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Specter Fallout
SANTORUM IN TROUBLE
American Spectator ^
| 1/24/2005
| The Washington Prowler
Posted on 01/24/2005 7:31:36 AM PST by AliVeritas
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To: montag813
Agree. But don't the thought die here. Go to Santorum's web site and send him an email. Let him know how we feel:
http://santorum.senate.gov
61
posted on
01/24/2005 9:17:21 AM PST
by
O6ret
("Experts" can be paid to say anything)
To: BigSkyFreeper
And the current situation, with spies in the caucus and a turncoat as chairman of a supposedly Republican-run comittee is better than a Democrat in that seat... how? It can't get any worse.
We HAD the opportunity to put up a worthy candidate, took the easy way out, and are paying for it now.
Or, look at it this way: don't keep making the same bad decision over and over just because you have a sunk cost in previous bad decisions.
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posted on
01/24/2005 9:26:40 AM PST
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
To: BigSkyFreeper
Toomey is a fringe candidate? You ought to be more respectful of Republicans.
63
posted on
01/24/2005 9:27:53 AM PST
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
To: eno_
Problem is, Toomey isn't running for political office these days.
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posted on
01/24/2005 9:30:49 AM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(PEST/Suicide Hotline 1-800-BUSH-WON)
To: All
Hello,
I thought you might be interested to know that PAT TOOMEY is the new chairman of the CLUB FOR GROWTH.
It was the Club for Growth who helped defeat Tom Daschle & who also almost defeated Specter in PA. The CLUB FOR GROWTH backed Toomey against Specter.
When I wrote, faxed and called Mr Santorum, I mentioned that every Political donation I give now will go to the CLUB FOR GROWTH not the GOP.
just an f.y.i.
To: AliVeritas
66
posted on
01/24/2005 9:46:26 AM PST
by
Ogie Oglethorpe
(The people have spoken...the b*stards!)
To: AliVeritas; All
I'm going to rain on everyone's bash-anyone-who-didn't-support-Toomey parade here (what makes everyone think
he wouldn't have backed the incumbent were he in Santorum's position?) and remind y'all -- because most have forgetten, if indeed they ever realized it to begin with -- that at this time last year, as the primaries were gearing up, we were facing a pretty good chance that the Democrats would take over the Senate. Thanks to high-profile retirements and troubled incumbents on the GOP side, Democrats were certainly picking up Illinois, were headed towards picking up Alaska, Colorado (they did), and Oklahoma, as well as retaining Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina. Daschle still had the edge in South Dakota.
With all this the case, it was not an unreasonable decision to keep a crucial Republican seat by backing its incumbent -- even if he was a RINO bastard -- rather than throwing it into an open race in Ed Rendell-controlled Pennsylvania with a congressman who'd never been elected statewide. I'm sure this was Santorum's reasoning, and otherwise conservatives have had nothing but praise for him.
I detest Arlen Specter. But I don't fault Bush, Rove, or any Pennsylvania primary voter who decided that the greater evil would have been chancing the return of the entire Senate to the Democrats. In politics especially, we all make tough choices at critical junctures, between two bad options.
-Dan
67
posted on
01/24/2005 9:51:27 AM PST
by
Flux Capacitor
(HOWARD THE DUCK in 2008)
To: TonyRo76
Thankfully, the new freshman class of Republicans (DeMint, Coburn, Thune, Vitter, etal.) should be a breath of fresh air in that place. Santorum was a "salvation-of-the-party" freshman once.
68
posted on
01/24/2005 9:54:37 AM PST
by
topcat54
To: BigSkyFreeper
Problem is, Toomey isn't running for political office these days. Maybe Specter's head on a platter would change his mind.
69
posted on
01/24/2005 9:57:56 AM PST
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
To: BigSkyFreeper
Yeah, and if we all start blackmailing our own, before we even know it, the Democrats are back in power. I would rather have a Democrat than Arlen Specter.
Comment #71 Removed by Moderator
To: montag813; eno_
Rather have a democrat.
My, I am glad you don't get to decide.
To: montag813
You couldn't get me to support a Democrat.
73
posted on
01/24/2005 10:12:24 AM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(PEST/Suicide Hotline 1-800-BUSH-WON)
Comment #74 Removed by Moderator
To: oldironsides
Amen. Casey will beat him. Rick ticked off a lot of people in the primary. They will stay home, vote Casey, or vote 3rd party. Combine that with Philly, and that seat goes Dem.
75
posted on
01/24/2005 10:27:31 AM PST
by
BroncosFan
("It's worse than a crime - it's a mistake." Talleyrand.)
To: Salvation
Joe Hoeffel ran against Specter as a "dry-run" for a race against Santorum...Hoeffel needed to get known outside his Philadelphia area base---and he did that.
If conservatives don't back Santorum, they will elect Hoeffel---a card-carrying ACLU member.
76
posted on
01/24/2005 10:31:22 AM PST
by
Bushbacker
(ttlGe)
To: Flux Capacitor
I detest Arlen Specter. But I don't fault Bush, Rove, or any Pennsylvania primary voter who decided that the greater evil would have been chancing the return of the entire Senate to the Democrats. In politics especially, we all make tough choices at critical junctures, between two bad options. All good points you make, but what's the excuse for knuckling under and giving him the Judiciary chairmainship, which is only one of the most important posts in Congress? Because of "tradition"? That's the kind of stupidity that makes a lot of people disgusted with politics.
77
posted on
01/24/2005 10:35:30 AM PST
by
jpl
("Liberals love America like O.J. loved Nicole." - Ann Coulter)
To: Flux Capacitor
In politics especially, we all make tough choices at critical junctures, between two bad options. Two bad decisions is Specter's favor so far. What's the plan now? Keep appeasing this a-hole? In the words of Dr. Phil: "How's that workin' out for ya?"
78
posted on
01/24/2005 10:39:19 AM PST
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
To: sartorius
>Oh, PUULEEESSSSEEEE! We was had, folks! Played like a banjo!<
In view of the flood of disturbing news these days, I am beginning to believe it. Before, it was just a sneakin' hunch.
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posted on
01/24/2005 10:42:42 AM PST
by
Paperdoll
(GO ROSSI!!!!!)
To: jpl
----All good points you make, but what's the excuse for knuckling under and giving him the Judiciary chairmainship, which is only one of the most important posts in Congress?---- There isn't one. That, indeed, is where my case for Specter stops.
-Dan
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posted on
01/24/2005 10:49:32 AM PST
by
Flux Capacitor
(HOWARD THE DUCK in 2008)
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