On Party-Switchers

With all the name-calling that’s been coming from Republicans upset at State Senator Chris Koster’s and now state senate candidate Chris Benjamin’s switching their party affiliations, we at PubDef.net would like to remind our Republican friends that switching parties is nothing new.

Discovering that your personal beliefs and the direction of your political party no longer match is not all that uncommon in American politics. In fact, the godfather of modern Republican conservatism, Ronald Reagan, himself, was a Democrat for the first 51 years of his life.

If it wasn’t for party-switchers, Republicans might be stuck quoting Richard Nixon in their debates.