Specter has advised and then he consented. Just because he got it wrong………

Just like Obama said. Arlen won the election so… (my part added- gird your loins) Thanks PA.

Rob; It’s our only hope.

Here’s my wish-list:

1)Term-limits immediately and retroactively. If you’ve served x number of years already, this is your last stand.

2)No one who has served in office, their staff, nor any of their immediate family, may be a licensed lobbyist for 10 years after leaving office.

3)Lawyers are not to serve in any government body in greater proportion than the constituency they represent.

4)No one may serve in office that has not been employed in the private sector for at least 5 years.

5)I’d love to exclude Ivy league schools from being the breeding ground for our Presidents. It’s ridiculous to think how much respect and power is blindly given to them. That’s part of the impetus for the elitism we see today.

We need to be ruled by a cross-section of this country where everyone is represented and no one is excluded because of perceptions and stereotypes. Nancy Pelosi is not an intelligent person and is completely disconnected. Her only bonafides come from the fact she enunciates well and she’s from San Francisco. Case closed.

That’s the heart of it, isn’t it? But I posit that this is where the battle lines must be drawn:

If Republicans can only win by rejecting conservatism, then they shouldn’t want the win. RINO is the worst kind of beast – it’s basically an admission that “this is just a power grab, not an actual political party.”

If Pennsylvanians want liberalism, make them see it for what it is – and reap as they sow.

Specter the Defector gets elected because his “base” is Philly and the surrounding suburbs. 20 years ago, you couldn’t get elected Dog Catcher in the suburbs unless you were endorsed by the Republican party. That has changed since people have been fleeing the city for decades. He gets democrat votes in this area and the numbers overwhelm the rest of the state. Add that to the parts of PA that will still vote straight party and he gets re-elected.

Don’t count on Swan or Santorum whatever you think their credentials to be. Swan does not show the polish or toughness that he needs to win this seat. I thought that the adoration of Steelers fans would carry him to victory over Rendell, but it was a blowout the other way. Santorum doesn’t have a snowball’s chance. Democrats DETEST him for his conservative credentials and go into a mouth-frothing derangement syndrome at the mention of his name. His socking it to PA taxpayers to pay for sending his kids to fancy private schools in Virginia did not sit well with Republicans either. He had a more or less fake address in a school district that had a tight budget and a Democrat party leader on its board. That hurt him badly.

I’m afraid that this seat is going to Rep. Sestak. He is measuring the drapes in the senatorial office. He is a died-in-the-wool liberal that will get every democrat vote and he is a retired Admiral, which will trick enough Republicans to carry him in.

Specter won’t go away. He’ll have to be beaten, and beaten he will be, probably in the primary but certainly in the general election. The problem is that this is a real case of “be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.”

What about Arlen Specter did the ‘fine’ republicans in Pennsylvania think was actually conservative? Why have they repeatedly elected him? Are you all just “barely” republicans? Have you finally figured anything the ‘freak’ out??!!!

Please be careful with that brush. It’s way too broad.

You may not be aware of it, but Specter barely won the primary. That was in spite of having the GOP, President Bush and Rick Santorum (an actual conservative) on his side. (Note: Santorum only supported Specter because he was pressured into it.)

That means that there are a heck of a lot of us Republicans here in PA who recognized Spectre’s Specter’s koolaide for what it was. Yes, there are a lot of Republicans who blindly vote the way the party tells them to. But remember that Republicans are by nature also thinkers who are willing to disregard the party’s wishes when we deem them to be harmful.

There are a couple of factors you need to keep in mind.

First, Spectre Specter was in line for the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, meaning that he would be (and is) in charge of the initial Senate reviews of judicial nominations. For some Republicans, the thought of having a Republican in that seat—even a RINO like Spectre Specter—was just too tempting to ignore. A lot of us, though, realized that with friends like Spectre, who needs enemas? (No, that’s not a typo.)

Another argument that some Republicans found convincing was that Spectre was “electable”. “Hey, a true conservative can’t win in PA, but at least Spectre can win!” Of course, this aim for the mud idea ignored the fact that Pennsylvania’s junior senator at the time was one of the most conservative members of the Senate, Rick Santorum.

Finally, there was the crossover vote; Democrats changing their registration to Republican just so they could support Spectre. There wasn’t a ton of this, but it did happen.

I’m convinced that if the GOP had simply stayed out of things, Pat Toomey would have beaten Spectre handily, and stood a very good chance of beating the Democrat, who was mostly an unknown. But no! Their rush to the “middle”, just like with McCain, left us screwed no matter how we voted in the general election.

Even so, Specter acknowledges the Republican Party’s conservative wing will attempt to unseat him in next year’s primary race.

Ya think???

Even so, Specter acknowledges the Republican Party’s conservative wing …

The Republican Party used to BE conservative. Now it’s liberal with a “conservative wing”. Feh.
Marginalize us to the fringe, will you?? After 25 years as a Republican (the first 22 of those pretty proud), I registered Libertarian last week.
Take that, GOP.