May It Be So. Rinos Switching Sides

I won't make the same mistake again. RINO = Republican In Name Only. This may be very good news for Dems who need to rebuild.

Paul Harris of the Guardian Unlimited Observer reports on the resignation of the Kansas GOP Chairman Mark Parkinson and his candidacy for Deputy Governor --- as a Democrat. Writes Harris:

His defection to the Democrats sent shockwaves through a state deeply associated with the national Republican cause and the evangelical conservatives at its base. Nor was it just Parkinson's leave-taking that left Republicans spluttering with rage and talking of betrayal. It was that as he left Parkinson lambasted his former party's obsession with conservative and religious issues such as gay marriage, evolution and abortion.

Sitting in his headquarters, the new Democrat is sticking to his guns. Republicans in Kansas, he says, have let down their own people. 'They were fixated on ideological issues that really don't matter to people's everyday lives. What matters is improving schools and creating jobs,' he said. 'I got tired of the theological debate over whether Charles Darwin was right.'

Could this be a harbinger of a nation-wide trend of substance-hungry Republicans becoming Democrats?

As stated in my profile. I don't consider myself extreme. Who wouldn't want no torture, everyone to have health care, a pension and/or a job, privacy, freedom and NO WAR. Not too radical. Well, those things come with the Dems and not the Repugs. The choice is easy in my estimation.

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