Another Arlen “Human Ipecac” Specter moment
After exploiting the death of Jack Kemp for political self-aggrandizement, is there any lower depth to which Arlen Specter could possibly sink?
Why, yes. Yes, there is. He pimped a “Specter for the Cure” website under the guise of rallying people to help lobby for increased medical research. One wrinkle: “Specter for the Cure” is actually “Specter for His Campaign Coffers.”
Here’s how he plugged the site over the weekend:
“And one of the items that I’m working on, Bob, is funding for medical research. I’ve been the spear carrier to increase medical research. And I’ve even established a Web site, Specterforthecure.com, to try to get people to put more pressure on Congress to join me in getting more funding.
Via the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the truth:
While it appears at first glance to be a fundraising site for a reform movement to help Sen. Arlen Specter fund programs that will seek cures for major diseases, it’s actually a fundraising arm for Specter’s re-election.
A Specter spokeswoman told The Watchdog: “Specterforthecure.com is explicit throughout — including the name itself — that the site raises money for a candidate.
Via David Freddoso:
It does not say anywhere explicitly in the text that your donation goes to re-elect Arlen Specter and not to medical research, but Specter’s spokesman tells me that is the case. You have to go all the way to the bottom of the page to find clues — the donation requirements on the site match FEC requirements in terms of the legal amounts listed and the required information the site collects on donors. It states at the very bottom that the site is “Paid for by Citizens for Arlen Specter.”
A commenter corrected me yesterday with the observation that Specter is not human Ipecac, but the product of human Ipecac.
I stand corrected.
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I’m thinking “the product of Ipecac if used by a zombie”.
It doesn’t matter, though.
Hundreds of thousands of Phlegm ‘n Crap voters will keep this POS in the Senate.
Please don’t insult a useful product like Ipecac.
This was not unexpectorated!
If only he would fall on said spear.
More like…
“Paid for by Fools for Arlen Specter.”
He’s beyond despiccable, he’s a crook! This must mean he’s really concerned about his possibility of re-election!
Can’t Jack Kemps survivors do something? He’s exploiting a dead man for his own personal gain.
Good grief, how much lower can you get? Specter is giving the gutter a bad name.
‘for the cure’???
I gotta fever! And the only cure is more cowbell!
It was “only prescription”. But thanks for the laugh.
For anyone confused.
OMGosh!!! He’s an old, wrinkled, Eric Cartman (from SouthPark)!!!
Specter for the cure??? More like Specter of deceit! Disgusting.
I know, but I couldn’t shake that feeling it had to be said.
And ’cause I could really use some cowbell right now.
I mean, c’mon–it is the Bruce Dickinson!
First they came for the bankers, but I didn’t care since I owned my home. Then they came for the auto industry, but I didn’t care since I don’t drive. Then they came for the computer geeks, but I didn’t care since I don’t work for them. Then they came for … ?
He didn’t specify what it’s the cure FOR.
spectorforthecure is actually a cure for liberty. He can get you to fascism in 100 days, if only you send Jr.’s college fund…
And ’cause I could really use some cowbell right now.
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/more-cowbell-snl/3952822248
Doesn’t “specter” also mean ghost? I am just saying…
I would make nasty remarks about Specter, but since both of my Senators are slimey, I really should not have say anything.
I don’t normally thread-jack but…
U.S. military destroys soldier’s Bibles
HMMMMMM
We sure heard a lot of outrage from the left over the Qur’an in the toilet at GITMO…
He is just another democrat doing what democrats do.
How low you got?
How about “Spectre for the magic bullet.”
I think it was for Advanced Syphillitic Dementia, but, I could be right.
I hadn’t planned to give this slug slime one penny in any case. If his name is mentioned, zero!
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“Cure” this, Benedict Specter…
Seems like this kind of ‘bait and switch’ is EXACTLY why Spector found himself in such a situation within the Republican party in Penn.
Standing up and making one claim to a camera, and then switching the transaction into something different in practice, is why Spector will lose in the democratic primary.
Well, that and the 250k ‘Operation Kaos’ Limbaugh voters that are going to sabotage his democratic primary!
You’re welcome. Can’t have a fine time-tested remedy be given a bad rap by being associated with Spectre.
Nothing less would be helpful.
Would that be by making sure he wins said Dim Primary so Toomey could trounce him in the general?
I betcha John Edwards is kicking himself for not thinking of this scam.
“Contribute to me so I can help cure my wife!” (whilst diddling someone else’s)
Politicians. The lowest of life forms.
Soap,
You gotta link for that?
Nice to see he already has that Democrat transparancy thing down.
Wow. That’s chutzpah.
I think term limits might cure Specter.
Maybe the cure would be “Ex-Specter-ant”
One good coughing spell….
Specter is too much of a prima donna (primo uomo) to be a “spear carrier.”
Specter would have to use a ladder to climb up to the gutter…
here you go.
My mom passed away in October after fighting cancer for more than 10 years: breast cancer, kidney cancer, then metastatic renal cancer that came back 4 times! She was a youngster at age 64, with 4 grandchildren who are so young they might not even remember their Granny in another 5 years.
This scumball using Jack Kemp and any other cancer victim as a re-election and fundraising vehicle is despicable.
Cancer does awful things to people and at the same time reveals such strength in humans – the desire for the patient to live, the desire for doctors and nurses to help them recover. The last person to accept that my mom was turning to hospice was her oncologist.
Putting the search for a cure under governmental oversight – you’ve got to be kidding me. That means maybe we’ll have a cure in 100 years if we’re lucky.
When people asked the government to give them overnight mail delivery, they said there was no way it could be done. Then private companies like UPS and FedEx said “of course it can be done.” And they did it. Only then did the government follow suit. If they don’t even believe mail can be delivered overnight, how can we trust them with a cure for cancer?
Maybe I’ve digressed off point here, but this just makes me furious.
Hmmm.
Can you say “overkill”?
Aw, jeez. sorry.
WTH just happened? My life flashed before my eyes!
Can you say pointless? Or do you just enjoy quoting an entire page for no reason. Oh wait … a lawyer. That explains it.
Didn’t take long once out of the closet to catch up on lost liberal time.
What…
a…
puke.
If PA chooses to put this knob back into office again, then it’s a lost cause.
Remember to stand up wind Michelle, as the odor of this type is rather pungent
Does that mean that “Susan G. Komen for the Cure®” is also raising money for a candidate? I thought it was a charity raising money to fight against breast cancer? But Specter says the “name itself” makes it clear that donations are going to a political campaign.
Oh Arlen, you’ve got me all confused. It says “Specterforthecure” not “SpecterfortheSenate”. I know you consider your reelection more important than your principles or party loyalty. But Surely you wouldn’t put your reelection effort above finding a cure for cancer, would you?