Parker got smart too late about Obama and Pelosi

Sen. Arlen Specter switched parties in Pennsylvania and lost to Joe Sestak (the guy who turned down a bribe to not run against Obama's choice, the former Republican Specter). Then Alabama's Rep. Parker Griffith, a Democrat, switched parties, and he also lost.

"I do not regret changing parties. I think politically it may have been a mistake. On principle, it was the right thing to do, and I'm happy about it," said [Parker] Griffith, the morning after losing the Republican primary to challenger Mo Brooks. . . .

He said he would continue to support local Republicans and planned to vote for Brooks in November. "I think Obama is a socialist. I think Nancy Pelosi is, as well," he said, repeating recent campaign themes linking Democrats, government spending and a suffocating national debt. (Huntsville Times)