April 28, 2009
Breaking News? Specter becomes a Democrat.
So, he couldn’t take the Republican heat and finally decided to get out of the kitchen:
Veteran Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party on Tuesday, Sen. Harry Reid said.
The Specter party switch would give Democrats a filibuster-proof Senate majority of 60 seats if Al Franken holds his current lead in the disputed Minnesota Senate race.
Specter, a five-term Senate veteran, was expected to face a very tough primary challenge in 2010 from former Rep. Pat Toomey, who nearly defeated Specter in the Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary in 2004.
A Quinnipiac University survey of registered Pennsylvania voters released last month showed Specter trailing the more conservative Toomey in a hypothetical primary matchup, 41 to 27 percent.
A separate Franklin & Marshall survey showed Specter leading Toomey 33 to 18 percent. Another 42 percent, however, were undecided.
Arlen Specter is a RINO. He is not a “moderate,” as the press likes to hail him. In press-speak, the term moderate always means liberal. I say good riddance.
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Well, Specter was the same kind of Republican as Voinovich is. This is Specter’s return to the Democrats, though.
Comment by mj — April 28, 2009 @ 6:47 pm