Artur Davis switches parties

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ormer Alabama Rep. Artur Davis announced Tuesday that he’s cutting ties with the Democratic Party, and said that he’s considering a future bid for Congress as a Republican.
Davis, who for a time had been considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, wrote a message on his website confirming that he is switching parties.

Read more: politico.com/news/stories/0512/76846.html#ixzz1wO4ZmHiH
 
estesbob said:
ormer Alabama Rep. Artur Davis announced Tuesday that he’s cutting ties with the Democratic Party, and said that he’s considering a future bid for Congress as a Republican.
Davis, who for a time had been considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, wrote a message on his website confirming that he is switching parties.

Read more: politico.com/news/stories/0512/76846.html#ixzz1wO4ZmHiH
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Democrats will consider him a traitor and the Republicans will be wary of a turncoat. Don’t see much of a future for him.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Democrats will consider him a traitor and the Republicans will be wary of a turncoat. Don’t see much of a future for him.
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Interesting that an African American who campaigned for Obama in 2008 not only rejects him in 2012 but switches parties.
 
estesbob said:
Interesting that an African American who campaigned for Obama in 2008 not only rejects him in 2012 but switches parties.
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Remember Benedict Arnold? I recall that he fought for the Americans, and then switched sides, going over to the British side. :hmmm:
 
gamewell45 said:
Arlen Specter did the same thing and look where it got him.
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Yup. 30 years as a GOP Senator from Pennsylvania, then it took only 1 year as a Democrat to send him packing. Voters don’t like turncoats.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Remember Benedict Arnold? I recall that he fought for the Americans, and then switched sides, going over to the British side. :hmmm:
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Wow…comparing a guy who decided that his political views were no longer aligned with a party after leaving office to a spy and a traitor? Seriously?
gamewell45 said:
Arlen Specter did the same thing and look where it got him.
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Rich_Olszewski said:
Yup. 30 years as a GOP Senator from Pennsylvania, then it took only 1 year as a Democrat to send him packing. Voters don’t like turncoats.
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Arlen Specter was also a sitting Senator who got re-elected and then changed parties. That’s a bait-and-switch, which is why he was defeated so quickly. Davis was a Democratic Congressman from Alabama who left office in 2011 and is now contemplating a bid for a Republican Congressional seat in Virginia. Did you guys even read the story?
 
In his message on Tuesday, Davis wrote: “On the specifics, I have regularly criticized an agenda that would punish businesses and job creators with more taxes just as they are trying to thrive again. I have taken issue with an administration that has lapsed into a bloc by bloc appeal to group grievances when the country is already too fractured: frankly, the symbolism of Barack Obama winning has not given us the substance of a united country.”
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Read more: politico.com/news/stories/0512/76846.html#ixzz1wOT4ZS7D
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Interesting. He switched because of Obama’s failed economic policies. He has a mixed record on life issues. Neither NARAL nor the NRLC like him:

ontheissues.org/house/artur_davis.htm

Click here for 8 full quotes on Abortion OR background on Abortion.
Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Jan 2007)
Voted YES on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)
Voted YES on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
Voted YES on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
Rated 30% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
Rated 20% by the NRLC, indicating a mixed record on abortion. (Dec 2006)
 
rlg94086 said:
Interesting. He switched because of Obama’s failed economic policies. He has a mixed record on life issues. Neither NARAL nor the NRLC like him:

ontheissues.org/house/artur_davis.htm

Click here for 8 full quotes on Abortion OR background on Abortion.
Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Jan 2007)
Voted YES on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)
Voted YES on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
Voted YES on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
Rated 30% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
Rated 20% by the NRLC, indicating a mixed record on abortion. (Dec 2006)
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He supports the death penalty for certain Federal crimes so he’s not pro-life.

votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/27560/artur-davis/
 
rlg94086 said:
Interesting. He switched because of Obama’s failed economic policies. He has a mixed record on life issues. Neither NARAL nor the NRLC like him:

ontheissues.org/house/artur_davis.htm

Click here for 8 full quotes on Abortion OR background on Abortion.
Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Jan 2007)
Voted YES on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)
Voted YES on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
Voted YES on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
Rated 30% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
Rated 20% by the NRLC, indicating a mixed record on abortion. (Dec 2006)
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Geez louise…the guy gets a clue and you call him a traitor? I suspect there are many traditional Democrats who are horrified by the stronghold of the feminists, abortion lobby, public sector unions and environmentalists. I think we’ll see more Democrats do the “RIGHT” thing!

I heard an interview with him today and he was thoughtful, well spoken and I think sincere. He said he was one of the many fooled by Obama who campaigned as a centrist, as wanting to look beyond race and to reach across the aisle. He said by 2009 he saw a different Obama than the one he thought he was voting for.

He voted AGAINST Obamacare. This was obviously before he decided to become a Republican. He said that many of his fellow congressmen told him that “Well yes the American people hate this but sometimes politicians need to (in effect) shove something down their unwilling throats.” He said he was appalled by the lack of concern for the public outcry against Obamacare.

As to his record on life issues, it’s certainly better than the majority of Democrats and I believe now that he’s a Republican he can continue a more pro life record.

BTW he has since moved to Virginia.

Lisa
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Democrats will consider him a traitor and the Republicans will be wary of a turncoat. Don’t see much of a future for him.
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If he is a political turncoat…you are probably right…but if he is a values/moral issues turncoat…e.g., he can no longer abide with the D-Party’s radical pro-abortion…pro-Planned Parenthood…or…pro homosexual marriage agendas…he probably has a good chance of surviving…and if he doesn’t survive the “turncoat” label…at least he will sleep better with a clear conscience.

Pax Christi
 
LisaA said:
Geez louise…the guy gets a clue and you call him a traitor? I suspect there are many traditional Democrats who are horrified by the stronghold of the feminists, abortion lobby, public sector unions and environmentalists. I think we’ll see more Democrats do the “RIGHT” thing!

I heard an interview with him today and he was thoughtful, well spoken and I think sincere. He said he was one of the many fooled by Obama who campaigned as a centrist, as wanting to look beyond race and to reach across the aisle. He said by 2009 he saw a different Obama than the one he thought he was voting for.

He voted AGAINST Obamacare. This was obviously before he decided to become a Republican. He said that many of his fellow congressmen told him that “Well yes the American people hate this but sometimes politicians need to (in effect) shove something down their unwilling throats.” He said he was appalled by the lack of concern for the public outcry against Obamacare.

As to his record on life issues, it’s certainly better than the majority of Democrats and I believe now that he’s a Republican he can continue a more pro life record.

BTW he has since moved to Virginia.

Lisa
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Um…I didn’t call him a traitor. You might be confusing me with someone else… 😛
 
gamewell45 said:
He supports the death penalty for certain Federal crimes so he’s not pro-life.

votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/27560/artur-davis/
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That may be the your faith group’s definition or your personal definition of pro-life…but it is not the Catholic Church’s definition.
Catechism of the Catholic Church–Second Edition
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2267 Assuming that the guilty party’s identity and responsibility have been fully determined, the traditional teaching of** the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor.**
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If, however, non-lethal means are sufficient to defend and protect people’s safety from the aggressor, authority will limit itself to such means, as these are more in keeping with the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity to the dignity of the human person.
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Today, in fact, as a consequence of the possibilities which the state has for effectively preventing crime, by rendering one who has committed an offense incapable of doing harm - without definitely taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself - the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity "are very rare, if not practically non-existent."
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If you had a close loved-one working as a prison guard in a maximum security prison…and he (your loved one) was murdered by a violent, non-remorseful, guiltless…life-without-parole… incorrigible inmate…I think the Catholic Church has it right…in other words…how would you like your husband/wife…brother/sister…son/daughter…mother/father working at a prison and having to guard this type of person…even other inmates deserve to be protected from the incorrigible
**Sex abuse priest killed in prison

February 23, 2004**
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Convicted child sex abuser and defrocked Roman Catholic priest John Geoghan died Saturday after he was apparently strangled by a fellow inmate at a Massachusetts prison, according to local officials.
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Joseph L. Druce, 37, will be charged with Geoghan’s murder, Worcester District Attorney John J. Conte announced.
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Druce was serving a life term at the Souza Baranowski Correction Facility in Shirley, Mass., where Geoghan was apparently strangled, according to preliminary indications.
articles.cnn.com/2003-08-24/us/geoghan_1_joseph-l-druce-worcester-county-district-attorney-defrocked-roman-catholic-priest?_s=PM:US
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I support the Church’s teaching in all aspects.

Pax Christi
 
cjmclark said:
By that logic, neither are a majority of Republican lawmakers, leaving us with practically no one in office who is pro-life.
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You will see all sorts ot twisted definitions of “pro-life” as the election approaches as Catholic Democrats try and rationalize their support of Obana.
 
rlg94086 said:
Um…I didn’t call him a traitor. You might be confusing me with someone else… 😛
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Nope not you. Someone else referred to him as a traitor and as Bernedict Arnold.

I do think his reasons for changing parties are much more than mere expediency. I also think it takes great courage for a black to defect from the lockstep the Democrat party has created. I think he is quite sincere that he can no longer support the Democrat platform or Obama as party leader.

As to his pro life cred, I am far more concerned with his attitude toward abortion than the death penalty. As a Catholic I have become opposed to the death penalty but the consistent life ethic is a Catholic concept. Many many people who are strong opponents of abortion do not oppose the death penalty. That means they are not Catholics but it does not mean they are not pro-life.

I can hardly get wrapped around the axle about the death penalty given that it’s illegal in many states and rarely carried out in those where it is allowed. In contrast with 300,000 abortions every year, this is an issue that begs for attention.

Lisa
 
LisaA said:
Nope not you. Someone else referred to him as a traitor and as Bernedict Arnold.

I do think his reasons for changing parties are much more than mere expediency. I also think it takes great courage for a black to defect from the lockstep the Democrat party has created. I think he is quite sincere that he can no longer support the Democrat platform or Obama as party leader.

As to his pro life cred, I am far more concerned with his attitude toward abortion than the death penalty. As a Catholic I have become opposed to the death penalty but the consistent life ethic is a Catholic concept. Many many people who are strong opponents of abortion do not oppose the death penalty. That means they are not Catholics but it does not mean they are not pro-life.

I can hardly get wrapped around the axle about the death penalty given that it’s illegal in many states and rarely carried out in those where it is allowed. In contrast with 300,000 abortions every year, this is an issue that begs for attention.

Lisa
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I’m with you. I didn’t bring up his stance on the death penalty…another poster did.

He was in favor of Embryonic Stem Cell Research, but voted for banning partial birth abortion cloning and other abortion restricting laws. He voted against a law making the harming of a fetus a crime.

IOW…mixed record. That said, maybe his pro-life stances have been strengthened?
 
Arthur Davis is not the first to switch parties recently. Couple of prominent Hispanic Democrats left the party and became registered Republicans. Can not remember their names, anybody know?
 
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