Posted on 05/07/2009 1:18:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Arlen Specter thinks his road to re-election takes him through the Land of Independents. He may be right. But he has to win the Pennsylvania Democratic primary first. Vice President Biden, who claims to have once lived in Scranton, and Governor Rendell assured him there wouldn't be one. Pennsylvania Democratic voters may have another idea though, especially with popular Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak edging closer to challenging the whole idea of Specter even being a Democrat. Specter has been emphasizing he's an independent and not a rubber stamp. The independent thing may work better among Pennsylvania's independents but they don't vote in the Democratic primary ... And as far as the claim that he's not a rubber stamp ... Well, he sure isn't a rubber stamp for Obama or the Democrats. He's still voting with the Republicans just like he always has ... He's against Employee Free Choice, against health care reform, opposing Obama's nominees, demanding to jump ahead of the seniority line to hold key Senate subcommittee chairmanships ... He is a rubber stamp -- and the worst kind ...
“Arlen Specter Boasts He Isn’t a Rubber Stamp”
He’s right. He’s the ‘stampee’.
The odds of Al Franken becoming a Senator is about as great as me becoming a Democrat. Oh wait a minute... what was the question again??
(I know that isn’t the quote but no worse than “Jeb Bush says leave Reagan behind” (which he didn’t) - hey we can do it too!).
He’s a rubber.
He is the product of a busted rubber!
more like he’s barney “fannie lover” frank’s rubber butt plug.
Specter is a disgrace and a fraud. He knows it. If the good people of PA have any sense to them, unlike those in MN, he’ll get thoroughly trounced in 2010.
Maybe not.
But he’s a traitor to those who voted for him thinking they were voting Republican.
He may not think he is a rubber stamp but he certainly has a rubber spine.
I wonder who Arlen will caucus with if he goes the Joe Lieberman way.
So who of you still in Penna. plan to register as Democrats just to vote against Specter?
But he’s a coward, to be sure.
Arlen was stripped of all seniority; he is now the most junior member of the Senate...and will face a Dem primary if he does not change his ways. As for taking the seat...this depends on who the GOP candidate is...Toomey will lose, but Ridge has a good chance. However, Ridge is a moderate, pro-choice candidate...so you lose a RINO and you gain a RINO...the other choice seems to be a Democrat.
We’ll believe all this posturing about his seniority, etc. when he sticks to his promise to vote against Card Check.
The dems are holding that vote over his head.
Oh to watch two Democrats beat the crap out of each other during the primaries and the MSM having to try to cover it without making either look like the idiots they are...a joy to see...where’s the popcorn.
He’s right. A rubber stamp has more relevance.
Who is Sestak? The news seems to think he is a wonderful,popular democrat from Pa. It must be nice to be a democrat these days. Lots of media coverage if they want you to be the nominee.
lol at Arlen the slug.
He is the Poster Child for a Prophylactic.
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