Ex-Democrat Artur Davis to speak at GOP national convention
There are a few moments in any national presidential-nominating convention that are designed for drama: the keynote address, the speech by the running mate and, of course, the speech by the nominee. But the GOP this year is trying to add another one in a Zell Miller-esque address by a longtime Democrat.
Democratic congressman-turned-2012 RNC speaker Artur Davis (Source: OfficialArturDavis.com)
And this longtime Democrat happens to be one of the first members of Congress to endorse Barack Obama for the presidency in 2008, the man who seconded Obama’s nomination at the Democratic convention in Denver: Alabama’s Artur Davis.
Davis’ switch to the Republican Party earlier this year was well-publicized, but I’m not sure anyone predicted he’d be a headliner at the 2012 GOP convention, announced alongside four people Mitt Romney reportedly considered as potential running mates: Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio. (U.S. Senate candidate Connie Mack of Florida was also announced today.)
There have been rumors a Republican, perhaps Jon Huntsman, will address the Democrats’ convention in Charlotte. It would take more than Huntsman, in my view, to trump what the GOP gets with Davis.
Here’s what Davis said in a press release by the Republican National Committee:
The talk and inspiration moved so many of us four years ago, but unfortunately we haven’t seen the action to back it up. We were promised jobs and we got job-killing mandates and regulations. We were promised a fiscally responsible government, and we got trillion dollar deficits, debt that has never been seen, and small business burdened with new taxes, and threatened with more taxes. The time for talk is over. At the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Republicans take a step to undo the mismanagement and nominate Mitt Romney as the next president of the United States.
I believe the official term for that kind of statement from that kind of ex-supporter is “fightin’ words.” We’ll have to see whether Davis proves as effective a turncoat as Miller was. And/or whether Davis ends up challenging any liberal cable-news commentators to a duel:
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 17th, 2012
8:42 am
In Michigan, the low-income community of Muskegon Heights became the first American cityto surrender its entire school district to a charter school company. Details of the contract with Mosaica were not available to the public for some time after the deal was made. Butdata from the Michigan Department of Education revealed that Mosaica performed better than only 13% of the schools in the state of Michigan.
Also in Michigan, an investigation of administrative salaries elicited this response from charter contractor National Heritage Academies: “As a private company, NHA does not provide information on salaries for its employees.”
Education writer Danny Weil summarizes the charter school secrecy: “The fact is that most discussions of charters and vouchers are not done through legally mandated public hearings under law, but in back rooms or over expensive dinners, where business elites and Wall Street interests are the shot-callers in a secret parliament of moneyed interests.”
alternet.org
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
9:01 am
Anyone of color who is conservative is trashed by the other side. I really don’t get it. Talk and discuss differences, but trashing a person is just not right. Bad week for Obama. Ryan bump,Biden gaff and at three stops in Iowa this week, he drew 600, 855 and 2000. In 08 those crowds were in the thousands.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
August 17th, 2012
9:09 am
Basically you set up your own blog and then link to a story here and if trackbacks are set up a snippet of your post will appear here with your name in blue.
Does the Urinal have to approve of this, uh, relationship? I could have fun with this.
St Simons - we're on Island time
August 17th, 2012
9:13 am
how cute, you guys found a brown person for your Inclusion Illusion.
Lord High Hairgel = no taxes = toast
RW-(the original)
August 17th, 2012
9:13 am
Does the Urinal have to approve of this, uh, relationship?
No, but they can block you after the fact.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
August 17th, 2012
9:17 am
Here’s a pretty apt example of what 174,000 jacketed hollow point bullets can be used for….when in the wrong hands -
South African police gun down unarmed striking miners, killing 34…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/9481814/South-African-police-say-they-were-forced-to-fire-on-striking-miners-killing-34.html
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
August 17th, 2012
9:23 am
Obama Promises Kept:
Ending the war in Iraq
Ening the war in Afghanistan (drawdown is already beginning)
Passing Healthcare Reform
Going after Al qeuada and Bin Laden (Bin Laden dead as well as almost their entire senior leadership
Equal PAy for women (Lilly Ledbetter Act)
Lowered taxes for Small Business
Lower taxes for the Middle Class
Saving the American Auto Industry
Stimulus that averted a depression
Ghaddafy gone
Mubarek gone
Assad soon to be gone
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
9:24 am
I tell ya St Simons, cut off the money and see what “brown people” think of Democrats. It’s really a crime to keep them on the Government dime while the public schools fail them everyday…..because we all know an educated person just may not vote Democratic.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
9:30 am
Fault………………..finish the list……5 trillion in new debt with unemployment over 8% the entire time. The worst ,slowest recovery since the depression. A failed Tarp. Obamacare rammed down the American peoples throat against their will. Billions of dollars of tax payer money down the drain to ” friends of the President” green energy companies who all failed. Shut down Gulf and Government land for fossil fuel exploration for $4 gas….all good stuff.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
August 17th, 2012
9:32 am
It’s kinda funny but I have to turn down the volume on obozo’s non stop screeching goony attack ads to hear the libs whining about the Koch Brothers.
iggy
August 17th, 2012
9:39 am
Little by little…
Wisconsin goes from Likely Dem to Barely Dem.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Pres/Maps/Aug17.html
skydog
August 17th, 2012
9:42 am
Liberal and whine….y`all need to get a room or at least an airport stall together.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
August 17th, 2012
9:43 am
Kyle- Am I free to respond in kind to 9:42?
skydog
August 17th, 2012
9:43 am
We can live with barely Dem.
skydog
August 17th, 2012
9:46 am
WTF? whine………you can`t think on your own?
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 17th, 2012
9:46 am
The Obama campaign has come up with a new ploy to keep questions about Mitt Romney’s taxes in the news: a publicly-released challenge to release three more years of returns in exchange for a promise to let the matter go there.
Sounds reasonable to me.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
August 17th, 2012
9:47 am
Back in the day, dog, you’d have tears streaming down your face by now.
Be thankful for the rules.
skydog
August 17th, 2012
9:50 am
Tears of laughter after reading you tin foil hat stuff.
iggy
August 17th, 2012
9:52 am
For now. The point being, the electorate changes are occurring little by little. I guess, as Gordon Solie said so many times before,
“It all remains to be seen”
“We gotta break to a commercial”
“This could erupt in fist-a-cuffs”
“Step inside the squared circle”
“So long from the Great Peach State of GA”
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
9:53 am
Fannies getting tight in the white house. Truth over lies still wins. We are in trouble. Not all Obama’s fault, but unable to fix it with his ideology and his party affiliation.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
9:56 am
Lack of crowds in Iowa this week for the President speaks volumes. Libs wouldn’t know because do you think state run media would tell them?
skydog
August 17th, 2012
9:59 am
How many “crowds” do you think are in Iowa? You need to get out of Cordele and see the country.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
10:03 am
Thousands in 08 skydog, hundreds in 12……….Spin it away. Your man is slipping away.
TRUTH
August 17th, 2012
10:05 am
The Black man has a right to his opinon and presidential choice. It is what this country was founded on, rght? Although we all may draw our own conclusions, OBVIOUSLY, his “change” of stripes is clear propoganda for the Mitt machine. It is beyond me that such a lame showing of “inclusion” was even considered. It shows us all how ridiculously out of touch the leaders of the GOP are.
The GOP has claimed that this election is about ideology and Mr. Obama’s record of failed policies. Policies, which we must be reminded of, were originally GOP ideas. Now he’s to be villanized by the same. Incredible and the GOP s just that out of touch to believe it, package it, and sell it. I don’t know the intent Mr. Davis, he is his own man. However, I am certain that his decision to switch parties was difficult and if he speaks at the convention it will be an outing of beliefs his has held for some time. That is a personal quandry laced with political risks.
Game over, GOP. That will not work…
OBAMA 2012
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
August 17th, 2012
10:05 am
In The Campaign it is the supposed wickedness of the Koch brothers, as well as the iniquity, devoutly affirmed by every lefty, of the Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court which has supposedly conferred on billionaires in general and the Kochs in particular enormous and illegitimate powers to influence elections.
And walla, obozo creates and or saves 4 million jobs! In the Ukraine!
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
10:06 am
And when all you read and listen to is Bookman and MSNBC, you will not hear,feel,believe the progress being made by the GOP ticket. Hang on….and Ryan will be in Villages in Florida this week with his mother who lives there , who is on MEDICARE, taking his plan to the heart of the storm, not hiding from them in the mid west somewhere…..As all you will here on state run media.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
August 17th, 2012
10:07 am
Uh, wrong attachment -
Biden’s ‘good friend,’ donor receives $20M federal loan to open foreign luxury car dealership in Ukraine
And walla, obozo creates and or saves 4 million jobs! In the Ukraine!
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/17/bidens-good-friend-donor-receives-20m-federal-loan/#ixzz23oQLestr
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
10:08 am
TRUTH………Thank you for saying he has the right to his opinion.
Oblama
August 17th, 2012
10:10 am
Artur Davis took a while to realize that Obama is way in over his head. Obama has no clue of how to turn this economy around. He is a tax and spend Socialist. Time to fire Obama.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
August 17th, 2012
10:11 am
The “crowds” obozo gets nowadays are paid to attend.
Oblama
August 17th, 2012
10:12 am
It takes a village idiot – Obama.
mini mimi
August 17th, 2012
10:12 am
The only difference between Republicans and 90% of Democrats in Alabama is just how Republican they are.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
10:15 am
Policy aside, Ryan has lite a fire under this Romney campaign.The white house is concerned that 15-20 thousand showing up to see him, while Obama/Biden draw in the hundreds. And this a fact , not spin……but our friends on the left won’t believe it because it won’t get reported in what they watch.
Oblama
August 17th, 2012
10:17 am
Obama is paying millions for ridiculous programs such as putting bird houses in forests when he is meanwhile cutting out subsidies farmers here need to compete with the rest of the world that is getting subsidized by the Socialist governments like Venezuela. I put up his bird houses three years ago and receive a check in the mail every year equal to about 10 times my expense. The birds have plenty of places to live in the woods and don’t show any interest in the stinkin’ bird houses. Another wasteful program from Obama.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
10:21 am
If I were running the Romney campaign, I would keep Ryan full time in the 7 or 8 swing states and Romney in the for sure and luke warm states. Maybe run Ryan through a close state here and there.
Feeling better and better.
skydog
August 17th, 2012
10:29 am
The news this morning was they are keeping Mitt and Eddie Munster together so they can keep their stories straight.
Good luck in Fla. today telling those old folks your, his, Mitts, Eddies, plan for Medicare.
What a cluster y`all have going on.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
August 17th, 2012
10:32 am
Rob-Me and his buttboy will only get the extreme white trash vote. They have managed to alienate anyone who has a brain.
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
10:33 am
skydog……….yo man ought to be surging against our weak team. Obama out there saying you need four more years of me…………………whoops, sorry, ain’t hearing that…..all I hear is ” hell na, not these white guys”…..LOL
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
10:36 am
Why doesn’t Obama run an ad from the heart. Four more years of ” more debt, bigger government, more regulations, higher energy cost, more entitlements, Gay marriage, More access to government paid Abortion etc”…. You know, hard hitting stuff Americans really want more of.
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
August 17th, 2012
10:42 am
Obama can just run on the facts that Rob Me/ Ayn have nothing but the ol GOP CRAP. Rich get Richer by screwing the middle class….Losers..
ITS ALL BUSHS FAULT
August 17th, 2012
10:43 am
Vote Repuke = Vote agaisnt YOUR own best interests
I'm a liberal and believe everything I read and nothing the other side comes up with...cause we're smart and they are not
August 17th, 2012
10:52 am
Keeping it on the low down. About 15 Black Clergymen from around the country came to Washington about a month ago and denounced Obama’s support for gay marriage at a press conference.Guess the only news organization that covered it? Just like the shooting this week in Washington from a supporter of a Gay organization at a Conservative values organization……….Crickets….bias? Ya think.
skydog
August 17th, 2012
11:23 am
I think that`s keeping it on the down low…lib man.
You remind me of that movie with Richard Pryor and Marty Feildman………I`m hip, I`m hip.
Blacks have differing opinions on the issues lib man, unlike your lockstep crowd.