Posted on 11/07/2004 3:05:58 PM PST by Remember_Salamis
We must make it perfectly clear to Rick Santorum that if he lets Specter chair the judiciary committee, we WILL NOT SUPPORT HIM in 2006 for Senate. Instead, we will support Pat Toomey.
We must also make it perfectly clear to Bill Frist that if he does not block Specter Chairmanship, he might as well not even enter the 2008 primaries.
Both of these men hold the power over Specter and we must threaten to boycott their futures if they ignore their base.
On NRO's The Corner last week, they were already speculating that a relatively low conservative turnout in PA this year may have been a result of Specter, and that Santorum may feel the brunt of a disenchanted base in 2006.
IF ARLEN SPECTER NEVER "BORKED BORK", ROE v. WADE WOULD HAVE BEEN OVERTURNED IN 1992. The man appointed instead of Bork, Kennedy, was the deciding vote in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992. Do you want it to happen again???
"There is no doubt that we would be better off with 54 Republican Senators and Judiciary Chairman Jon Kyl than 55 and Chairman Specter."
I'm from TN...Bill Frist will NOT get my vote unless he starts getting some brass bauls!!!
No, I don't want to ditch him. But I do want to let him know that he cannot ignore his base.
Also, any pro-lifer who backs a radical pro-choice man like Specter is not worth his salt, especially when he know full and well that Specter would be Chairman of the Judiciary committee.
See, you wouldn't know all that being out there in paradise...
Specter had trouble because a significant portion of PA Republicans washed their hands of him years ago! I myself voted Libertarian (Betsy Summers). Toomey could have beaten Hoeffel--with difficulty, I admit--because that missing portion would have turned out strongly for Toomey. Remember, Santorum wins comfortably in PA. Furthermore, Toomey would have had much better name recognition than Hoeffel. He could have pulled it out.
Good analysis. If Toomey runs for guv, I'll be sure to send a few bucks his way.
Yes. The base should just shut the hell up until the Senate is full of Chafees, Snowes, and Specters. Let's do away with primaries too. Let's just do away with primaries as well and just automatically elect the most liberal republican candidate.
"To say Santorum should go down because of his support of Specter is stoopid."
-- No, "Stoopid" is stupid.
Santorum's base in Pennsylvania have always supported him, and will continue to.
You're a nut, you know it? How many people have to tell you that?
Hate to break this to you sparky but you and Salami there aren't the base. Far from it.
Conservatives are not there to agree with you on every issue.
No one appointed you king or god.
"My way or the Highway" thinking is stupid.
Great. Name calling. Are the writers at National Review "nuts" too?
I won't be boycotting Santorum. Specter maybe, but not Santorum.
Somebody at NRO has done a few rocks of crack...there was a HUGE (or hugh by FR standards) turnout in PA...in the 't'...the northern tier, and the central portion of the Commonwealth (excluding the Pittsburgh and Philly metro areas). Look at the map of PA...almost the whole state is red, except for a few counties in the metro areas. If not for the 5-1, 400,000 vote lead out of Philadelphia County, Bush would have won PA. Whoever posted that on the Corner, is waaaay off base with Pennsylvania.
I voted for Clymer.
What's the good/use of electing a man who touts is principles as often as Rick if, when it really mattered, he looked the other way?
If he faces Ed Rendell in two years, he's toast anyways, so what's the difference?
Look, it's a waste of breath to remind Pennsylvania Freepers that Specter is bad news. In fact, it's damned presumptuous of you. Nobody here disagrees.
But what really stinks up the scrapple is your jack-stupid plan to threaten Rick Santorum, of all patriots, for the sake of a demand that he can't satisfy.
Go away.
So the base of the party is made up of those who won't hold leadership acocuntable?
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