President Reagan proved that former democrats make the BEST Republicans!
So suck it Steve. We don't take orders from morgul rats.
(The person who gets that reference gets a Hi5. Pretty easy.)
The big guy's old enough to remember U.S. Senator Edward Zorinsky, one of the most worthless senators ever to come out of Nebraska, even though while in office (1977-1986; he died) he made current U.S. Senator Ben Nelson look like a flaming liberal.
Ed was mayor of Omaha, and a big (R). In 1976, a Senate seat opened up, and he wanted to run for it.
However, people wiser and smarter than him decided it'd be better to have another candidate, the then-current congressman from Omaha, John McCollister, a great guy; a nice guy, one of the nicest guys one can ever hope to meet.
So Ed changed parties, becoming a big (D), and ran for the Senate as a (D).
Ed won narrowly, because Nebraskans admire "independence," and the Republican party in Nebraska was still suffering the after-effects of Watergate.
Ed was a sour bitter old grouch. He'd bite fingers off of infants, if he could get away with it.
But as I said, even though a (D), he mostly voted (R) in the Senate.