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Did you give money to Arlen Specter?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 28th, 2009 at 01:41 PM  | 

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If so, and you want a refund, call him at (202) 224-4254 and demand your money back.

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  • mom2oneson

    chargeback requests that went to the gop and his campaign.

  • bk

    Cornyn and company yesterday: “Arlen Specter is our best hope for winning PA, so we need to do whatever it takes for him to beat Pat Toomey, who has zero chance of winning the state.”

    Cornyn and company today: “We knew that Arlen Specter was just a Democrat in disguise, and it’s important that we help Pat Toomey win back this seat for a true Republican.”

    Well, something like that anyway.

  • AceInTX
  • longwalker

    in the 1970′s because they were using my money to support RINO’s and obstruct conservative Republican challengers. I strongly urge people to contribute directly to candidates once you make sure of their bona fides. No more donations to the national committees to support Specters over Toomeys.

  • Joe6Pak

    Dear Mr. Specter,

    While we’re at it would you please McCain and Oylimpi Snow with you?

    I say good riddance.

    If you are not part of the solution then you’re part of the problem.

    Former GOP congressman Pat Toomey is running against Sen. Arlen Specter and I’ll be sending him a little campaign contribution.

    We need the Red State army to start making political contributions to candidates in the blue states and this is a good place to start!

  • Brian Hibbert

    but he’s mostly on our side. Specter was a liberal Democrat in Republican clothes.

    I’ll keep McCain for now, thanks.

  • Old_Dominion

    to call his campaign HQ? That’s all his DC office is going to tell you to do, and most of them are probably trying to figure out how they can get a new job, since the staff usually quits when a Member switches parties.

  • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

    “McCain is irritating and infuriating at times mostly, but he’s mostly at times on our side.

    But it doesn’t matter what we think of him. So long as he breathes, McCain apparently has a lock in Arizona, according to what the local Republicans have been writing here at RedState.

  • http://www.prepaidlegal.com/hub/lgartin wdgf

    I wonder what would be considered a good centralized list of links to simplify donating a few dollars each to many different conservative candidates around the country.

  • Flagstaff

    If you’re elected as a Democrat, will you then come back to the Republican Party? After all, you were such a big advocate of the two-party system a month ago. Is it no longer important?

    One more question–why not run as an independent, as Joe Lieberman did? THAT showed real courage.

  • philottee

    Anyone who gave money to Sen. Spector’s campaign because he was a Republican is a fool.

    Supporting candidates because of their party affiliation has allowed these types to flourish.

    When will deaf, dumb and blind support of candidates, due to which letter follows their name, cease ?

  • Old_Crow

    bumbling fool. He confuses himself in mid-sentence.

    No statesman here.

    This is a greedy self-interested professional politician who will say anything, do anything, believe anything in order to keep his job.

  • clement

    2008 ACU ratings….

    Specter 42%(44.47% life)
    Snowe 12% (47.88% life)
    Collins 20% (49.55% life)

    McCain 63% (81.43% life)

    Specter was the easy one. While I wouldn’t mind losing McCain, there are bigger fish to fry.

  • http://www.skiloveland.com skicougar

    i’d choose a PA office and just start sending teabags.

    then, i’d start having teabag parties outside his office.

    then, if toomey if a real deficit, sovereingty and defense conservative; i’d start inviting him out to speak at the tea parties in front of specter’s office.

    specter has shown to be precisely the officeholder that tea bag parties are rallying against. might as well rub his nose in it.

  • TxCon

    against him in the primary, I suggest the Republicans that are left in PA go vote for his opponent and finish him and his “Magic Bullet” theory off.

  • Kowalski

    From a politicician’s point of view, Arlen Specter has known for a long time now that his support among Republicans was tapering off and had probably “plateaued” at a very low level. There wasn’t much upside there, because he’s been cashing the checks and presumably doing the demographics about who was sending him ca$h. That means he’s out of money and probably has been for a long time now, and so he switched.

  • Kowalski

    I never gave any money to Arlen Specter. I almost wish I had so I could demand it back.

    Unfortunately, this move signals more that Pennsylvania is a much richer vein for money-hungry Democrat politicians than it is for money-hungry Republican politicians. The whole Northeast is this way, really. It’s not a surprise.

    Anyone who listened to Arlen Specter over the past several years, particularly when he opined about the state of liberalism among the American people, knew that this was just a matter of time.

    Evidently his people think it’s the smartest thing to do in terms of cash flow.

  • ocleverone

    I wonder if he thinks that he can’t been Toomey in a primary but could beat in the General.

    Note to self: Give Toomey as much money as you can.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    People need to do this.

  • Kowalski

    On the other hand, one of the problems for me in the last 12 months is that I haven’t had a dime to give to ANY political candidate or party. I gave $100 to Ogonowski here in Massachusetts but then everyone knows what happened after the tsnuami hit the bow.

    I have no doubt that Specter is forward looking and he knows that having a (D) next to his name in Pennsylvania in the next election cycle is going to be more lucrative than having an (R).

  • Kowalski

    I appreciate that a lot.

  • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

    There is a second person running for the Republican nomination, and she’s also a solid conservative with a respectable base of support; she just doesn’t have the national name recognition that Toomey does.

    The PA Republican conservatives are going to need some time to recalibrate. Hopefully they can find a way to avoid a nasty and expensive primary fight, as Specter is going to be tough to beat in the general with all the money and union support that will be backing him.

    Let’s be supportive to PA conservatives as they set a new course.

  • dld1717

    plus 12 Republican US Senators donated money to his campaign via their PAC’s will he give money back to someone like Lamar Alaxander etc