Repub Arlen Specter to Switch to Dem

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Washington Post
By Chris Cillizza
April 28, 2009


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<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today that he will run in 2010 as a Democrat</span>, according to a statement he released this morning.

<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Specter's decision would give Democrats a 60 seat filibuster proof majority in the Senate assuming Democrat Al Franken is eventually sworn in as the next Senator from Minnesota.</span> (Former Sen. Norm Coleman is appealing Franken's victory in the state Supreme Court.)

"I have decided to run for re-election in 2010 in the Democratic primary," said Specter in a statement. "I am ready, willing and anxious to take on all comers and have my candidacy for re-election determined in a general election."

He added: <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">"Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right.</span> Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans."

Specter as a Democrat would also fundamentally alter the 2010 calculus in Pennsylvania as he was expected to face a difficult primary challenge next year from former Rep. Pat Toomey. The only announced Democrat in the race is former National Constitution Center head Joe Torsella although several other candidates are looking at the race.

The precariousness of Specter's political position -- a Republican in a Democratic-leaning state -- was on display earlier this year when he was one of three GOP Senators to back President Barack Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus plan. That vote was strongly condemned by conservative Republicans and Toomey used that vote as the launching pad for his candidacy.

Because of the shrinking Republican vote in the state, Specter was seen as a dead man walking politically in the primary with polling showing him trailing Toomey by ten or more points. The bar for Specter to run as an independent was also extremely high due to the rules governing such a third party candidacy.

That left a Democratic candidacy as Specter's best option if he wanted to remain in the Senate beyond 2010.

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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/specter-to-switch-parties.html

 

[QueEx]

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Yo T.O.,

Here's another would-be "conservative democrat" . . . LOL . . . so you can say Conservative Democrats Ain’t Listening, Vote Them Out!

 

[QueEx]

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If Specter actually switches and, perhaps Olympia Snow of Maine, you have to ask yourself:</font size>


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Has the Republican Party moved so far to the right until,
in some parts of the country,
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[muckraker10021]

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If Specter actually switches and, perhaps Olympia Snow of Maine, you have to ask yourself:</font size>


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Has the Republican Party moved so far to the right until,
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The RepubliKlan Party Is:

• Unapologetically Racist
• Homophobic
• Anti-Sex Education
• Anti- Immigrant
• Anti- Minimum Wage
• Anti-Abortion Rights
• Anti-Consumer Protection (pro-tort reform)
• Anti-Social Security Insurance
• Anti- Environmental Conservation Laws
• Anti-Progressive Taxation
• Anti-Banning the Death Penalty
• Anti-Feminism
• Anti-Affirmative Action
• Anti-Small Business Administration
• Anti-Substantially Increasing Foreign Aid
• Anti-Government Student College Tuition Grants
• Anti-ANY!! Gun Control
• Anti-ANY!! Universal Health Care for All US Citizens
• Anti- Non-Christian Religion Tolerance<br>

Do the RepubliKlan

<br>Party Policies embrace FASCISM????
They tell their knuckle-dragging, non reality-based, anti-intellectual, “the earth is only 6,000 years old”, <s>FOX</s> FAKE News watching, sycophants that OBAMA is a fascist . Do RepubliKlan policies embrace FASCISM??? OF COURSE THEY DO!!!! </font>

 

[Lamarr]

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Yo T.O.,

Here's another would-be "conservative democrat" . . . LOL . . . so you can say Conservative Democrats Ain’t Listening, Vote Them Out!

Newsflash - Spector was never Conservative, just another Socialist POS marching towards Global Govt.

 

[Bain316]

LOL... Game changer! Conservs you mad!!!

 

[Lamarr]

LOL... Game changer! Conservs you mad!!!

Not really mad because he been voting with Bush & the Dems all along

 

[keysersoze]

no shock here.

 

[thoughtone]

Newsflash - Spector was never Conservative, just another Socialist POS marching towards Global Govt.

He's freed himself from the Nazi wing of the GOP.

 

[Lamarr]

He's freed himself from the Nazi wing of the GOP.

Can the Dems take McCaint & Olympia Snow too?

 

[VegasGuy]

Can the Dems take McCaint & Olympia Snow too?

Sure we'll take them. What is clear is that if any persons is about the people there is no room for them in your ranks. So we'll take them if whey want to come over.

You see we really do have a big tent. Not that rhetoric bullshit republicans and the Terror network tried to sell to the people.

What was the stat of this survey, only 17 percent of the people polled identified themselves as republican? The republican party is a rudderless band of hate filled, nazi sympathizers. And people are figuring it out.

@muckraker10021
That was deep bruh.

-VG

 

[thoughtone]

Can the Dems take McCaint & Olympia Snow too?

Sure, I'm all for making the GOP as trivial as possible.

Oh, and you forgot Susan Collins, which will mean no republican senators and very few congressman in the Northeast. Whether you understand it or not, the 2010 elections will give the democrats maybe 2 more senators, which would be about 62 senators.

 

[Lamarr]

Sure we'll take them. What is clear is that if any persons is about the people there is no room for them in your ranks. So we'll take them if whey want to come over.

Get real, they aint doin nothin for the people other than makin new laws and elevating the 'Police State'. They still listenin to your phone calls and reading your emails bruh!

Not that rhetoric bullshit republicans and the Terror network tried to sell to the people.

The Terror Network? I'm reminded of Rahm "Never let a good crisis go to waste" Emmanual Do you realize we had 13,000 cases of Tuberculosis last year? Now, that is serious! But suddenly the nation is on pins and needles because a couple hundred muhfuckaz got sick in Mexico? Recognize the propaganda, this whole swine flu scare is all about making a case for "Global Govt"

What was the stat of this survey, only 17 percent of the people polled identified themselves as republican? The republican party is a rudderless band of hate filled, nazi sympathizers. And people are figuring it out.

I'll identify with Conservatives but not Repubs. Let them end the Wars and drastically reduce spending, I'm all in!

I really don't understand the followers of Dems: The very people and policies you voted against in 08, you have now become

Funny how some inject the term Nazi into their arguments:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels - Hitler's Minister of Propanganda

 

[thoughtone]

Get real, they aint doin nothin for the people other than makin new laws and elevating the 'Police State'. They still listenin to your phone calls and reading your emails bruh!




The Terror Network? I'm reminded of Rahm "Never let a good crisis go to waste" Emmanual Do you realize we had 13,000 cases of Tuberculosis last year? Now, that is serious! But suddenly the nation is on pins and needles because a couple hundred muhfuckaz got sick in Mexico? Recognize the propaganda, this whole swine flu scare is all about making a case for "Global Govt"




I'll identify with Conservatives but not Repubs. Let them end the Wars and drastically reduce spending, I'm all in!

I really don't understand the followers of Dems: The very people and policies you voted against in 08, you have now become

Funny how some inject the term Nazi into their arguments:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels - Hitler's Minister of Propanganda

Funny how some inject the term socialism into their arguments.

source: White Rose Society

Here is a comparison of the Bush Administrations actions and actions taken by the Germans in the 1930s.
It is very worrysome for sure!

2000 Mobs of young men dressed in identical shirts shouting outside a voting center in Florida to intimidate people to stop a recount.
1930s Mobs of men dressed in identical shirts (brown shirts) stood near voting stations shouting and intimidating people.

2003 Mobs of young republicans are organized by the National Party to make bonfires and burn CD's produced by the Dixie Chicks
1930s Mobs of Brown shirts and Hitler Youth are organized by the Nazi Party to make bonfires and burn books written by those they disagreed with.

2000s Members of the Young republicans are shaming academics for saying something they disagreed about.
1930s Members of the Nazi Party would shame academics for saying something they disagreed about.

2000s The FBI being told to stop peace activists flying or boarding aircraft on orders of the White House.
1930s The German authorities were instructed to stop peace activists and other “trouble makers” at airports.

2003 When the U.S. invaded Iraq V.P. Cheney asserted we would be “greeted as liberators”.
1930s When the Nazi's invaded the Rhineland, Nazi propaganda asserted that they would be “greeted as liberators”

2000s Bush Administration using phrases such as “hiding in spider-holes”
1930's Nazi's would find their enemies “hiding in their spider-holes”

2000s The Bush administration increased security restrictions at airports. Airport security guards were forcing passengers to drink their own breast milk. Others to drink baby formula in front of all the other passengers
1930s One of Mussolini's intimidation tactics was to force citizens to drink body fluids and emetics in public. The Nazi's followed suit with breast milk and urine in front of the other passengers.

2002 Bush created the “Department of Homeland Security” White house spokespeople started referring to the United States as the “homeland” for the first time in history instead of the nation or republic.
1930s Nazi propagandists started to refer to Germany not as the Nation or Republic but rather “Der Heimat” - “the homeland” Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess Formed a “Department of Homeland Security”

2001 USA Patriot Act let federal officials compel doctors to hand over confidential medical records without a warrant showing probable cause.
1930s German doctors were required to disclose citizens previously private medical records to the state.

2005 Guantanamo prisoners reported seeing the Koran being flushed down toilets.
1938 the Gestapo forced Jews to scrub out toilets with their sacred phylacteries, the tfillin.

2004 Amnesty International reports US interrogators tormented prisoners by playing heavy metal at top volume day and night.
1930s 1938 the Gestapo interrogators tormented prisoners by playing music on the radio at top volume day and night.
2004 Iraqi human rights group complained that in 2004 the US forces seized the innocent wives of suspected insurgents and held the women hostage to pressure their husbands to turn themselves in.
1930s In Stalinist Russia, the secret police seized the innocent wives of suspected dissidents and held the women hostage to pressure their husbands to turn themselves in.

2001 After 9/11 National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and V.P. Cheney coined a new phrase: America was now on a permanent “war footing” but we were not actually at war.
1930s Nazi leaders said after the Reichstag fire that Germany was now on a “war footing” but were not actually at war. But would remain pertinently on a “war footing”

2003 The Bush White House “embedded” reporters with U.S. Military units in Iraq. Uncritical coverage of the war expanded considerably.
1930s Nazi propaganda officials embedded reporters and camera crews with their armed forces. U.S reporters drove with German units into France.

2003 The Bush administration unloads coffins of dead American soldiers from planes at night and has forbidden photographs being taken of them.
1930s The Nazi's unloaded the coffins of German military dead only at night and no photographs were allowed.

2001 Paid informants having received hundreds of thousands of dollars found a “sleeper cell” in Lodi, California. The two men explained later that they had confessed to the imaginary “sleeper cell” to end the terrifying series of interrogations.
1930s Stalin invented “Sleeper cells” and had paid informants find them among the general public. Stalin said that the US Government was planting the sleepers so that one day they could all rise up and create mayhem

2005 “Sleeper cell” was a term most Americans were unfamiliar with until a TV movie in 2005
1930s Stalins “sleeper cells” Made sure the general population were alerted to the threat, made everyone suspicious, of everyone.

2006 a terrorist plot against US bound planes uncovered in London gave the world a much quoted sound bite “ If this had actually happened the world would have stood still”
1930s After Hitler had set up his plan for world domination said that if everything happens as planned “the world will stand and hold it's breath”

2006 At first the only people held at Guantanamo Cuba were brown skinned foreigners, in October 2006 that changed and white English speaking prisoners began to appear. They had been charged with treason, espionage, subversion and aiding the enemy
1930s At first the Germans arrested only the Communists and criminals and enemies of the state and placed them in concentration camps. But is was not long before he turned his attention to a group long held as potential spy's and subversives the Jews.

2007 The White House by May 2007 had started to criminalize free speech in new ways. Journalists have been arrested and released after a warning, editors are being treated the same way.
1930s Germany started to crack down on anyone who did not agree with the Nazi philosophy. Journalists were arrested and released after a warning, editors were treated the same way. Anyone criticizing the Nazi party or any official of the party was subject to arrest, torture, and trial not in a German court but by tribunal outside the normal judicial system

 

[Lamarr]

Nazi = National Socialist

Nazi = "W's" policies

Nazi = current policies, just callin it the way I see it

 

[thoughtone]

Nazi = National Socialist

Nazi = "W's" policies

Nazi = current policies, just callin it the way I see it

Nazi = Corporatists

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[actinanass]

Hell, Arlen Specter was a vote away from being a democrat anyway. I'm very indifferent about this situation because this is something I expected. However, Arlen needs to understand that democrats will turn against him FASTER than any republican would. You can disagree with a republican about 20 percent *like I do* of their issues, and republicans would back him on the most part. When you disagree with democrats on ANY issue, you are to be discarded.

There's two things that would get republicans against you. Taxes, and spending...

 

[Lamarr]

Nazi = Corporatists

It's nothin wrong with corporations, however, when they work in tandem with the govt, issues like we see today, should be no surprise!

 

[thoughtone]

It's nothin wrong with corporations, however, when they work in tandem with the govt, issues like we see today, should be no surprise!

...Right Wing/Conservative govt issues like we have seen since trickle down/Voodoo/supply side economics...

 

[Makkonnen]

Yall are tripping. His career might be over anyway unless he veers left fast. He won't have any dem support worth shit if he votes the way he says he will. Sestak would run against him too in the primary. Thats former admiral and current congressman Joe Sestak. He asked the Democratic Party about running for his current seat and they asked him not to
And now they do this shit when he was gonna run for senate. Dude is pissed.
Senior Dem Senators have also said they will NOT give him the seniority Harry Reid agreed to when it comes to a vote next year.

Arlen's days are numbered unless he acts like a dem and Im not talking the bluedog bitch type either.

 

[Lamarr]

...Right Wing/Conservative govt issues like we have seen since trickle down/Voodoo/supply side economics...

I must ask because I simply don't understand your unhappiness of trickle-down economics. Isn't it all trickle-down, regardless of who is Pres, since the currency is coming from the same place (The Federal Reserve)?

The issues I was refering to is when govt intervenes to reduce or eliminate the risk taken by a company in the private sector ie. Fannie Mae, GM, AIG. My point is: we must allow capitalism to work and allow companies to fail. If you keep rewarding failure, you will continue to get more of the same results. (AIG, I rest my case)

 

[thoughtone]

I must ask because I simply don't understand your unhappiness of trickle-down economics. Isn't it all trickle-down, regardless of who is Pres, since the currency is coming from the same place (The Federal Reserve)?

It's trickle up fool! Without demand you have no economy. There is no shortage of goods today, there is a shortage buyers. Thomas Edison inventoried the Electronic voting machine for congress. A brilliant invention except for one thing. Congressmen want to pontificate rather than vote efficiently so no demand and no market. And if the consumer doesn’t have the money, no goods can be sold, Henry Ford paid his employees more than others so they would buy his product, thus insuring a willing market for his product. Today the markets are tilted toward the suppliers. Good paying jobs are being sent overseas to advantage the manufactures. Guess what, the manufactures are now having less and less consumers with available disposable incomes to buy their products. Economics 101!

The issues I was refering to is when govt intervenes to reduce or eliminate the risk taken by a company in the private sector ie. Fannie Mae, GM, AIG. My point is: we must allow capitalism to work and allow companies to fail. If you keep rewarding failure, you will continue to get more of the same results. (AIG, I rest my case)

I don’t disagree. The issue is that is the economy here to serve the society or is the society here to serve the economy? Rewarding failure is not an option. And as Obama stated the other day, we must make this rather than push paper around to make money.

 

[Lamarr]

Without demand you have no economy. There is no shortage of goods today, there is a shortage buyers.

That only tells me the prices of goods and services needs to come down, which is what is happening, but the govt doesn't like deflation. The govt wants inflation because it makes its debts easier to pay.

Today the markets are tilted toward the suppliers.

You must ask yourself Why! My opinion, obscene govt contracts with the corporations allow the private sector to keep prices high without caring about the little guy like me or anyone else on this board. Whether it's Energy, Education, Pharma, Agriculture etc: I guarantee, if you take govt intervention out of these areas, health care costs would go down, as well as food, tuition etc. Thats why I argue for smaller govt!

Good paying jobs are being sent overseas to advantage the manufactures.

Once again, Why? High taxes, govt regulation, not to mention that govt incentivizes corporations to outsource. Trade agreements like NAFTA don't help much, and no one seems to want to do anything about it.

 

[thoughtone]

That only tells me the prices of goods and services needs to come down, which is what is happening, but the govt doesn't like deflation. The govt wants inflation because it makes its debts easier to pay.



You must ask yourself Why! My opinion, obscene govt contracts with the corporations allow the private sector to keep prices high without caring about the little guy like me or anyone else on this board. Whether it's Energy, Education, Pharma, Agriculture etc: I guarantee, if you take govt intervention out of these areas, health care costs would go down, as well as food, tuition etc. Thats why I argue for smaller govt!



Once again, Why? High taxes, govt regulation, not to mention that govt incentivizes corporations to outsource. Trade agreements like NAFTA don't help much, and no one seems to want to do anything about it.

Regulation is good. Swine flu did not originate in the US, we have good regulation. It originated in Mexico where companies own the poor and buy off the government. Companies don't like regulation. They want to make money regardless. If a company cannot make a good product with a good profit and supply their workers with a safe work environment, a good living wage and not fuck up the environment irreparable, they shouldn’t be in business. GET IT!

 

[Lamarr]

Regulation is good.

The "right" regulation is good.

Companies don't like regulation. They want to make money regardless. If a company cannot make a good product with a good profit and supply their workers with a safe work environment, a good living wage and not fuck up the environment irreparable, they shouldn’t be in business. GET IT!

What you need to know is: every action has a reaction! The harder it is to do business here, the more incentive a company has to relocate overseas. One could make a case and say that regulation is the reason all these companies are offshoring operations! Do you think India or China are worrying about "Global Warming"? No, they are too busy manufacturing! Enviromental regulation, along with other govt action, is what has killed the Auto industry.

 

[keysersoze]

Enviromental regulation, along with other govt action, is what has killed the Auto industry.

You spew more and more political catch term cliches in every post... I've ignored most of them but I will chime in now to address this 1 false point you use to discredit regulation.

What killed the Auto industry was bad business. Their demand changed but they did not adjust to demand for more durable cars with low gas consumption. Regulation had just as much effect on the Japanese cars yet they have thrived in the US market.

According your logic, then the Japanese car makers should have avoided the US market and been "killed" by having to conform to our regulations.

I live in PA... Specter is not going to lose the next re-election. PA is slowly becoming more and more democratic - that's why he switched parties because all the Repubs here are scared of the potential unleashed by the Obama campaign in getting out the Democratic vote.

 

[thoughtone]

The "right" regulation is good.

Duh! But to business, any regulation is bad. Again is the economy here to serve society or is society here to serve the economy. Making money without responsibilities is what dope dealers do.

What you need to know is: every action has a reaction! The harder it is to do business here, the more incentive a company has to relocate overseas. One could make a case and say that regulation is the reason all these companies are offshoring operations! Do you think India or China are worrying about "Global Warming"? No, they are too busy manufacturing! Enviromental regulation, along with other govt action, is what has killed the Auto industry.

In light of the recent Chinese food and product taintings, the way the cities crumble when an earthquake hits and the political and religious suppressions, do you want to be China or India? There goes you lacks regulation.

 

[Lamarr]

In light of the recent Chinese food and product taintings, the way the cities crumble when an earthquake hits and the political and religious suppressions, do you want to be China or India? There goes you lacks regulation.

Question: Why is no one demanding a halt to our dependence on Chinese goods?

Observation: The weakness of their infrastructure is not a result of lax regulation! They're too busy loaning us money to address their infrastructure needs. When they quit loaning the US money, they will not only invest in their infrastructure, but their standards of living will rise. Our standard of living is falling, and will continue to fall until we become self-sufficient again. That means we grow our own food, make our own clothes, drill for oil in our territories and invest in the American worker

 

[QueEx]

The Terror Network? I'm reminded of Rahm "Never let a good crisis go to waste" Emmanual Do you realize we had 13,000 cases of Tuberculosis last year? Now, that is serious! But suddenly the nation is on pins and needles because a couple hundred muhfuckaz got sick in Mexico? Recognize the propaganda, this whole swine flu scare is all about making a case for "Global Govt"

And I swear the only alphabets in some people's language is G, L, O, B, V, T, N, R, E, W and D. Hence, the only english words they tend to spell are: Global Govt, and New World Order, and One World Govt.

How about adding the letters P, A and I to your alphabets; so that you can add the word "paranoid" to your vocabulary.

QueEx

 

[thoughtone]

Question: Why is no one demanding a halt to our dependence on Chinese goods?

Observation: The weakness of their infrastructure is not a result of lax regulation! They're too busy loaning us money to address their infrastructure needs. When they quit loaning the US money, they will not only invest in their infrastructure, but their standards of living will rise. Our standard of living is falling, and will continue to fall until we become self-sufficient again. That means we grow our own food, make our own clothes, drill for oil in our territories and invest in the American worker

You argue the obvious. People have bought into what's good for the top 5% of wealth holders is good for the rest of us. This no different than what futile societies teach.

 

[thoughtone]

Spector knows which side his bread is buttered. Pennsylvania needs to elect a more liberal senator.

source: Huffington Post

Specter Can Read A Poll: Democrat Trounces Toomey In Latest Survey

Arlen Specter freely acknowledges that his switch from Republican to Democrat was driven by politics as much as principles. "I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate," he declared upon his defection. "I have not represented the Republican Party."

Now there's proof that the man can read a poll. The primary opponent that Specter was set to lose to as a Republican has become a general election opponent that Specter now trounces.

According to a Quinnipiac poll released on Monday, the Pennsylvania Democrat would beat the man who nearly knocked him off in the 2004 primary, Pat Toomey, by a margin of 53 percent to 33 percent.

Having just crossed the aisle, Specter nevertheless does not suffer from skepticism among Democrats, who prefer him to Toomey by a margin of 85 percent to four percent (Specter gets independent voters, too, by a margin of 45 to 36 percent).

In fact, 81 percent of Pennsylvania Democrats already approve of the job Specter is doing -- despite the fact that he remains a staunch opponent of two key progressive agenda items: the Employee Free Choice Act and a public plan for health care coverage. Of the former, Quinnipiac reports the following finding: "Because Specter opposes the pro-union Employee Free Choice Act, 23 percent of voters are less likely to vote for him, while 14 percent are more likely and 60 percent say this will not affect their vote. There is little difference from the overall totals among union households."

The poll did not survey how potential Democratic primary candidate Rep. Joe Sestak would fair in a primary against Specter. It did, however, run the tabs for the possibility of former Gov. Tom Ridge running as a Republican. And, if that ends up being the case, Specter's electoral standing is far more precarious: 46 percent of voters would back the recently-minted Democrat, Quinnipiac finds, compared to 43 percent for the former Department of Homeland Security header.

"Gov. Tom Ridge is probably the only political figure in Pennsylvania who could give Sen. Arlen Specter a run for his money," said Clay F. Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "But even if he gets a strong challenge from a Republican, Specter is still better off for having changed parties because he seemed headed to certain defeat had he stayed a Republican and faced Toomey in a primary."

 

[Lamarr]

I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate,[/B]" he declared upon his defection. "I have not represented the Republican Party."

No principles whatsoever, his loyalties are only to his next campaign. I don't think you want to revisit the term-limits thread with this one huh?

 

[thoughtone]

No principles whatsoever, his loyalties are only to his next campaign. I don't think you want to revisit the term-limits thread with this one huh?

You can but if the people of PA don't want him, he'll be gone.

 

[QueEx]

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Does anybody know why I just heard Specter say, "Oh shit "

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QueEx

 

[AristotlesOwn]

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Does anybody know why I just heard Specter say, "Oh shit "

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QueEx

Probably because of Joe Sestak's decision to challenge him.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2009/05/report_sestak_close_to_challen.html