I like that word. Demorepublicrat... I wonder if it's on wikipedia.

Yeah, Cindy said it right. Everyone has his/her price. I wouldn't trust him any further than I can throw him after his comments he made a couple weeks ago (and I rarely hear political comments unless they're made during a hockey playoff game).

Demorepublicrat... hee hee! Maybe that's me! I couldn't care less about abortion and am passionately for stem cell research, but rampant government spending and control? Uh-uh. I wish we had more non US members here - they could tell you what national health care is all about. And where alot of that money comes from (think $7/gal gasoline for one...).

My only and last technically political statement on this web site. Bed time!.

Tom

I would think that he knew he was going to lose the Republican primary - and now is a good time to go back to being a Democrat - which is how he statred out I believe - the man - in my opinion - is self-righteous scum and along with my two Senators from Maine -not in touch with those who elected them - as Rebublicans !!!!!!

I'm not sure where I stand on the Specter thing yet but it's far from an isolated incident. If anyone is interested, here is a list of politicians who have switched parties:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_s..._United_States

And guess who tried to get a bill passed that would not allow Senators to switch political parties after they were elected - you guessed it - Arlen Specter

Now that's funny..

I'd like to give him the ole Christian benefit of the doubt, but I dunno..

How's that for a non religious-political statement?

I think there should be a legitimate party for those middle of the road politicians and voters.

I call it compromise....

but I don't care for labels too much anyhoo

I am not really sure where you are going with these comments. I am the reason Arlen Specter is leaving the Republican Party? Please do tell? I am ambivalent about gay marriage (not sure why it upsets so many people), I am pro-choice, and I think religion and faith based issues ought to be settled in the home or at your church. So how am I the reason he is leaving the party?

All I ever wanted of the guy was that he act as a fiscal conservative. He had a chance to force the spendulus bill to wait until people could actually read it before they voted on it. That should be the BARE MINIMUM that ANY piece of legislation should go through, much less THE most expensive piece of legislation ever passed by congress. Obama had no plans to sign it until tuesday...so why did it HAVE to be passed the thursday before?

So what is it about asking that a republican senator actually follow at least a couple of the republican party platform planks that is so bad? He could have held all kinds of moderate to liberal positions and kept his seat (see John McCain...we ran him for president for crying out loud, and look where that got us), but you can't hold all those contrary positions AND be a tax and spend liberal and still call yourself a republican. If you one by one renounce all of the positions in the republican party platform, including the biggest and oldest plank (fiscal conservatism), on what basis do you say "the party moved away from me"? He was a social moderate/liberal for a long time and enjoyed the support of the party bigs. He only lost that support when he gave up his last shred of fiscal conservatism.

And no, it wasn't a stimulus package, it was spending for spendings sake with no regard for where the money ended up or how fast it would affect the economy. A huge percentage of the bill's money won't be spent until 2011 and 2012. How is that supposed to "stimulate" the down economy? Obama's own projections show the economy fully recovered by then. So why do we need to spend more than half a trillion dollars in 2011 and 2012 to stimulate an economy that is supposed to already be recovered? It couldn't have anything to do with getting re-elected could it?

I respect your opinions Aarcyn, but I think you need to go back and check what happened with that bill. Specter was in the cat bird seat and could have demanded fiscal responsibility, and he didn't. He was the vote they needed and could have gotten anything he wanted, but he was fine with spending a trillion dollars on a democratic party wish list of spending. He was in no danger from "social conservatives" in 2010. The only reason he got into trouble was he abandoned fiscal conservatism.

As for whether he is pond scum, I don't know the guy personally. All I know is that he has stated very publically and very clearly MANY times over the past couple of years how opposed he was to politicians switching parties after being elected by one party and how important he believes the ability of the minority party to filibuster is. He also stated as recently as a few weeks ago that he would not switch parties. Yet when his round behind is about to be tossed out of office next election, suddenly he sees nothing wrong with the practice? C'mon, give me a break!

You obviously like the guy, and if so, I have no problem with that...but at least be honest about what he is doing. The GOP ran a very moderate republican VERY much like Specter for president less than 6 months ago. So how can he say the party has gone far right and left him? He left us behind in his quest to be the deal-maker with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. This switch was political expediency for him and nothing else.

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