Arlen Specter Trusted The Democrats, Bad Move
May 7, 2009 Political
I am absolutely ecstatic that Arlen Specter finally went home to the Democrats where he belongs. I will not miss him in the party and I hope he gets his rear end handed to him on a platter in the next election. He changed parties for one reason and one reason only and that is because he could not win as a Republican. His switch had nothing to do with aligning more with Democrats because his views have aligned with them for a while. He was the guy who derided those who switch parties during a term and stated he would introduce a rules change to prevent it. He also said he would not switch parties as recently as March.
But then he found out that his narrow victory last time was no fluke and that Republicans were not happy with how he voted on the stimulus. He decided to switch parties rather than face the voters who put him in office.
He is a coward.
However, he has learned a tough lesson. The Democrats promised him the moon to get him to switch and that included him keeping his seniority on the committees on which he served. Looks like that promise, made by Harry Reid, had a shorter shelf life than an Obama promise. Now that Specter is a Democrat he will be moved all the way to the end of the seniority line except on one committee where he will be next to last. The Democrats stripped him of the seniority they promised him he could keep.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Now he is a non issue except he gives the Democrats enough votes to avoid a filibuster (assuming Franken wins his contested race). However, he has been screwed and will be all the way behind all the other Democrats, even those who were children when he was first elected.
HA HA HA
I think it is great. If this twerp had stayed a Republican he would have retained seniority. Of course he can’t switch back because the Republicans will not have him and even if they did he would lose the election in 2010.
I have always said that you should never trust a Democrat. Specter was a darling when he voted with them and when they were courting him. Now that they have him he is not so special.
Enjoy what little time you have left in the Senate Arlen. Enjoy your lack of seniority.
Big Dog salute to Gribbit
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Arlen Specter Finally Admits What We All Knew
Apr 28, 2009 Political
And that is that he was a Republican in Name Only (RINO).
Arlen Specter has announced today that he will switch parties and become a Democrat. This is a formality because he was a Democrat for a long time. The name change just makes it official. Specter stated that he did this because he finds his views NOW align more closely with the Democrats than the Republicans but who is he kidding? Specter has been a supporter of abortion and gay marriage and he has voted with the Democrats on a number of issues that are not viewed favorably by Republicans. The real issue is that Specter has ticked off Republicans and he knows he cannot win in 2010 if he remains in the party.
It is obvious that Specter is doing this because he wants to remain in politics regardless of what the people want. On Saint Patrick’s Day he said he was not going to switch parties because he believed that it was important to have checks and balances. I imagine he does not believe in that if it means he will be out of a job.
Specter is running as a Democrat so that he can keep his job in the Senate because it is about power and nothing else. He can’t let a pesky thing like voters get in the way of what he wants. He has basically decided that the voters who have vowed to get rid of him don’t have that right and don’t know what they are doing and that is why he switched. Specter stated:
“I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate,” Breitbart
Isn’t that what primaries (and elections in general) are for? Are not the voters supposed to judge a candidate and decide if he is worthy of being elected or reelected? What Specter is saying is that he is unwilling to have the people who put him in office and whose views he is supposed to reflect decide on his future because he was inadequate and did not do a good job. He knows that he did not hold Republican values or he would not be in this situation. He was more than willing to allow them to judge his record when they supported him.
The defection of Specter and the abandonment of his checks and balances means that the Democrats will likely have the 60 votes they need to prevent a filibuster on most issues. This means that many things will pass unopposed and puts us on an even faster track to hell.
I hope Specter loses the Democratic primary and is soundly defeated. He has given any long time Democrat a lot of ammunition to use because any challenger can attack Specter for all his years as a Republican.
Specter is confusing the adoration Democrats have for him for voting with them, especially on all this recent spending, as a commitment to him. I hope he finds out that he is not loved at all.
He needs to go and it should be obvious to anyone from either party. Specter is putting his political future ahead of his country and Pennsylvania voters and is dismissing Republicans because they are tired of his inability to do a good job.
The big issue right now is the Swine Flu. At least the Republican Party is partially cured of the RINO virus…
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Just A Little Chicken
Apr 28, 2009 Political
Well, now we know that politicians are whores who have no taste, and no morals- it shouldn’t come as a surprise, I guess. It’s just disappointing to see the dissolution front and center.
The latest example to come to light is that of Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania RINO (Republican in name only). This should not come as a surprise to anyone who has observed his voting record over the years, where it has become painfully apparent that he, like all Democrats suffered from Lubner’s Disease, first diagnosed in 1976, on Saturday Night Live. In a skit with Bill Murray and Gilda Radner, it was explained that Lubner’s Disease was when one was born without a spine- a perfect description of Sen. Specter and the rest of the Liberals in the House and Senate.
Arlie knew that he wouldn’t win re- election as a Republican, with competition against a real conservative. He was too limp on contentious problems, and probably has “issues” with wanting approval from others.
Well Gee Whiz, he can play with all the “In” people and go to the “A” class parties, and I guess that might be important to Arlie Boy, but his constituents might just be feeling a bit betrayed- or not, as they are also home to Jackie “Our Army is Murdering Scum” Murtha, and I understand that Joe “Job Security” Biden is from Scranton, so perhaps Pennsylvania does have aberrant people in their political world. Perhaps they elect intellectually “challenged” people in order to get them out of the state. That certainly would make more sense than electing these mokes, believing that these people would have a moral or ethical center that might guide them in their decisions.
Now, I guess, we wait for the other shoe to drop regarding Olympia Snowe, and/ or Susan Collins, two more “moderate”, or spineless Republicrats who can’t seem to decide who to dance with, in terms of their party.
I have a bias against what consider betrayal- if he felt that way, he should have run as a Democrat the last time he was up for election- I mean, come on, this wasn’t like having a bad hair day- he had to have thought it out for more than a day or so. Heck, his decisions for the past six years alone have indicated that he would roll over for anyone willing to scratch his belly, as long as the person scratching was liberal.
Arlie has a problem- he might like the manly feel of calling himself a conservative, but in the end, he couldn’t hang with making the hard decisions needed to BE a conservative. He likes to be liked too much for that to happen, and besides, he is old and probably feels that if the country goes down the toilet, he won’t be around to see it.
What a coward.
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William Ayers Is Still A Coward
Oct 27, 2008 Political
Back in the 1960s William Ayers, in cowardly fashion, terrorized the nation with his band of misfits and malcontents by bombing buildings and killing police officers. Terrorism is nothing more than cowardice and people who participate in it are nothing more than cowards. It is easy to secretly attack innocent people without any worry that they will fight back. If Ayers and his buddies had any testicular fortitude they would have fought in the open.
Ever since Ayers became cannon fodder for the McCain campaign, William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist, went into hiding. Rather than face the people who have questions about him, he decided to hide like the wimpy little coward that he is. Ayers’ response to the attention is that it is time for the GOP to get over it. I guess he thinks we should just forget the destruction, injuries, and deaths that he and his peeps caused. In Ayers’ mind, we should probably just get over 9/11.
Ayers is lamenting the attention that he has received since his fellow radical Barack Obama decided to run for the presidency. He cries that he receives endless mention by people like Bill O’Reilly. Ayers certainly wanted attention when he was attacking our government and the people of this nation. Ayers was certainly looking for attention when he declared war on this country and he certainly wanted attention when he was waging that war. He certainly wanted attention when his group devised the plan to blow up soldiers and their dates at Fort Dix. Thank God the bomb blew up and killed some of his people instead of our nation’s heroes.
Because of a technicality, Ayers was never prosecuted. He was jubilant when he said that he was guilty as sin and free as a bird. Yes, only in America.
Ayers slithered into a forum where he was the focus of attention of the 60 or so of the mind numbed Obama followers who came to hear him. The event was not open to reporters because Ayers is a coward. One did manage to sneak in and stated that there were laughs at “spreading the wealth” and the “Republican revolution.” If this appearance was like his others he spent time bashing the country and talking about the evils of capitalism. At the end of the appearance, he slithered out a back door where awaiting reporters were greeted with a “no comment”” as he was whisked away in a cab.
Ayers is a low life, scum sucking coward who attacked this country. The only sadness I have about his people being blown up is that all of them were not in the room went it went boom. It would have been fitting and it would have rid us of this parasite. It would have also prevented him from reproducing.
If Obama is elected and we are tested like Biden says will happen (mark his words), the only real poetic justice will be if that test wipes out Ayers and his family. If McCain is elected maybe the shock will give Ayers a heart attack and he will die a slow and agonizing death.
Just like that coward deserves.
Source:
Breitbart
