Remember back in 1994, how there were a ton of Democrat elected officials who switched to the GOP once they realised how unpopular, arrogant, and out of touch the Democrat Party was? Well, it might be starting again, and in Vermont of all places,
State Auditor Tom Salmon entered the statehouse Tuesday as a Democrat, only to announce he was leaving that party and joining the GOP.
“I’m changing my political affiliation to align myself with a party more committed to the realities of our fiscal condition,” he said, “and who I think have the abilities to manage the very real and troubling economic and social conditions which confront us not only today but over the next decade.”
Salmon said last session’s budget process was “rife with deficiencies and dysfunction.” He predicted poor planning would lead to tax increases, which would make the economy even worse.
“It was very evident the state was out of balance in trying to respond to its fiscal challenges,” he said. “So let me say simply that today is my fiscal wake-up call.”
Salmon’s father was a Democratic governor in the 1970s. He said the party has changed since then and no longer reflected his values.
“In many ways I’m not leaving the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me and tens of thousands of other people in a reunion with the Progressive Party and their values,” Salmon said, “which are valid values, they just are not my values in relations to operating as a state political leader.”
Butbutbutbutbutbutbut the left wing bloggers told me that the Republicans were out of the mainstream, and were scaring people away, and were dooming themselves to oblivion by opposing Obama’s fiscal program! You mean they were wrong?
May Tom Salmon be the first of many non-nutso Democrats who wake up and leave the dark side.
Tags: Democrats, Economy, Politics, Republican Party
