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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
was specter ever really a conservative? I think not.
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I changed my mind. I'm going to address this more directly.
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Consider Specter’s most significant votes over the last eight years, ones cast in favor of such definitive right-wing measures as: the war on Iraq, the Military Commissions Act, Patriot Act renewal, confirmation of virtually every controversial Bush appointee, retroactive telecom immunity, warrantless eavesdropping expansions, and Bush tax cuts (several times). Time and again during the Bush era, Specter stood with Republicans on the most controversial and consequential issues.
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What Specter's switch says about him, the Democrats and our political spectrum - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
He absolutely, positively, without a reasonable doubt was a Republican. He was and probably still is a conservative, at least by the definition we all seem to use today. The idea that he was a liberal Republican has to come from an individual that's so far right that up is down (no offense, dk). He's maybe moderate, but when I use that term I'm using it relative to the rest of the Republicans in the House and Senate, which means that objectively he's a hard-line conservative Republican. I need to stop playing the relativistic games of right and left. There aren't really any lefties in power, just the moderates in the Democratic party and the hard-right wingers in the Republican party. He's of the latter.
The truly sad part is that the DSCC is going to back Specter over moderate or liberal candidates for the Senate in 2010. Instead of getting someone that actually belongs with those 58 other Democrats, we're getting a moderate Republican with a D next to his name.