Comments on: Shocker: Arlen Specter To Switch Parties

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:22:47 +0000

Woof!

By: Barbie

Barbie — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:06:05 +0000

And take John McCain and his little dog, Megan, with ya (oh that’s mean, Megan is very, very pretty. Neurotic and nuts, but very very pretty. (just joking about the dog comment – she’s a very attractive young lady)

By: jrmcdonald

jrmcdonald — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:36:51 +0000

This is as shocking as Micheal Jackson liking little boys.

By: Liberals Make Great Speedbumps

Liberals Make Great Speedbumps — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:56:17 +0000

Come on, this story just simply reeks of Biden’s style of compulsive “exaggeration”. Ol’ Plugs just can’t help himself.

By: canary

canary — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:51:09 +0000

“I have been working on that in earnest for the past four years and double time for the past 100 days (as vice president),” Biden added.

Pathetic waste for a vice-pres, to brag about. Think the India doctors who provide DE health care are writing Biden too many prescriptions, and he’ sharing. Their all acting like the stepsford wives movie.

By: pdsand

pdsand — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:44:01 +0000

He is really making a great platform for himself. I betrayed the Republicans for decades, and I would like your permission to betray the Democrats for a few years. If you vote for me, I will not particularly represent your values, and first things first, I don’t bow to the unions. Vote Specter, Democrat for PA!

By: pdsand

pdsand — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:40:08 +0000

I thought the vice president had no business interacting with the legislative branch. That sort of thing made Cheney the most dangerous man in America.

By: texaspsue

texaspsue — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:23:30 +0000

“Say it ain’t so Joe” takes credit for Specter’s defection from GOP:

From Houston Chronical:

Biden says he helped persuade Specter to switch

By ALAN BERNSTEIN

Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Houston on Tuesday turned out more celebratory than he expected.

Hours after U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania rocked the political landscape by switching to the Democratic Party, Biden said here that he and a Houston lawyer had helped persuade Specter to make the leap.

Biden was in town for a Democratic National Committee fundraising reception at the River Oaks home of lawyer Neal Manne — who served as Specter’s chief of staff in Washington in the 1980s. The event was scheduled several days ago.

The vice president said that, as a senator from Delaware, he was Specter’s best friend in the Senate for 33 years, and that he and Manne “have been trying to remind Arlen that he is really Democrat.”

“I have been working on that in earnest for the past four years and double time for the past 100 days (as vice president),” Biden added.

“It seems only appropriate,” Biden told Manne in front of a crowd of about 30 donors and supporters, “that I am at your home on the day that Arlen Specter … came back home as a Democrat.”

Biden recalled that Specter joined most senators in rejecting President Ronald Reagan’s nomination of conservative Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987.

“Neal steeled (Specter’s) resolve on the Bork nomination … and we were able to keep Bork off the court,” the vice president said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/stor.....97650.html

I had no idea that was one of the Vice President’s duties, to encourage Republicans to switch parties. Who knew? :-)

I wonder how the voters of Pennsylvania are taking this news?

By: canary

canary — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:48:31 +0000

His excuse speech lying that it was the Republicans party’s fault, instead of saying he lost his loyality to what’s honorable and right. His new opponent will rub his face in it, and he will come up with more and more foolish talk. He’s lost any dignity and honor that he could possibly find within himself, by himself.

By: Sharps Rifle

Sharps Rifle — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:00:15 +0000

This creep is no loss. He’s been scum for decades, and was at his scummiest when he turned on Judge Bork back in ‘87.

I’m glad he’s gone, and I hope he gets beaten in ‘10.

Now if only McVain, Grahamnesty, Collins, Snow and Lugar would just switch…

By: JohnMG

JohnMG — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:24:17 +0000

Statement by Senator Arlen Specter

…..”I have been a Republican since 1966. I have been working extremely hard for the Party…..”

We sold the cow, Arlen. We don’t need your bull.

By: U NO HOO

U NO HOO — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:12:44 +0000

“whose tent is big enough to welcome diverse points of view”

Reminds me of the tower of babel.

“Diverse points of view,”… a church with atheists and believers, paint the white house black, NAMBLA… the whole concept is kind of stupid.

Follow the Constitution. (Not Old Iron Sides)

By: U NO HOO

U NO HOO — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:06:13 +0000

Yes, IIRC.

By: IronFistVelvetGlove

IronFistVelvetGlove — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:06:22 +0000

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

By: GL0120

GL0120 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:35:42 +0000

Snarli’ Arlen has never been concerned for anyone but Arlen.
I’d still like to know though who he was fronting for when he came up with that idea that a bullet could go through Governor Connelly’s torso, blow President Kennedy’s head apart and then just pop out onto the stretcher Kennedy was on without a scratch on it!
I’d also like to know why the Republicans tolerated him for so long. When he came up with that Scottish Law nonsense I would have stripped him of his committee assignments, his parking spot, and his dreams!