Posted on 03/24/2009 3:14:11 AM PDT by Born Conservative
It probably qualifies as the quote of the day, and it comes to you courtesy of Republican U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter.
Specter was in Camp Hill this afternoon to speak at a summit, organized by the Central Penn Business Journal, on the federal stimulus package.
After the event, he faced the usual gaggle of reporters, and was asked how he felt about word that former conservative congressman Pat Toomey will likely challenge him in 2010 (click here to read The Inquirer's story on it this morning by Tom Fitzgerald).
Toomey began seriously considering another matchup with Specter - he unsuccessfully challenged him in the 2004 Republican primary - after Specter became one of three Republicans to vote for President Obama's stimulus package.
Asked about his thoughts on Toomey earlier today, Specter reiterated his position that Toomey "has a lot of explaining to do" when it comes to his record.
"I see the front page headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer that he's going to run against me because of my single vote on the stimulus package," said Specter. "Well, I've voted 10,000 times, I don't expect people to agree with me on every vote."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
There’s something rotten in Dundee...
Time for this guy to jut go away and croak alone in an alley.
We'll just say that again. Ancient Scottish law Specter is brain dead,and needs to be replaced.
“He’s like the AIG employees: he creates the problem, now he wants the bonus,” he said of Toomey, president of the national limited-government activist group Club for Growth. “He wants to be promoted to the Senate. He’s going to have more votes to explain than I do. Stay tuned.”
Specter voted to secure those bonuses.
“I’ve voted 10,000 times”... usually with the Democrats.
I can tell you one major difference between Toomey and an AIG employee. I wouldn’t vote for or donate money to the campaign of an AIG employee. Or is that two differences?
“Well, of course I am,” Mr. Specter said when asked if he’s worried about the conservative backlash. “But (President) John Kennedy had it right. He said, ‘Sometimes the party asks too much.’ And this is something I think is necessary for the country. It goes beyond politics. It goes beyond the Democratic or Republican position. It’s the right thing for America.”
Mr. Specter said he would have supported the package even if Democrats had not added $6.5 billion in additional money for the National Institutes of Health to the final version of the bill.
Mr. Specter had sought the money for years, and had mentioned that he wanted the money in the bill when he met with President Barack Obama last week.
“That’s only one small part ... That’s not determinative in my mind,” he said.
The stimulus vote could create “a political problem,” he said, but “I thought the public interest was so important that I have to take whatever problems it brings me.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181685/posts
Yeah, like he has one left.
What the GOP/RNC is failing to understand at this point is the WAR doesn't begin with the Democrats, it only ends with them.
Mr. Steele, do you get the message?
Specter is like one of those DNC employees.
Specter is a CREEPY guy.
Spoken like a true RINO.
Hey Snarlin' I would be happy if I could agree with you on 50% of the votes, but that just ain't gonna happen. Why don't you save us all the headaches and just admit you're a flaming liberal hiding behind a Republican mask.
There is no better endorsement for Toomey than Arlen himself. Toomey for Senate! Luksik and Murphy, time to bow out.
He is close friends with a MURDERER! He’s mentally unbalanced! And he’s a POS!
• Making the Bush tax cuts permanent
• Death tax repeal
• Cutting and limiting government spending
• Social Security reform with personal retirement accounts
• Expanding free trade
• Legal reform to end abusive lawsuits
• Replacing the current tax code
• School choice
Here's an article from FR's own Salena Zito which shows that Club for Growth is an advocacy group dedicated to narrow economic issues.
"In an interview, Toomey said that he has no problem taking aggressive positions like MoveOn.org, but only within the realm of economics. The club takes no stance on other red-meat issues of the conservative base such as illegal immigration and cultural decay."
Club for Growth advocates for Republican candidates solely on these issues, so attempts to attribute non-economic positions to Toomey based on Club for Growth fall short.
This is why we need closed primaries, we must control who we run, not the opposition.
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