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Specter Faces Make-or-Break Decision ( May leave GOP )
THE HILL ^ | 03/07/09 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 03/09/2009 5:32:58 AM PDT by kellynla

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) does not have the fall-back option of running as an independent should he lose his 2010 primary election, giving the senior lawmaker strong incentive to abandon his party this year.

Specter faces an extremely difficult primary race against former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), the conservative firebrand who lost his bid to oust Specter from his seat in the 2004 GOP primary by a mere 17,000 votes (out of more than a million cast).

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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: arlenspecter; arlensphincter; everheardofkeywords; everheardoftopics; gop; pennsylvania; rino
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To: icwhatudo

If he becomes a democrat, how will we be able to tell?
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We won’t, good riddance Specter you piece of sh*t


61 posted on 03/09/2009 7:43:27 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: kellynla

I thought it was obvious that he had left the GOP a long time ago.


62 posted on 03/09/2009 7:45:23 AM PDT by vis a vis
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To: kellynla

Petition GOP to DEMAND that Specter Leave Party.
662 current signatures at:
gopetition.com/petitions/expel-specter.html

Petition:
We, the undersigned, respectfully request that the Republican National Committee and its Chairman, Michael Steele, demand that Senator Specter officially resign his membership in the Republican Party.

His active hostility toward Republican positions can no longer be tolerated.
Sign the petition at: gopetition.com/petitions/expel-specter.html


63 posted on 03/09/2009 7:45:24 AM PDT by YaZhynka
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To: NewHampshireDuo

Make it a three-some: take Snowe and Collins too.
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UGH! I can’t stand either one of those bi*ches.


64 posted on 03/09/2009 7:45:51 AM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: kellynla

Assuming Specter stays put, the willingness of the GOP to back Toomey against him will be an excellent indicator of whether Steele and company have learned anything.


65 posted on 03/09/2009 7:50:32 AM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: kellynla

Hopefully he will take Snowe, Collins, Juan McCain, Miss Lindsay Graham-nesty and Charlene Crist.


66 posted on 03/09/2009 7:51:30 AM PDT by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
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To: Gondring

Ever consider that a real conservative - rather than this POS - might have won in his absence? No?


68 posted on 03/09/2009 7:55:37 AM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: bill1952

Given, that every dangerous and foolish asshole in Congress was ELECTED — speaks volumes about the level of depravity to which the electorate has sunk.

Americans clearly have become the least informed or sophisticated thinkers in the industrialized world.....


69 posted on 03/09/2009 8:20:20 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: river rat
Our education system is without parallel - since Pol Pot.
70 posted on 03/09/2009 8:23:23 AM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: kellynla

I have emailed him at least three, maybe four, times that if he cannot be a traditionally conservative Constitution defending Republican, he should leave the Party.

Hard to believe he actually read that email.

LOL, I know I’m teasing, it was YOUR email that finally did it for him.


71 posted on 03/09/2009 8:32:30 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (The Constitution & Bill of Rights stand as a whole. Remove any part & nullify the whole.)
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To: Energizer45678
Bye bye Arlen— Pennsylvania’s useless Senator

Are you implying the empty suit called Robert P. Casey is actually useful?

72 posted on 03/09/2009 8:38:22 AM PDT by mort56 (He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. - Ben Franklin)
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To: bill1952

We in Kalifornicate are learning it is VERY expensive to “educate” dumb asses...

According to one study, completed in 2007 - We spend an average of $8,500 and a high of $23,800/yr per year per student in order to drive their intellect DOWN to barely functional moron levels, capable of installing condoms on cucumbers, able to describe in detail 5 forms of sodomy, learn to face Mecca and pray, learn that America is the villain of the world and that minorities really accomplished all that is currently claimed by dead white men.

This helps explain why Kalifornicate is a SOLID Democrat stronghold....

It’s clear - that the prevalence of anal sex in Kalifornicate has led to an excess supply of Democrats...


73 posted on 03/09/2009 8:41:45 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: kellynla

Suck Fpecter


74 posted on 03/09/2009 8:51:55 AM PDT by jarofants
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To: mort56
Are you implying the empty suit called Robert P. Casey is actually useful?

To the democrats, he is.

To the conservatives, spector is useless.

75 posted on 03/09/2009 9:08:45 AM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: river rat
Apropos, Philadelphia has self labeled itself as “the gay capital of the East.”

thanks

76 posted on 03/09/2009 9:10:35 AM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: Gondring

You make the same observation as I. While not a fan of Sphincter, the zeal to destroy the GOP is greater than to dislodge horrible liberal democrats for some.


77 posted on 03/09/2009 4:05:24 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: kellynla

“Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) does not have the fall-back option of running as an independent should he lose his 2010 primary election, giving the senior lawmaker strong incentive to abandon his party this year.”

SO? Get the F**K OUT!


78 posted on 03/09/2009 8:13:37 PM PDT by Grunthor (All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.)
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To: Gondring

Well I guess someone had to defend that piece of liberal filth.


79 posted on 03/09/2009 8:14:50 PM PDT by Grunthor (All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.)
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To: kellynla

Arlen will be taken out in the primaries this time, if he doesn’t retire, there is no doubt.


80 posted on 03/09/2009 8:15:58 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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