Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
One of George Bush's biggest mistakes was to support this backstabber in his last primary, which he probably would have lost to Toomey if the White House had stayed out of it.
I desperately hope a real democrat can defeat him in the primary. I'd rather see Barny Frank in that seat than this weasel.
His switch was based on nothing more principled than a desperate desire to hang onto his seat. From the Post article:
"Because of the shrinking Republican vote in the state, Specter was seen as a dead man walking politically in the primary with polling showing him trailing Toomey by ten or more points. The bar for Specter to run as an independent was also extremely high due to the rules governing such a third party candidacy.
That left a Democratic candidacy as Specter's best option if he wanted to remain in the Senate beyond 2010."
Quote from smilingsynic:
The GOP is trying hard to become a permanent Southern-based minority party.
Moderates like Specter, Snowe, and Collins are clearly not welcome in the Republican party. I expect more to leave and head to the bigger, more tolerant tent on the other side.
Independents like me have increasingly fled the Republican party in recent years. I expect more to leave.
Quote from Landis82:
The TRUTH hurts, doesn't it?
That's why I changed my voter registration from the GOP after 28 years . . . The GOP is a shell of its former self. They don't even know what they stand for anymore.
Sad, but true.
Quote from Tom B:
Is Specter a man of integrity?
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/04/28/specter-had-disavowed-a-switch/
Quote from Tom B:
Is Specter a man of integrity?
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/04/28/specter-had-disavowed-a-switch/
Quote from seneca_roman:
Another step in the Republicans' journey to becoming meaningless. To bad, I once liked them but now they seem to be the party of hate and racism stapled to southern conservatives and the extreme religious right.
They have taken Nancy Reagan's, "just say no" to meaningless heights.
60/40 once the clown in Minn gets seated.
Snowe of Maine summed it up nicely:
ââ¬ÅI happened to win with 74 percent of the vote in a blue-collar state, but no one asked me, 'How did you do it?'ââ¬Â she said. ââ¬ÅSeems to me that would have been the first question that would have come from the Republican Party to find out so we could avoid further losses."
Seneca