[Digger]

Here ya go, Pat. Can't get much more ammo than this.

[WOSG]

Liberals are for SPECTER!

Conservatives - Where do you stand?

[adam_az]

HAHAH!

The honorable thing would be for Arlen Specter to change HIS registration to 'rat. ;) He ain't foolin' no one.

[thoughtomator]

If he's such a hero to the Democrats, let THEM nominate him.

[stevio]

This is the fire under my butt. I'll be at the polls for the primary supporting Pat.

[Landru]

>ping<

More fodder for the cannon, Angel.

...the shameless RINO keeps strange company.

[CMailBag]

Is this allowed under Scottish Law?

[Porterville]

strange days

[workerbee]

Liberals know their own.

[Sweet Land]

Specter campaign manager Christopher Nicholas said Specter would work with any group to try to boost the number of Republican voters in the state to help President Bush in November.

They're voting in the GOP Senate primary to support the liberal, but having done so is going to make them vote for the less liberal Presidential candidate in November? Transparent BS ... but par for the RINO course.

[WOSG]

Good news on polls - Specter is panicking, looking for Dems to bail him out - conservatives are going to Toomey


http://www.pattoomey.org/news_item.asp?pid=171

National Review: The Specter of Defeat--Pennsylvania polls look promising for Toomey

By Jack Fowler

Article

Tuesday, March 23, 2004

The good news for those on the edge of their seats over the upcoming GOP Senate primary between Arlen Specter and Pat Toomey comes from last week's statewide voter poll by television stations KDKA (Pittsburgh) and WNEP (Wilkes-Barre), which shows Specter's once-comfortable lead over the conservative congressman shrinking to single digits among "certain" voters. With the momentum going Toomey's way, and with five weeks remaining before the April 27 primary, what was once inconceivable - Specter getting knocked off - is no longer.

This may explain why Specter is aggressively working to woo supporters amongst two groups for which he is no hero: conservatives and pro-lifers. For example, last week Specter and colleague Rick Santorum trumpeted the news that the Senate had passed their bill (Specter was the main sponsor) to rename the federal building in Harrisburg after none other than Ronald Reagan. That's right, Ronald Reagan - the same guy whose Supreme Court nominee, Robert Bork, was defeated largely owing to Specter's efforts. He's also the fellow who Specter fought tooth and nail on tax cuts, and spending restraints, and a host of other reforms. ("I don't feel that I owe Reagan anything," Specter once said in a boast over his political independence in the Keystone State). Odd, isn't it, that the once-proud thorn in the Gipper's side wants to honor him with a building?

As for pro-lifers, Specter, a vigorous Roe defender (he cited abortion as a major reason for his ghastly 1996 presidential run), is doing his usual pre-primary kiss-up of the group he short-shrifts five out of every six years. (In the 1986 primary he weirdly countered his pro-abortion stand by urging voters to watch The Silent Scream, a pro-life film of a sonogram showing an actual abortion.) Mary Beliveau, head of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation PAC, says Specter is "feverishly courting pro-life audiences, using Christian radio in attempts to fool listeners into thinking he shares their values by touting support for abstinence programs and a partial-birth abortion ban." She's worried.

At first glance (at the KDKA/WNEP poll), you can't blame Beliveau for being nervous: Specter is indeed ahead of Toomey among self-described pro-lifers (41 percent to 39 percent) and conservatives (43 percent to 39 percent) who are "certain" to vote. Hence the head-scratching - shouldn't Toomey (a solid abortion foe) be obliterating Specter among these voters?

On primary day, that answer may very well prove to be yes. As for right now, the lead held by Specter - a mega-known quantity, after 24 years in the Senate, following a very public stint in the Philadelphia district attorney's office - among these groups is likely more an indication of Toomey's lesser-known name and position recognition than it is of any successful seduction by the incumbent.

For many people, Pat Toomey remains a question mark - he polls under 50 percent on name recognition. Come April 27, that won't be the case.

Indeed, the poll's internal breakdown should be encouraging to Toomey supporters. Here's why: Of the survey's 968 Republican respondents (the vast majority considered to be either "certain" or "likely" voters), 400 were self-described as "pro-choice," but significantly more - 520 - called themselves "pro-life." This is a large and prime group into which the Toomey campaign can make inroads, and maybe huge ones at that, thereby draining away current "pro-life" Specter supporters.

The same applies to conservative voters. Of the KDKA/WNEP poll's "certain" and "likely" respondents, 375 called themselves "moderate" and 56 "liberal" - Specter's natural allies. But 504 labeled themselves "conservative" - Toomey's natural allies. That's a significant difference, with the mother lode breaking conservative. That means there's plenty of upside for Toomey.

As the campaign rounds the turn and heads for the homestretch, Pat Toomey is well positioned. He has the reasonable potential to attract more pro-life and conservative Pennsylvania Republicans - voters who are his natural political allies, but who, for the time being - and for reasons that are likely due to name recognition - support the liberal, pro-abortion Specter, but probably tepidly so.

Over the next five weeks, that rumble you may hear from Pennsylvania could be Arlen Specter voters packing up and moving into Pat Toomey's home-sweet-ideological-home. For conservatives, that sound will be sweet music.

[WOSG]

LIBERAL UNIONS SUPPORTING LIBERAL SENATOR SPECTER - WHATS NEW?

http://www.pattoomey.org/ratings.asp

Arlen Specter has served for 23-years in the U.S. Senate. During that time, Arlen Specter has consistently been rated one of the most liberal Republican Senators. Don’t take our word for it, see how independent groups rate Arlen Specter’s performance.
National Journal
Ranks Arlen Specter the Second Most Liberal Republican Senator

American Conservative Union (America’s oldest conservative benchmark)
Arlen Specter lifetime rating 42%
Average Republican Senator 84%
Rick Santorum lifetime rating 87%
Congressman Pat Toomey 97%

National Taxpayers Union
Arlen Specter C-
Congressman Pat Toomey A

Family Research Council
Arlen Specter 43%
Congressman Pat Toomey 100%

Citizens Against Government Waste
Arlen Specter 52%
Congressman Pat Toomey 94%

[Fiddlstix]

Specter needs to go. A RINO if ever there was one.

(He's worse than McLame, if that's possible)

[Teacher317]

That says so much...

[Political Junkie Too]

Do you think we'll ever see the day where Democrats invent the election version of "slamming," the old telephone company trick of switching people's service without their consent? Will the unions develop the process where their members' registrations are changed in mass in order to game this system, and then in mass change them back?

-PJ

[.cnI redruM]

RINO Hunters, Lock And Load!

[anoldafvet]

"Specter, a political moderate"

Moderate my A$$. If RINO Specter is a Moderate, I would hate to see what a Liberal looks like, oh, wait I already know, it's Ketchup Boy.

[dr_who_2]

Specter, a political moderate who generally supports labor issues

The AP is full of ****.

... is the only sitting senator in the nation to face a primary.

This is supposed to be a democracy, right? Is something wrong with this picture?

[JohnBDay]

Even the ultra-left Guardian has posted this!

[P.O.E.]

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