"This guy is willing to do anything to keep this seat" -- Chris Matthews
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 07:59PM Here's my problem with Arlen Specter switching parties.
The guy has been a RINO (Republican in Name Only) for as long as he's been in public life, which has been over four decades.
Republicans have never liked him, and he's never particularly liked the base. There has always been mutual mistrust between Specter and the right, and there's been talk over the years that he'd switch teams.
But to do it now, while he trails Pat Toomey in the primary by a dozen points, is just shameful and disgraceful. Six years ago, when he faced a similar challenge from Toomey, President Bush and Rick Santorum literally carried him over the finish line with ringing endorsements, fundraising and campaigning. They saved his ass, pure and simple ... and this is the payback.
This was an act of political expediency, through and through. Maybe it contained a smidge of principle, but it was primarily an act of survival -- party be damned. Good riddance, Senator.
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