Arturo Davis, Obama campaign co chair in 2008,to "headline" at GOP convention..

[No Elephants]

Zell Miller, the 2012 version. :puke:

Artur Davis, who backed Obama in 2008, to speak at GOP convention

By David A. Fahrenthold, Published: August 16

This is Artur Davis’s job now, the work that he hopes will resurrect his political career. Wear a suit. Speak to strangers. Explain that what had been some of the most important causes of his life — a political party and a president — turned out to be mistakes.

“How many of us believed, four years ago, that Barack Obama was not just a politician?” Davis, a former four-term congressman, asked Mitt Romney supporters in Arlington County’s Ballston neighborhood on Wednesday. The Romney people said nothing, but Davis kept on: This was his story, not theirs.

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On Thursday, the Republican Party said he would be a “headliner” at its convention in Tampa, where he will be one of Obama’s most prominent African American critics.

In between those two big convention moments, Davis was bounced out of politics after a disastrous attempt to mimic the Obama playbook in a run to become governor of Alabama. After the loss, he abandoned the Democratic Party, saying it had drifted too far left.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/artur-davis-who-backed-obama-in-2008-to-speak-at-gop-convention/2012/08/16/0bb097f6-e759-11e1-8487-64e4b2a79ba8_story.html

Even WAPU referred to him as a "celebrity turncoat." He called himself a "converted sinner." He has not ruled out running for office again as a Republican.

Good luck with that. Southern Republicans sure love them some former Obama supporters.

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[rpannier]

1. THis is what happens when you cater to reich-wing, political, opportunistic hacks like Davis

They will turn on you the moment they see it as advantageous