Dennis Kucinich -"I'm going to become a Republican."

[Algorem]

The big switch:

http://www.cleveland.com/tipoff/index.ssf?/base/opinion/116341063942000.xml&coll=2

What would be more shocking than U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich becoming president? How about Kucinich becoming a Republican?

Kucinich felt like a fish out of water after the Dems seized control last week.

"I don't know how to act in the majority," ... "I'm going to become a Republican."




GOP helped revive Democrats

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061112/NEWS09/611120358/-1/NEWS

Insiders say Republicans stumbled while rivals learned from '04


By JIM TANKERSLEY
BLADE POLITICS WRITER

COLUMBUS - The news broke past midnight in the Republican war room. Fox News was calling Ohio for the President. Party leaders decided to ditch their big screens, rolling phone banks, and hotline to Karl Rove, and head upstairs to the Hyatt Regency ballroom.

U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine took the stage. Ohioans, he announced that night in 2004, had given George W. Bush four more years.

The crowd erupted.

Republicans returned to the Hyatt Regency last week. A decidedly more somber Election Night audience watched almost their entire statewide slate fall. Mr. DeWine lost his Senate seat. Secretary of State Ken Blackwell lost the governor's race by the widest margin for a Republican in nearly a century...



GOP hindsight on 13th District is too late

http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/isope/116333827756870.xml?isope&coll=2

Four years ago, Republicans thought they could make Sherrod Brown disappear.

National population shifts required Ohio to eliminate one of its 19 congressional districts, and some in the GOP saw Brown's 13th District as a perfect target. Its odd barbell shape and Brown's unabashed Democratic partisanship gave them all the reasons they needed.

But Brown warned Republicans, who controlled the redistricting process, that if they took away his district, he would run for governor in 2002 against a vulnerable Bob Taft.

Some thought Brown was bluffing, but GOP leaders decided not to take chances: They sacrificed maverick Rep. James Traficant, a Youngstown Democrat who often voted with Republicans but was the subject of a corruption investigation, and left Brown in a safely Democratic district...

[Greeby]

1. Sure, whatever you say Dennis

;)

[johnnie]

2. Just the thought of Dennis as a republican is too funny

:rofl:

[SouthernBelle82]

8. Oh dear goodness no

I couldn't image him a republican.

[stillcool]

3. what a weird story...

I don't get it.

[Eric J in MN]

4. He was just joking that he's so used to being in the minority

...party that he could become a Republican to stay in the minority.

[stillcool]

6. what I don't understand is .

the context within the story, and the story itself. I saw no relation from one thing to another...no thread connecting these different stories.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Either that, or wonderment at being in the majority, which has been

Republican domain for so long, saying majority = republican. Either interp is funny.

:toast:

[Catchawave]

5. Think snark....

Dennis was making a funny :)

[Mrs. Overall]

9. Good Joke, Dennis!

Definitely a joke. Sometimes DU is so damn serious, jokes go right over the head....

[dflprincess]

10. That reminds me

Has McCain killed himself yet or is waiting for the actual take over in January?

[Skink]

11. Yeah and Lieberman is going to be a Democrat.

[BoneDaddy]

12. Either people didn't read the entire article

or do not recognize sarcasm when they see it.

He was making a joke about how he is so used to being in the minority that being in the majority now is unreal. The joke was that he would join the republicans cause they are now in the minority and he is used to being there.