Two Calif. congressional candidates leave GOP

[Newsjock]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks, who is running in a crowded race for an open congressional seat, on Wednesday switched her registration from Republican to "decline to state."

The move will allow Parks, a political moderate, to be described as having no party preference on the June 5 primary ballot.

... Earlier this week former GOP Assemblyman Anthony Adams got into the race for a new Inland Empire congressional seat--also as a candidate unaffiliated with any political party.

Adams decided not to seek reelection to the Legislature two years ago after facing an unsuccessful attempt to recall him from office because he voted for temporary tax increases in 2009 to help ease the state's budget crisis.

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/republicans-drop-party-in-congressional-races.html

[bluestate10]

1. It baffles me.

Why sane republicans are staying in the modern republican party. The party that sane republicans knew is stone cold dead. The current crowd would burn Ronald Reagan in effigy if Reagan ran today.

[gulliver]

2. They need to stay good and outed as Republicans

People need to know that the only way to be sure they aren't voting for a Republican is to vote for someone they know for sure is a Democrat. We can't let Republicans hide their past and fool people into electing them. Once the Republican Party regains something verging on sanity, maybe this can change. But for now, if you don't want crazy, you have to vote for known Democrats only.