Meet Jason Thigpen, a 36 year old University of North Carolina graduate and Purple Heart winner who lives in Holly Ridge with his wife and four children.

Jason was a Republican.  In fact, he was running for a congressional seat as a Republican until he started raising waves on the sea of tranquility.   Jason decided that he didn’t want to be eating out of the same feedbag with people who “promote hate and division amongst people.”

Jason switched parties.  He became a Democrat and lo and behold, he’s a Democrat for the same reason we all are Democrats:  We not only love America, we love Americans.

He he goes —

These legislators, acting under the guise of the religious right and morality believe themselves to be the divine judge but according to the Bible, there is only one judge. They say they’re for a smaller government and individual rights while pushing legislation for more government intervention and regulation usurping our right to choose for ourselves. They take money away from the public school system so they can call it broken, only to give the money to their charter schools that are really private schools, just so our kids don’t go to the same school as theirs all the while giving some great speech trying to convince us it isn’t segregation. Right. But all along, they seemingly want you to believe that you have a choice – like ‘cake or death.’

He sounds like a bona fide down home Democrat to me!

Welcomes, Jason.  Take a seat – preferably in congress.

Honey, we Democrats are so lucky that we could sit on a fence and the birds would feed us.

There’s some PPP polling out this morning.

PPP’s newest national survey finds that in the wake of the shutdown, Republican voters now view Ted Cruz as their party’s leader. 21% picked Cruz to 17% for Chris Christie, and 15% for John Boehner. Cruz finished well ahead of the other GOP Senators we tested- Rand Paul got 9%, John McCain 7%, and Mitch McConnell only 4%. Mitt Romney at 8% and Sarah Palin at 4% were the other people we tested.

Numbers PPP will release next week show Ted Cruz would be an exceedingly weak Presidential candidate in the general election.

So this means the GOP has a real odd strategy to win back the White House.  I guess Karl Rove is still checking the results in Ohio and doesn’t have time to explain the math behind this theory to the GOP.