Posted on 03/12/2012 10:45:51 AM PDT by mojitojoe
Former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) writes in a new book that President Obama ditched him in the 2010 election after he helped Obama win the biggest legislative victory of his term by passing healthcare reform.
Specter also claims that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did not uphold his promise to grant him seniority accrued over 28 years of service in the Senate as a Republican.
Specter, who rocked Washington’s political establishment and made headlines around the country when he left the Republican Party to join Democrats in April of 2009, has kept quiet about these slights until now.
He makes surprising revelations about Republican leaders, as well — he writes that former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) told him that he would have made the same decision to defect from the GOP if he had been in Specter’s position.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
“I realized that the president and his advisers were un-shy about supporting my candidacy after being stung by Obama’s failed rescue attempts for New Jersey governor Jon Corzine and Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley. They were reluctant to become victims of a trifecta,” he writes.
The snub was made all the more painful by Obama flying over Philadelphia en route to New York City a few days before the election and then on primary day jetting over Pittsburgh to visit a factory in Youngstown, Ohio, 22 miles from the Pennsylvania border, to promote the 2009 economic stimulus law. The painful irony for Specter is that his vote for the stimulus legislation, which was instrumental to its passage, hastened his departure from the Republican Party. More at link.....
What’s the problem??? Arlen is white.
Don’t it just break your heart....
What did you expect, Specter?
Apparently Arlen never heard the story about giving the scorpion the ride across the river. Too bad.
That sorry POS has no excuse
“There’s no fool like an old fool.”
Oh WOE!
For those who try to claim that Dole is conservative.
In this case, Obama did us all a favor. Specter is a major malfunction.
In this case, Obama did us all a favor. Specter is a major malfunction.
Even traitors have no use for traitors. Can’t trust a damn one of them.
Nelson Muntz graphic in 5, 4, 3, 2...
The NEA and union thugs also failed to give Specter any backing in the Democrat primary. You'd think it might serve as a lesson to Quisling Republicans. But apparently not.
For any of you interested, Specter now has a new career as a lobbyist for China's business interests. Is anybody surprised?
IIRC, Santorum ran against Arlen in the prior election and Dubya supported Arlen for some damned reason, which is what pushed Santorum out of the Senate. Karma’s a butch.
That’s what usually happens to a prostitute. Only Arlen didn’t get paid!
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving turncoat Democrat.
Specter threw Americans under the bus when he voted for Obamacare.
Not.
Dang, that seems to be happening about twice a day so far:
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