Specter switches parties
Several news outlets are reporting Sen. Arlen Specter of PA is leaving the GOP for the Democratic Party.
Read the article in USA Today.
Sen. Specter has also made a statement regarding the switch, claiming:
…the Republican Party has moved far to the right. Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats.
I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.
Apr.28, 2009 11:32 am |
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Good for Mr. Specter for deciding to caucus with a party that he associates more closely with. Do you think this will serve to drive the Republican party one direction or the other?
fantastic news.
I think I speak for all conservatives when I say “Good Riddance!”
Of course, we all know this is just a reelection ploy. He knew he would face republican opposition for his senate seat, and he feels more confident that he can win with a D beside his name.
OF course it’s a reelection ploy. He was going to face a very strong challenger and it was entirely possible a conservative was going to beat him in the Republican primary.
So he jumped ship rather than face possibly losing reelection.
I wish he would take RINOs Snowe and Collins with him. Then the remaining Republican senators would represent true conservatives for the most part.
“..the Republican Party has moved far to the right.”
You mean, aside from being branded as white-supremacist,right wing terrorists by the Liberal White House for opposing the killing of the unborn?
I think I speak for all conservatives when I say “Good Riddance!”
Of course, we all know this is just a reelection ploy. He knew he would face republican opposition for his senate seat, and he feels more confident that he can win with a D beside his name.
Posted by: Lauren at April 28, 2009 11:59 AM
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Yeah, he pretty much said that himself in the quoted statement, didn’t he? I found that pretty humorous.
I’m not surprised. Good riddance!
Hopefully someone with good MORALS and VALUES will be able to defeat him next election.
On the one hand, I hope he’s not a spectre of a major RINO exodus from the Republican party. Politics is said to be the art of the possible; purism consumes its own. On the other hand, perhaps RINO’s do more harm than good. If he’s really a Democrat, then good riddance to him.
I’d rather he be a spectre of the Republican future in the sense that he signals reduced numbers (their true size) than that he water down and corrupt their Republican distinctions.
If nothing else this will certainly make it more difficult to defeat Mr. Specter next election cycle. With that said it appears as if he has pleased both sides of the aisle with this decision.
Paul Raushenbush said, “Barack Obama has taken the steam out of the culture wars somewhat by his efforts at reaching across the aisle on questions such as abortion.”
Actually, Barack Obama has taken the “team” out of the culture wars somewhat by his over-reaching with “I’ll…” on questions such as abortion.
” I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.”
Now you find yourself? Now?
21 points down in a poll must be rather humbling, right Benedict Arlen?
He was a shame to the republicans. He is now where he fits in. I hope he take Mccain. Mccain is also straddling 2 parties. Spector is just like Murtha.
About damn time.
Wish John L was here to give us his views. LOL
Arlen Specter has just discovered that he is a liberal.
Reminds me of the pastor’s wife who woke up one morning and discovered she was a female homosexual. She bid her husband and children adieu and moved in with her most recent sex partner.
If the main stream media were reporting on that story the headline would read something like this:
“Husband’s heterosexuality drives wife into arms of lesbian lover.”
Arlen Specter was never a Reagan convervative or even a Reagan republican. He was fortunate enough to be running for the Senate as republican when mainstream america’s revlusion for Jimmy Carter and things democrat catapulted Reagan into the White House.
The republican party has not become more conservative, if any thing it has become more liberal, but it has not kept pace with the lefward lurch of the ‘progressives’ in the democrat party. The gulf may be growing between the two, but liberal democrats are primarily responsible for the ever widening gap.
It is not the social and fiscal conservatives who have moved further to the right, but the liberals who have moved increasingly leftward.
I do not know a single conservative who was prolife in the 80’s who has moderated their position on child killing, or on their desire for a balanced budget and eliminating the national debt.
Moderates, seeking a political haven in an angry sea of public discontent have taken refuge in the mushy and meaningless middle ground. Like impotent jellyfish they have been pushed and pulled ever leftward by the fickle winds of public opinion and the political storm warnings of the misleading meteorologists in the pop media culture.
What is happiness to a consevative republican?
A leftward bound Arlen Specter leaving the republican party with Olmpia Snow under one arm and Susan Collins under the other.
yor bro ken