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Jesse Helms was once a Democrat, but North Carolina has never had a better and more dependable Repubican US Senator. John East was a lifelong Republican, and would be second best. THird would be Lauch Faircloth who was once a Democrat. What matters is following Republican principles, not being a Republican in name only. Too many opportunist Democrats see they can't get elected as a Democrat, so they go undercover as a fake Republican but have never changed their Democrat ideology. That is what Frankie Waters did. He is still functionally a Democrat but masquerades as a Republican. He is a fraud and always has been. On the other hand, there are conservatives who find that as the Democrats have galloped left, the Democrat Party no longer represented their principles. Principles are what matter. There have been actual conservative Democrat elected officials not that long ago. Walter Jones was a conservative Democrat state legislator and then became a great conservative Republican congressman.

BTW, what is a "CommunistyAdvocate"??? Is that, perhaps, akin to a community organizer?

Commented: Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 @ 11:18 am By: Rino Hunter

I have been a registered Republican all my life. Hood Richardson changed his party affiliation in 1995 to Republican. Previously, he was a registered Democrat.

Commented: Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 @ 9:43 am By: CommunityAdvocate

John Steed: All these "secret sleepers," like Frankie Waters, do on this regular basis is usurp the Republican brand built by far better people, which causes me to wonder since the local GOP enables such behavior ...

Just how many members on the Beaufort County GOP are themselves "secret sleepers" in waiting?

Commented: Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 @ 9:23 am By: Stan Deatherage

So-called "Community Advocate": As a recent Conservative candidate, your perspective is not one of a real World purpose. No real Republican was attacked in the last campaign by Hood Richardson and his PAC, and that is quantifiable.

Party Disloyalty is a charge that offers many facets, and when the local GOP will NOT vet its candidates, and will disgracefully, at the party headquarters, besmirch the reputations of real Republicans running for office, and then act in such a frivolous manner as to what being a REAL Republican demands, an inventory of such bad behavior is taken ... and Rightly so.

In closing, just two observations on your ludicrous comments "Community Advocate": 1) How does a 'Beaufort County Republican Party support all Republican candidates by advocating for ALL Republicans at the Board of Elections'? The campaigns are over at that "yeah team" point. 2) The "Democrat candidate running for County Commissioner had the easiest campaign."

This local GOP provides a process of convenience for Democrats, who have admitted to me that their current plan for not running a full slate of Democrat candidates is: "to switch to the Republican party; run as Republicans, and then win as Republicans by using the Republican brand; then, once elected, govern as Democrats. It is working isn't it Stan?" To which I did reply: "Yes it is Ma'am."

Republicans, far better than you "Community Advocate", such as Hood Richardson, built that Republican brand in Beaufort County, and for the local GOP to "advocate" for "all" Republicans by breathing political life into these Democrat "secret sleepers" is either a non Republican measure of insipid disloyalty, or just plain STUPID.

Which is it for you So-called "Community Advocate" ... "if that is your real name?"

Commented: Tuesday, December 6th, 2022 @ 3:08 am By: Stan Deatherage