To: Alighieri who wrote (540727 ) 1/4/2010 5:49:31 PM From: tejek Read Replies (2) | Respond to It gets better.....HOW'S THAT PARTY SWITCH WORKING OUT?.... It hasn't quite been two weeks since Griffith joined the GOP, but by any reasonable measure, the transition hasn't exactly been a smooth one. He's lost his staff, his campaign team, several campaign contributions from those who feel betrayed by his switch, and his ability to influence legislation in advance of the election. On the [other] side of the aisle, Griffith still has a phalanx of right-wing primary challengers; he hasn't received an official endorsement from the NRCC; and far-right activists in his district are just as anxious to defeat him now as they were when he was a Democrat. "[H]is protestations that he had to change parties because of some shocking new ideological development in the Democratic Party is total, absolute, conscious b.s.," Kilgore explained. "Griffith's not some crusty old long-time incumbent whose party changed without him; he was first elected in 2008, when Barack Obama was running on a platform promising climate change and health care reform legislation, and going along with George W. Bush's decision to rescue the financial industry. Nancy Pelosi, whom Griffith is now attacking, wasn't any less liberal then that she is today. Sure, he needs to play catch-up with his new party-mates in shrieking about socialism and the destruction of the U.S. Constitution, but nobody should be under any illusion that anything has changed since 2008 other than Parker Griffith's assessment of his re-election prospects."
