is.
 
It's interesting to see so many with open arms considering what the RNC thought about him just a little while ago:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbv2EC9u6Ns"]YouTube- Parker Griffith states America's Greatest Enemy is....[/ame]

I guess all that doesn't matter, now.
 
Missouri Mule said:
The biggest skunk at the party was the turncoat Spector who guaranteed this benighted health care takeover. That man has not one scruple in his bones. The Republican establishment backed him and then he turned around and stabbed them in the back.
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Why Bush backed Specter when there was a real R challenger is beyond me. His bit about Scottish Law during the Clinton Impeachment was an awakening to a moron. If you didn't know anything about him, that would tell you all you needed to know.

They named a damned website after this guy: Twitter (Serial Twit).

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Erod said:
Apparently you didn't read it. His district is historically Democratic.
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apparently you didnt see my correction...his district went heavy for mccain;)
 
Political ideologies vary by state. Where I live (Louisiana) the Democrats are pro-life, pro-gun, anti-health care reform, and anti-welfare. I'm sure it's very similar in Alabama. So at the federal level Griffith is a conservative guy and it's no surprise his district voted for McCain.

The switching party from Democrat to Republican isn't a new thing either. Rodney Alexander (from my state) was a life long Democrat and served as a Democrat during his terms in the state house, but once he got to the federal elections he switched to Republican because he quickly learned that he wasn't a real liberal at all.
 
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zimmer said:
Is "Centrist" code for Liberal Democrat?
Just curious.
What makes you a centrist?

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That first statement is just idiotic. I mean, duh? Left -- Center -- Right. You do know your left from your right, right?

What makes you a centrist?

In a word... pragmatism. Neither party has all the answers. The right jumped in bed with Christian evangelicals back in the 80s. The left wants to expand federal government, unchecked, too big, too expensive. Both parties are in bed with banks and big business.

The Federal Government does have a roll, general welfare, public safety, consumer protection, but it should not govern personal morality, private lives.
 
hazlnut said:
That first statement is just idiotic. I mean, duh? Left -- Center -- Right. You do know your left from your right, right?

What makes you a centrist?

In a word... pragmatism. Neither party has all the answers. The right jumped in bed with Christian evangelicals back in the 80s. The left wants to expand federal government, unchecked, too big, too expensive. Both parties are in bed with banks and big business.

The Federal Government does have a roll, general welfare, public safety, consumer protection, but it should not govern personal morality, private lives.
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Ok, now that we know that you know what it is supposed to be, let's see you back that.


j-mac
 
How funny would it be if there was a mass exodus from the Democrats over to the Republicans? The Dems would lose their majority without an election...:rofl
 
I hate it when politicians do this type of thing during their term. I don't mind it, if they had done this before he went on the camping trail. It does get confusing, when they do this type of thing.
 
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apdst said:
How funny would it be if there was a mass exodus from the Democrats over to the Republicans? The Dems would lose their majority without an election...:rofl
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That would be the fall of both parties. Democrats would seize to exist and Republicans would be diluted with liberal ideology.
 
The man is a political hack.

If his convictions run only that deep both parties would be smart to see him earn a living back in his home state.
 
The Truth said:
The man is a political hack.

If his convictions run only that deep both parties would be smart to see him earn a living back in his home state.
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Who said anything about convictions? The only thing that didn't run deep here was his party loyalty, which shouldn't run too deep in the first place.
 
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