The OC Weekly: Another party switcheroo

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Margie Rice switches her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, saying, "I don’t feel like the party is the same party it was when I registered as a Democrat 54 years ago." Who of us is, Margie? Fifty-four years ago, Strom Thurmond was still a Democrat, as was President Harry Truman, whose No. 1 priority was fighting the Soviet Union. Fifty-four years ago, there was a Soviet Union. Anyway, Margie says the last straw came when Democratic Party officials had the audacity to ask her, a Democrat and the mayor of Westminster, to campaign for John F. Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate. Outrageous. She says she couldn’t do it since she finds herself agreeing more with George W. Bush these days. And why not? A vintage former Democrat like her is bound to be enamored of a tax-and-spend deficit-maker who entangles the U.S. in disastrous and protracted foreign conflicts. That’s old-school!

From http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/04/48/columns-lowery.php