Posted on 04/28/2009 10:26:12 AM PDT by americanophile
"Some in the Republican Party are happy about this. I am not," he said in a statement. "Let's be honest-Senator Specter didn't leave the GOP based on principles of any kind. He left to further his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose a Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record. "Republicans look forward to beating Sen. Specter in 2010, assuming the Democrats don't do it first."
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He’s going to France?
You mean obama and ACORN ! Quite a duo for the dems.
Santorum has got to get into this race.
LOL!
You just make stuff up.
I believe that the Demwits have systematically removed obstacles in Specter’s way (the carrot) while having a bunch of potential candidates cool their heels in the wings (the stick), and simultaneously pointed out his spiralling poll numbers and Toomey’s rise. This is Connecticut 2006 in reverse, except that Arlen didn’t run indie (as one of the topics suggested he was considering doing) after all.
My guess is Specter is looking for one last payday before he retires. With Bambi in office and Specter’s vote on Porkulus, Specter is pretty much guaranteed a large payout.
If he’s looking for the “one last payday,” there’s always the more ethical(?) option of retiring from the Senate and hooking up with a lobbying firm.
We have long wished Specter would stop pretending to be a Republican, and now he has.
“I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate.” “
What a tool.
It would be nice to “Michael Forbes” him in the rat primary but I don’t see it happening.
No major rats were running, so I was optimistic about Toomey’s general election chances. Now he must beat the ancient Snarlin’ Arlen in the general.
In McCain’s case I think a prominent rat would jump in the primary and defeat him.
So right now I'm 100% FINE with Collins, Snowe, and ANYONE ELSE who doesn't believe in limited government, low taxes, secure borders, and the reality of an Islamic threat to get the hell out. I'd rather have five lions than 51 lambs. Lenin took Russia (160 million) with only 20,000 committed followers. It can be done.
I’m sorry to say this, but the Republican Party has ceased to be an effective alternative to the Democratic Party. There needs to be a new movement, free of the baggage of the Republican Party, to emerge to challenge the Democratic stranglehold in Washington. Where it will come from, I don’t know, but if it doesn’t happen soon, we are facing one-party rule for years to come.
http://race42008.com/2009/04/28/more-on-specter/
“Lindsey Graham and Olympia Snowe came out today saying that Specter’s decision was due to the hostility moderate Republicans are feeling from the more conservative aspects of the party.
“You haven’t certainly heard warm encouraging words about how [the GOP] views moderates,” said Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, one of the few remaining moderate Republicans in the Senate.
Snowe said the party’s message has been, “Either you’re with us or you’re against us.”
Her frustration was shared by Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), who slammed right-wing interest groups for pushing moderates out of the party.
“I don’t want to be a member of the Club for Growth,” said Graham. “I want to be a member of a vibrant national Republican party that can attract people from all corners of the country — and we can govern the country from a center-right perspective.”
“As Republicans, we got a problem,” he said.”
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=21120
"Other moderate Republicans acknowledged they, too, have been approached about changing parties. Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, the Maine Republicans who along with Specter provided the three pivotal votes for Obama's $787 billion stimulus legislation, both said Tuesday they have been approached. Neither would comment about how recent the overtures were, although Collins said she's been asked roughly four times over her 12 years in the Senate to consider becoming a Democrat. "It's something I would never do," she said.
Snowe called Specter's decision "devastating news" for Republicans, particularly Northeastern Republicans who have almost vanished in the Senate over the last decade. "Many Republicans feel alienated and disaffected from the party," said Snowe. "It just helps nourish a culture of exclusion and alienation." Snowe recalled former Sen. James Jeffords switch from being a Republican to an independent caucusing with Democrats in 2001, a more dramatic switch that flipped power from Republicans to Democrats in the chamber. "Frankly, the party never woke up from that event," she said.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), a prominent conservative voice who was John McCain's staunchest supporter in his 2008 GOP presidential campaign, warned that the party has become regionalized in its mentality. "We have to find places in the party for people who couldn't win in South Carolina," he told reporters."
Remember that specter promised he would never change parties just two weeks ago... liberals lie. If goober graham does not want to be a small government, pro growth Republican (which is what Club for Growth is all about), if he thinks that he can redefine "center-right" as capitulation... such as bigger government, amnesty, higher taxes, his call for investigations of torture and the many other liberal stances that he and those like him embrace... he is WRONG! It is obvious that we Conservatives have the power to run off one of the most liberal Republican Senators in office... what is left for goober to do? I'll tell you what... he will wait for mcnasty to give him marching orders to surrender to reid.
I want all of these rinos out. Keep taking up for liberals like you do every single time you make some smart arsed remark to me... and you can leave the party with them... for all that I care. I am fed up with moderates... because there are no "moderates" in the Republican Party... only Conservatives and liberals... like snowe and collins and graham and mcamnesty and voinavich etc etc etc... no more!
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Try winnin’ some damned elections, instead of whining and moaning ad nauseum ‘cause ya don't.
As I said, you make stuff up.
And before I even read your diatribe, I instinctively knew you’d dishonestly lump Graham in with the two Maine hags.
And I was right.
I’m always right.
I do think there is a strategic difference between “holding the line” if you have a slim majority (i.e., enforcing discipline on the wavering), in which case you can let a Specter ONCE IN A WHILE vote his “conscience,” vs. keeping a core of committed conservatives who go on the attack at all times. Once you are in the minority, you have to fight like you’re going to be exterminated, because that’s exactly what the libs have in mind.
I don’t think that Toomey is the right candidate. He supports open borders and free trade, a bad combination for Pennsylvania.
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