Breaking
April 28th, 2009 - 10:16 am
Arlen Specter to make it official and switch parties?
Either Harry Reid offered him something juicy, or Specter developed a conscience. You make the call!
UPDATE: Conservative Southern Democrats must be scared witless by that filibuster-proof majority. Time to make some serious overtures down south.
Was he pushed, or was he shoved? The Republican party is looking better every day.
If he were an honorable man he would step down and run as a democrat in a special election instead of switching parties 1 1/2 years before his next election bid. What a SOB!!!
At first I was ROFL at this line, until I re-read it and realized that last word was conscience, not conscious.
Pat Toomey’s challenge is real, and Specter is tired of the GOP asking him for loyalty (in return for resources).
I think that Sen Specter saw the end of his political career in the polling data for the upcoming GOP primary. The duty of every politico is to keep himself in office, right LOL
Maybe he will take McCain with him
All Specter did was make it official. Good riddance.
Think he will convince the “girls” from Maine to tag along?
So, PA Democrats… Specter is still teh Debbil, right? I’m still going to overhear scathing and inflammatory remarks about him at the market, on the train, in the street and so on. He’s still a Neanderthal, right?
Party loyalty is bad for the country. It’s a big part of how Congress has come to be run by gerrymandering and seniority, instead of representing the people. I don’t blame Specter for his independence, or for switching parties. I blame him for his incoherent policy views.
If anyone thinks party loyalty is a laudable quality, they should look up what George Washington and John Adams had to say on the subject.
Nathan,
For an opposing view, they could look up what Thomas Jefferson had to say on the subject.