[longtermmemmory]

I am tired of people calling specter a moderate. Specture is a liberal. He has democrats working for him.

In the eyes of the partisan media a "moderate" is a RINO.

If anything, this is a wake up call in that the "moderate" position is NOT the default position. Conservative positions win votes.

Even with an endorsemnt by Bush, and Specter touting his mere seniority, Specter still had to eak out a win from a challenger who should not have been a threat. Rove should take this as a lesson and a wake up.

We need more conservatives across the board in order to marginalize the frauds like specter.

(I still laugh with specter refering to scotish law during the clinton impeachment. Seriously considering "not proven" as a third option betrayed his oath in the senate.)

It is good that moderats are dying out. Moderates enabled and emboldened the left to get us into the messes we have to clean up today.

[finnsheep]

Specter is 74. What happens if he doesn't make it thru his term? Is there a special election? If so Toomey has ALL the credibility and would be the Republican candidate.

[HitmanLV]

To be fair, having democrats working for him is not conclusive evidence he is a liberal.

I have some (very few) trusted friends who are democrats, for example. One is a very well spoken and lovely african american woman, very well educated, and she would be a great public face for a politician and a great staffmember.

If I was in Congress, I would almost certainly ask her to be on my staff as a general spokeswoman as well as a special liason for my office for minority issues, and I'd hope she would agree to join the staff.

She is a lifelong democrat, though not a nauseatingly liberal one. Her presence in my congressional office, or my local office, would not be evidence I was a liberal at all.

In fact, I'm pretty conservative! ;-)

(Then again, I also love the way she looks naked, so that might be clouding my judgment a bit)