Posted on 11/11/2004 7:10:40 AM PST by Former Military Chick
Sounds like he is threatening the Republican Party. I hope he leaves the Republican Party. Leave now!
I haven't even heard "moderate" senators speak out for him, the silence from Snow, Collins, and Chaffee is deafening.
Keep the calls, emails, and faxes rolling. We haven't been asked to stop not even from Frist or Rove.
Translate that stinking liberal RINOS.
"In an interview, Specter also disclosed that he had spoken to almost all of the nine other Republican members of the committee.
"The sense is, once they know the facts, there is a generally favorable response," Specter said of those conversations. "
Heh. Pretty feeble support from his colleagues.
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No way this guy should lead the Judiciary. What is the point in our winning if we put guys like this in the Vanguard. Let's put the kibosh on this pseudo Republican
His kind is the reason many left the Republican Party in the past. He will drive more away if he succeeds and I find it a shame that Bush helped him out. I was hoping for a loss in the primaries.
I'm inclined to agree with you. My first reaction was that it's up to Bush. If he could put Arlen in a straitjacket and get him to join the team, fine.
Now, I've reconsidered. There's too much danger that Specter will betray Bush toward the end of his term, as he attains lame duck status and as the media step up their attacks on him again before the 2008 election.
Plus, Specter has at least two years to go beyond 2008. Do we want him in charge of the most important committee in the senate at that juncture? I think not.
Specter will be in a strong position for troublemaking. Once he is sitting in the chair, all he has to do is open his mouth at a time of his choosing, and Bush will get hit, not Specter, because Bush is responsible for Specter and wears him like an albatross around his neck.
For instance, one word from Specter in fall 2006, and a lot of Evangelicals might stay home and not vote to support the Bush administration in the congressional elections. The same, in spades, in the 2008 presidential election. Specter will not be up for election then, but others will. That gives him a strong position to pressure and blackmail the party, something he has not hesitated to do before.
No, much safer to block him now.
Maybe the same kind of people, but there are a whole lot more of them now.
During the primary he was off the radar for most of the country. Everyone else was off fighting their own battles and worrying about their own state -- but not now.
Judicial is just too damn important and he is too damn undependable. I am not confident we can keep him out of the post, but I am not about to stop trying.
Isn't there a committee that looks after the affairs of the District of Columbia that he can serve on ?
We must counter the false asertion that specter is a moderate. This is nothing short of BS media triangulation and propaganda.
Specter is a leftist. The only "middle" in specter's mind is the middle seat.
Moderates believe in nothing, stand for nothing. Specter stands to the left of the isle.
The leadership and his fellow members better give him a dose of reality, he speaks at the pleasure of the electorate not his egomania.
I don't really want to see an inter-party bloodletting. But this SOB is making it tough to be magnaminous. It would not be hard to accept moderates in visible positions in the party, but he insists on putting it in our faces. If he does not wise up, his "colleagues" are going to vote him out despite tradition.
And is so doing, identify themselves as targets for defeat when their reelections roll around???
Arlen is going to hear nothing but silence because RINO's don't have spines
Dear Arlen:
As a moderate Republican I'd just like to say, "screw you - you pathetic RINO
Memo to Specter [and even, I hate to say, a certain faction of yes man, kowtowing, 3rd way bootlicker Freepers] RINOs and underminers must STFU.
"I not only voted against Bork, I led the charge against him."
- Arlen Specter
Please post that quote every chance you can... We can not let any of the Presidents nominees for the SC be "Borked"
It's my tagline.
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