Question of Miers switch from Dem to thug in the middle

[serryjw]

70's. I know very little of texas politics, Could you be a 'mover & shaker' in Texas politics in the middle 70's if you were a Dem? Would she have risen quicker as Evangelic 'born again' Christian RWer?

[Geoff R. Casavant]

1. Almost the exact opposite

The dems were THE party in Texas until the 80s, then began a slow decline that really went sour in the mid 90s.

[jackster]

4. just like most of the south....

very blue until Reagan - they were all Reagan Democrats who switched!

[StatsBabe]

2. Yes. A relative of mine changed parties - from dem to rep-

Just so he could continue to be the District Attorney. I've never known whether he's really a Dem or not. All he wanted to be was DA. Don't see him too often, but he's never said anything anti-Dem that I can remember. The change was in the mid-80's, I think.

[TroglodyteScholar]

8. Welcome to DU

:hi: Why did he have to change his party affiliation to continue being DA? Forgive my ignorance....

[Czolgosz]

3. I think you are mistaken in your timing. I think Miers may have switched

from a Catholic to an Evangelical in the late '70s, but I think she switched from a Democrat to a Turdsniffer in the late '80s.

And, yes, her timing with respect to the change in parties would correspond to the fact that Democrats were on the way out and Reptiles were on their way in by the late '80s in Texas.

I have spoken with many people who have worked with her personally and they all tell me that her true ideology is ambition.

[serryjw]

6. She was an Evangelica DEMOCRAT for 10 years????

Your probably right because I think she supported Gore in the late 80's. Is her 'love' of Jesus as real as it is for * or is it a political convenience? Or an explanation of why she is 60 w/o hubby or child?

Turdsniffer :rofl:.......My stomach hurts from laughing

[Czolgosz]

9. Here in Texas, we have plenty of Evangelical Democrats (we take all kinds)

I'm a pro-choice, separation-of-church-and-state, pro-gay-marriage heathen myself, but there are actually several issues where the Evangelical agenda and the Democratic agenda line up:

[serryjw]

10. WOW! you learn something every day

Whom would have thunk?? :shrug:

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

5. thought she changed to Repub in the late 80's/early 90's??? nt

[Lenore]

7. All the "evangelics" that I knew, as a child in the 70's, were Dem.

I was raised in the Assembly of God denomination and my first "political" memory was when Carter was elected president. Our whole church supported him and back then "Republican" and "Conservative" did not necessarily mean Christian.