Joe Piscopo is Leaving the Democrat Party

Written By : Cassy Fiano
August 16, 2014

Remember how Ronald Reagan famously proclaimed that he didn’t leave the Democrat Party — it left him? Well, actor and comedian Joe Piscopo is apparently following in Reagan’s footsteps, announcing that he’s left the party because it has simply become too extreme.

“I can’t continue to call myself a Democrat,” actor and comedian Joe Piscopo, a lifelong Democrat wrote in on op-ed in the Washington Times on Thursday.

Piscopo talks about his past, growing up admiring the Democrat Party’s prior principles under iconic leaders like John F. Kennedy, but says that the values he admired in the party, and proudly supported, are no longer represented.

Piscopo, who volunteers his time as spokesman for the Boys and Girls Clubs of New Jersey, said there isn’t one Democrat in Washington who cares about the plight of the poverty in large U.S. cities, and that the conditions in inner cities is worse than the conditions illegal aliens are fleeing, and the party that once stood for the little guy has been corrupted by “trial lawyers, lobbyists and George Soros.”

“In my home state, if I can walk the streets of Camden to try to help the disenfranchised, why can’t the Democrat in the White House walk the South Side of his hometown and do the same?

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“In my home state, if I can walk the streets of Camden to try to help the disenfranchised, why can’t the Democrat in the White House walk the South Side of his hometown and do the same?

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Barack Hussein Obama; pictured walking the streets of his hometown.