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Snowe calls Specter move 'devastating' [was also approached about switching parties]
CNN - Political Ticker ^ | 2009-04-28

Posted on 04/28/2009 3:10:16 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sen. Olympia Snowe — one of the three moderate Republicans including Arlen Specter who supported President Obama's stimulus package — told CNN Tuesday that she has also been approached many times about becoming a Democrat, but that it hasn't happened for a while.

"I've been asked, but not recently," she said.

Snowe said the Republican Party never learned its lesson from the "painful" party switch of Sen. Jim Jeffords in 2001.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maine; US: Pennsylvania; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 111th; arlenspecter; liberal; olympiasnowe; pennsylvania; rino; rinoextinction; rinoparty; rinopurge; senatorsphincter; snarlinarlen; snowe; southcarolina; specter; spectertruthfile; traitor
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To: freekitty

They are spending our money both sides at break neck speed and have agendas we know nothing about.
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And why is that? why do they have our money to spend????? We work for it, we make it...... then willingly give it to them to support their destruction of this country. Our founding fathers must think we are a sorry lot of cowards.


81 posted on 04/28/2009 5:49:14 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: rabscuttle385
Sen. Olympia Snowe — one of the three moderate Republicans including Arlen Specter who supported President Obama's stimulus package...

The fact that she supported that welfare-infested behemoth is ample evidence that whatever she says does not matter. She's at the extreme left end of the RINO spectrum.

82 posted on 04/28/2009 5:49:55 PM PDT by meyer (Obama is to the USA as Mugabe is to Zimbabwe.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

PA is more lost. The party there is on life support.


83 posted on 04/28/2009 5:56:30 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: rabscuttle385

The Spectre of it all is that Snowe and Collins haven’t left also. There, I covered all three.


84 posted on 04/28/2009 5:56:36 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012!)
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To: rabscuttle385
"I've been asked, but not recently," she said.

Too late Olympia. Now no one wants you. You played coy too long waiting for the prom.

But to get us back... why don't you switch too? That would devastate us!
85 posted on 04/28/2009 5:57:24 PM PDT by safisoft
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To: ex-snook

>What is the conservative path to victory?

Refreshing the tree of liberty.
And all that the statement implies.


86 posted on 04/28/2009 6:10:05 PM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: ubaldus

The UK’s voting demographics changed less than 8% during the Tories lost decade. The WWII generation wasn’t passing away at great numbers, the immigrant population with voting rights was and is a relatively small percentage of the total population in the UK.

With a few amnesty laws and outright publicly celebrated rigging of the Census count and the 2010 redistricting, the US electorate could swing as much as 12% towards the Democrats in the next decade. The Democrats as of today have a 12% party identification advantage as of the latest polls. For the small “C” conservatives ten years in the wilderness will bring in ANOTHER round of chain migration amnesty after the one that will be signed into law before the 2010 midterm elections, meaning the dilution of current American citizens’ votes will increase at a exponential rate between now and whenever the Democrats finally blow up the engine of America’s economy.

Someone prove me wrong.


87 posted on 04/28/2009 6:22:09 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: mojitojoe

We don’t give it willingly. It is ripped from our very hands of sweat and tears.


88 posted on 04/28/2009 6:31:46 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: JerseyHighlander

“Someone prove me wrong.”

Can’t. The time to have stopped this was during Bush’s 1st term. Elephants had the White House and Congress. Instead, the Republican rank and file had to fight like crazy to keep its own party from enacting a massive amnesty.

I don’t see any hope now from keeping our country from becoming a 3rd world sewer with only small enclaves of freedom-lovers.


89 posted on 04/28/2009 6:33:17 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: rabscuttle385
Hooray! Three pimples on the GOP's ass....and now one of them is gone.

Time to pop the other two.

90 posted on 04/28/2009 6:33:46 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: rabscuttle385

Snowe said the Republican Party never learned its lesson from the “painful” party switch of Sen. Jim Jeffords in 2001.

This comment puts Snowes RINO skin on display for all to see. One RINO bailed on the Party. It’s now time for the rest to leave or be thrown out. Either the Republican Party starts to believe in Conservative Principles again, or i too will leave.


91 posted on 04/28/2009 6:34:02 PM PDT by dbrew2u
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To: Norman Bates; Gay State Conservative
"Deval Patrick, at last count, had a 67% disapproval rating."

When the Boston Globe finally tanks (hopefully this weekend) Cadillac Deval's ratings may really nosedive. The Globe has been his major advocate since he came on the scene in these parts. He is a complete shyster after all.

Massachusetts is about raise the Sales tax, new taxes on candy and just about everything else as well. Chiefly the toll increases on the Mass Turnpike, and the Boston area tunnels & bridges. The gasoline tax will increase by 19 cents per gallon. The Legislature will cut that in half probably in order to appear "responsible."

When all that fails as well to balance the ridiculous budget here, they will invoke EVERY SINGLE OTHER REVENUE ENHANCING notion.

That includes the highest gas taxes in the nation, the soon to be highest state income tax, and fees increases on everything imaginable.

I really do not believe that my neighbors are going to put up with this BS forever.

Knocking out the Boston Globe is a stealth bomb on Massachusetts politicians. Even though they realize this, they are still not able to do much about it.

Things can change quickly though.

92 posted on 04/28/2009 6:34:11 PM PDT by Radix (We seek Liberty......They give us Debt.)
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To: rabscuttle385
Snowe said the Republican Party never learned its lesson from the "painful" party switch of Sen. Jim Jeffords in 2001.

How did that switch work out for Jeffords?

93 posted on 04/28/2009 6:35:13 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: rabscuttle385
Hey there Snowe-baby ....... get with Conservative principles or join the Scotsman. Take the other RINO babe and that limp-di linguini-spined McVain with you.

When we rebuild the party, I want it built on a solid foundation. Either join in with a real set of basic principles or get the hell out of the way.

Nam Vet

94 posted on 04/28/2009 6:40:53 PM PDT by Nam Vet ("Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." .... Henry David Thoreau)
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To: Nam Vet
that limp-di linguini-spined McVain with you.

Don't forget about either McLame's lap dog or his uncouth spawn.

95 posted on 04/28/2009 6:45:45 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: staytrue; ex-snook
The first step is to keep the RINOs from draining the RNC and RSCC coffers of campaign contributions. Winning is pointless when the only positive event is a high five on a lone Tuesday in November. Conservatives winning back the GOP in primary elections is the second step on the path out of the wilderness.
96 posted on 04/28/2009 6:57:45 PM PDT by sefarkas (Why vote Democrat Lite?)
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To: rabscuttle385

Get out b!tch. Take that other RINO poser beotch with you. The housecleaning has begun. We can’t do much until ‘10, but now is a good time to establish bona fides. Go run in a Demonrat primary! I hope you win, you’ll be easy to beat.


97 posted on 04/28/2009 7:10:25 PM PDT by j_tull (I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Isn’t the Republican Governor of Rhode Island fairly conservative?


98 posted on 04/28/2009 7:20:41 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: JerseyHighlander
Someone prove me wrong.

One piece of evidence is that the generic Congressional vote, according to Rasmussen, is now at a tie. Tied generic ballots deliver a small GOP majority, due to districting. If you are just going to stand around and whine, get out of the way of those who are going to fight. The Dems had this size a Senate majority throughout the 60's and 70's, and conservatives never gave up!

99 posted on 04/28/2009 7:32:30 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: rabscuttle385

Poor Olympia. Someone send this poor woman her 986th pack of Camels to make her feel better.


100 posted on 04/28/2009 7:56:57 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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