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'Secret Democrat'? Artur Davis responds to charge

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    Former Democratic congressman on 'America Live'

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-- -- -- -- Yeah he was a Democrat now he's a Republican but congressman in in the wake -- view.

Turning Republican.

And you've got a lot of blowback including including from -- -- who comes on Fox News from time to time he's a democratic consultant he said quote I think this is to Politico.

It was just a few months ago he called me you called him.

To talk about running as a Democrat in Virginia he says you really are a secret Democrats.

And you're just playing the role of Republican to get speaking gigs like I don't know what the theory it sounds.

Like Moly -- renegade his name in the paper.

-- -- democratic consultant Virginia I -- remember I was a Democrat in 2011.

I called him in 2011.

August or September and ask him what he thought about Virginia politics is like -- of number of other people including Republican friends of -- like Tom Davis.

Moly -- given credit for candor he told me that the Virginia democratic parting was not a party that would be remotely sympathetic to my political views or beliefs.

And he told me and I'll be -- too conservative.

As -- Virginia Democrat and I think it was a candid assessment you know it -- it was part of an evolving sense that I have that the Democratic Party that exists today in Virginia and around the country.

Is essentially a liberal enterprise what I've always been a conservative Democrat and was attacked for -- the conservative Democrat the whole time most in congress and this is not the name.

The quick answer -- this but what what is -- something about Mitt Romney that has made you come here today or is it just simply you've got a Republican team -- -- I think Mitt Romney is going to be a very good president of this country he is someone who has a proven history of succeeding and everything he's done.

And he happens to be the most experienced executive to be nominated for the presidency is Dwight Eisenhower who would run they allied war effort and run a college.

That notion that someone who has a history of running things might actually be well poised to run a country.

It's an exotic notion to some on the left a lot of people here understand congressman thank you they.

There's a long history having folks who switched parties come SP was Zell Miller a few years ago and that we'll see whether Charlie Crist shows up with the democratic -- -- -- there -- cameras there I'm sure we will but they -- sir.

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