Grayson Explains What It Means To Be A Democrat: ‘We Have A Conscience’

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Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) spoke to the Florida Democratic Party convention this past weekend, and was sure a hit with the party activists.

“I want to say a few words about what it means to be a Democrat,” said Grayson. “What it means to be a Democrat. It’s very simple: We have a conscience.”

“You know, scientists have studied for years this difficult question of why some people have a conscience, and some people don’t,” Grayson later explained. “Some people are called Democrats, and some people are called Republicans.”

Late Update: NRCC spokesman Andy Seré gives us this comment: “Some people are called serious-minded public servants, and other people are called self-obsessed creatures of the fringe who have no business representing 800,000 Central Floridians.”

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