Name Some repugs You Think Might, Maybe Switch To Dem:

[Dinger]

Olympia Snowe
Chuck Hagel
Colin Powell
schwartzenegger (sp?)
Jay Leno
etc.

[buff2]

1. Jay Leno is a repuke?

I know his wife is a Dem.

[Dinger]

2. I Don't Know - I'm Guessing

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. As far as I know he is but he's a true moderate Republican.

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[hopeisaplace]

15. heard him say once on his show, he's socially liberal, fiscally

conservative...that would make him "liberal", lol..I mean if you're "fiscally conservative"
how can you vote Republican? Massive debt.

[marions ghost]

22. riiiight ....

show me a "moderate Republican" anymore. The Bushites have hijacked the meaning of the words.

[swag]

3. Monte Cantsin, Karen Eliot,

the usual suspects.

[jpgray]

10. Guy can't sing worth a shit

Dweeb!

:hide:

[swag]

13. The Howard Deaning of Monte Cantsin.

Shame!

[asthmaticeog]

11. Pffft, that could be *anyone*

:eyes:

[swag]

14. Quit making that mouthfart.

At least that might not have to be *someone*.

[AndyTiedye]

4. None. There Will Be No Defections from The Repubs. They Have Seen to That

[AndyTiedye]

20. On Second Thought, I'm Not So Sure About Congressman Walter Jones

He seems really upset and may not care what the regime might do to him anymore.

[marions ghost]

21. Right

Republicans don't defect. There are serious repercussions for those who even think about it. That's how you know Freedom Fries Jones is a true outlier. You never, never, ever criticize The Party.

As far as the public is concerned, defectors would be accused of being a flip-flopper at best, a traitor at worst. They would be eaten alive. Think Mafia.

[BillZBubb]

5. None of those on your list. But Lieberman might and soon.

[msongs]

7. joementum? nt

[InternalDialogue]

8. My mom.

She's right on the edge. I'm trying not to push too hard, but she's moving a bit every week.

[Sailor for Warner]

9. UMMMM Chafee

Hello? he votes with the "R's" like 19% of the time or something. Silly New Englanders.

[flaminbats]

12. I think Chaffee would switch if Democrats win back the Senate..

but otherwise, how would a Senator benefit from joining the minority party? The only reason I can think of is fear of getting defeated by a neocon in the primary.

[RB TexLa]

16. I know some liberals in New England who would never switch

to the Democratic party no matter what. For some it goes back to the birth control issue in the 40's along with other social issues where the Dems were very anti-progressive, and the rich WASP Republicans were the liberal voice.

[monarch]

26. Interesting observation!

I agree with you, but do you think that there is a tipping point somewhere or is their party affiliation an issue that they just won't revisit? Is being a Republican(albeit of the party of yesteryear) too much ingrained in their self image to consider abandoning it?

[RagingInMiami]

17. Alex Villalobos, Florida State Representative from Miami

He has been bashing heads with Jeb for years. A true stand-up guy.




From a 2003 Miami Herald article about how Jeb Bush was against an ERA Amendment for women's rights.

Bush poked fun at the ERA movement, deriding it as ''kind of a retro subject'' during a question-and-answer session with reporters.

''It's like going back and wearing bell bottoms,'' chuckled Bush, a Republican, going on to say that the quarter-century-old ERA debate is ''in the category'' of the movement by California businessman Ward Connerly to ban affirmative action through voter referendums -- a move Bush has called ``divisive.''

Sen. Alex Villalobos, the Miami Republican who heads the state Senate Judiciary Committee, has scheduled the measure for a vote Tuesday, which would mark the first such movement in the state Legislature on the ERA since 1982.

Villalobos said Wednesday that he wants to pass the ERA as a gift to his wife, Barbara, and his 12-year-old daughter Katie. ''How can someone oppose this?'' Villalobos asked. ``Why should my daughter not have the same opportunity as everybody else? Why should she be paid less someday?''

http://www.la.utexas.edu/~seant/govbush.html

From a 2006 Miami Herald article about how Jeb vetoed a record $448 million for public spending:

One Republican who broke with Bush was Sen. Alex Villalobos, a Miami Republican. After Villalobos blocked the governor's plans last year, Bush vetoed a spinal cord research project at the University of Miami backed by Villalobos. Villalobos said it was ''inexplicable'' because Bush initially had supported the measure as well.


This year, the spinal cord project made it, but new money Villalobos backed for Jackson Memorial Hospital lost out. Bush cut a $20 million line-item, which the hospital says it needs to help take care of the indigent. Jackson is the largest provider of charity care in Florida and is one of the largest in the nation.


''I know that you're searching: Where's the Villalobos projects? This is not about politics,'' Bush said, chiding reporters before he was asked about it. ''This isn't about retribution at all. This is not my money. If it was my money, then it would be appropriate for retribution, perhaps.'' Bush, however, admitted he rewarded some supporters in the budget, and that his vetoes could have been higher still.

''I don't know what to tell a parent whose child has diabetes that the governor has vetoed research money. I don't know what to tell Jackson, that their hospital doesn't deserve more state help for helping the state,'' Villalobos said.


http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14670936.htm

From a 2006 Miami Herald article about Jeb Bush watching his school voucher plan fail by one vote, thanks to Villalobos:

TALLAHASSEE - In a stinging loss for Gov. Jeb Bush's education legacy, the state Senate narrowly defeated a plan to ask voters to protect and expand his voucher program that sends public money to private schools.

The Republican-controlled Senate killed the proposed constitutional amendment by a single vote, with four Republicans -- including Majority Leader Alex Villalobos of Miami -- rejecting a hard sell from the governor that the measure was needed to reverse a recent state Supreme Court decision that ruled his 1999 voucher program unconstitutional.

Villalobos, whose wife is a schoolteacher, paid a steep price: Senate President Tom Lee stripped him of his post as majority leader minutes after the vote, saying he no longer viewed the Miami senator as a team player.

Villalobos defended what he said was a vote of conscience intended to do what was best for his district.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14476811.htm


And just a few hours ago about how he is one of six South Florida republicans who came out against another republican for making racist remarks against the Miami-Dade superintendent, who is black.

Gus Barreiro, one of the six republicans that are taking a stand, is also someone I respect because he was the one that raised hell over that video of that 14-year-old black kid getting beat to death in a North Florida boot camp. The republicans wanted to keep it under wraps and he said bullshit, and went to the media and spilled his guts and now there is an investigation.

http://www.local10.com/news/9426799/detail.html

[leftofthedial]

18. Joe Biden

Joe Lieberman

[LaPera]

24. LOL! Yessss...yessss!!

[inthebrain]

19. Andrew Sullivan

Although he did vote for Kerry.

I have a feeling he is going to pull a Huffington sooner rather than later. He's already headed in that direction.

[LaPera]

23. None. They are the party in power...

And ALL are indeed republicans, with republican ideology and career politicians...One doesn't just change on a whim!

They still try and disguise it, effectively though,(if necessary)until after the elections.

Still they are always republicans through & through!

Quit hoping!!

[ObaMania]

25. I second that.

none.

[obreaslan]

27. They don't just quit. They are part of a larger organization...

They are privy to certain "secrets" that should not be shared with the outside world. You can't just leave. Think of it as...a "Family"