I can count on this man? What a great example of why W’s approval ratings collapsed. Nothing like pandering to people who will never like you and turning your back on the folks that got you there.
You dems enjoy Arlen. You just better keep an eye on him.
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Well, well… Arlen finally decided to become a democrat. I’m not surprised — he’s been acting like one for years. I haven’t really had a problem with Arlen. My problem has been with the GOP for pandering to him when it was obvious that Arlen was a liberal at heart. George Bush threw his support Specter’s way in 2004 when it was looking like he was in trouble against Pat Toomey. Specter, as the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, seemed to delight in siding with the democrats to slow down or block Bush appointments and yet when it came time for re-election politics as usual kicked in. Way to go W! I’m sure you’re thrilled today.
As Pam said on a recent episode of The Office, “When a child gets behind the wheel of a car and runs into a tree you don’t blame the child. He didn’t know any better. You blame the thirty year old woman who got in the passenger seat and said, ‘Drive kid. I trust you.'”
Oh the irony. The bigwigs of the GOP get behind Specter and support him and five short years later he holds his finger to the wind and jumps ship. Drive kid. I trust you.
The cost of political expediency is pretty high. You end up with Arlen Specter in a powerful position in the Senate and John McCain running for president.
Notice to Michael Steele — the GOP isn’t getting savaged because of conservatism it’s because you keep trying to be a lesser version of the democrats. Your only hope is to differentiate yourself. Don’t listen to left wing pundits tell you why the GOP is in trouble. Why would you trust them anyway? You have enough trouble with a mainstream media that has become the mouthpiece of the democrats without driving former GOP supporters to smaller parties. Make no mistake, a big part in Obama’s victory was due to the failure of the Republican Party. A whole lot of former GOP voters stayed home in 2008. Check the numbers and see who voted for Obama and then try to figure out who was missing. It’s not hard.
Maybe, just maybe, the leadership in the Republican Party will learn a lesson from this. I doubt it, but you never know.
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