Betsy McCaughey Quotes
I’ve searched my conscience about leaving the Republican Party, and I decided it was better to change parties than to change my principles.
Betsy McCaughey, Lieutenant Governor of New York (Republican and Democrat), Statement about switching parties, September 29, 1997
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The Senator had switched parties.
He like many other Americans had become dissatisfied with the religious, right wing fundamentalist ideology of the George W. Bush administration and the Republicans who controlled Congress until the election of 2006.
On March 20, 1854 a group of disaffected politicians met in a schoolhouse in Rippon, Wisconsin:. It was the birth of the Republican party.
Malan quit the National Party in protest of it's continuing policy of apartheid:
The Republicans lost the Congressional election of 2006. See {616069}.
When the Trs Psrty snd other extrme conservatives gsined contol of the Republican Party and moved the party far to the right, the Democratic Party, began shifting to the left. The centeriists of both parties began to be ignored as politicians of each party stove to avoid attacks from their extremes. The result were centerists who left their old party loyalties becomming indeprndents or joininng the other party.
Elizabeth Helen McCaughey, formerly known as Betsy McCaughey Ross, is an American politician who was the Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, during the first term of Governor George Pataki. She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for governor after Pataki dropped her from his 1998 ticket, and she ended up on the ballot under the Liberal Party line. In August 2016 the Donald Trump presidential campaign announced that she had joined the campaign as an economic adviser.
