Artur Davis (R-VA)

[RogueBeaver]

Now official. Ever since he started writing on NRO a while back I figured this was coming...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/artur-davis-switches-from-democratic-to-republican-party/2012/05/29/gJQAbB25zU_blog.html?wprss=rss_the-fix

[Simfan34]

Yes! Yet another one of us joins the fray! Woo! Woo! But good luck with the house campaign, he'd be lucky to end up in the state legislature...

[Frodo]

Interesting that he thought he had a better chance running against a white moderate Democrat in a swing (soon-to-be-lean Democratic) district than against his fellow 'brutha' Bobby Scott.  Tells you a lot about black conservative Republicans that they can only win on the backs of whites.  

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Pathetic.

[Frodo]

Also, can we have this thread transferred to the Congressional Elections board? 

[tpfkaw]

Bad move; if he'd stayed a D he could probably have gotten a prime-time speaking slot at the RNC.

[Oakvale]

Haha, what a douchebag.

[DrScholl]

I don't think he'd get out of a Republican primary for any office he ran for, I don't think Virginia Republicans would pick a party switching, carpetbagger over a local.

[Frodo]

I don't think he'd get out of a Republican primary for any office he ran for, I don't think Virginia Republicans would pick a party switching, carpetbagger over a local.

Gerry Connally is originally from Massachusetts, but other than that I agree with you. 

[Badger]

I always thought davis was particularly ambitious and chameleon-like even compared to most other politicians.

[Lief 🗽]

Good riddance. His landslide primary loss for Alabama governor to Ron Sparks is still one of my favorite election results.

[Kevin]

I don't think he'd get out of a Republican primary for any office he ran for, I don't think Virginia Republicans would pick a party switching, carpetbagger over a local.

Gerry Connally is originally from Massachusetts, but other than that I agree with you.  

Alot of VA politicians from both parties including our current governor are from elsewhere in the country(McDonnell is originally from PA). However, they all share the commonality of having started their political lives in Virginia.

[Miles]

I don't get him. Is he just a really sore loser?

You don't see Blanche Lincoln joining the Republicans or Bob Bennett joining the Democrats.

[bgwah]

Adios, douchebag!

Good riddance. His landslide primary loss for Alabama governor to Ron Sparks is still one of my favorite election results.

Yes, that was beautiful. And also evidence against the whole "Blacks always vote for blacks" BS the Republicans spew.

[useful idiot]

I just don't understand why he thought Virginia would be the best place to win a seat. If he'd stayed in Alabama he could have tried to follow the Tim Scott model. Switching parties, especially from D to R in the South, seems to be much less of a political liability in the South than moving to try and win somewhere else.

[hopper]

He wants to run against Conelly? Conelly couldn't even be beat in the Republican Landslide Year of 2010.

Davis is gonna run as a moderate too. Its very tough to do that in the Republican Party nowadays. I guess he felt the Democratic Party left him.

[hopper]

I saw on a panel on C-Span 2 weeks ago and somebody said more Blacks could become more Republican if they want to be a politician(follow the Tim Scott and Allen West model.) I never thought it would happen this quickly.

[hopper]

Interesting that he thought he had a better chance running against a white moderate Democrat in a swing (soon-to-be-lean Democratic) district than against his fellow 'brutha' Bobby Scott.  Tells you a lot about black conservative Republicans that they can only win on the backs of whites.  

No, a black conservative republican could never win in a solid black district like Maxine Waters Los Angeles based district or pre-2012 Charlie Rangel's Harlem based district. Their political idealogy wouldn't fit those districts at all. Davis doesn't fit Bobby Scott's district well either even if he is running as a Moderate.

[Ebowed]

If he'd stayed in Alabama he could have tried to follow the Tim Scott model.

There is no Tim Scott model to follow in Alabama.

[hopper]

Bad move; if he'd stayed a D he could probably have gotten a prime-time speaking slot at the RNC.

Your thinking of former US Senator Zel Miller(D-GA) aren't you?

[hopper]

I don't get him. Is he just a really sore loser?

You don't see Blanche Lincoln joining the Republicans or Bob Bennett joining the Democrats.

No Bennent is a rock solid conservative. He is no RINO either. He voted for TARP and did the Wyden-Bennent Healthcare Bill which made Tea Partiers mad. That Healthcare Bil(Wyden-Bennent) is what ObamaCare should have been in the first place though!

Lincoln voted for ObamaCare thats why she was beaten in 2010.

[bore]

I don't get him. Is he just a really sore loser?

You don't see Blanche Lincoln joining the Republicans or Bob Bennett joining the Democrats.

No Bennent is a rock solid conservative. He is no RINO either. He voted for TARP and did the Wyden-Bennent Healthcare Bill which made Tea Partiers mad. That Healthcare Bil(Wyden-Bennent) is what ObamaCare should have been in the first place though!

Lincoln voted for ObamaCare thats why she was beaten in 2010.

Lincoln was toast, Obamacare vote or not.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Wait...what is this and why?

[Torie]

NOVA might be a good fit for this guy, if his presentation skills match his Harvard resumee. I have not heard him on the tube to judge.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Another brilliant career move, I see.