Specter Ekes Out Win in Pa. Primary

AP ^ | Apr 27, 2004 | LARA JAKES JORDAN

[thegreatbeast]

Crap, crap, crap, crap and more crap.

[My2Cents]

Damned disappointing.

[SAJ]

DAMN!

[martin_fierro]

Specter easily won his home base of Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs, while Toomey scored a surprise upset in Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh.

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[prisoner6]

Yeah The Conservative Cause is growing here in the belly of the beast. It's gonna cuase a lot of indigestion one of these days. Fact is I bet the close race c\did cause a lot of heartburn!

BTW check out my posts to a coupole of the other threads. I found it amusing that former AG Roy Zimmerman would claim Toomey's turnout was bought by Bit Money and Wall Street! I have it on tape.

prisoner6

[longtermmemmory]

I am tired of people calling specter a moderate. Specture is a liberal. He has democrats working for him.

In the eyes of the partisan media a "moderate" is a RINO.

If anything, this is a wake up call in that the "moderate" position is NOT the default position. Conservative positions win votes.

Even with an endorsemnt by Bush, and Specter touting his mere seniority, Specter still had to eak out a win from a challenger who should not have been a threat. Rove should take this as a lesson and a wake up.

We need more conservatives across the board in order to marginalize the frauds like specter.

(I still laugh with specter refering to scotish law during the clinton impeachment. Seriously considering "not proven" as a third option betrayed his oath in the senate.)

It is good that moderats are dying out. Moderates enabled and emboldened the left to get us into the messes we have to clean up today.

[finnsheep]

Specter is 74. What happens if he doesn't make it thru his term? Is there a special election? If so Toomey has ALL the credibility and would be the Republican candidate.

[SauronOfMordor]

If 74 yo Spector dies in office, the (Democrat) gov of PA gets to appoint his replacement

[HitmanLV]

To be fair, having democrats working for him is not conclusive evidence he is a liberal.

I have some (very few) trusted friends who are democrats, for example. One is a very well spoken and lovely african american woman, very well educated, and she would be a great public face for a politician and a great staffmember.

If I was in Congress, I would almost certainly ask her to be on my staff as a general spokeswoman as well as a special liason for my office for minority issues, and I'd hope she would agree to join the staff.

She is a lifelong democrat, though not a nauseatingly liberal one. Her presence in my congressional office, or my local office, would not be evidence I was a liberal at all.

In fact, I'm pretty conservative! ;-)

(Then again, I also love the way she looks naked, so that might be clouding my judgment a bit)

[bvw]

I hope you have some second thoughts as to the last post. Private is provate, my friend. We don't want to share too much of our private lives.

[brityank]

Specter won because of the Demoncrat cross-over voters that re-registered as Republicans to hijack the election.

Write in Toomey in the fall.

[ovrtaxt]

Haven't you heard? This is supposed to be GOOD for Bush. After all, he STUPIDLY endorsed Specter...

[petercooper]

I hope Specter loses to Hoeffel.

[ovrtaxt]

The Senate votes are going to come out the same either way...

[BOBWADE]

Me too. I don't want Specter calling the shots on who gets put on the SCOTUS. This is bad,very bad for our country.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

The west went for Toomey, even Allegheny County. I am really diappointed...by the Specter victory, by the Santorum and Bush support of same, and by the fact that the 'east' of PA once again determined an election.

No matter what happens between now and November I will not hold my nose and vote for Specter...I have decided that I am sending a message...I will write in Toomey (no vote for a Dem, or Libertarian, or a Greenie, etc.).

[kittymyrib]

Since the president will not have 60 votes in the Senate, he will not get any judges approved anyway, so this changes nothing.
What made Bush think that a win for Specter will help him win PA in November? Specter didn't help him win PA in '02, and there wasn't even a senatorial election to get the Dems out to vote. It surely will not help Bush this year when every union dog and cat will be voting at least twice for Hoeffle.
Big BOOS to all "conservatives" who didn't bother to get out and vote for Toomey yesterday. You could have won this one but chose not to. We do not think you are conservatives at all, just lazy and uncommitted.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Damn, damn, triple damn!

Here in York County, we delivered for Republicans; ALL of them.

http://ydr.com/page/election/summary/

What a depressing result.

I think the last 3 days of Sphincter ads, where he stated that "a vote against him was a vote against the Republican Party", cinched it for a lot of moderate voters who hadn't made up their minds to vote Conservative, for Toomey.

Here's my post yesterday, on that subject, and the reply:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1125436/posts