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Arlen Specter (D)
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The Democrats will soon have 60 seats in the Senate. Is this the last or simply the latest nail in the GOP coffin? |
The timeline for Franken being seated just extended....
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He's doing it classy. He's not moving across the aisle now, but waiting till 2010 to actually run as a democrat. One of the reasons I despise Lieberman is that he switches allegiances at the drop of a hat, even though his constituents voted for him thinking he was running with a certain party.
I think that a 42-year Republican deciding that his party is wrong is pretty telling, really. |
I don't know, this seems like a load of bullshit. He has a pretty strong record of voting against Democratic interests. While I've liked him for his iconoclastic stances, he's as much DNC as I am RNC, which is a quarter of a toot in a uncrowded car.
Gay marriage, NCLB, DHS, TSA, let's see what he has to say. He's been a pretty dismal failure after making noise about being independent. Maybe he just figured out that Republican health care means splicing your spleen into dog food and leaving a trail. |
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IIRC, Specter is the oldest Republican senator. |
And Byrd was the oldest Dem senator. Representative of Dem views? No, not at all. I would have more faith in Specter if he had actaully VOTED a stand instead of spoken a stand over the years.
Sorry, Arlen, you sold out your ideals years ago. Even Orrin Hatch has stronger karisma. Me? Flip flop like a lacrosse girl's footwear? His vote on EFCA does not excuse him from his treachery. He wants to be on the winning team just like asshats like Daniel Inhouye wanted to be GOP when GOP was cool. It's bullshit. |
Here's an unconfirmed image of President Obama on the phone with Senator Specter welcoming him to the party:
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...og_PS-0056.jpg I thought it was interesting. |
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was specter ever really a conservative? I think not.
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Specter had to switch to get re-elected because there is a very conservative primary challenger who is beating him in the polls. I wonder if the Dem leadership promised him no primary if he switched? Seems logical that they would, doesn't it? He doesn't want to end up like Lieberman, losing a primary and then having to run as an independent. He'll be (I think) 82 y.o. at the next election.
The rest of his statement is just so much political blather. I can't blame him at all, and honestly I don't expect differently from any politician. He's looking out for number one. |
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He's a moderate conservative, basically. Arlen Specter on the Issues |
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Why doesn't he just retire at the end of his term?
The 2010 race is concerning already with all of the fiscal conservatives doing well (but hiding their moral conservatism). |
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off topic trivia: March 29, 1929, Hoover has a phone installed in the oval office. Hayes had a phone/switchboard installed during his presidency, but the nearest phone to the president was down the hall.
As for specter....I've seen 3 ads on tv now linking him to bush and how supported he was by the bush/cheney admin |
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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. |
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