Bork Specter ~ keep the heat on!
Makes me feel better that the fight is still there. I'd given up because the knife in the back is too painful to move.
Odd headline, considering that "I'm quitting the GOP" is the favorite cry of the most vocal ones here. On average once a week per spammer...
Replacement of Santorum by a Third Party Candidate would make them all CRAP in their panties!! We need PRO AMERICAN, PRO CONSTITUTION, PRO LIFE CANDIDATES!!
The Republican leadership has been extremely stupid not to have worked behind the scenes to pacify Specter, throw him a bone, and give him another cushy job.
No, this won't go away. And it's virtually certain to have a negative effect in the next couple of elections. It may mean that Republicans in the Senate will drop instead of increasing in 2006.
I've never been one to vote for third-party candidates or to complain if I don't get everything I want. I understand that politicians have only so much political capital and have to spend it wisely. But this fight is absolutely crucial. It's the bottom line. Nothing is more important. We are in reach of turning our courts around. If they blow it, it will disillusion Christian conservative voters with the party for the next 10 or 20 years.
We can't stop them if they decide to go ahead with this. But they would be exceedingly stupid to do so. It will be virtually impossible for them to punish Specter for misbehavior once he has the job. But he will be in a very strong position to punish them, and I expect that he will.
I expected they would not expectorate spercter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1284025/posts
I'll say. They've started calling him Arlene.
Anyone who has been on this forum for any length of time knows that there is not any such thing as a Republican in the Senate. Those boys and girls are 100% RINOS. The House Managers were 100% tried and true Republicans and they were ridiculed and derided by those boys and girls in the Senate. Orrin Hatch must have been the person to which Dana Carvey modeled his church lady character.
Specter's going to get the chairmanship...there's no question. Will this frustrate a bunch of folks? You bet. Does anyone on Capitol Hill care? Nope. They're elected already.
Will this bloc of voters make a difference in 2006? Nope. The same RINOs will run again and get elected, because they'll win their primaries and nobody will want to vote for the Democrat.
And so it goes. The pro-life bloc just isn't big enough to get what they want. They're loud; they're noisy, but there just aren't enough people who have this as a one-issue cause to affect politics on that level in most states.
And if you think President Bush is going to press the issue, forget it. Remember, he endorsed Specter.
Rev. Mahoney speaks for me!!!!
Everything he utters in this article is exactly the way many Pro-Lifers are thinking. The Republicans run a risk each time they dismiss our urgent call to arms.
Of course Mahoney isn't quitting. There's more fundraising to be squeezed.
bttt
It isn't over until the fat woman sings.
I am witholding giving to the RNC etc. until they get rid of Specter. I would like them to drive him to Jeffordization.
It would be better to go ahead with 54 Senators than 54 plus one Quisling.
I am seriously considering starting a PAC for the sole purpose of fighting everyone that supports Specter in the next primary.
Something along the lines of:
"If you support this thing and he gets the chairmanship, if he even twitches your next primary opponent gets (X) million."
Well, when Specter balks or worse, his backers will still support him, if out of nothing other than pride.
If after OWNING the House and Senate and Presidency for the better part of 8 years the GOP doesn't kick some major @ss on behalf of conservatism, they will see massive apathy and defections from within the party...
As forSpecter, the GOP has already alienated more folks then they realize -- and I mean party organizers and soldiers.
Yes, bork Specter.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!