And we Republicans have picked it up – from the LA Times:
For Democrats, Ashley Bell was the kind of comer that a party builds a future on: A young African American lawyer, he served as president of the College Democrats of America, advised presidential candidate John Edwards and spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
But after his party’s midterm beat-down in November, Bell, a commissioner in northern Georgia’s Hall County, jumped ship. He joined the Republicans…
…”I think the midterms showed you really can’t be a conservative and be a member of the Democratic Party,” Bell said.
Since the midterm election, 24 state senators and representatives have made the switch in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Texas.
Mr. Bell is correct – but not only is it impossible to be a conservative Democrat, you can’t even really be a moderate Democrat. Unless, that is, you’re willing to throw it all away when the liberal leadership demands (as it did demand in 2010 on ObamaCare, and look at all the moderate Democrats who got clobbered over it). Its just not possible for anyone to really be a Democrat and stray far from the party line. If you want to chart an independent course where you think for yourself and act upon what you believe is right, only the GOP offers a home for you in politics.
This trend will just continue – even if Obama manages to get re-elected in 2012, the fact will remain that outside the liberal bastions, the Democrat party is rapidly dying away.
