So much for the freepers who shoved Specter down our throats in 2004 with the promise "hold your nose to stop Hoeffel and you'll only have to put up with one more term... no way will he run in 2010". Looks like the old geezer won't leave until he's carried out feet first.
Bad trend going into 2010... seems the GOP is pushing for a lot of REALLY bad RINOs to run in highly contested races. And I'm talking REAL liberals, not the type of moderate squishy center-right candidates that freepers whined about in 2006 and 2008. I couldn't bring myself to support ANY of these in a general election, even in a close race against a socialist RAT:
- Mark "progressive groups rate me better than Obama" Kirk, IL (yes he actually ran campaign ads GLOATING about that)
- Arlen "Scottish Law" Specter, PA
- Peter King of Slick Willie & IRA Terrorist Fan Club, NY
- Arnold Schwartzekennedy, CA
I suppose I could hold my nose for odious Mike Castle running for U.S. Senator in Delaware if I HAD to, but suffice it to I'd rather spend four hours undergoing gallbladder surgery.
And I really tend to go out a limp for RINOs if it's the general election and they're the only thing that stands in the way of an all out commie RAT. I even supported Tom Kean Jr. in New Jersey, son of ultra RINO Tom Kean Sr. (and senior is so bad he openly supported the Dem candidate until his son entered the race). In the last election, the only two U.S. Senate candidates the GOP nominated that I wouldn't endorse were Collins (Maine) and Sauerberg (IL). And in the later case, as much as I hated unqualified combine candidate Sauerberg, I would have held my nose for him IF was polling within the margin of error the week of the election and actually had a chance to "beat Durbin"
Good assessment, he’s often at the forefront and sometimes fights for something good. More than you can say for CollinSnowne, they strike me as backbenchers.
I don’t know if the Kindergarten cop will be running for the Senate. He’s disavowed interest but is he really gonna leave his political career? (please yes). Of course what he really wants is a constitutional amendment to allow him to run for President. Thank goodness that will never happen just imagine that. “Where do you differ with President Obama Governor?” He’d probably say he’s against socialism as he always does (pretty effectively) which is a bald-faced lie or else he doesn’t know what the word means. I’d vote for him to beat Boxer but I’d never support him for an executive position again. His voting record would likely be moderate democrat.
Castle is basally the RINO house leader isn’t he? I’d rate him as the worst of the bunch. I can totally see him pulling a Kent Williams if there was a 218-217 GOP majoirty.
Interestingly he may have a real race for the house if as I would expect he wusses out on facing Biden Jr. Jack Markell the former LT Governor who unexpectedly lost the rat primary for Governor may be running.
“In the last election, the only two U.S. Senate candidates the GOP nominated that I wouldn’t endorse were Collins (Maine) and Sauerberg (IL)”
You might have missed the gadly elderly Green party member who beat the chosen GOPer and won the nomination in Montana.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bob_Kelleher#Political_Experience
I guess I’d have voted for him anyway to protest the certain to win Max Baucus. But he called for nationalization of the oil industry and single payer health care. Barf. Total clusterf888 by the Montana Republicans.