General, Why aren't you a Republican?

Skippy's favorite media whore, Daryn Kagan, was at it again today. From Media Matters:

On July 28, CNN anchor Daryn Kagan asked her guest, retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel Steve Brozak -- who is running for Congress in New Jersey and is scheduled to speak at the Democratic National Convention on July 28 -- why he, as "a former and a just recent retired Marine," is "not a Republican."

He told her:

Well, I was a Republican for twenty years, but unfortunately the party left me behind. The values that I held -- strong defense, balanced budgets, things that the Republican Party once espoused -- the Democratic Party has taken up the leadership position in.