The sheriff in my town sometimes runs as a Democrat, sometimes as a Republican.
Same guy each time.
Does that blow your mind or what?
In a non-partisan election...
Another Pogo the Paint Huffer prognostication that is just about as factual as any of the other complete shit you post....
It's kewl though Pogo, members with post counts under 5 might not yet be aware that you are a complete partisan fraud...
Oh it's absolutely true Pothead. I could post the guy's name but it would identify my town. But it's not like it's a rarity. And no, it's not a "nonpartisan election" -- the man has an R after his name some years, a D in others.
You want the answer, don't you? Clearly the OP can't figure it out.
Take Arlen Specter. Please. Came up in city-level politics, as a Democrat, because that's how you get elected in a city. Then switched to Republican and got elected Senator because that's how you get elected in a state described as "Philadelphia on one end, Pittsburgh on the other end and Alabama in between". Then later switched again to Democrat when he thought that's the way the wind was blowing. Or his colleague Frank Rizzo in the same city -- ran for mayor as a Democrat, in full support of Nixon, because again that's how you get elected in a city. Ray Nagin did the same thing years later in New Orleans. Or take Richard Shelby. Or Trent Lott. Or Jesse Helms. Started life as Democrats because that's how you got elected in the South, then switched to Republican because that's where the South was shifting.
They're all the same guys. There were not
three Arlen Specters. There were not two Frank Rizzos. There are not two Ray Nagins. There are not two Richard Shelbys or two Jesse Helmses or two Trent Lotts. They're all the same people taking different avenues at different times.
And in the same way there are not two guys succeeding himself as my town's sheriff. When he thinks the poitical winds favor Democrats, he's got a D after his name. When it's the other way around he wears an R. Not that there's anything particularly D or R about sheriffing (or running a city) anyway.
This is what you blanket generalization/false dichotomy wankers don't get. A political party label is just a means to an end. Nothing more. It's the horse you ride to where you're going. You ride the blue horse if it's more likely to win, you ride the red horse if
it's more likely. Whatever works in that time and place. It doesn't confer some kind of "character" or "personality trait" on the bearer. It's no different that the question of whether you drive from point A to point B in a Honda or in a Toyota.
You're the same person going to the same place either way. It's just a question of which vehicle is more likely to get you there. And this false dichotomy of "labels" is just there for simpletons like you and the OP who can't deal with a world of nuance where everything isn't painted red or blue, one or zero
DUH.
This is all sailing blithely over your head isn't it.
This is your fatal flaw in this fatal fallacy --- thinking that some political label imparts some kind of character to those upon whom you slap it. Then when that guy changes labels on his own --- your theory is fucked. This is the same bullshit as trying to pin the Klan on "Democrats" based on Byrd and Black, and then you get confronted with Jackson and Means and Stephenson and Brewster and Paulen and Morley and Duke.
At that point all you can do is go

and run away from the fact that your fallacy fell flat on its face.
Rump used to be a Democrat. Hillary used to be a Republican. They're all the same people.