Posted on 03/31/2009 7:19:43 PM PDT by Born Conservative
The similarities are striking: Both men are longtime senators, from the Northeast, and Jewish. Their speaking styles can best be described as uninspiring. Each has been vilified by members of his own party for a tendency to vote with the opposition. Their bids for the presidency went nowhere.
Both men can be quite gruff, but they are highly respected for their statesmanlike qualities. And they have shown considerable political courage throughout their careers, often casting votes that damaged their reelection chances based on the belief that they were acting in the best interests of their constituents and the nation.
The stories of Joe Lieberman and Arlen Specter are remarkably parallel, and the two senators are increasingly likely to have one more thing in common - rejection by their party's voters. But unlike his Connecticut counterpart, who emerged from the Democratic Party's banishment to return to Washington as an independent, Specter's alternate route back to Capitol Hill is strewn with obstacles that may mean the end of the line for the ultimate political survivor.
Specter's potential problems in next year's Republican primary are well-documented. The seething antipathy toward him within the conservative base of the state's Republican Party has created a toxic environment for his reelection bid. And with many of the GOP's moderates now residing in the Democratic Party, Specter faces a more conservative and hostile primary electorate than he has in the past.
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I heard Spector speak when he started his political career in the 1960’s. He’s lost his fire and his mind.
Sayanora Arlen.
/johnny
Yes. Lieberman is a liberal on every issue but the WOT, but he voted his conscience on that one issue, and the voters in Connecticut respected him for it and rejected the peacenik candidate.
Specter didn’t vote for Porculus because it was a conscience issue. He voted for it because it was pork.
Also, I would add, the Democrat leadership pretty much abandoned Lieberman. But the Republican leadership pretty much ignored Specter’s misbehavior. If he loses, it will be because of the voters, not the party.
In other words, there are scarcely any resemblances at all between these two. Just some typical leftist distortions.
I would make 2 additions to that statement: 1. He voted for it because HE'S A LIBERAL and 2. He voted for it because he specifically got billions more in funding for the National Institutes of Health.
Specter has been a self-serving scumbag his whole life of “public service”.
I could be flat broke and I’d still donate to his opponent.
I can’t think of a better opportunity to send a message to the RINOs than defeating Specter. He’s right up there with McCain on the obnoxious scale.
I agree.
I agree with that.
has voted against banning the hideous procedure known as partial-birth abortion --- which is really infanticide.
led the effort to stop Robert Bork from becoming a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
voted for the far-Left extreme Liberal Ruth Bader Ginzburg to become a high-court justice.
refused to vote for the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
opposed giving the Boy Scouts access to schools and Federal buildings unless they agreed to allow homosexuals Scout leaders.
I've never like Specter.
The difference is, Connecticut wouldn’t vote for a Republican even if Jesus himself ran as an R.
Republicans voted for Lieberman and helped save his seat.
Then he went back and voted lock step with the dems cept for the war on terror.
Again we have Specter running for re-election and he needs help.
Go piss up a rope there Arlen.
CT wouldn’t vote for Jesus on any label! The CT of Nathan Hale and Thomas Hooker would have done so though.
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