Interesting...
Thinkprogress:
With former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-PA), who currently heads the right-wing Club for Growth, announcing that he will challenge Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) in a primary battle for his Senate seat in 2010, The Hill is reporting that Specter now has a “strong incentive to abandon his party this year.” Specter barely beat Toomey in 2004 and 2010 looks to be a much tougher fight:
Pennsylvania political experts say that Specter would likely face a more difficult challenge in 2010 because the Republican primary electorate in Pennsylvania has become more conservative.
“I think he has a lot of problems,” said Terry Madonna, a professor of political science at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. “I think this is the test of lifetime.”
Madonna estimated that between 150,000 to 200,000 centrist Republicans switched registration to the Democratic Party in the 2008 election cycle, leaving the remaining GOP electorate more conservative.
If Specter were to lose to Toomey in the primary, he would not be able to run as an independent under Pennsylvania election law.
2 comments:
How about he just get the heck outta government all together? He's personally responsible for more coverups for the GOP before most of us were even born...
Specter has had a long run and did well for his party. I remember watching him at the Kennedy Commission when he gave a story that any child wouldn't believe. Yes it was the famous Magic Bullet story long before Harry Porter. I asked my Dad why he was lying and couldn't he come up with something that at lease sound good. Yes my Dad knew I questioned everything. But to hear a Senator say one bullet traveled up, over, inside, outside and back again even going through medel sound like the biggest lie I had ever heard. At school we use to say it sound like the dog eat your homework but you don't have a dog. Things have a way of working themselves out in life. I followed and believed in John Fitzgerald Kennedy and I hoped one day the truth would come out. I knew his assasination was arranged by the US Govenment. Many who followed the attempted assassination of FDR were feeding the plan. Remember George H. W. Bush's Father was a player in the FDR assassination failure and many GOP had good reason to stop the Kennedys. Times were different then as Kennedy looked to equality for all and well some of our Law Makers didn't see that happening. Specter did his part at snow balling the adults and he was well paid for it. That was one of the lowest times for America and yes the World. Pay back might be slow coming but it will get there and Specter will finally see what accepting and offer from Satan means when it pay back time.
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