RINO Leaves GOP - Arlen Specter Goes Democrat
Update: Washington D.C. - National GOP Chairman Michael Steele released the following additional statement this evening:
RINO: "I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans" -Arlen Spector
MSNBC News is reporting that Veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter disclosed plans Tuesday to switch parties, bringing Democrats closer to the 60-vote supermajority they need to push Barack Obama's agenda through the Senate. '"This is a painful decision," said Specter at a Tuesday afternoon news conference. "I know that I'm disappointing a lot of my friends and colleagues...the disappointment runs in both directions." . . . [Veteran GOP Sen. Specter switches parties]
AP reports: " Specter, 79 and seeking a sixth term in 2010, conceded bluntly that his chances of winning a Pennsylvania Republican primary next year were bleak in a party grown increasingly conservative. . . . "I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party," he said at a news conference. He added, "I am not prepared to have my 29 years' record in the United States Senate decided by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate." . . [Specter switches to Democrat,]
Politicol reports:
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First - Specter claimed it was philosophical - and pointed his finger of blame at Republicans all over America for his defection to the Democrats. He told us all to go jump in the lake today. I'm sorry, but I don't believe a word he said. Arlen Specter committed a purely political and self-serving act today. He simply believes he has a better chance of saving his political hide and his job as a Democrat. He loves the title of Senator more than he loves the party - and the principles - that elected him and nurtured him.HARRISBURG - Republican Party of Pennsylvania Chairman Rob Gleason released the following statement after hearing the news regarding Senator Arlen Specter's decision to leave the GOP:
Second - and more importantly - Arlen Specter handed Barack Obama and his band of radical leftists nearly absolute power in the United States Senate. In leaving the Republican Party - and joining the Democrats - he absolutely undercut Republicans' efforts to slow down Obama's radical agenda through the threat of filibuster.
Facing defeat in Pennsylvania's 2010 Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record, and an end to his 30 year career in the U.S. Senate, he has peddled his services - and his vote - to the leftist Obama Democrats who aim to remake America with their leftist plan.
As recently as April 9th, Senator Specter said he would run in the Pennsylvania primary next year as a Republican. Why the sudden change of heart? Clearly, this was an act based on political expediency by a craven politician desperate to keep his Washington power base--not the act of a statesman. His defection to the Democrat Party puts the Democrats in an almost unstoppable position to pass Obama's destructive agenda of income redistribution, health care nationalization, and a massive expansion of entitlements.
Arlen Specter has put his loyalty to his own political career above his duty to his state and nation.
I am deeply disappointed in Senator Arlen Specter's decision to leave the Republican Party, as he has benefited from the support of our Party for many years. It is apparent that he chose to act in his own self-interest and put his political ambitions first. The Republican Party has room for conservatives and moderates because we are the Party of ideas.-------------------
I, like many of my fellow Pennsylvania Republicans, took Senator Specter at his word when he said that he would not switch parties, and I believe he owes every Republican who has supported him over the last three decades an apology. I would urge Senator Specter to do the right thing and proactively return any and all campaign contributions he has received in recent months to run as a Republican in the upcoming election. I am sure that most, if not all, of these donors would not have supported a Democrat candidate. . . .
RINO: "I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans" -Arlen Spector
MSNBC News is reporting that Veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter disclosed plans Tuesday to switch parties, bringing Democrats closer to the 60-vote supermajority they need to push Barack Obama's agenda through the Senate. '"This is a painful decision," said Specter at a Tuesday afternoon news conference. "I know that I'm disappointing a lot of my friends and colleagues...the disappointment runs in both directions." . . . [Veteran GOP Sen. Specter switches parties]
AP reports: " Specter, 79 and seeking a sixth term in 2010, conceded bluntly that his chances of winning a Pennsylvania Republican primary next year were bleak in a party grown increasingly conservative. . . . "I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party," he said at a news conference. He added, "I am not prepared to have my 29 years' record in the United States Senate decided by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate." . . [Specter switches to Democrat,]
Politicol reports:
Senate Republican leaders are pushing back hard against the notion that their party is to blame for Sen. Arlen Specter’s defection to the Democrats. "This is not a national story. It is a Pennsylvania story," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky told reporters in a news conference following Tuesday’s GOP policy luncheon.Michael Steele, Chairman, Republican National Committee (RNC) in a released statement said: "Some in the Republican Party are happy about this. I am not. Let's be honest-Senator Specter didn't leave the GOP based on principles of any kind. He left to further his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose a Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record. Republicans look forward to beating Sen. Specter in 2010, assuming the Democrats don't do it first."
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said that Specter — who spoke at the lunch — had been “very candid to acknowledge that this was nothing more, nothing less than political self-preservation.” . . . McConnell said Specter told him of his decision late Monday, and that Specter had said he decided to make the switch because he couldn't win reelection as a Republican or an independent. . . . [GOP leaders... ]
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Posted by Bill Smith at 2:35 PM - Post Link
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Well it looks like another apparatchik is flushed out and wants to join the bacchanal with the Dems. But what can you expect from someone who wants us to believe the “magic bullet” theory. I mean it goes this way it goes that way , what ever works. I would bet that the People of Pennsylvania would now like to rethink the wisdom of the seventeenth Amendment. And just think folks with Al Franken to be seated this June the Republican Party pretty much will be obviated, you don’t think Mr. Specter will wait till 2010 to vote with his “new friends” do you? Hey Arlen me thinks Cicero had you in mind.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not traitor - he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation - he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city - he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared."- Cicero, 42 B.C.
Arlen Specter's decision is that his reasons are completely bogus and his comments against the Republican Party show a complete lack of class. He stated that he is switching parties based on principle, but his switch is really based on fear and politics.
Read Bobby Eberle's "Sen. Specter... Don't Let the Door Hit Ya" and look at what Specter said and compare it to reality.
Don't let the door hit you Arlen, and while you are at it..take Snow and Collins...
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The weasels of the Republican party are being weeded out.I'm independent also,only because there are so many pin-heads in the Repub party.I look forward to another Repub party like the one we had with Reagan(may God rest his soul).
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First of all, Obama does not differ that much from George Bush in his interventionist foreign policy. Neither is his fiscal policy much different: both presidents have given billions of U.S. tax dollars to bail out either banking or manufacturing industries. Both are even social conservatives in their personal objection to same-sex marriage. So to sum up Obama's policies in a single soundbyte, "radical leftist agenda," is pure nonsense.
Secondly, the Democrats are just as ineffective as the Republicans have proven to be in voting as a single bloc. If the Reps couldn't pull it together during their six year majority in the House and Senate during the Bush administration, what makes you think the Dems are going to be any different? And until the Reps actually define what constitutes a "RINO" and what doesn't, they will continue to founder as a credible political party. My observations show that most of its members are actually religious evangelicals posing as conservatives. A more apt epithet to consider would be "CINO" (conservative in name only).
Yea, he promised as late as Friday that he wouldn't change parties.. he only did this because he was going to get whupped in the primary. Running as a dem, he has a fair chance to get elected again.. we need to put our support behind the republican nom for PA .. we need to get our country back, and this is a great first step.
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