I agree. I can support Guiliani's and Arnold's who hold different views. But with Specter it is a crusade to get liberal judges to the bench. It is the very essence for his existence in the Senate. I can not support a guy who I know for a fact main goal is to stab me in the back. If you don't understand that, i apologize.
Spector is NOT one of our own.
P.S. next warn me befor you shout so I can turn my hearing aid down...wow, that hurt.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1272661/posts?page=1
" Angry conservatives flooded Senate phone and fax lines on Friday demanding that Republicans prevent Senator Arlen Specter from presiding over the Judiciary Committee after he remarked that strongly anti-abortion judicial nominees might be rejected in the Senate..." Hope this helps!
You must have missed the Kerry/Specter signs in Southeast PA.
Perhaps you should ask the Republican in question why he rejects the platform of his party?
Perhaps you should ask him why he rejects the expressed wishies of this fellow Republicans on the street and IN THE WHITE HOUSE?
Perhaps you should ask him by what reasoning the wishis of a single senator from a single state trumps the agenda of the sitting PRESIDENT of the United States especially when that POTUS is a REPUBLICAN?
You get answers from Specter on these, and then we'll talk out supporting our "fellow Republican."
Specter is by no means one of us. Same goes for Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and obviously Lincoln Chafee. Bush and Santorum made a gesture of good will towards Specter and backed his re-election. Specter's repaid that kindness with treachery. He has no business being on the judiciary committee, let alone heading it.
Why again are we attacking a Republican? Because Lara Lakes Jordan told us to... and who is she? The wife of Dem operative Jim Jordan who was the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and one of the managers of Kerry's campaign. The "Specter warns" story that started this entire "crisis" was written by her as an AP "journalist".
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/politics-0/109952124527450.xml&storylist=politics
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32268
It was a set-up. It was what we call in the news business a "hatchet job." Rick Santorum is a young, good-looking, articulate conservative in the Senate's Republican leadership. He was deliberately targeted by a political activist disguised as a reporter – Lara Jakes Jordan.
I invite you to read her original story and see for yourself how it is dripping in venom. It's an editorial camouflaged as a news story. And she wrote it for the largest and most powerful news-gathering operation in the world, ensuring it would get maximum play in newspapers throughout the world.
Who is Lara Jakes Jordan?
For starters, she is married to veteran Democratic Party operative Jim Jordan, the former executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and manager of Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid.
Not surprisingly, the Massachusetts Democrat was among the first to criticize Santorum's remarks, using it as an opportunity to attack the White House. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Kerry got an advance copy of the article given his connections.
But there's more to the Lara Jakes Jordan story.
In January of this year, Mrs. Jordan was one of the signatories on a letter to her bosses at the AP attacking the news organization for "rolling back diversity" by not extending benefits to domestic partners.
In a symbolic move, the signatories to the letter returned key chains AP management gave them to "celebrate" its corporate diversity. The key chains carried the slogan: "AP Diversity: Many Views, One Vision.
It seems Mrs. Jordan's ideological fervor is not reserved only for her private life and her corporate politicking. This woman clearly ambushed Santorum on an issue near and dear to her bleeding heart.
I've been in the daily news business for 25 years. When I got started a quarter century ago, there was an old newsroom saying that went like this: "I don't care if you sleep with elephants as long as you don't cover the circus."
Mrs. Jordan violated that old newsroom ethic. She abdicated her right to cover the circus because she was sleeping with an elephant – or, in this case, a donkey.
That's why I say these catcalls for the head of Rick Santorum are nothing more than a political sideshow. It's not Rick Santorum who should be forced from office for clearly stating views that have been considered mainstream for the last 5,000 years. It's Lara Jakes Jordan who should be drummed out of the news profession for scoring cheap political points under the guise of news reporting.
It's not Rick Santorum who should apologize to anyone. It's the Associated Press for sponsoring this political hit piece.