# Can we expect a high-profile "defector" at Dem Con? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 23, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-expect-a-high-profile-defector-at-dem-con/760646 "2016-07-23T01:44:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-expect-a-high-profile-defector-at-dem-con/760646/41 "2016-07-27T12:42:04Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I think you’ve confused him with his father. George, okay. Milt? No way. Why would Mitt endorse a party that went out of its way to tell the rest of the country that Mitt is “not one of us”? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-expect-a-high-profile-defector-at-dem-con/760646/42 "2016-07-27T14:58:43Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I’d like to see Romney appear. I actually have a lot of respect for the man. He has values and stands by them honestly. I may disagree with him on many issues but there’s a lot to be said for taking a stand and staying there. You’re the second person to post this. I wonder why? AS I recall it, he had no values whatsoever that withstood a 24 hour news cycle. He would take a policy stance and change it on a dime. Not only that, he would deny he ever held some other opinion. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-expect-a-high-profile-defector-at-dem-con/760646/43 "2016-07-27T17:28:52Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Hardly. Democrats _ **loathe** _ Cruz. “If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in House of Commons.” - Winston Churchill, on Stalin. Come on, it would be great if Cruz did it. And they’d cheer. But really JohnT answered the question; George H.W. Bush would hand the election to Hillary Clinton if he spoke at the DNC endorsing her. Game, set and match. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-expect-a-high-profile-defector-at-dem-con/760646/44 "2016-07-27T17:51:16Z")
Completely bizarre that the biggest “defector” to impact the DNC may very well be Donald J. Trump. 😉 Bunch of speechwriters earning their pay right this moment. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-expect-a-high-profile-defector-at-dem-con/760646/45 "2016-07-27T17:53:55Z")
I’d like to see Pence burst into the convention seeking political asylum. He’s gotta wonder what he was thinking in agreeing to run with a sociopath. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-expect-a-high-profile-defector-at-dem-con/760646/46 "2016-07-27T17:56:20Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I’d like to see Pence burst into the convention seeking political asylum. He’s gotta wonder what he was thinking in agreeing to run with a sociopath. Pence is just going to have to start repeating: “Mr. Trump did not actually mean those words he spoke” and “I fundamentally disagree with everything that Mr. Trump has said.” ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-expect-a-high-profile-defector-at-dem-con/760646/47 "2016-07-27T18:52:58Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I’d like to see Pence burst into the convention seeking political asylum. He’s gotta wonder what he was thinking in agreeing to run with a sociopath. “Maybe I’ll get to be President.” The simplest reason is probably true: Pence is a craven pile of dung. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-expect-a-high-profile-defector-at-dem-con/760646/48 "2016-07-27T19:25:51Z")
Has anybody seen when Bloomberg is scheduled to speak? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-expect-a-high-profile-defector-at-dem-con/760646/49 "2016-07-31T00:58:35Z")
So… no. No defectors of any note. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-expect-a-high-profile-defector-at-dem-con/760646/50 "2016-07-31T02:58:04Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > So… no. No defectors of any note. True, setting aside Bloomberg. As noted upthread former Reagan aide Doug Elmets and director of health policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Jennifer Pierotti Lim were the two [Republicans](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RepublicansForHillary&src=tyah) for [Clinton](http://r4c16.org/2016/07/20/republican-leaders-standing-against-trump/). Transcript of Elmets speech, FWIW: [WTF?! What the Folly?!](https://www.whatthefolly.com/2016/07/29/transcript-doug-elmetss-speech-at-the-dnc/) Transcript of Lim’s speech: [WTF?! What the Folly?!](http://www.whatthefolly.com/2016/07/29/transcript-jennifer-pierotti-lims-speech-at-the-dnc/) You Tube of Lim’s speech: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEpzyJbyris](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEpzyJbyris) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-expect-a-high-profile-defector-at-dem-con/760646.md?page=2)