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Has He Snarled His Last? Arlen Specter's personality helps make him vulnerable ....
Wall Street Journal ^
| Monday, April 26, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT
| John Fund
Posted on 04/26/2004 11:32:28 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
PHILADELPHIA--A 24-year incumbent U.S. senator shouldn't have trouble winning the nomination of his own party. But Arlen Specter is struggling to win tomorrow's GOP primary against Rep. Pat Toomey, a conservative who says that unlike Mr. Specter he "belongs to the Republican wing of the Republican Party." Mr. Specter's problems aren't merely his haphazard support for President Bush's agenda or his liberal stands on many issues. The clout he has in Congress brings home a lot of dollars for Pennsylvania, but along with them come innumerable stories that he intimidates and bullies opponents and allies alike.....
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: electionussenate; kingrichard; spectre; waronrinoism
Rep. Pat Toomey, unlike Mr. Specter he "belongs to the Republican wing of the Republican Party."
To: .cnI redruM
Say goodnight, Arlen.
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posted on
04/26/2004 11:55:47 AM PDT
by
GEC
To: .cnI redruM
There are actually politicians who find that girlish, hunched-over, equivocating, Scottish lawyer "intimidating"?
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posted on
04/26/2004 11:58:51 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
If he funds your project, he has your prick in his pocket. He doesn't strike me as a man who would forget to give it a good hard tweak if he were angry.
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posted on
04/26/2004 12:06:14 PM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Air America - at least Al Jazeera can pay their bills to stay on the air.)
To: .cnI redruM
I for one intend on voting for Pat Toomey and I urge every PA Republican to do the same.
Come on folks! We can win this and send a clear and concise message to the linguine spine, Liberal RINOs in Washington that the conservatives are RECLAIMING OUR PARTY!
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posted on
04/26/2004 12:35:24 PM PDT
by
cuz_it_aint_their_money
(24 years of Snarlin Arlen's Liberalism is enough! Vote Pat Toomey for U.S. Senate!)
To: .cnI redruM
Well 'scuse me but I thinks herein lies the problem:
Originally a Democrat, he became a Republican...NOTE; All the above spelling IS correct and on purpose :-)
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posted on
04/26/2004 3:33:43 PM PDT
by
Condor51
("Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments." -- Frederick the Great)
To: .cnI redruM; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA
I hope snarlin' arlin loses. I don't like his name or face.
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posted on
04/26/2004 3:50:02 PM PDT
by
SeeRushToldU_So
(I want to know who called this maternal copulater a piccolo player.)
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