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Last year Alabama Congressman Parker Griffith changed parties from Democrat to Republican. Alabama has the 50% rule to avoid a runoff and while it has not been officially called yet parker Griffith has conceded to Montgomery County Commissioner Mo Brooks, who leads Griffith 51-33 with 99% of precincts reporting. Business owner Steve Raby is the Democratic nominee.
Last year Alabama Congressman Parker Griffith changed parties from Democrat to Republican. Alabama has the 50% rule to avoid a runoff and while it has not been officially called yet parker Griffith has conceded to Montgomery County Commissioner Mo Brooks, who leads Griffith 51-33 with 99% of precincts reporting. Business owner Steve Raby is the Democratic nominee.
Can't fool the voters. At least he didn't have a tape claiming he switched to get re-elected, but that's really why he did it.
Blue Dog Dem hoping to settle in to a long and easy Congressional career by switching over to the GOP and going full bore Conservative in his votes didn't figure in that the GOP in Alabama has been taken over by even more extreme far right religious wackos .....LOL
Good for Dems. The more they can run against extremists candidates the better their chances.
Another Tea Party Takedown: Former Democrat Parker Griffith Booted From Alabama Primary
The political shooting-star otherwise known as anti-incumbency fell on Alabama, taking down a first-term congressman who switched from Democrat to Republican just last December.
The hotly-contested health care overhaul was among the issues working against Rep. Parker Griffith, voted out by Republicans Tuesday in the 5th Congressional District in favor of Madison County Commissioner Mo Brooks. With tea party support and the backing of local GOP leaders still bitter about losing to Griffith in 2008, Brooks won Tuesday's primary with slightly more than 50 percent of the vote in a three-candidate field.
Griffith's loss was the latest manifestation of an anti-establishment, anti-Washington, anti-incumbency fervor — a 2010 political phenomenom that has shaken the Democratic establishment and the Obama White House, and has also has caused angst in GOP leadership circles.
The Tea Party is a force to be reckoned with. Once conservatives get their candidates in place, the Ultimate Takedown will be in November when Out of Control Liberalism will be put to a screeching halt.
How does it make liberals feel to know that their ideology is about to be replaced with a tighter, more focused brand of conservatism?
Griffith's loss was the latest manifestation of an anti-establishment, anti-Washington, anti-incumbency fervor — a 2010 political phenomenom that has shaken the Democratic establishment and the Obama White House, and has also has caused angst in GOP leadership circles.
Parker Griffith is a Republican. He was a Dixiecrat, which is basically a Republican in Democrat clothing. He doesn't sound liberal at all.
Griffith states that
he favors increased defense spending,
upports gun rights,
investment in nuclear power and offshore drilling
is pro-life.
opposes same-sex marriage.
voted against the Affordable Health Care for America Act, cap-and-trade legislation and the 2009 economic stimulus act
The political shooting-star otherwise known as anti-incumbency fell on Alabama, taking down a first-term congressman who switched from Democrat to Republican just last December.
The hotly-contested health care overhaul was among the issues working against Rep. Parker Griffith, voted out by Republicans Tuesday in the 5th Congressional District in favor of Madison County Commissioner Mo Brooks. With tea party support and the backing of local GOP leaders still bitter about losing to Griffith in 2008, Brooks won Tuesday's primary with slightly more than 50 percent of the vote in a three-candidate field.
Griffith's loss was the latest manifestation of an anti-establishment, anti-Washington, anti-incumbency fervor — a 2010 political phenomenom that has shaken the Democratic establishment and the Obama White House, and has also has caused angst in GOP leadership circles.
The Tea Party is a force to be reckoned with. Once conservatives get their candidates in place, the Ultimate Takedown will be in November when Out of Control Liberalism will be put to a screeching halt.
How does it make liberals feel to know that their ideology is about to be replaced with a tighter, more focused brand of conservatism?
See ya in November, pal.
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Another Tea Party Takedown: Former Democrat Parker Griffith Booted From Alabama Primary
