Specter is one of the few Republicans who can win statewide in PA. In fact, since 2000, he’s the only one. I’m not saying he doesn’t have his faults, but he voted for Roberts and Alito, he would have voted for a 3rd conservative if somethign had happened to Stevens, he supported Bush and the party on pretty much every important issue.
We could do a lot worse than Specter...such as another liberal democrat.
At this stage we need to be preserving what we do have and not wanting to see our numbers in the Senate dwindle even more
That was the logic that Santorum used to support Specter over Toomey. That logic cost Santorum his seat in the Senate....so it kinda backfired on him.
We need to purge the RINOs.
Maybe we could talk Specter into changing his registration to Democrat so we could run a conservative Republican against him. On the other hand, Specter with his age and health issues may just decide to retire. I'd do everything I could to encourage that.
Your arguements are persuasive in a case like Collins or Snowe, but Arlen is near death and he is visibly debilitated from the cancer. I don’t think he can win against a younger candidate.