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To be among the hated powerless minority sucks.

F.. politics.

Remember when Bush fought hard for Specter when he was being challenged in the GOP primary.

This is on Bush.

The GOP is absolutely awful. They are bankrupt in every way possible.

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Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 304397)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/...tch/index.html

To be among the hated powerless minority sucks.

F.. politics.

THIS is your wakeup call? The Republican Party is a joke. I didn't need a moderate Republican Senator to tell me that.

It's not like Spector was ever going to vote against anything Obama wants to shove down the throats of the citizens. I'll give him credit for at least admitting that he's really an asshole Democrat.

We were screwed the day the oligarchs settled on GWB to take power.

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters (Post 304405)

We were screwed the day the oligarchs settled on GWB to take power.

Agreed. Obama is just the continuation of GWB with socialism breaking down the back door.

This is pretty simple, really. Early polls showed Spector 20+ points behind Pat Toomey, the guy who almost beat him in the primary back in 2004. Spector looked at his cards and decided it would be easier to win as a Dem in the generals then as a Repub in the primaries.

This is just political opportunism. It's not as though anyone believe Spector had a political-moral foundation to begin with.

Specter used to be a dem, then switched to the GOP.

He is about one thing: power.

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Originally Posted by Archaea (Post 304397)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/...tch/index.html

To be among the hated powerless minority sucks.

F.. politics.

The GOP is being really, really idiotic right now because the religious right is into purifying the fold. If you aren't one of us, well, there is the door. Hell, even people like Mitt Romney they're treating that way. What a loser strategy. Yeah, I know Specter isn't the most "conservative" guy around, but from PA you could be getting someone much worse. The Christian Right might challenge and beat him but they would only get trounced in the general election anyway. What would be the point of that? And while most Republicans were taking the "nothing to see here folks, move along" or the "Good riddance!" approach yesterday, some sensible pepole like Lindsay Graham were starting to ask the relevant questions like what is the party doing to itself. So many years of pandering to the Mike Huckabee/Pat Robertson faction is taking the party down.

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Originally Posted by BlueK (Post 304410)

The GOP is being really, really idiotic right now because the religious right is into purifying the fold. If you aren't one of us, well, there is the door. Hell, even people like Mitt Romney they're treating that way. What a loser strategy. Yeah, I know Specter isn't the most "conservative" guy around, but from PA you could be getting someone much worse. The Christian Right might challenge and beat him but they would only get trounced in the general election anyway. What would be the point of that? And while most Republicans were taking the "nothing to see here folks, move along" or the "Good riddance!" approach yesterday, some sensible pepole like Lindsay Graham were starting to ask the relevant questions like what is the party is doing to itself. So many years of pandering to the Mike Huckabee/Pat Robertson faction is taking the party down.

I guess you missed the part in 2004 where the entire party swooped in to save Spector from Pat Toomey, including President Bush himself, and very conservative former senator Rick Santorum. Or the part where they nominated a centrist as their candidate for president in 2008?