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Specter: Toomey is like one of those AIG employees...
Commonwealth Confidential Blog ^ | 3/23/2009

Posted on 03/24/2009 3:14:11 AM PDT by Born Conservative

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Specter is very worried...
1 posted on 03/24/2009 3:14:11 AM PDT by Born Conservative
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To: Born Conservative

There’s something rotten in Dundee...


2 posted on 03/24/2009 3:16:37 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Born Conservative

Time for this guy to jut go away and croak alone in an alley.


3 posted on 03/24/2009 3:19:45 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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Specter is very worried...

We'll just say that again. Ancient Scottish law Specter is brain dead,and needs to be replaced.

4 posted on 03/24/2009 3:20:22 AM PDT by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: Born Conservative

“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.


5 posted on 03/24/2009 3:26:33 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Born Conservative

“I’ve voted 10,000 times”... usually with the Democrats.


6 posted on 03/24/2009 3:27:53 AM PDT by RedEyeJack
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To: Born Conservative

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?


7 posted on 03/24/2009 3:28:29 AM PDT by Jaxter (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum.)
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“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


8 posted on 03/24/2009 3:28:30 AM PDT by maggief
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"... That’s not determinative in my mind,”

Yeah, like he has one left.

9 posted on 03/24/2009 3:33:48 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Born Conservative
Arlen, you've lived a long fruitful life and worked hard, you deserve retirement..and so does Pennsylvania.
10 posted on 03/24/2009 3:40:38 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Born Conservative
I'll say this again: If one red cent goes to this putz from the GOP not only will I NOT give any donations to the GOP, I'll convince my republican friends not to either. In fact I will make it a mission to oust all the rino's I can, and purge this blithering party!

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?

11 posted on 03/24/2009 4:00:10 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Gravity Of The Situation...)
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To: Born Conservative

Specter is like one of those DNC employees.


12 posted on 03/24/2009 4:12:17 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Born Conservative

Specter is a CREEPY guy.


13 posted on 03/24/2009 4:15:10 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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In other news...

Specter trying to change rules to make GOP Senate race an open primary

14 posted on 03/24/2009 4:16:29 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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WakeUpAndVote: Specter is like one of those community organizers.
15 posted on 03/24/2009 4:22:45 AM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Fump!)
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To: Born Conservative
"Well, I've voted 10,000 times, I don't expect people to agree with me on every vote."

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.

16 posted on 03/24/2009 4:26:41 AM PDT by cuz_it_aint_their_money (I'll show their president the exact same respect and loyalty that they have shown my president.)
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To: Born Conservative

There is no better endorsement for Toomey than Arlen himself. Toomey for Senate! Luksik and Murphy, time to bow out.


17 posted on 03/24/2009 4:29:09 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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He is close friends with a MURDERER! He’s mentally unbalanced! And he’s a POS!


18 posted on 03/24/2009 4:46:38 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball? - Harris to Cerrano - Major League)
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To: maggief; Salena Zito
What's with the attack on the Club for Growth? I've seen some FReepers do the same. Club for Growth has the following policy goals (all economic):

• 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.

19 posted on 03/24/2009 4:47:47 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
From the comment section of the article "I'll be voting for Specter, and will become a Republican for a day.

This is why we need closed primaries, we must control who we run, not the opposition.

20 posted on 03/24/2009 5:53:26 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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