[MissesBush]

But a well-placed Democrat said unambiguously that Obama would not be returning to Pennsylvania to campaign for Specter before the May 18 primary.

And thus it ends, Specter's usefulness to Obama and the Dem's has run its course. The White House sees the polls and realize the race against Toomey is much closer with Sestak as their candidate, so Arlen gets thrown under the bus. Too funny. I really hope Specter can win the Dem primary. Toomey will thump him by double digits if he's the Dem's candidate. Sestak will force a difficult race here, one I'm not sure Toomey will win.

Anyone want to take any bets that Specter runs as an independent if he loses the primary? Lord please make it so.

[freeangel]

Arlen should have been put out to pasture years ago.

[Buckeye McFrog]

with all due respect to Specter’s well documented health issues, the suspicion in Pennsylvania is that he has slipped a few gears and no longer has a fully functioning brain. (nobody will say that too loud, but the voters are definitely thinking it)

[pallis]

Specter is one of the bums who didn’t think there was difference between Republicans and Democrats, and it took far too long for him to find out different. At this point, he is too old and senile to know what he is or isn’t.

[Tarpon]

As Crist will find out, LIARS don’t make good bets ...

[MrB]

[DeusExMachina05]

His comments to Orin Hatch that have come out today simply show a man who just thinks he simply jumped from one “team” to the other “team”. It was obvious from his comments that many of these lifers see “us” as the ememy and “them” as the good guys. He needs to be put out to pasture.

[SmokingJoe]

And thus it ends, Specter's usefulness to Obama and the Dem's has run its course

There is no fool like an old fool.

[Ann Archy]

He’s a RUDE person to Laura Ingraham...RUDE....OBNOXIOUS....and he IS losing it.....he’s OLD!!

[Past Your Eyes]

There’s no fool like an old fool and there’s no shortage of old fools.

[stylin19a]

“It's the party-switching,” said a senior Democrat close to the White House who has tried to help Specter but now sees his prospects dimming. “He just didn't finesse it and wound up looking pretty ham-handedly like he was trying to save his own ass.”

This source "close"to the WH, thinks he\she is on the cutting edge of hindsight, but this could not be finessed.

[Strategerist]

By far the most important issue is the extraordinary danger the political rise of Sestak is. He needs to be stopped, somehow.

You have a:

1) Good Looking Guy

2) Ex-Military

3) Seems Reasonable, but who

4) Is insane; stories about him abusing his staff in the Navy are legendary. When Mullen became CNO his first act was to FIRE Sestak.

Sestak if he continues to advance is going to be a very attractive Democratic Presidential candidate someday.