Posted on 04/20/2009 1:17:30 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Former Pennsylvania Congressman Pat Toomey almost inched out a victory against long-term Washington fixture and faux Republican Arlen Specter in 2004. It was one of the most expensive primary campaigns in U.S. history.
A mere 17,000 votes separated the two out of the 1 million votes cast. That was less than two percentage points.
And here comes the rematch. On Tax Day, Toomey, who just stepped down as president of The Club for Growth, formally announced he'll yet again attempt to unseat the Keystone State's senior U.S. senator.
Specter already is sweating. Just the hint of a Toomey run had Specter running negative campaign ads that skirted, if not outright distorted, the truth. One thing is crystal clear -- Arlen Specter is scared. And he should be.
Let's look at his voting record.
Specter consistently has voted for increased government spending and a liberal agenda on social, labor, immigration and national security policies. In just the past few months, Specter voted in favor of the unprecedented and outrageous Wall Street and auto company bailouts and the massive "stimulus" bill better characterized as "spendulus."
For three decades Specter has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from party political committees like the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican National Committee. These organizations raise money from Republican donors across the country who give to ensure that candidates who will vote to protect and defend Republican principles in Congress are supported.
But Specter, in a repeated exercise of what can only be termed temerarious arrogance, has done just the opposite.
On the most serious and substantive issues of the day, he often has thumbed his nose at the GOP and voted with the Left.
Manic? Yes. A maverick? No.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Toomey’s a RINO!
Not a RINO - a flip-flopper at best.
All the things he will accuse Specter of that make him supposedly inadequate to be Senator from Pennsylvania will be small cookies compared to the inadequacies of a man, Rudy Giuliani, to whom Toomey tried to hand the keys to the country and the helm of the Conservative movement.
Toomey isn’t a RINO, he’s a hypocrite. And a BIG one.
The GOP raised more money than the DNC in March!
I heard you, although my screen name isn’t changing.
I’m watching him closely.
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