Are there any Republicans in congress or other offices nationwide you WANT to join our party...

[Bicoastal]

...for ideological reasons, not simply because we need more seats in congress or some other strategic reason?

Specter isn't perfect, but besides Olympia Snowe, he may be as good as it's gonna get.

[valerief]

1. Ee-yew. That's like asking which spoiled peach you want to eat from the bowl.

:-(

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

14. LOL!!!!!! n/t

[msongs]

2. Pennsylvania needs a REAL democrat - Specter should be primaried nt

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

15. Joe Sestak is the perfect Dem. I think Kay Bailey Hutchison is much more moderate than she

professes. I'd like for her to switch, just to embarrass the Repukes.

Lincoln Chafee. When Rachel asked if he'd consider joining the Dems, he hesitated, then finally said that he'll run as an Independent. I think we can get to Chafee and convince him to come into the light.

[salguine]

19. After this, if he lost a Democratic primary, his whole career would be pretty much fucked.

[Dr.Phool]

24. He's way past retirement time anyway.

[Clear Blue Sky]

27. Agree

Specter will screw which ever party he represents.

[Clio the Leo]

3. Joe Lieberman?

:evilgrin:

[John Q. Citizen]

4. Specter isn't joining for ideological reasons though. He's joining because, apparently ,

the Dems told him they would support him in the 2010 PA Primary if he switched. And his GOP opponent in PA is whooping his ass.

So you are asking us to compare apples to oranges so to speak.


Hey, anybody who wants to can visit their county clerk and change there registration to whatever party they want to.

I am opposed to bribing people to do that with promises of political support and campaign funding though.

[dmallind]

5. Any of them.

If Jim DeMint wants to be a Democrat and work within the party structure, and sign on for the party platform, then more power to him. If we fear conservatives making the party more conservative, then we acknowledge that we lack the support to stop it from becoming so, since party delegates and platforms, nominating and selection committees and so on are all democratically elected. Since by definition the Democratic party cannot become more conservative than its members want it to be (not necessarily more conservative than DU wants it to be, dominated as this place is by those to the left side of the "big tent") then what is there to worry about?

[pscot]

6. No

:thumbsdown:

[wryter2000]

7. I wish Lincoln Chafee had

It would have been nice to have Jim Jeffords, too.

[LynnTheDem]

10. Chafee, I agree.

He's one of the only rightwingers on the planet I have any liking and respect for.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

12. He was just on Rachel explaining why he chose to be an independent.

[TheKentuckian]

8. Nah

but there are a couple/few I could tolerate using.

[jaysunb]

9. I'd like to see Arnold switch.

n/t

[LynnTheDem]

11. Arnold "Army Deserter"?

But he fits in with the (R)s so very well.

[dana_b]

13. yes he does

he wanted Davis to be ousted because he was so sure he could get us to be fiscally sound. riiiight....

The first people he attacked were nurses and teachers. as a nurse, I find him as repugnant as a repug. He should stay there.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

16. No! The Repukes can keep The Gropenator!

[jaysunb]

21. LOL ! In some ways he does ( fit w/ R's )

but he represents a huge center-right group that could be brought over by his lead. It would be a good way to "blue up" some of our purple countys.

I've always thought he'd leave the r's to become an Indy. And he may yet, cause that cabinet post he's going to get, will require it. :evilgrin:

[asdjrocky]

17. That's kind of like asking me which ugly girl do I want to sleep with.

[frogcycle]

20. bad metaphor

Aside from being sexist, ugly is only skin deep and the republicans are asshole to their very core.

[asdjrocky]

28. Point well taken.

Perhaps I should have said, ah hell, that's the problem with me, I never know what I should have said.

[saltpoint]

18. I prefer we elect deep-blue Dems. That's kind of a first choice.

The second choice is Dems over Pukes, since I fully understand that Evan Bayh is as liberal as it's likely to get in recent cycles in places like Indiana. His old man was far more liberal but come the "Reagan Revoluation," Birch Bayh lost his Senate seat (and liberal platform) to a reactionary brainless scorched-earth half-wit weasel named Dan Quayle.

In the rarest of rare races, there is a Republican to the left of the Democratic candidate. But rarely. A case could be made that Lowell Weicker was to the left of Joe Lieberman in that Connecticut Senate race. Nixon tried to pressure Weicker in Weicker's role on the Senate Watergate committee and Weicker made it quite clear that he would not be shoved around by the president's men.

Lieberman has not shown equivalent independence of thought or spirit and is a man of fluid loyalties. Weicker was very arguably bluer than Lieberman. And not surprisingly, in Connecticut's last Senate race, Weicker endorsed Ned Lamont.

In the overall, I'll take the blue candidate, and the bluer the better.

[quiller4]

30. We have some purple states who would never elect "deep blue'

but would elect blue dogs or moderates. I'd much rather have moderate Ds representing southern and midwestern states than neo-con Rs. That is the choice we are faced with--not deep blue vs. pale blue.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

32. I think that's exactly what the post had said. (nt)

[saltpoint]

33. The bluer the better, and Democrats even in deeply red states still

have to vote their hearts and minds.

They are a sturdy bunch, those vastly out-numbered true-bluers.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. Richard Lugar

He's another one of the few remaining "sane" GOPers left in his party and nearly the only Republican I've ever voted for over the Democratic candidate. In fact, he's so popular here in Indiana that our state Democratic Party hasn't run anybody against him for two cycles now (I believe). He is conservative on most social issues to be sure but he is NOT a whackjob and is somebody who will at least listen to the other side and seems interested in *genuine* bipartisanship rather than the typical *my way or the highway* "bipartisan" approach that seems to be favored by most of the members of the Republican Party since around 1993-1994, which is probably why Obama talked frequently about wanting him in his cabinet (although he ultimately declined). I most admire his much more constructive and rational approach to foreign policy issues and would've rather had a Republican like him be POTUS instead of Bush II. Unfortunately, I have serious doubts about whether he would actually ever switch parties and I'm not even sure how much longer he plans to remain in the US Senate as he is getting up there in years. However, I'd certainly welcome him if he did join the Democratic Party.

[WinkyDink]

23. I'll take a dead dog, if he's going to vote with my Party.

[Dr.Phool]

25. No, but there's a few Dems I'd like to send to them.

Call it truth in advertising.

[alwysdrunk]

26. Idealocally, most DUers would kick out half the Dems.

Strategy is important too. Having a majority is definitely important too.

[quiller4]

29. Yes. Arnold and Olympia for starters

I'd like to see Ben Nighthorse Campbell return to the Democratic Party and think he might make a good Democratic candidate for governor though I really don't expect him to re-enter national politics. In my state, I'd like to see Dave Reichert switch parties. Jim Douglas and Colin Powell are two more I'd like to see make the switch.

[PassingFair]

31. Republicans I'd like to see on our side.

Lincoln Chaffee.

Meghan McCain.

Chuck Hagel.

James Comey. (Former deputy to John Ashcroft)

Charlie Crist.

Arnold Schawartzenegger.