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The Democratic party has become too liberal? Who knew?
Conservative Democrats switch to GOP across the Deep South -- Los Angeles Times, February 6, 2011
Reporting from Atlanta For Democrats, Ashley Bell was the kind of comer that a party builds a future on: A young African American lawyer, he served as president of the College Democrats of America, advised presidential candidate John Edwards and spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
But after his party's midterm beat-down in November, Bell, a commissioner in northern Georgia's Hall County, jumped ship. He joined the Republicans.
Bell, 30, said he had serious issues with the healthcare law and believed that conservative "blue dog" Democrats in Congress who shared his values had been bullied into voting for it.
"I think the midterms showed you really can't be a conservative and be a member of the Democratic Party," Bell said.
Many of the defectors have echoed Bell's assertion that Democrats have become too liberal.
"The truth is that this change of party is in line with thousands of everyday people who simply feel more comfortable with most of what the Republican Party represents locally and nationally," Caldwell said in a statement.
Conservative Democrats switch to GOP across the Deep South -- Los Angeles Times, February 6, 2011
Reporting from Atlanta For Democrats, Ashley Bell was the kind of comer that a party builds a future on: A young African American lawyer, he served as president of the College Democrats of America, advised presidential candidate John Edwards and spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
But after his party's midterm beat-down in November, Bell, a commissioner in northern Georgia's Hall County, jumped ship. He joined the Republicans.
Bell, 30, said he had serious issues with the healthcare law and believed that conservative "blue dog" Democrats in Congress who shared his values had been bullied into voting for it.
"I think the midterms showed you really can't be a conservative and be a member of the Democratic Party," Bell said.
Many of the defectors have echoed Bell's assertion that Democrats have become too liberal.
"The truth is that this change of party is in line with thousands of everyday people who simply feel more comfortable with most of what the Republican Party represents locally and nationally," Caldwell said in a statement.