http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4529
by Jim Capo
According to Bob Conley, the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4649 nominee for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina, “The New Democrat is the Old Democrat.” And that Democrat is pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, and fiscally conservative.
Bob Conley actively supported Pat Buchanan’s presidential bid on the Reform Party ticket in 2000. More recently, he supported Republican Congressman Ron Paul’s presidential bid. He is now running for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina- as a Democrat.
Though he is still largely ignored by the establishment media, Bob Conley has already won the Democratic primary and his name will appear on the ballot in November as the Democratic nominee. His primary victory should be added to those of John McCain’s and Barack Obama’s on the list of improbable but notable outcomes thus far in 2008. On a shoestring budget, and with only a few months under his belt in his new party, Bob Conley won his primary race against Michael Cone, a Charleston lawyer, by 1,049 votes out of 147,287 cast.The commercial pilot, professional engineer, and flight instructor is now up against http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=968, the Republican incumbent, who in the current Congress (to date) has scored a mediocre 56 percent in The New American’s “Freedom Index,” a congressional scorecard that rates all members of the House and Senate based on their adherence to the Constitution. Conley often refers to Senator Graham as “McCain’s Mini Me” and “Grahamnesty” (a moniker coined by Rush Limbaugh). Graham was one of the key Republican senators who tried (unsuccessfully) to push through the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform (read: amnesty) bill last year.
If a Democrat running to the right of the Republican seems a bit odd, it should be kept in mind that the Republican Party has been moving to the left. In fact, many Republicans are “neoconservatives” who promote a corporate-socialist-internationalist agenda under the banner of Republican conservatism.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/329-the-new-democrat