Posted on 04/30/2009 2:55:43 AM PDT by RobinMasters
"I was apprehensive about running on the Republican [ticket]," Arlen Specter writes about his virgin foray into politics in Philadelphia in 1965. It "was almost like changing my religion." In fact, he says "the decision was even tougher."
Specter later explains his admiration for Franklin Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy. Becoming a Republican was a source of "trauma" for the District Attorney candidate. Looking back at Specter's record 40 years later, one wonders why Specter became a Republican. His lifetime American Conservative Union voting record is 43%, which means, even in this partisan Senate, there are more Democrats to his right than there are Republicans to his left.
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This just confirms my belief that a number of our elected officials are there on their own behalf and not our behalf.
First rule of after being elected.......Work on being re-elected.
Specter WAS a Republican?
Mext your gonna try and tell me McCain is a Conservative, right?
A great argument for term limits.
“Specter Never Wanted To Be a Republican”
We should have rejected Specter after he offered the magic bullet theory for the Warner Commission.
The Single-Bullet Theory (or Magic-Bullet Theory, as it is commonly called by its critics) was introduced by the Warren Commission to explain how three shots made by Lee Harvey Oswald resulted in the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. The theory, generally credited to Warren Commission staffer Arlen Specter[1] (now a U.S. Senator), posits that a single bullet, known as “Warren Commission Exhibit 399” (also known as “CE399”), caused all of the non-fatal wounds in both President Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally. (The fatal head wound to the President was caused by a bullet other than this alleged “Single Bullet”).
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