Newest Democrat Arlen Specter came out punching on Sunday.
Asked whether he believed that he had let people down by changing parties, Specter said issues like Republican attitudes towards cancer research had made him unhappy with the party. Specter went on to suggest that if Republicans had been more aggressive about cancer research, GOP luminary Jack Kemp would be alive today.
Damn. That’s one mean old man.
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He’s also a whiny little whimp (anywhere other than BforD I’d have used a different word) who I hope gets the sh%t beaten out of him either in the primary or GE. If you watched him on MTP and his “I did nooooooooooot” BS whining made him sound like a weak ass nerd who is still afraid of getting beat up. I’m just glad we have another Joe Lieberman, self interested, ego-maniac who will do anything to get re-elected in the Democratic caucus.
I’ve said this elsewhere but I kind of felt bad for Specter. His only interest is himself and he kept saying sh*t that will hurt him… “I did noooooooot say I will be a loyal Democrat” and “I will not support card check” it was like, dude, STFU. In general.
I’m really not happy about the switch.
Honestly, if I was David Gregory, i would have had a hard time not punching that turn in the throat during the interview.
He is who he is, old and not well.. frankly I wouldn’t spend much energy on all this, he’s not worth it.
He will probably have a primary opponent in Sestack (sp?) but I think that’s just to help Sestacks name recognition when he goes to run for Gov. Just a hunch.
I think he’s a busta, and bustas get primaried.
Sestak is the only viable candidate still in the race and I agree that he is likely pushing to gain some name recognition for a run for Governor. While I like Joe Sestak he isn’t a progressive I would call him about as conservative as Arlen. You can check out Nate Silvers at 538 he did an analysis of Sestak’s voting record.
God, I love Nate Silver. I only wish I had access to his data or the time to crunch it.
This just in….
http://www.newsmeat.com/news/meat.php?articleId=49535666&channelId=2951&buyerId=newsmeatcom&buid=3281
Cornyn: Ridge weighs bid for Sen. Specter’s seat
GOP leaders say ex-Homeland Security boss Tom Ridge weighing bid for Arlen Specter Senate seat
PETER JACKSON
AP News
May 05, 2009 17:31 EST
Tom Ridge, the former governor who became the nation’s first homeland security chief, may challenge Sen. Arlen Specter in the state next year, Republican Party leaders confirmed Tuesday.
“He’s considering it,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington.
Bob Asher, the state’s Republican national committeeman, said he met with Ridge in recent days and urged him to run.
“Governor Ridge is very serious about considering to run, and he is weighing his options,” Asher said.
Ridge and Specter, who stunned political observers last week by switching his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, are two of Pennsylvania’s best-known politicians. An election showdown between them is certain to garner national attention and generate large campaign contributions from outside the state.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Monday showed Specter and Ridge running about even in a hypothetical general-election race. The survey showed Ridge, who has not run in an election since 1998, with a 55 percent favorability rating and Specter with a 52 percent rating.
Ridge, 63, served 12 years in Congress before he was elected governor in 1994. He stepped down during his second term after President George W. Bush tapped him to head what would become the Department of Homeland Security after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He left that post in 2005 and now runs a Washington-based consulting firm, Ridge Global LLC.
Arlen Spector is a big bag of WTF>
I’ve been trolling some PA blogs to see the reaction.. it’s not that pretty- progressives are kind of screwed either way in PA. WOW didn’t realize that would rhyme.. make a good button doesn’t it.
Sestak at least seems to back labor, and if labor comes out for him in PA, where it’s strong, he could defeat Specter. If he loses to Ridge, oh well. It doesn’t make a gigantic difference between Ridge and Specter to be quite honest.
I’d rather have Ridge any day.
Also it appears Ridge lives/lived in Md.
Well, apparently Specter’s mouthing off has cost him one of the weapons he’d need to defend his seat: committee seniority.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/05/senate_democrats_deny_specter.html?hpid=topnews
In other words, Specter forgot that when you’re making craven moves, it behooves you to kiss the asses of your new friends quite a lot at the beginning of the courtship.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_624101.html
Goodbye, Specter.