Texas Judge Switches to Democratic Party: "The Republican Party Left Me"

[JoethePleb]

Source: Burnt Orange Report

The Republican Party continues to push moderate voters away, but now even it's own elected officials are giving up on the fight with the extremist in their ranks. Today Bexar County Court at Law Judge Carlo Key switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party emphasizing that the, "Republican party has been at war with itself," and that ultimately, "I have not left the Republican Party, it left me."


Read more: http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/14269/texas-judge-switches-to-democratic-party-the-republican-party-left-me

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Slow clap in 3, 2, 1....

[Skittles]

1. in other words

conservative CRAP is finally affecting HIM

[Rebellious Republican]

2. Its taken to LOOOOONNNGGGG.

I left back in 99. Took me awhile to find this safe harbor.

[JoethePleb]

6. glad you made it!

[calimary]

8. Welcome to DU, JoethePleb!

Glad you made it here too!!! I'm a lifelong Dem but I found this place in 2001 after feeling as though we'd been robbed the previous November with bush v Gore, and also feeling as though I was completely alone and isolated in my feelings. Nobody else felt the way I did about our precious little mustn't-criticize-his-lordship or openly discuss the many things he was already fucking up. I found my way here and learned I was very wrong in my feelings of isolation. There were tens of thousands of people who felt the same way - here AND elsewhere! It grew to many hundreds of thousands and then millions!

All through the last decade this place was an oasis in the middle of a VERY vast, parched, barren, inhospitable desert.

[gopiscrap]

13. Welcome to DU

[wyldwolf]

3. We're about to see a rise in the libertarian wing

[paulkienitz]

23. yes, I think we are

Libertarianism is going to be the new conservatism. Ditch the racism and sex phobia, and the free-market lies can find a much broader audience.

[olddad56]

4. careful, the republican party gets anxious any time they hear the word 'left'.

[derby378]

5. It's about fucking time!

No Texas Democrat has assumed a statewide office since 1994. Thanks, Carlo - but you're a little late to the party.

[okaawhatever]

15. Here's hoping Wendy Davis will be elected Governor and turn that around !!! nt

[Ash_F]

7. That was a nice speech. /nt

[WillyT]

9. K & R !!!

[TxDemChem]

10. lol, so NOW this judge sees the problem!

Oh well, we have so at work who sound about ready to flip sides, too.

[PatrynXX]

11. the party that illegals put in

turned on the illegals and made it seem like the Dems are the party of illegals.

oh then there's the Obama phone which of course Obama had zero to do with. Reagan phone turned into the Bush phone in 2008 when someone thought it'd be cheaper jut to hand out cheaply made cell phones instead of installing expensive landlines..

yeah then they said it's all Dems. Oh then the Republican Mandate ho hum. everything they once supported is all the Democrats idea now... so this obviously happens

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. Sounds like he's still a Republican at heart ...

... but now he lends more weight to the center-right wing of the Democratic party.

Just what we need. One more blue dog.

[Nye Bevan]

14. I find it disappointing that so many here have this attitude.

My reaction is "Welcome aboard! I'm happy you finally saw the light!"

[groundloop]

16. +1 We are and must be a big tent party

We can't afford to fight amongst ourselves like that. Discuss different beliefs and positions, definitely. Vote for whichever candidate best represents your values in the primary. Then we MUST unite behind all Democratic candidates for the general election. Anything less and the right wingers gain control.

[Katashi_itto]

18. Yes, lets let in those that would dilute our brand even more, as if we haven't slid to the right

enough.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. Has he seen a light?

In his own words, from the article, "I have not left the Republican Party...".

Present tense.

So he's a Republican, seeking temporary refuge from the teabagging storm.

[Myrina]

22. ^ This ^

n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

17. Another DINO to push the DEMS to the right.

YAY!

[Berlum]

20. Hell, the RepubliBaggers (R) have left America

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...chased off by the ghost of their own deep-seated fears...

[Orsino]

21. And the Dems moved right to win him?

Or did the judge just decide to switch allegiances?