…That gambling is going on in this establishment!

Man, who didn’t see this coming?!

This actually *helps* Toomey’s general election chances. Well, done Arlen!!

Our counry is about to embark into a dark journey into the abyss.

I thought that most Senate Republcans had already switched.

…

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

Let the RNC money roll!!

The people of PA elected him to be a republican. He switched parties, he is not eligble to hold office anymore. Same reasoning as no line item veto — people made an electoral decision based on certain facts. He is now changing one of thos facts.

On the other hand, well, we knew it anyway. Now, there will be no more “isn’t a bad republican better than a democrat in the seat?” arguments.

Maybe then we then can become the party of conservatives versus the party of “can’t we all just get along”

His type of politician makes me sick. This move is being used to maintain his seat and his power.

Why can’t he leave office and go get a real frakking job? I don’t care what party you are in - serve your country and then PLEASE LEAVE WASHINGTON.

What chairmanship will he get for doing this? We already can figure that they will throw the full amount of campaign funds he will to try and beat Toomey. So did he promise to vote for card check in exchange for —–what?

Because he will.

Wasn’t Senator Coryn telling us a few days ago that we should support the Spinctor?

Coryn obviously has not learned the lesson of the last time Republicans held and lost power. Power without principle is worthless.

I personally don’t care if Olympia Snow and Susan Collins jump ship with him. They are only Republicans when it doesn’t matter.

suppress a gag reflex and vote for him in the general election over a democrat. I can vote against him now in November instead of in may.

IT AIN’T ALL ABOUT YOU!!! “On this state of the record, I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate.” PA Republicans should demand an immediate RECALL! Let’s get Toomey ready for a special election and do what we were going to do in 2010 anyway…

n/t

So he doesn’t like having his 29 year career judged by those who ELECTED him….what an idiot!

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

and then I will never speak so negatively about this subject again.

Since election day the Philadelphia weight around the GOP’s ankles had been bothering me. Philly went 83 to 16 for Obama. I don’t understand how any area can be so strong for one candidate. It has a banana republic feel to it. I don’t think race is the only factor because only 30 percent of the population there is black, and Lynn Swann got only 10 percent of the Philadelphia vote when he ran for governor in 2006.

I have this horrible feeling that for any GOP candidate to win a PA statewide office again, the small towns and rural areas would have to counter with 80 percentage points in favor of the Republican, but I don’t see that happening.

In my opinion, this is why Specter is switching parties.

and the dems will now drive home every socialist policy they can think of in the next 20 months. Card check? yep Socialized medicine? yep Cap & Trade? yep Back door fairness doctrine? yep Massive bank nationalization? yep Regulations on home schoolers? yep More taxes and spending? yep More gun control? yep Amnesty for illegals? yep

Freedom? nope Liberty? nope

This should drive the nail in the coffin to the argument that we should put up liberal republican candidates in liberal states. Liberal republicans are democrats.

Batten down the hatches, sell your stocks, move to cash and gold.

Good Riddance!!!

he might not have been forced to make this move.

There may actually be some silver lining here. It makes Toomey just about a lock for the R’s (is there anyone else of note planning a primary run?). We are now free to take the primary money and use it to hunt for another RINO! I hear the hunting in Arizona may be especially good. I’d love to fill the trophy room wall!

looks like we inch ever closer to that politburo, one party rule, I am just saying. Sit back and enjoy the next 4-8 years because there is nothing we can do to stop them other than YELL YELL YELL, other than that you will go hoarse, no one is listening. Story of my life.

are kicking themselves for coming out early to support him over Toomey. Here’s hopin snarlin Arlen wins his primary that way we get Toomey vs backstabbing wilt in the general. Now we don’t have to worry about the NRSC trying to influence the primary. Might be a good day for http://www.toomeyforsenate.com/.

Arlen the a-hole, leaving especially now as #60. I’m sure he got a good deal from Reid.

Hopefully this kind of crap will help spark a revolt against all the political games of government while they are all screwing the country over.

Source: Obama welcomes Specter’s switch to Dems
By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer
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A senior administration official says President Barack Obama has told Sen. Arlen Specter that Democrats are “thrilled to have you” after learning that the longtime Republican will switch parties.

Obama learned of Specter’s intentions during his economic daily briefing on Tuesday morning in the Oval Office. Obama was handed a note saying that Specter was announcing that he was changing parties.

The administration official said Obama reached Specter by phone and told the senator “you have my full support” and that Democrats are “thrilled to have you.” The official spoke on condition of anonymity to divulge details of the private conversation.

Specter has faced a tough re-election challenge from within his own party in Pennsylvania.

For those that feel they must switch parties, others in history have shown a more ethical–and classier—way to make the change.

When Phil Gramm decided that the time had come for him to change parties, he resigned his seat in Congress, and ran again in a special election as a Republican. There was some degree of risk, given that Texas wasn’t quite solid red in those days. Lloyd Benstsen, a Democrat, was Texas’ other US Senator.

The point is, Gramm felt that he was breaking a compact with the Democrat Party in Texas, and that the only ethical way to switch parties was to run again as a Republican. Arlen Specter could never understand this type of character, and moral compass.

Just last month, on March 18, 2009, Specter said he would remain a Republican:

“I am staying a Republican because I think I have an important role, more important role to play there. I think the United States desparately needs a two party system. It is the basis of politics in America. I think each of the 41 Republican Senators, in a sense, and I don’t want to overstate this, is a national asset, because if one was gone you would only have 40. The Democrats would have 60 and they would control all of the mechanisms of government.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRgsnj_rvPU

WASHINGTON - Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele released the following statement today:
“Some in the Republican Party are happy about this. I am not.
Let’s be honest-Senator Specter didn’t leave the GOP based on principles of any kind. He left to further his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose a Republican primary due to his left-wing voting record.
Republicans look forward to beating Sen. Specter in 2010, assuming the Democrats don’t do it first.”

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I hope this means Franken’s chance to be seated in the senate is diminishing.