A Specter Will Soon Cease Haunting Pennsylvania (and the U.S. Senate)
April 28, 2009 – 1:25 pmArlen Specter just announced that he will join the Democrat Party and run as a Democrat for Senate in 2010.
Here’s my commentary originally posted at the Postmodern Conservative blog:
Specter got this word from Pennsylvania pols after voting for trillions of $$$$ of wasteful spending in response to appeals by America’s first socialist-in-chief: You’re doomed as a Republican in 2010. Republicans hate your guts. Toomey will take the Republican Senate primary easily.
More generally: “Moderate” has become an empty term in American politics. As the Democrats keep shoving leftwards, what does moderate mean? Shoving leftwards half as fast????
From now on in America, it’s the socialist/Communist party versus classical liberal/American conservative party.
Back to Specter: He’ll lose big time to a leftist Democrat in the primary. I say good riddance to him.
Here’s the political report on Specter from USA Today
The numbers already don’t look good for Sen. Arlen Specter.
In a Rasmussen Reports poll out this morning, the Pennsylvania Republican lags behind GOP primary challenger Pat Toomey by more than 20%. Just 30% of Republican voters in the Keystone State say they would vote for the incumbent, while 51% are throwing their support behind Toomey.
Furthermore, 55% of voters have an unfavorable view of the incumbent senator, according to the poll. Rasmussen Reports calls those stats “stunningly poor” for a veteran such as Specter, who’s spent nearly 30 years in Congress’ upper chamber.
Specter squeaked out a primary victory over Toomey in 2004, and next year’s rematch is already gearing up to be one of the nastier battles in 2010.
Toomey, the former president of the anti-tax group Club for Growth, has repeatedly criticized Specter for approving President Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus package in February — one of just three Republicans on Capitol Hill to do so.
And Specter went on air earlier this month with an ad that blamed Toomey for limiting oversight of Wall Street and for supporting privatization of Social Security.
What’s an American conservative? It’s not Specter. Here’s my description:
3 Responses to “A Specter Will Soon Cease Haunting Pennsylvania (and the U.S. Senate)”
Specter Definition
1. A ghostly apparition; a phantom; a former member of the Republican Party
2. A haunting or disturbing image or prospect: the terrible Specter of the Democratic party.
Some puns are just too good to pass up…
By RestlessKnight on Apr 28, 2009
If the Republicrats keep this up I may be able to rejoin them one day. Only about 60% of their politicrats to go.
By Nik on Apr 28, 2009
I borrowed the pun from a famous science fiction story, “A Specter Haunts Texas.” It was a Sixties spoof of LBJ.
All we have to do is run strong conservatives in every primary. No strong conservative Republican need fear (including my own Congressman, John Kline of Minnesota CD 2.)
If you want a genuinely strong, nation-wide conservative movement, this is the way to go. Third Party movements are doomed to failure, not necessarily because of perceived ideological extremism, but because our Constitutionally mandated system is a winner-take-all system. As such, political ideology and voting patterns have always gravitated toward two parties.
Examples:
Federalism-Anti-Federalism
Whigs-Democrat-Republicans (later the Democrat Party)
And ever since 1856: Republicans-Democrats.
I urge all dissatisfied conservatives to carefully check American history. You’ll see that I’m right.
The second characteristic about the American political system is that it must simultaneously reach nation-wide (getting enough Representatives and Senators elected to be able to hold Congress…and it must reach deep, electing governors, state senators, state representatives, mayors, city council members, county commissioners, etc. They not only provide local governance, shaping ideology at the local level, they provide a “farm team” for the party’s future leaders.
Poli-sci stuff for conservatives to think about.
By Sally Morem on Apr 28, 2009