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msongs

(73,086 posts)
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 11:06 PM Nov 4

blue night. does one suppose any repubs will see the light and flip to dems?

Would be nice in the house eh?


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yes a few repubs will flip
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none will flip
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only pancakes will flip
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blue night. does one suppose any repubs will see the light and flip to dems? (Original Post) msongs Nov 4 OP
Could happen, we had a conservative in Canada, cross the floor to the Liberals today. Bev54 Nov 5 #1
I don't see it. Not yet, anyway. DFW Nov 5 #2
My rw relatives are seething or in denial on Facebook SunImp Nov 5 #3

Bev54

(13,208 posts)
1. Could happen, we had a conservative in Canada, cross the floor to the Liberals today.
Wed Nov 5, 2025, 12:20 AM
Nov 5

Didn't see that coming but I hope maybe others???

DFW

(59,747 posts)
2. I don't see it. Not yet, anyway.
Wed Nov 5, 2025, 01:50 AM
Nov 5

After all, what choice words would we have had for any turncoat Democrat if it had gone the other way? Traitor? Spineless, gutless opportunist? What we would call “seeing the light,” they would call a sell-out. A rat deserting a ship that was nowhere near sinking? I’m not talking about some one-off vote in the Senate that wasn’t going to change anything. I’m talking about full and irrevocable party switching. “I didn’t leave the party—they left me.”

We are up against a very hardened front that has harsh words for people who don’t agree with them. Sometimes more that just words. I mean rocks (or bullets) through windows, etc. The Republicans have a pretty big tent, too, and like their Stalinist role models, they often have no inhibition against causing bodily harm to those who express a desire to leave. I don’t see anyone of consequence leaving that camp—not without an airtight security detail, anyway.

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