The start of something big.
Eight elected officials announce party switch, join Mississippi Republican Party
By Courtney Ann Jackson WBLT| February 24, 2020:
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – The Mississippi Republican Party is welcoming some new members and all of them were elected public offices as Democrats or Independents in this most recent election cycle.
Story continues below advertisementThe Mississippi Republican Party Chairman says he doesn’t expect this will be the last time they are welcoming new members to the GOP.
“We have had a relentless focus on switching conservative Democrats over to the Republican party,” explained MSGOP Chairman Lucien Smith. “They recognize increasingly that there is only one party that represents the conservative values of our state and that is the Republican party.”
All eight of the latest party switchers were from Smith and Covington Counties and one District Attorney whose district covers those areas. But the conservation didn’t take long to expand to the national party ties.
“We are in a scenario in this country where you can choose to be a member of the party led by Donald J. Trump or you can choose to be a member of the socialist Democratic party led by Bernie Sanders,” noted Governor Tate Reeves.
Millsaps Department of Government and Politics chair Dr. Nathan Shrader says given the GOP sweep in statewide offices last year and the approval rating for Donald Trump, it opens the door to this.
“They have a plausible argument to make with these elected officials that your constituent are already aligning with us, the voting patterns in your district are moving in our direction, you should join the team too,” said Dr. Shrader.
One of the party switchers echoed that thought.
“There are conservatives Democrats all across the state of Mississippi and there was once upon a time when the conservative Democrats controlled this state,” explained 13th Circuit Court District Attorney Matt Sullivan. “It’s a new day in Mississippi and I believe the Republican party is growing and there’s a place in the Republican party for people like me.”
The eight officials who joined the MSGOP are:
Matt Sullivan, District Attorney for the Thirteenth Circuit Court District (Covington, Jasper, Simpson and Smith Counties), (Former Democrat)
Covington County
Guy Easterling, Chancery Clerk (Former Independent)
Bobby Wayne Mooney, Justice Court Judge for the Northern District of Covington County (Former Independent)Smith County
Cindy Austin, Chancery Clerk (Former Democrat)
Anthony Grayson, Circuit Clerk (Former Democrat)
Mary Lou Powell, Tax Assessor-Collector (Former Democrat)
Danny Arender, Beat 4 Supervisor (Former Democrat)
Hulon West, Justice Court Judge for the Southern District of Smith County (Former Democrat)
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Just be careful they are not Trojan horses switching over to bring down the GOP from the inside.
Exactly. That strategy is being used by the muslims, and is working quite well for them. There is never an excuse for trusting muslims, democrats, or communists.
So … after nearly 50 years of hearing the ‘Southern Strategy’ Big Lie and the ‘Big Switch’ Big Lie …
American Democrat leaders are finally ditching the Demokkkcraptic party and switching to the Republicans …
Welcome aboard gentlemen … but you need to buckle up and hold onto your hats …
The Left hates those who leave the Plantation more than they hate anyone else.
How the hell did 8 Democrats even get elected in Mississippi in the first place?
8 white democrats, at that. what is wrong with those people?
Yes, I agree. The ‘eternal vigilance’ posture must be maintained, because humans are very prone to tyrant governance. It is natural for successful, ambitious, dominant individuals to accumulate power, and to collaborate with other powerful people. From this comes tyrants, and tyrant power circles [oligarchies, ‘Deep States’]. We must continually block them, or be subjugated.
Agree. And the first Muslim democrat/socialist gay president imported 200,000 yearly legal and illegal muslims and deported christians back to ISIS to be slaughtered after they tried to make it to America http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/islamonazi-deports-christians/
And those who dared to help were threatened to shut up and MSM would not cover it !
Sorry,the only antidote for a Communist is a bullet.
Yeah, I suppose Mississippi is a pretty racist state.
Right, the Democrat Party is racist, and Mississippi was a solid Democrat stronghold for more than a century up until the 1960s. So Mississippi is a deeply racist state.
What happened with your dates, Pretend Engineer? Obviously, for any accuracy, one needs to call on an engineer, not something living in Make Believe Land.
Mississippi did not leave the Democrat party. The Democrat party left Mississippi.
So you’re saying all of the racist Democrats in Mississippi (who comprised most of the state by the way) just up and left to a different state in the mid 1960s?
With close to 38% of Mississippi being of African descent … That’s a LOT of racist negroes.
Well apparently Mississippi isn’t racist anymore since all the Democrats left.
I don’t know. I imagine that with a negro population of 38% that there are still many Democrat Party members. We know how racist negroes are, black lives matters posted snipers at their riots, that targeted only those of another race. That’s pretty racist.
The Southern Strategy and “Big Switch” are not lies. Mississippi and Texas were solid blue states in the early 1960s. Why do you think they flipped?
Texas didn’t turn Republican in the early sixties.
It wasn’t until 1978 when Texas elected William P. Clements Jr., the first Republican Governor in over 100 years.
However, Pretend Engineers aren’t known for their accuracy.
As long as we’re within ~10% we’re usually fine
That’s the reason, that in almost ALL states, a PRETEND engineer is not legally allowed to refer to itself as an engineer.
Democratic Apostasy makes them a target.
😉 … you and yours have a wonderful week, Charlie!
Agreed. It is tough to visualize that the party of JFK wouldn’t even welcome him in today’s rancid political environment.
Unfortunately for Democrats, this is not going to be confined to Mississippi and southern states. It’s not at all difficult to see how this will snowball to Democrat office holders of all sorts throughout much of America except for portions of the East & West Coasts. There aren’t going to be many Democrats anywhere who want to bluntly and proudly say they are the party of Bernie Sanders.
You think we’re winning big with Trump now. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Freedom and personal responsibility are not what could be referred to as ‘style’ or ‘fads’. They are the essence of the right to seek life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Abandon those basics and you will find the grief of control and persecution. You can capitulate to evil if you desire, but there are still Citizens of this Republic that would rather fight and die than submit to the communism that is currently promoted by the democrats.
You’re a troll. You have a secret profile and a pseudonym for a name. And you sense of logic is only skin-deep.
…blocked “it” a long time ago….
MAKE AFRICA FREE AGAIN.
africa was never free moron
Africa would be free without Africans.
and they’ll swing back when the pendulum begins to swing the other way.
…that’s what my Mom always said…she likened it to a Pendulum swinging far left and then swinging back to the right…..
Oy, 8 more RINO’s.
…tbd
nothing but a new crop of RINO’S.
EXACTLY. Being double-minded is NOT A GOOD TRAIT TO HAVE.
what took them so long, and how could these guys and gals possibly have voted for a democrat? i don’t em. i’d put them in a quarantine area for a while and make sure their democrat virus is truly dead before i would allow them in the herd
….unless you are from the South…you wouldn’t understand….great, great, great granddaddy fought in the Civil War against the Republican Lincoln….and lost.
The South is a very traditional part of this country…..I am originally from the old South….left for 45 years and am now back for family reasons.
This is not the old South anymore…..fast becoming Northern folk escaping high taxes and radical politicians….just like Californians escaping there to NV, AZ, and New Mexico
A lot of Obama’s “refugees” put here in TN, and Texas, and NM…..ME refugees.
They don’t come for a better life, nor to assimilate. They bring their stinking politics with them and they have no intention of assimilating. And don’t for a minute think I am talking about illegals from the border….I’m talking long time generations of Americans.
Someone explain to me why if a people come from a very undesirable area of the country…they move to a desirable area of the country…..and the very first dam thing they do is try to change that area into a copy of their old one?!!! What the hell?!
Back in 2014 I was sitting in a hospital with my son for a minor operation. I was reading news on my phone and came across a news story where the Dimm Party leaders were urging Libtards to move to Republican states and turn them from Red to Blue. I remember having a bad feeling about that.
Today, Red states are slowly turning purple and Blue….. it’s worse than cockroaches! There isn’t anything you can spray or powders you can spread to stop them.
amen sis. I was born in the land of barry Goldwater and now call CO home. I’ve watched these mountain states become polluted by refugees from democrat states who brought their idiot virus to my world and destroyed it. CO has a homosexual governor, its repub senator is the champion of the marijuana industry, and being a Christian is a hate crime. i’m waiting for some state to declare itself a conservative sanctuary whose sworn enemy is the democrat party, and i’ll move there in a heartbeat
Let me know if you find that place and I’ll join you.
I don’t believe it exist anymore. By the end of President Trump’s second term, the Dimms will really be so desperate to turn things back around their way, that will be when the “long knives” come out…..it will be the most critical election in American history.
I don’t worry about Trump being re-elected. I worry about who comes after him.
And I worry about the violence the Left is willing to commit to take back our country when that election comes up.
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The Democrats are a sinking ship.
Just be careful with some who swap sides as they may be infiltrators
I used to be a Dem., myself. I hope a few of these Missippi enlightened are like me a Jew.
I also used to be a Democrat, all my life, in fact UNTIL I had a personal encounter with Jesus Christ. NO, he didn’t tell me to switch parties. In fact, AFTER I ACCEPTED JESUS as my personal Savior and received the Holy Spirit, my eyes were suddenly opened to GOD’S truth and understanding and I began seeing EVERYTHING differently and I mean, VERY DIFFERENTLY. The HOLY Spirit within me is responsible for THAT. He leads you into ALL TRUTH.
Most people who really take God and their relationship with Him, seriously, are always walking in HIS LIGHT. They are not easily swayed by dogma, gossip, and/or 2nd and 3rd-hand information. When you walk in the Spirit, YOU NOW OWN YOURSELF. Your eyes are open to everything. Look at it as ONCE YOU WERE BLIND, NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN, YOU GET YOUR SIGHT BACK.
Others who do not walk with God in His Spirit, will always walk in darkness:
1. They will follow someone based on EXCITEMENT ONLY and not the TRUTH.
2. They will always believe someone they look up to, even if they know it is a lie.
3. They will make excuses for their actions and their hero’s actions.
4. They will hate things and people without knowing why, but because their hero feels that way.
5. They will never search out the TRUTH.
6. They will think they are the smartest person in the room.
7. They will not listen to an opposing view, and their hearts will be hardened against them.
8. They will show animosity and disgust at anyone who is NOT in their camp.
9. They will hate the words, RIGHTEOUSNESS, TRUTH, and LIBERTY.
10. They will never allow you to criticize them.
I could go on and on but you get my point. We all know the people I am describing.
These people are being DEMONICALLY INFLUENCED spiritually.
INFLUENCE. Satan uses Demons to influence people, especially those people who are good, but unsaved by grace or people like I mentioned above. And, Satan tries his best to take back God’s people thru demonic spiritual influences, thoughts placed into a person’s mind that THEY will either CHOOSE TO ACT UPON OR CHOOSE NOT TO ACT UPON. FREE WILL. And yes, COMPULSION TO DO SOMETHING WRONG IS OF SATAN. However, YOU STILL CHOOSE TO SUCCUMB TO IT. You will never be able to BLAME SATAN for your own choices. GOD WILL HOLD YOU RESPONSIBLE and since HE is a God of Justice, well, HE WILL JUDGE YOU FOR THOSE CHOICES.
Believe me when I tell you, there are millions of more Demonic activity today than there were in the early 80s. Satan GAS RELEASED millions and millions more demons than he did in the 80s. WE CAN ALL TELL BY WHAT WE ARE SEEING JUST HERE IN AMERICA, with legal abortion or murder, with homosexual marriages, with the gay lifestyle, with all the liars in Govt, and WE ALL KNOW IT, but some will not admit to that. Satan KNOWS he has a short time left (time to Satan and God is not the same as time to humans), meaning, time is now speeding up. People all over the world NOW, will be influenced by demons increasingly as the months go by. EVIL PRESENTS ITSELF NOW, AS GOOD. GOOD IS NOW BAD TO THE EVIL PERSON. WE ALL SEE IT, FEEL IT, AND KNOW IT. Just as fast as technology turned a corner from the end of the 70’s to NOW, it will increase much more NOW, which means Christians filled with the Holy Spirit will be out of here VERY SOON and people who are left, WILL SUDDENLY REALIZE why they were left to face NOTHING BUT DEMONIC and unrighteous PEOPLE WHO ARE LEFT ON THE EARTH.
I AM SPEAKING TO ANYONE READING THIS, NOT JUST THE PERSON I AM REPLYING TO:
IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU DO NOT HAVE MUCH TIME BEFORE YOU WILL HAVE NO TIME LEFT. Choose whom you will serve, NOW WHILE YOU CAN. KNOW the people and/or heroes whom you are looking up to. If they are not righteous people or people who really tell the TRUTH (REMEMBER, past and present actions in their lives will always find them out), then move away from them before you are not able to, but THERE WILL BE PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET AWAY because they won’t believe this, or they are too weak, or they just don’t care. AGAIN, FREE WILL MEANS YOU GET TO CHOOSE. Demons will have gone from influencing them to living within them. IF THAT SCARES YOU, God’s grace is sufficient and all you have to do is ASK HIM FOR GUIDANCE AND FORGIVENESS. He will lead you from there. Find a Bible and begin reading the New Testament, then pray. Find a good Bible-believing Holy-Spirit filled Church who really loves Jesus. THEY WILL HELP AND GUIDE YOU.
We do not have much time left as FREE people, as people who love Jesus, as people who cherish our Constitution. EITHER STAND UP FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND OUR CONSTITUTION, OR SUPPORT THOSE WHO DO. WE WILL TAKE IT FROM THERE.
Trump was and is God’s man right now and he WILL win re-election, but it will not look like it until IT DOES LOOK LIKE IT, just like in 2016. GOD often uses the strangest people for HIS PURPOSES. But, in this case, Trump believes in God and now believes in His Son Jesus. Trump may not be a perfect man BUT HE IS A FORGIVEN MAN AND A CHILD OF JESUS CHRIST. He says some crude things, but what he says IS TRUTH or God would not be with him.
God’s Spirit is upon Trump whenever he follows Constitutional law, whenever he supports the good people in this country, whenever he eliminates needless regulations, whenever he supports the security of our country, and whenever he FIGHTS FOR YOU AND I BY FIGHTING OFF DEMOCRAT WITCH HUNTS. God especially loves Trump because of HIS PEOPLE, the Jews and Israel. If you are against THEM, then GOD IS AGAINST YOU AND IT WILL NOT MATTER WHAT YOU DO, if you are anti-Israel, anti-Jew, GOD’S SPIRIT AND MIGHT WILL BE AGAINST YOU, PERIOD.
Remember this, my friends, even if you do not know the Lord, HE KNOWS YOU and if your heart is opened to HIS truth, HE will be influencing you daily until you suddenly are aware that HE IS WHAT YOU WANT IN YOUR LIFE. If you don’t, He will not force you and He will just stand back and let you make your own choices until the day you die, and you won’t know when that will be. I pray that you all THINK about your lives and what you have done with it, good or bad, own up to it, and go to HIM for whatever reason. GOD IS MORE POWERFUL THAN SATAN AND SATAN KNOWS THAT. Do not be fooled by Satan and his cunning devices, especially IN PEOPLE SATAN CONTROLS. Satan controls a LOT of people in America and if you wish to tell who is demonic and who is not, LIST VERY CLOSELY TO WHAT THEY SAY. If something is not quite right about them, THEN IT ISN’T. MOVE AWAY FROM THEM OR YOU WILL BE SUCKED IN AND MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GET OUT (spiritually).
JESUS CHRIST IS LORD OF LORD AND KING OF KINGS.
HE IS COMING VERY, VERY SOON. DO NOT BE LEFT BEHIND.
Who in their right mind would support the Democratic Nazi party, except maybe other Nazis
The Leftist Democratic party is communist.
Oh and you’d vote for a Communist party ? Imo there’s no difference these days both want to be totalitarian to the people.
Your BS, not mine.
‘…don’t need a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing.’
‘…don’t need a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing.’
Good to see that there’s still some Dem politicos exercising common sense. I’m confident that many more will soon follow their colleagues to the GOP.
TrumpNation & the GOP in November.
Hopefullyu congresmen will soon cross the floor in DC
Beware of the Judas goat.
no way I would trust any one of them….basically infiltrators that will be nothing but a RINO.
I’m not buying it. They are switching for one purpose, they know they can’t get elected as Dems. Just a modern day Trojan horse. Look at Virginia. A red state that believed Dem lies and they try to take guns away from law abiding citizens. It is a fool’s errand to elect any former Dems who just changed parties.
Oh no! They’re all white-MEN!
I would not put any faith in these converts. What took them so long? Use them and lose them by primarying them at the first opportunity.
This could be a great event Or: it could be something the Democrats are all to versed in, putting operatives in or party, fine example was John McCain, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, if that wasn’t a spy I don’t know what else to call them.
Amen!
Is this a conversion on the rod to Damascus, or a case of rats abandoning a sinking ship? One wonders.
Finally these 8 Democrats have seen the light, Praise be to you Lord Jesus Christ!!!! Amen, Amen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT COULD BE A PLOY to PRETEND to be Conservative, but then vote liberally. I TRUST NONE OF THESE PEOPLE. It’s called double-mindedness.
BEWARE MISSISSIPPI. They should have stayed in their own party and CHANGED THINGS.
Was thinking the same thing too. Hopefully the GOP will just have them as members in the party and not make them “elected officials” in the party
This business of switching party is not really a good idea as performed here. People voted for these politicians and there should be another election with these people running for their new goals. There might be better choices.
Great comments!
And why should anybody trust them?
Make them sign an affidavit as to their loyalty oath to the United States of America and to the people who get to elect them. Why should I/we believe them after all these years. The people should have the right to fire them if they show any inclination toward any kind of democrat of anti republican thinking, don;t trust them.
Yes makes sense to me I agree .
That has to be done since the GOP seems to have a short attention span along with the innocence of a three-year-old, no joke.
I always thought that a double lobotomy was final…I guess they are able to implant some functioning brain cells after all!!!!! Anyone voting for a libturd dumocrap don’t have a functioning brain cell!
Like Michael Savage says they have mental disorders . its called S.T.U.P. I. D . !
It is obvious from these legislators that the Democratic Party does have some people with brains ! To these I say welcome.
It is obvious from these legislators that the Democratic Party does have some people with brains ! To these I say welcome.
Looks like these guys are smart fellers, instead of fart smellers.
Looks like these guys are smart fellers, instead of fart smellers.
It doesn’t pass the smell test.
They must be carefully scrutinized top= make sure they are sincere and not wolves donning sheep’s clothing. We do not need anymore Romney like pretenders.
Need to be very careful. Just because they switch to the Republican party does not in anyway change who they were /are and can still vote with the Socialist Democrats anytime they chose to.