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Specter does what others should - become a Democrat

Arlen Specter was elected as a Republican to the US Senate in 1980. Nearly 3 decades later Specter has announced that he is changing parties.

According to the Washington Post, President Obama learned Tuesday morning of Specter's decision from a note by White House counsel Greg Craig. While Obama was probably a bit surprised by the news, Vice President Biden had reportedly been in regular contact with Sen. Specter about changing parties. A press conference with Obama and Specter is scheduled for Wednesday.

Whether Specter changed parties to increase the likelihood of reelection in 2010 or because the GOP has become a minor party comprised of a far right-wing constituency, the fact is that Specter has left the Republican Party to become a Democrat.

What are your thoughts? Do you think Specter's primary concern is reelection or the future of our country? I believe that this 79-year-old cancer survivor is a courageous man that is getting away from a mutated derivative of a Republican Party to work as a Democrat for a better future.

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Jay

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Posted by Jay Allen - MovieVoice on 04/29/2009 01:25 AM

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20 Comments on Specter does what others should - become a Democrat

APR

I'd like to see us remove the terms republican and democrate from our vocabulary and get down to actual issues and people.

Robert, I agree. It seems better to vote for an individual than for that individual's party affiliation.

In Senator Spector's own words, he couldn't win as a Republican. So, he'll convert to Democrat to keep his job.

Jay,

I think he sold out. I guess we will just have to wait and see what the voters in Pennsylvania have to say.

Hi JayI believe the 79 year old fool is as far from being a Reagan Republican as you can get. He was going to lose the nomination of the Republican Party so he courageously changed parties. If right wing includes anti-abortion, defense of the country first, lower taxes, less government, no same sex marriage, that's me. I have never seen a political post in active rain before.

Kieran

In politics you do whatever is prudent to win. There is only one philosophy here - win. To hear Obama and Biden, Specter is now an amazing human. I read that a democrat!

Spector did what many Americans have done by electing this empty suit president which now fully supports Spector. He invited Spector to the Super Bowl Party at the White House, Spector was one of three republicans who voted for Obama's spending plan ( that he never read, being a lawyer himself) that would put this nation in nine trillion dollar debt.

BENEDICT ARLEN...says it all!

He sold out the nation...now he sells out his own party. Signs of the times.

On one hand I respect him for giving up being a fake republican on the other hand it just proves he has no allegiance to anyone but himself(should fit in just fine) How about all those folks who voted hin in,I guess the don,t count at all. I mean he is 79 he could have just retirted at the end of his term and went down as an elder statesman instead of a rat.

The whole thing really makes no difference though He had already taken sides with Obama he just cemented the fact he is a weasle, the Republican party is better off without him.

Jay, I wonder where the outrage was when some Democrats defected? Ben Nighthorse Campbell comes to mind. I think Specter's change was twofold. He really does believe in "the cause" and he knows he can't win as a republican. Who cares? As long as the man does his job.

Democrat to republican or independent party switchers (just a few of the dozens)

Strom Thurmond

Trent Lott

Elizabeth Dole

Condoleezza Rice

Phil Gramm

Virgil Goode

Joe Lieberman

Robert - Probably one of the wisest comments I've read on AR in a while.

Jay - It's a combination of both his unlikelihood of being re-elected as a Republican and the deviation of the party from where he stands. For those who think he simply abandoned, it was clear that the GOP was going to back his opponent in the next election. I can't blame him for being concerned about that.

Terry - There was internal outrage........you know, the kind that stays inside and is not expressed. ;-)

I dont blame conservatives getting upset over where the republican party has gone lately or where its headed. Simply put it has become a very extreme religous group and has very little to do with core conservative ideology anymore. Its religous to get votes and to any outsider they can plainly see how phony that is.

Robert's initial comment says it all.

Terry, You left out Ronald Reagan the liberal democrat union leader.

Oops Mitchell, so I did. My bad!

APR

Jay ~ I would rather be burned alive in hot oil than become a democrat. There are things noone should do if they have a conscience.

Nicholas - so all democrats lack a conscience? Just checking.

Jay - good post. :-)

Robert - ditto.

Hi Tchaka:-)

MAY

Jay: As has been said... I do NOT think that Arlen Specter has left the Republican party... I think IT has left HIM. As it is right now... there are only a few other voices of sanity in the Republican party, and I totally hope that they would reach the same conclusion... that the Republican Party has indeed left them, too.

It is becoming increasingly under the control of folks like Mitch McConnell, Haley Barbour, John Boehner, Rick Perry, and that new whiney guy... what's his name ? I think that we will really see more fallout in the Senate elections in 2010. After the Repubs lose more seats... who will they blame then ?

@ Nicholas: Would you like a glass of white whine to drink with your baloney ? What amazes me is that you actually believe the stuff you come out with.

By the way... I'd never even suggest boiling you in hot oil... you're too much fun to listen to. All you, and folks with similar "extremist" beliefs, have to do... is please, please keep it up until the day after the 2010 elections. That should be enough to insure another Democratic landslide. Promise you won't change ? Puhleeeze ?

MAY

So, I guess you are saying that everyone should look out for themselves and sell out at the first hint of a problem? Boy... I guess being a Democrat DOES stand for something.

Spector said it himself. He looked at the landscape and couldn't clear a GOP primary because he wasn't representing the GOP any more. Of course you notice that he isn't offering to give back contributions from those in the GOP that supported him.

MAY

I'm getting a kick out of the LEAST senior Democrat. I guess the Democrat Party decided that they really didn't want any more GOP defectors since they are seriously screwing him over on committee assignments, not letting him keep ANY seniority. It took one of the other Senators to offer up a Chair on his own...

I guess it would have been too much of a cat fight for the "leadership" to actually respect Spector's time in the Senate...

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