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Specter farewell speech slams GOP 'cannibalism' (Adios RINO Rat!)
msnbc ^ | 12/21/2010 | By ANDREW MIGA

Posted on 12/21/2010 3:44:03 PM PST by tobyhill

Departing Republican-turned-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter on Tuesday said conservative Republicans who backed Tea Party challengers against establishment candidates in the recent elections engaged in political cannibalism.

In his final floor speech, Specter complained there's scant room for centrists like himself in a polarized Senate where civility is in short supply.

"In some quarters, compromise has become a dirty word," said Pennsylvania's longest-serving senator, who lost his re-election bid after three decades in the Senate.

Specter complained that some GOP senators had helped Tea Party challengers beat incumbent Republicans like Utah Sen. Bob Bennett and Rep. Mike Castle in his Delaware Senate primary.

"Eating or defeating your own is a form of sophisticated cannibalism," he said.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 111th; rino; scf; senate; specter; sphincter; theend
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To: tobyhill

FUAS!


21 posted on 12/21/2010 3:55:44 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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To: tobyhill

I hope the door hits him in the ass on the way out!

A traitor for personal gain gets respect from no one. He’s a laughing stock and I hope one day he realizes it.


22 posted on 12/21/2010 3:57:05 PM PST by Iowamerican
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To: tobyhill
Breaking News: On May 18, 2010, Specter was defeated in the Democrat primary by Joe “Cannibal” Sestak.
23 posted on 12/21/2010 3:58:56 PM PST by SwinneySwitch (Nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: tobyhill
Departing Republican-turned-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter on Tuesday said conservative Republicans who backed Tea Party challengers against establishment candidates in the recent elections engaged in political cannibalism.

Arlen Specter, dealing the final blow to "give a shit" attitude.

24 posted on 12/21/2010 4:00:13 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: tobyhill

We’ll stop eating only when RINOs become an endangered or extinct species. Until then, I’ll take my steak rare.


25 posted on 12/21/2010 4:00:27 PM PST by behzinlea
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To: tobyhill
Does this mean that awful lame-o duck Congress is finally over??
26 posted on 12/21/2010 4:01:53 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: tobyhill

I’m so glad that imbicile is going away. What a motard!


27 posted on 12/21/2010 4:02:41 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: tobyhill

OK - Whatever - get the flock out.


28 posted on 12/21/2010 4:04:39 PM PST by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: tobyhill
Hey chameleon-boy....

Don't let the door hit ya.....!!!

29 posted on 12/21/2010 4:05:08 PM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The main things are the plain things!)
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To: tobyhill
Specter complained there's scant room for centrists like himself in a polarized Senate where civility is in short supply.

Centrist = spineless

"In some quarters, compromise has become a dirty word,"

Compromise? Try caving in to the liberals. You can't "compromise" with people trying to destroy the country.

"Eating or defeating your own is a form of sophisticated cannibalism," he said.

You're a RAT Senator so it's not cannibalism, it's getting rid of a disgusting nuisance.

30 posted on 12/21/2010 4:09:49 PM PST by Reagan is King
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To: tobyhill
Specter complained that some GOP senators had helped Tea Party challengers beat incumbent Republicans like Utah Sen. Bob Bennett

I'm one of the proud Utahns that helped run Bennett. Specter doesn't have the nuts to complain about the people and express his full contempt for the people, so he's just going to talk nebulously about the Tea Party and "some GOP senators".

Funny how such a brazen skunk who's screwed the people to their faces for the last 30 years is leaving with his head down, rambling vaguely about grassroots movements (the Tea Party is one of the very very very few, unlike the DemonRat "grassroots" movements that are funded directly by the DNC and run by one of its favored cronies). Specter's future is go home, go on a long bender, and lament about how his ironclad scam came apart so quickly at the end.

Mr. Specter, I'm your boss, here's your formal job evaluation: you suck!!! Hit the road, Jack. I hope you're so pissed off you can't see straight.

31 posted on 12/21/2010 4:10:21 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: tobyhill
“Eating or defeating your own is a form of sophisticated cannibalism,” he said.

Oh really?

What an screwball comment that was.

Thank you. Goodbye.

32 posted on 12/21/2010 4:13:45 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Stupid Obama still lacks the experience needed to be President.)
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To: elkfersupper

beat me to it.


33 posted on 12/21/2010 4:19:03 PM PST by tgusa (Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
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To: tobyhill

Ooh, this is my last chance to bid farewell to Senator Specter after his long years of service on behalf of, um....

Geez. It’s almost dinner time....


34 posted on 12/21/2010 4:19:32 PM PST by Hunton Peck (Life, Liberty, Property, and the means to protect them, are what it's about.)
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To: tobyhill
In his final floor speech, Specter complained there's scant room for centrists like himself in a polarized Senate where civility is in short supply.

A centrist? Maybe at one time he could have been called a "centrist", but those days are long gone. A centrist does not vote for a government takeover of healthcare (that he once strongly opposed), vote for massive spending bills that alone add nearly $1 trillion to the debt on junk projects (porkulus bill), etc.

35 posted on 12/21/2010 4:21:05 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: tobyhill

Under Scottish Law, I have concluded that Arlen Specter is a DICK...


36 posted on 12/21/2010 4:23:54 PM PST by RadioCirca1970 (Victory or Death in the War on Terror)
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To: tobyhill

“Yada yada yada blah blah blah!” There’s nothing sophisticated about Arlen Specter.


37 posted on 12/21/2010 4:24:58 PM PST by Savage Beast ("You can, in fact must, shout 'fire' in a crowded theatre. It just has to be the truth." J. Goldberg)
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To: tobyhill

Compromise with communism is subversion. RINOS AND RATS must be purged.


38 posted on 12/21/2010 4:26:30 PM PST by SC_Pete
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To: tobyhill
well, BYE

39 posted on 12/21/2010 4:36:05 PM PST by crusadersoldier
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To: WOBBLY BOB

40 posted on 12/21/2010 4:40:35 PM PST by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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