From one "usual suspect" to another: I know you're pretty excited by this as indicated by the 3 wow's you posted, but he hasn't voted with the Democrats for so long, he was already a DINO. Let him become a Republican. His voting record won't change. (EDIT: sorry...UNT90 beat me to the punch in making this point) Apparently there are other conservatives not impressed by this at all...they see it as him pulling a "Specter": (pulled from CNN.com) Griffith won his seat in Alabama's 5th congressional district last year by 3 points over Republican Wayne Parker. But the district went for Republican John McCain over Barack Obama by 23 points in the presidential election. Griffith's decision won't necessarily protect him from a GOP challenge in his conservative district. Shortly after news of the congressman's decision broke, conservative activists called for a primary challenger to take on the newly-minted Republican. "Griffith was an extremely endangered Democrat," wrote RedState's Erick Erickson. "We should now hope him be an extremely endangered Republican in a primary. We will not fix the GOP's problems if we keep allowing people who are not one of us to suddenly switch the letter next to their name and magically become one of us."