Specter: Reagan’s GOP is gone [attacks GOP, Club for Growth, conservatives]

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | 2009-05-03

[rabscuttle385]

On Sunday talk shows, he says the 'big tent' party of Reagan and the late Jack Kemp has been replaced by rigid conservatism.

BY MARK TRUMBULL

Sen. Arlen Specter (D) of Pennsylvania and leaders of the party he bolted last week surprisingly struck a chord of near agreement in discussing the future of the Republican Party Sunday.

The question of whether the party can stage a revival without welcoming Northeastern moderates came to the fore on television talk shows Sunday morning.

On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Senator Specter blamed the inner workings of the conservative movement for his own departure, and suggested that “there has to be room for people who are moderates.”

Appearing later on the same show, some Republican figures essentially agreed with that assessment, even while they did not endorse all of Specter’s remarks.

[rabscuttle385]

On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Senator Specter blamed the inner workings of the conservative movement for his own departure...

It's not the voter's fault that Specter voluntarily and willfully chose to vote for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Porkulus Maximus.

[mainepatsfan]

Those darn conservative primary voters in Pennsylvania. How dare they attempt to take away what is rightfully Specter’s for life!! /s

[A_Former_Democrat]

Anyone who would vote for that POS “stimulus” package was so far removed from Ronald Reagan and reality . . .

You and your self-centered, career-obsessed self, Mr, Specter, is what left the GOP. You obviously care nothing for your country, its taxpayers, nor its legacy.

[jimtorr]

Yes, Reagan’s GOP is nearly gone, and Specter is one of it’s killers.

[TheNewPundit]

Why was he the last person in the country to realize he is a Democrat?

[DeaconRed]

Arlin is not worth the time of day. We are better off without him. My only regret is that several others go with him.
Lean and mean That is what we need.

[auntyfemenist]

What I would like to know is where the he$$ are the moderate democrats and how come their party isn't admonishing each other to make room for their moderates??

[Cedric]

Specter was first elected, then reelected, during the Reagan years.

The Gipper didn't try to run him out of the party. He was smart enough to know you need numbers to govern.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

“Scottish Law” Arlen Sphincter.

Actually, I think Sphincter died ten years ago, but his hideous cadaver is still animated by sheer lust for power.

[Man50D]

On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Senator Specter blamed the inner workings of the conservative movement for his own departure, and suggested that “there has to be room for people who are moderates.”

Moderate is a euphemistic term for socialists. Thank you for the complement and nowhere should there be room for socialists.

[Cedric]

Welcome.

[andy58-in-nh]

Reagan's GOP was a conservative GOP, and it was weasel-lipped, tax-guzzling, invertebrate castrati like Specter who killed it. Good riddance, and thanks for nothing.

[SeaWolf]

Good point, in Spectors case, but I find that moderate is more often a euphemism for drone in the general application.

[jocko12]

Who care what Specter thinks.

[OrangeHoof]

Why should anyone care what a turncoat has to say? If Specter had stayed in the party, his voice might have some marginal credibility. But since he fled the party, his voice should count for nothing. He can take all the RINOs across the aisle that he wants. We won’t miss any of them.

[hoosier hick]

One more time: when you vote conservative 44% of the time for almost 30 years, more than likely you BELONG in the other party...

hh

[jr.ewing.78]

Well, yeah, Arlen. You're one of the responsible parties.

Hopefully with your exit now it's on its way back.

[Enoughofthissocialism]

No, Sphincter, YOU’RE gone! Officially now instead of just obviously, and thank God for that!

We don’t need you or your kind.

We never wanted you either.

Good riddance!

[BigBobber]

To paraphrase Michael Corleone in Godfather II,

“Arlen, you are dead to us.”

When he betrayed the party he gave up any moral authority to comment on it.

[lt.america]

I know yours is a rhetorical one, but I will state the obvious and say that they are having too much fun watching the Republican party disintegrate. Big problem with this is that the country cannot afford Obama and his big spending minions running the show for the next 7 years.