[BillyBoy]

I think Specter's plan here is to ensure he has as many conservative challengers as possible, thus splitting the anti-Specter conservative vote so he can be renominated with under 50% of the vote (he knows he will never get a majority of the GOP primary vote without conservative Bushbots from 2004 voting for whoever Bush tells them to)

He's well on his way to achieving that goal, since Peg Luksik, Larry Murphy, and Pat Toomey are all announced primary challengers to Specter, and all three can point to very solid conservative credentials. Specter expects to win the same way Topinka was nominated for Governor and Bob Corker was nominated for the Senate in 2006. Both were RINOs who won with less than 50% of the vote thanks to the conservative majority in the primary being divided.

On election night, we might likely see something like this in Pennsylvania :

U.S. SENATOR - REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
Arlen Specter 40%
Pat Toomey 38%
Peg Lugsik 17%
Larry Murphy 5%

[fieldmarshaldj]

Toomey will take it this time. Too much has happened for Specter to get it again. Perhaps as a warning shot we should run a Conservative in the Dem primary, and if they opt to pull off a stunt like last time, we can just as easily try to screw with their primary.

[Impy]

Hopefully he’ll lose anyway just like Wayne Gilcrest, it was thought because he had two opponents he would probably win.