[Always Right]

I am glad he switched. I see it as nothing but a positive. He had moved the GOP to the left his whole career.

[gussiefinknottle]

What are Toomey’s chances of winning if Dems put up someone instead
of Specter? We seem to be losing every where else.

[mosaicwolf]

In politics always follow the dollar. Specter figured no $$$ from the Mensheviks this time around but plenty from the Bolsheviks.

[ConservativeDude]

good thing GWB helped this guy last time.

Now maybe Cornyn can back off his support?

Maybe?

[Obadiah]

...Specter has no guarantee that he will win the Democratic primary anyway.

Oh puhleeze. Don't demonstrate ignorance here. You don't think the DNC and Ed Rendell promised Specter the primary win?

[mom-7]

If arlen has switched parties now, the demonrats will use him and then toss him aside. Specter does not know how to be loyal to a party. Toomey can win against anything the dems put up.

[StAntKnee]

I choose to be hopeful that . . .

Beneath the placid surface of liberal waters, a populist surge is being felt.

Specter, never one to demonstrate loyalty, bolted.

[InterceptPoint]

Since Coleman has lost the Dems will have a 60/40 majority. The Republicans can do nothing to stop any Obama initiative that has the full support of the Dems. He can do anything he wants. I think the next two years are going to be pretty bleak.

But we can kick YouKnowWhat in the 2010 election.

[ConorMacNessa]

Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out, Arlen!

[TLI]

This is probably a gain for Republicans, since Specter mostly voted Democrat, and it saves the conservative, Toomey, from a tough and expensive primary fight. Toomey can go on to defeat Specter in the general election,

This is so typical. Once again we see the “liberal” or “democrat” how ever they refer to themselves other than communist, turning out to be a lying worthless excuse dependant scrap of trash. So after how many years he is finally coming out of the closet and admitting he is a commie?

That would be TWENTY NINE. Twenty nine years and now all of a sudden he has “become” a democrat.

I would not trust him to sweat during a south Louisiana summer.

[tcrlaf]

“Specter has no guarantee that he will win the Democratic primary anyway”

WRONG....
Per KOS, part of the deal is that the Party will support NO primary challengers against Spector. And the AFL-CIO has already promised Spector HUGE support if he votes for the end of Democratic Elections in America with Card Check/EFCA.

[penowa]

Didn’t Casey and Rendell recently promise Specter he would have no party backed primary challenge if he would switch to the Democrat party?

[rjsimmon]

I believe that the people of Penssylvania that elected him should sue him for breach of contract. I would wager that the vast majority voted for him because he had the (R) plastered after his name, coupled with the support former President Bush tossed his way.

Bait and switch, deception, you-name-it, he violated the trust of the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.