Former conservative Democratic officials are helping to churn the Deep South into a red sea as they find friendlier waters in the Republican Party, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. And the expatriates aren’t just fringe elements of the Democratic Party but rather, former stars expected to make the party shine.
For example, Ashley Bell, a county commissioner in Hall County, Ga., is a young black lawyer who had been president of the College Democrats of America, had advised presidential candidate John Edwards, and even spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
But 30-year-old Bell joined the Republicans after the Democratic drubbing in the fall elections. He told the Times that he finds President Barack Obama’s healthcare law as seriously flawed, and he contends that conservative blue-dog Democrats in Congress who share that opinion were bullied into voting for Obamacare.
Nmysys wrote: Good for them, coming to their senses. Better late than never.
You are saying that politicians have principals. rofllol Talk about :Koolaid: .
They are doing what politicians do. They see that the radical progressives have hi-jacked the dem party and drove it into a ditch that they will not excape from for a generation. So like any good rats they are jumping ship.
They should get a good rectal exam come primary time.
