Posted on 03/09/2009 5:32:58 AM PDT by kellynla
Not to mention Santorum. I hope Santorum realizes he lost his senate seat because he backed a liberal over a pro-life conservative.
Specter should have the sense to step down. He's had a bout with cancer, he's in his late 70s and frankly he's not a Republican. I don't care who replaces him, even a Dem.
If you have to ask that, then think a bit more about how our government operates.
Why not wave the magic wand and replace a few Dems with conservative Republicans, too? How about the whole Senate?
In case you haven't noticed, there's a thing called the General Election.
That's a good question - - Toomey may be too conservative.
Highly unlikely.
If a conservative couldn't even get the primary win, why would I expect him to get a general win?
The endorsements of President Bush and Senator Santorum wouldn't have done much in the general election.
Nah... the party is committing suicide, so I guess not.
Who cares that Sen. Specter voted against pulling the troops from Iraq within 9 months?
Who cares that Sen. Specter voted in favor of building a border fence?
Who cares that Sen. Specter supports drilling in ANWR?
Who cares that Sen. Specter supports school vouchers (DC)?
Who cares that Sen. Specter supports repeal of the AMT?
Who cares that Sen. Specter voted against raising the minimum wage?
Who cares that Sen. Specter supports private Social Security accounts?
etc.
It's FAR more important to get him out of the party to let the Democrats have 60 seats to be able to force debate and votes and smoothly pass whatever the heck they want. After all, whining about America being destroyed is so much better than fighting a rear-guard action until conservatism can go on the offensive again! </sarc>
He voted for porkulus which was a horribly destructive act. Then we find out that there’s $$$ in it for cancer research which is a pet project of his.
We don’t have any more money to spend. We are enslaving our future generations to pay for our needs of today and for the entitlement benefits of people who will be long dead and buried.
We need an ebay like rating system. Where party members can rate the authenticity of republican senators. Maybe we just poll GOP donors, or the party membership.
I think Spectacle would probably get a zero rating if party members could rate his performance as a Republican Senator.
I agree. And yet you think that a Democrat would have voted against it?!?
The squeeze is on to force Specter to openly adopt the party that he has served so faithfully these many years.
We need people willing to do right by the country and its future generations. If they don’t meet the standard they need to go. Sphinctor beat his far more conservative challenger in 2004 by a very narrow margin and only with GWB (hmmm, see any similarities?) helping him.
I think the Republican party is corrupt. The party elite are more interested in holding power and enriching themselves than doing the people’s business. The sudden rush to spending discipline is laughable after what they did.
Specter hasn’t delayed a single thing. Nor have the pigeon sisters from Maine done anything except give the President the opportunity to call his march to socialism “bipartisan.”
Spoken like a winner.
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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