The “spector” of Senator Arlen Specter

The “spector” of Senator Arlen Specter

Rick Santorum, Arlen Specter, and George W. Bush together in Spector’s April 20, 2004 re-election ad.

Arlen Specter loved Bush and Santorum in 2004

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2q7hei3T3E

Yesterday Senator Arlen Specter announced that he has switched from the Republican Party to the Democrat Party.

The elite media loved it. It was Christmas in April.

At five terms, Senator Specter is the longest serving senator in Pennsylvania history and for three decades has served as a Republican.

Folks seem to want to get all wrapped around the axle over Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter switching parties – and that would be a mistake.

People who want to draw nationalize this and draw broad-seeping conclusions that it is a commentary on the state of the Republican Party are making too much out of it and missing the point.

All politics are local and this has little to do with the national Republican Party and everything to do with his upcoming 2010 re-election race – which at this point, he cannot win the primary…

As Mark Silva noted in “The Swamp,” “The Pennsylvanian said he had concluded that ‘the prospects for winning a Republican primary are bleak,’ and that he is ‘not prepared’ to have his 29-year record in the Senate decided by the electorate, the ‘jury,’ of the Republican Party primary. So he will run as a Democrat, enabling all the voters of the state that he has served since 1981 to cast a judgment on him.”

It would appear that Senator Specter has a knack for switching parties anytime the political winds deem it appropriate:

“Specter left the Democratic Party in 1965 when he was running for district attorney in Philadelphia, and was elected to the Senate as a Republican in 1980,” noted Silva…

This too shall pass…

/posted by Kevin Dayhoff April 29, 2009

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