I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.
There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics. It then does not matter what you say or what you do. There is a shift in what the public wants and what it approves of.
The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.
Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
There’s something deeply cultural about changing parties …. radio announcers and journalists can change either newspaper or radio or television stations and footballers can change teams, but there seems to be a deeper cultural thing about the notion of [political] defection, even if you haven’t changed your values along the way.
The Senator had switched parties.
I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent.
I am a conservative Republican, but I didn't start out that way. I was raised as a Democrat.
The anti-European Tories were a fringe group - until they took over their whole party.
No-one in their right mind would buy the 'New Statesman' and change it from being a left-wing to a right-wing magazine.
