Posted by
Compassionate Conservative on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:57:23 PM
I think it's only appropriate that a jackass join the party of the jackass. I'm talking, of course, about our distinguished Senator Arlen (Deficitman) Specter, who wisely switched parties when it became painfully obvious that if he tried to run again as a Republican, he could not win the nomination. Nor could he apparently win as an independent, as Joe Lieberman did in Connecticut when he lost the Democratic nomination for his longtime Senate seat a couple of years ago. Ergo, the completely self-serving party switch.
Most of us real Republicans say "good riddance" to the likes Arlen Specter, but there will no doubt be some RINOs lamenting his loss because he was always "electable." In fact, one such RINO, Evan Kreiner, a former staffer for a "moderate" Republican congressman, wrote an article recently published in the P-N entitled, "Alienating Specter Accelerates GOP's Ride to Obscurity." To see my comments on that article, see my blog entitled, "Alienating Specter Accelerates GOP's Ride to Ascendancy."
Specter has proven for almost thirty years that he is indeed electable, but a new day dawned with the gargantuan deficit spending spawned by the Bush administration and taken to new levels - no, new orders of magnitude - by the Obama administration. By 2010, it will be obvious to most voters that bankrupting the Treasury and raising taxes wasn't the way to ensure prosperity at all. Once that happens, no one who voted for multi-hundred-billion dollar bailouts will have any credibility left, and with that, the career of Arlen Specter will expire.