He Wasn't Getting His

Greg Sargent picks up probably the tip point point for Parker Griffith finally officially made himself a Republican today.
But here’s a funny nugget buried in Politico’s report. It appears one reason he switched is that he was upset that the President took away his missile defense pork:

The Obama administration’s decision to scrap plans to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe further frustrated Griffith, according to GOP sources, because his district contains the base for Boeing’s ground-based missile defense research.
Angry that the administration made a clearly good foreign policy move that he didn't want happened helped in the ire of him to make the decision he made today.

May he have fun with that primary he is going to be facing.

Hilarious that the party he is joining now ran tough ads on him in the past. And they were pretty hard:


And here too:

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