Posted on 04/15/2009 4:39:18 PM PDT by Steelfish
Specter Faces Conservative Challenge From Familiar Foe
Former Rep. Pat Toomey's decision to challenge Arlen Specter for his Senate seat sets up a rematch of the bitter war they waged against each other in 2004.
By Trish Turner FOXNews.com Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Former Rep. Pat Toomey officially threw his hat into the 2010 Pennsylvania Senate race Wednesday in a bid to unseat five term incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter.
"I am now a candidate for the U.S. Senate," the 47-year old Republican declared on a conservative radio show in his home town of Allentown.
Specter has wasted no time in warning Republicans of the consequences of supporting Toomey, whom he claims is unelectable in a general election.
"Without Sen. Specter's seat in the Senate, which Mr. Toomey would certainly lose, there would no longer be 41 Republican senators to filibuster and stop the Democrats from passing card check, raising taxes, and implementing President Obama's massive spending plans," Christopher Nicholas, campaign manager for Specter, said in a statement Wednesday.
Specter and Toomey are no strangers to this fight. They waged a bitter war against each other in 2004, with Toomey losing by just over one percent of the vote. This time around it promises be just as rough, with the mud already flying.
Toomey, as former head of the anti-tax Club for Growth, has directed his fire at the moderate Republian for months, fanning the flames of populist anger at taxpayer-funded corporate bailouts of Wall Street fat cats and a multi-billion stimulus bill, a dangerous political recipe for the incumbent who supported these controversial measures.
"I think our federal government has taken a very dangerous lurch to the left," Toomey said on the "Gunther Show."
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???...lolololol
we don't have 41 seats now because of you, Snowe and Collins dimwit
How often can Spector be counted on to vote as a republican?
Hope springs eternal...I may send Pat Toomey a twenty...
Send Spector home.
Arlen, you couldn’t be more obvious as a closet democrat if you wore a dress and an I Love Barry button. Tell me the last time that you didn’t support a democrat proposal. Like the telephone lady says, “Your Time Is Up!”
Question: Will PA elect a real conservative?
This evening the Republican Party called asking for a donation. I told them that I was officially renouncing my membership in the Republican Party because of the party’s decision to support Arlen Specter for re-election.
Told ‘em that as long as the party supported the RINO’s, they would NEVER regain power in D.C.
One big difference is the gobs of cash Toomey will have from all the Republicans furious at Spector.
So, where can I donate to Toomey?
Don’t worry Arlen, I’m sure W and Rick will once again go to the mat to save your @ss...
Go Toomey!!!!
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