Should Rep. Joseph Cao (R-Louisiana) become a Democrat?

[floridasandy]

the republican party needs to get a backbone and stop funding liberals. if cao wants to vote for liberal policies then he should be financed by the democratic party. i seriously hope that someone steps up and challenges him in the next primary.

if government is serious about fixing health care, why not fix the broken health care system first and prove that we can trust them? cut out the fraud, throw crooks in jail, and eliminate wasteful spending. if you have to hire some more auditors to find the problems, good for the unemployment rate.


do something right for a change so americans can trust the government. after all of the bailouts, there is no trust left.

[dcsldcd]

Originally Posted by shorebaby

Just as the Blue Dogs should become Republicans. All these politicians who win in districts that usually go for the other party generally run closer to that party. The lable is a farce.

Personally I think if you cannot follow the party line you should run as an Independent. That way the people would not be fooled at who and what they are voting for.

[Prytania]

I cannot believe people here would talk about this man when most of you know so little. I live in New Orleans and Cao has had to walk a tight line between the GOP and the Democrats as he lives in a gerrymandered district that was written to ensure a Democrat would be elected.

We dont have a parliamentary system in the United States and CONGRESSMEN do NOT have an obligation to support "the party line" and in many cases don't.
I am a registered Republican in Orleans Parish and Joseph Cao will continue to get my vote and my support. Or suck it, national GOP...its none of your godamn business.

[Thomas R.]

His is a district that had been Democratic for a century. Cao is as conservative as you're going to get there. He is also one of the few non-white Republicans in Congress. They should be happy to have Cao.

If the Republicans or activists are foolish enough to put someone against him because he's not "conservative enough" than I might just stop voting for them. (I'm independent, but generally vote Republican) I actually felt it made sense in New York's 23rd as that was a traditionally conservative district, but it makes no sense here.

Granted being a Pro-Life "liberal on race" Catholic maybe effects my views some. Cao was maybe tricked, but I think he likely really does hope this may actually reduce abortion or at least be abortion-neutral. I think he may even be right as I've seen grumbling about it from Pro-Choicers.

Anyway he has voted with his party less than most, but he's still voted with the House Republicans about 80% of the time. He's fairly moderate, but he's more Republican on some terrorism and small business issues. Also on abortion.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/c.../party-voters/