SPRINGFIELD,
Va. -- Former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, who defected to the
Republican Party earlier this year, appeared with Paul Ryan at a rally
here Friday.
Davis, who now lives in Virginia
and will be a featured speaker at the Republican Party convention later
this month, spoke before Ryan and focused partially on how he predicted
Democrats would oppose him throughout the campaign.
"One week ago our Democratic
friends believed that they were going to win an election based on fear
and they were going to scare our seniors about Medicare," Davis said.
"One week later, after Paul Ryan has been doing some truth-telling,
America knows that there's only one candidate for president who had a
plan to cut Medicare by $700 billion, and that is Barack Obama, the
president of the United States."
Davis was one of earliest Democrats to endorse then-Sen. Barack
Obama's candidacy for president during the presidential campaign in
2008, was a co-chair for Obama's campaign and spoke in his favor at the
2008 Democratic National Convention.Four years later, however, his positive words and endorsements go to Republicans.
"This man," Davis said, turning
to Ryan on the stage, "wrote a budget plan with tough, hard necessary
choices and put his name on it. I like that about him. Congressman
Ryan, my old friend, my vice president-to-be, let me tell you something
sir: For every stone they throw at you, we will build another stone to
lift you up."
After the event, Davis said he
wasn't sure how large of a role he would play in the Romney campaign,
but predicted that he would keep his efforts within Virginia.
"I'm going to do what I can to
help them, I don't have any illusion that's a whole lot, but I'm going
to do what I can to help him," he said. "Virginia's my home now, so I'm
happy to stay home."
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