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Specter urges GOP move to the middle
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^
| November 14, 2006
| By Jerome L. Sherman
Posted on 11/14/2006 3:49:57 AM PST by johnny7
WASHINGTON -- Pennsylvania's Sen. Arlen Specter yesterday said Republicans need to move toward the political center if they hope to avoid a repetition of last week's electoral drubbing, which delivered control of both houses of Congress to the Democrats for the first time since 1994.
Mr. Specter, a five-term Republican, in January will pass his gavel on the Senate Judiciary Committee to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., but he argues that he will still play an important role as a moderate in a Senate with 49 Republicans, 49 Democrats and two independents. "I think the moderates in the party have always held a balance of power. There are only a few of us," he said during his first public meeting with Pennsylvania's Sen.-elect Bob Casey. "But we manage to be significant, if not decisive, on some occasions."
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: leftward; liar; rinoalert; schwarzenegger; specter
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:49:59 AM PST
by
johnny7
To: johnny7
He would say that, wouldn't he.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:50:29 AM PST
by
MadIvan
(I aim to misbehave.)
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: johnny7
Does this mean that Specter would have to move to the right to be in the middle?
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:50:52 AM PST
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: johnny7
Khomeini urges the world to move toward Islam, too. No thanks!
To: johnny7
Pennsylvania's Sen. Arlen Specter yesterday said Republicans need to move toward the political center if they hope to avoid a repetition of last week's electoral drubbing,Yeah, just like their move to the center is the reason for their win in 1994.
Oops, wait, it was a move to the RIGHT that pulled that off.
Methinks what the GOP needs to do is affirm a commitment to core conservative values and to quit the corruption.
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:51:57 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Objects in tagline are closer than they appear)
To: johnny7
So we should compromise and let people abort half of the baby???
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:52:57 AM PST
by
wastoute
To: johnny7
"I think the moderates in the party have always held a balance of power."
A moderate is a Democrat in sheep's clothing. He is one of the reasons the Americans lost and the anti-Americans won.
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:54:22 AM PST
by
YOUGOTIT
To: dirtboy
Build the darn fence.
Buy American. Don't apologize.
USA! USA! USA!
To: johnny7
Is there some way to get Specter to move off of the scene? He, like McCain is part of the problem. He reminds me of Gerald Ford. For that matter, he resembles Ford in many ways.
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:55:04 AM PST
by
stevem
To: johnny7
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:55:39 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(Well, they wanted to be just like the Dems. Now, they're just like the Dems.)
To: stevem
Well, we had a chance to send Toomey to the Senate, but Nooooooooo, Bush wanted another RINO.
I think Santorum also lost a lot of mojo with his suport of Specter over Toomey. Look what it got him.
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:57:19 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(Well, they wanted to be just like the Dems. Now, they're just like the Dems.)
To: johnny7
How much better off would the US and PA be if Pat Toomey were in that Senate seat?
President Bush and Rick Santorum went to the mats for this disgraceful piece of "moderate" crap, and what did it get them?
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:57:32 AM PST
by
Taxman
(So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
To: Taxman
13 seconds apart, and look how we think alike! lol
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posted on
11/14/2006 3:59:54 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(Well, they wanted to be just like the Dems. Now, they're just like the Dems.)
To: johnny7
Specter urges GOP move to the middle Oh, yeah. That's sure to work. < barf>
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posted on
11/14/2006 4:00:46 AM PST
by
SIDENET
(Everybody was kung-fu fighting)
To: YOUGOTIT
Ever since that Monday night when Warner and the Gang of 14 waved that 'scrap-of-paper' with the SCOTUS, nominee-deal... the 'moderates' ran the Republican party. The culmination of that sellout was the amnesty bill that now awaits Bush's signature.
Death to all moderates!
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posted on
11/14/2006 4:01:41 AM PST
by
johnny7
("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
To: johnny7
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posted on
11/14/2006 4:02:37 AM PST
by
maggief
To: Taxman
President Bush and Rick Santorum went to the mats for this disgraceful piece of "moderate" crap, and what did it get them?Hopefully a lesson learned: That this is what happens when party is put over principle.
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posted on
11/14/2006 4:03:06 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: johnny7
Hugh Hewitt wrote a brilliant piece on that event. I think Rush read it on the air last week.
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posted on
11/14/2006 4:04:31 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(Well, they wanted to be just like the Dems. Now, they're just like the Dems.)
To: johnny7
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posted on
11/14/2006 4:04:55 AM PST
by
WhiteGuy
(GO BUCKS)
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