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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Mr. magic bullet needs to move east about 500 miles.
Since the election I have talked to an awful lot of people here, mostly ones who vote Conservative, mainly because I wanted to find out why Santorum lost the Senate race.
What I have heard time and again is that they did not vote at all in this race or they just stayed home, all because of Santorum's vote for Specter instead of Toomey.
I almost did the same thing myself until I realized just how bad it would be without Santorum. While we may not agree with their stand, a lot of conservatives in this state felt betrayed and voted accordingly.
Sphincter you idiot! They did move to the middle and hence the wipe-out!!!
Thanks for the confirmation of my suspicions. Santorum will be missed.
Who needs Dems when we have Republicans like this!
Sad state of affairs when even the Republicans don't know why they were voted out.
We are urging you to move out of Washington. You do not meet our needs, you are a has been, totally irrelevant to us.
Don't give us your thoughts, share them with your rat friends, they love them. We despise them and you.
p.s. we sincerely hope you are reading this!
Actually, Ford was every bit as liberal as Specter.
As a party activist for close to 10 years, I can say without a doubt I would become a Conservative Independent and start spending my time on things other than politics if the Republican party abandons Reagan's principles.
The sheer gall of this a-hole to suggest we need more of what led to our slaughter on Tuesday is beyond belief! Death to all 'moderates'!
This is, like, the longest nightmare I've ever had.
Feels like it's lasted for about seven days instead of seven hours...
I say we put specter D in the middle and then start having a dart game....I'll pop the popcorn and ice down the beers.....anyone got hotdogs????
Rino alert. yes that really worked didnt it. I can see all the conservatives coming out in support of moving to the center. Do i even need to post sarc.?
The few, the proud, the moderate. What a staunch defender of....???
There is a Scottish Law joke lurking in here somewhere.
Amen!
Liberal yes... but no specter. specter would have thrown Nixon to the wolves.
LLS
Two dinosaurs.
SPECTRE is a RINO POS BUMP!
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