I don't understand this. While the desire to have everyone be politically correct is obviously strong among some so-called conservatives who want only those who agree with them entirely to have a voice, the self-destructive impulse is harder to understand. Knock Specter off as Chair and you open up a scenario in which moderate Republican Senators walk across the aisle and the Republican majority thins mightily or disappaears. Recall that there are at least 3 other moderate Republicans in addition to Specter who will have no difficulty getting reelected as democrats or Independents. You may thinks this unlikely (I don't) but it is certainly not impossible. Pro-Choice Republican Senators will bridle at the notion that they will be punished for their views by people from states other than their own. So these PC rants make no sense to me unless you want to damage Republican control of the senate.
Whats the difference.Hes either going to screw us as a Dem or a so called republican.If he does switch thats one more idiot we got out of our party.
Hi Switzer. I see you signed up today just to tell me this.
I believe that the reason you have signed up today is because Specter is the last hope you and your friends have at some of the Bush agenda being blocked. The party you support has obstructed the president for 4 years, but no longer has the power to do so. Now your last hope is in a "moderate" Republican doing your dirty work. Anyone who calls Specter (or Chaffey or Snowe for that matter) a "moderate" around here just blew their cover.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a "moderate". John McCain is a "moderate". Rudy Giuliani is a "moderate". Arlen Specter is a flaming liberal.
How big a loss is it to lose a few rhino Republican Senators who will feed us a few crumbs from the conservative table at election time, then spend the next five years stabbing you in the back when it really hurts on vital issues.
At least they have to stand for election.
Another David Souter, or Anthony Kennedy can devastate you for twenty years and doesn't have to answer to anyone in this world.
Besides don't think the other side will welcome these AC DC so called Republican flip flopper's with open arms. They're not going to give them the keys to the kingdom.
They know that they can't trust them either and once they cross over the usefulness is greatly diminished.
The democrats can no longer use their vote for cover and claim that their radical agenda is bipartisan. These people hurt the party in more ways than by just voting with the other side.
We don't have the sixty votes needed to break cloture anyway, but we do have enough to force these rhino's to toe the line or get out.
Then we can deal with them the next election.
But liberal judges to the federal courts are till death do us part and the law that they make is not by One Nation Under God but by One man over God.
See the link at post #60.
He does not believe in the Constitution !