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Rendell, Specter say Palin hurt McCain's chances
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 11/6/2008 | The Associated Press

Posted on 11/06/2008 8:27:09 AM PST by mak5

GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin took some heat Wednesday from two of Pennsylvania's top political leaders.

Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell told business leaders at a postelection breakfast that John McCain would have had a better chance of winning Pennsylvania with a different running mate, and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, a GOP moderate, rejected the idea that the Republican party might belong to Palin.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: mccain; pa2008; palin; pennsylvania; specter
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To: redk
In the immortal words of Ann Coulter they’re not racists they’re retards.

Saved me the trouble of typing that.......

41 posted on 11/06/2008 8:39:19 AM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: mak5

....not gonna give the RNC a dime—ever-—if someone in the party does not come out a defend Sarah Palin——these attacks are absolutely just plain vile.......Mccain lost because Mccain ran as Bob Dole...


42 posted on 11/06/2008 8:40:17 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: mak5
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, a GOP moderate

and truly Bush's Fault!

43 posted on 11/06/2008 8:40:22 AM PST by McGruff (It took a Jimma Carta to give us a Ronald Reagan.)
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To: mak5
"Pennsylvania"

Land of failed Americans.


44 posted on 11/06/2008 8:40:32 AM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: mak5

Specter has always been an asshole in my book - this just cements his ranking.


45 posted on 11/06/2008 8:40:46 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Obama, you are NOT my President!)
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To: mak5

Arlen “the magic bullet” Specter is a creep. and a coward.

We already know what Rendell is.


46 posted on 11/06/2008 8:41:28 AM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative (To those who do not support Palin.... leave the GOP now.)
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To: alarm rider

PA isn’t just blue, it is stupid. What would Murtha have to do to lose - go house to house and pee in everyone’s Wheaties?

The PA GOP moderates can kiss my rear. If McCain had followed their advice, I might have voted for Obama!


47 posted on 11/06/2008 8:43:26 AM PST by Mr Rogers (And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way - Reagan)
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To: mak5
Purge that party!

Start thinning the herds of these decrepit old mindless stooges.

48 posted on 11/06/2008 8:43:26 AM PST by G.Mason
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To: mak5
Specter exists in two modes. He is either preparing to stab a conservative in the back or he has just finished stabbing a conservative in the back. Right now he is in mode two after stabbing Governor Palin.
49 posted on 11/06/2008 8:44:25 AM PST by KarlInOhio (11/4: The revolutionary socialists beat the Fabian ones. Where can we find a capitalist party?)
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To: CMAC51
While they come from different political parties, one thing both of these guys have in common is that they are state-wide representatives of a marginally retarded group of voters.

I will never figure Pennsylvania out . . . and I actually like PA a lot.

My experience is that Pennsylvania is comprised of the following types of voters:

1. Professional malcontents in Philadelphia who are no different than their coutnerparts in any other big U.S. city;

2. Philadelphia suburbanites who have a perpetual self-esteem problem because they see their metro area as a declining version of the New York City or Washington, D.C. metro areas;

3. A lot of old people (I read somewhere that PA has the oldest median age of any state in the U.S. after Florida) who are still waiting for the steel mills to open again, and are content to rely on financial support from various levels of government until they do; and

4. A lot of socially conservative folks from rural areas who are still waiting for the steel mills to open again, and are content to rely on financial support from various levels of government until they do.

50 posted on 11/06/2008 8:44:54 AM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: mak5
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter"

Phil Spector is more conservative than Arlen.

And btw, who can forget or forgive GW Bush's campaigning for Specter in 2004 over REAL conservative Pat Toomey?

Specter and GW - two RINO turds.

51 posted on 11/06/2008 8:45:39 AM PST by AC-130 Gunship (Odinga-Hussein 0bama: D@mning us all to a "vibrant" hell of "diversity" and Marxism.)
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To: Names Ash Housewares
The dems are still attacking her.

What does that tell you?

Reminds me of a great line Coulter writes in her latest column:

Like Sarah Connor in "The Terminator," Sarah Palin is destined to give birth to a new movement. That's why the Democrats are trying to kill her.

52 posted on 11/06/2008 8:45:41 AM PST by AHerald ("Be faithful to God ... do not bother about the ridicule of the foolish." - St. Pio of Pietrelcina)
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To: mak5
How about it, Pennsylvania, can we retire Specter in 2010?

Nope. Not even if he calls them racists and rednecks. Only the Good Lord can take care of this one.

53 posted on 11/06/2008 8:47:15 AM PST by rvoitier
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To: MarkeyD
Do you really believe that Palin was the only candidate who could fire up the base? How about Jindal? How about Sanford? How about Cantor?

I believe that any of those three would have fired up the base. They may or may not have inspired as many conservatives as Palin, but they probably would have had a greater appeal to independents and some democrats. Cantor probably would have locked down Virginia and Florida and maybe a few others.

54 posted on 11/06/2008 8:47:36 AM PST by MBB1984
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To: jdub

Questioning intelligence... That’s always a part of the attack on Conservatives.


55 posted on 11/06/2008 8:47:46 AM PST by rashley (Rashley)
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To: alarm rider
Pennsylvania? It’s gone blue, they even reelected Murtha. Pennsylvania, like England is lost.

(1) It's not surprising that Murtha - a million time incumbent - defeated a political unknown.

The data will show that PA black voters came to the polls in a way they did not with Kerry and likely will not again for a non-black candidate.

One out of every eight Pennsylvanians live in Philly.

Philly and Indiana are probably the two states where electoral fraud, college turnout and black turnout really mattered.

This candidate produced a perfect trifecta.

56 posted on 11/06/2008 8:48:30 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Yeah right. /sarchasm - the gaping hole between a RINO and the truth.

I don't know about you, I'm still surprised that Specter voted in the affirmative on the last two Supreme Court nominees.
57 posted on 11/06/2008 8:48:41 AM PST by gipper81 (If anyone is asking "why?" - read the Road to Serfdom, FA Hayek)
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To: mak5
How about it, Pennsylvania, can we retire Specter in 2010?

I hope they do!

58 posted on 11/06/2008 8:49:06 AM PST by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: mak5

I am pretty sure that Sarah Palin is VERY smart. If I am correct I think a shrewd move for her would be to take several different types of I.Q. tests and then reveal the results and challenge these idiots to do the same thing.

I am SO tired of people getting away with flatly deciding that someone is not smart, or not smart “enough” or even that they are stupid.

We need to have some absolute guidelines for people seeking office from now on. They MUST release their full medical records. They MUST release their school transcripts. They MUST produce a birth certificate. They MUST take an I.Q. test and reveal the results. They MUST release their tax returns and financial interests (maybe they already have to do this). All of this type of stuff would then be off the table from the very beginning and the American people could get the debate over the issues that we deserve to have.


59 posted on 11/06/2008 8:49:06 AM PST by Anima Mundi
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To: mak5
All this piling on is a sure sign that the values she represented, the 'no compromise' stance she took, and the 'in your face' campaign she waged against Obama is something the democrats do not want to face again, ever. She represents exactly what the republican party ought to be from now on.
60 posted on 11/06/2008 8:49:08 AM PST by tbpiper
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