Cornyn’s an idiot. And I can say that because I voted for the idiot and he’s my idiot.
If the GOP backs Specter, I will leave the GOP. I’ve about had enough of RINOs.
Spectre needs to be put away by James Bond.
It is good news for Toomey that the PA GOP is not endorsing Specter. I heard Michael Steele subbing for Bill Bennett a couple weeks ago and he was asked who the GOP would support. Steele responded that it was up to the PA GOP. If the state party, for PA or any state, does not endorse a candidate, then the RNC will not back a candidate. I hate the thought of RNC money going to Specter. It looks like that won’t be happening. I hope it stays that way.
And the party hierarchy continues its march off the cliff. And it’s where they belong, problem is, they are taking us and the country with them.
Oxygen wasters.
They are going to sabotage Palin or any other conservative that rises to the top. And the really disgusting thing is that they will cooperate with the media to do it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181685/posts
Specter to buck party, vote for stimulus ($6.5b pay to play?)
Scraton Times ^ | February 09, 2009 | BORYS KRAWCZENIUK
Concerned about the nation’s “very severe economic recession,” U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter said today he plans to vote for Senate Democrats’ economic stimulus package, despite the political risk.
“If we don’t act, we may find ourselves in a depression like 1929,” Mr. Specter said after visiting the Schott Glass Technologies plant in Duryea. “That has to be avoided.”
Mr. Specter, a Republican and part of a bipartisan group of senators who worked on the proposal, said the $827 billion Senate version is far less expensive than what Democratic Senate leaders originally proposed.
“It cuts the Democratic proposal by $110 billion, which is a lot of money,” he said, noting criticism of the Senate proposal by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “So that’s a sign we must be on the right track.”
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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.”
Cornyn is wrong on this one.
Given his position, he can’t very well go against an incumbent in the primary contest, but he sure as hell doesn’t have to come out FOR him. He should have just kept his mouth shut.
That might not be the case with a half-decent incumbent challenged by some kind of idiot, but that’s certainly not the case here. Specter abandoned the party on what may have been the most important vote in our lifetime. And Toomey has just as good a chance of getting elected at this point in the general as Specter does.
Should read, "...FINAL battle of his 30-year senate career."
the dem smear team and acorn will probably get behind spector,we can only hope him and the rest of the pathetic vermin on both sides gets out in the next few years,but unlike the republicans ,the dems are planning on keeping what they got and will do whatever it takes to accomplish their goals,even if its electing republicans.
Arlen is done in PA.....
Maybe his BFF, BO, will bail Specter out with campaign funds since Arlen helped him pass his Porkulus Bill. One of Pres. Bush’s worst mistakes was helping this sorry excuse for a Republican win re-election.
Term limits should have taken Arlen out about 20 years ago.....