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Sources: Specter intends to switch parties (AP)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/28/09 | David Espo - ap

Posted on 04/28/2009 9:13:59 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON – Several officials say veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania intends to switch parties, advancing his own hopes of winning a new term next year while pushing Democrats one step closer to a 60-vote filibuster-resistant majority.

The sources said an announcement could come later in the day — or Wednesday. The officials who provided the information did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss his plans.

Specter is a 79-year-old veteran of five Senate terms, and one of only a handful of moderate Republicans left in Congress in a party made up largely of conservatives.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 111th; bushlegacy; democrats; gop; parties; rovelegacy; sources; specter; switch
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To: NormsRevenge

Not surprising. I never trusted him.


21 posted on 04/28/2009 9:19:58 AM PDT by DesertRenegade
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To: NormsRevenge

The traitorous SOB may as well switch. Get him to take some more RINOs with him!


22 posted on 04/28/2009 9:20:07 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: NormsRevenge

Mr. Specter(”Howard Sprague”) couldn’t switch a light bulb.


23 posted on 04/28/2009 9:20:14 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Do your duty in all things." Robert E. Lee)
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To: pillut48

He is going to do this and lose in the primary to a radical liberal.

This should be fun to watch.


24 posted on 04/28/2009 9:20:44 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (The time has come to tell the salmon-eating international busybodies to mind their own business.")
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To: NormsRevenge
Boy, Bush and Santorum really look like geniuses for helping this creep survive in 2004, don't they?

Why do we have so many idiots on our side?
25 posted on 04/28/2009 9:21:06 AM PDT by Antoninus (Now accepting apologies from repentant Mittens.)
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To: NormsRevenge

There is no such thing as a “moderate” Republican, just as there is no such thing as a “moderate” Muhammadan.

This is why the GOP must have a very ‘tight’ conservative agenda. The “moderate” aka Blue Dog Democrats need to switch Parties, too.

Guess that includes me.


26 posted on 04/28/2009 9:21:19 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (The Constitution & Bill of Rights stand as a whole. Remove any part & nullify the whole.)
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To: NormsRevenge
A big thank you to the GOP establishment for backing the POS against Toomey. As always, help left-wing scum and take it in the shorts.

I'm happy to say I have voted against Specter at every opportunity. Now I won't have to search the ballot to do so.

27 posted on 04/28/2009 9:21:29 AM PDT by garv (Conservatism in '12)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Then he will want to switch back!


28 posted on 04/28/2009 9:21:42 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: NormsRevenge

Specter + Franken (puke) = 60

So what will it take to get Leiberman to caucus with the GOP?


29 posted on 04/28/2009 9:22:06 AM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: NormsRevenge

Specter To Switch Parties
By Carl Hulse

Ryan McFadden/Reading Eagle, via Associated Press

Senator Arlen Specter faced a tough primary race against former Representative Pat Toomey.Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania said he would switch to the Democratic party Tuesday, potentially presenting Democrats with a possible 60th vote and the power to break Senate filibusters as they try to advance the Obama administration’s new agenda.

Congressional aides and others close to the long-time Republican party maverick said Mr. Specter, who faced a difficult re-election next year, was going to announce he would become a Democrat.

If Al Franken prevails in his ongoing court case in Minnesota and Mr. Specter begins caucusing with Democrats, Democrats would have 60 votes and the ability to deny Republicans the chance to stall legislation. Mr. Specter was one of only three Republicans to support President Obama’s economic recovery legislation.

“We will welcome him with open arms,” said Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan.


30 posted on 04/28/2009 9:22:10 AM PDT by balls
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To: HighlyOpinionated

Specter is a political whore, always has been and always will be. His credo: What’s in it for me?


31 posted on 04/28/2009 9:22:40 AM PDT by Melchior
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To: NormsRevenge

Anyone here think the Mike Steele may have given Arlen a shove?


32 posted on 04/28/2009 9:23:55 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: NormsRevenge

What a weakling and fraud.
He’s takes money from the RNC under false pretenses and turns tail when the going gets tough.
Coryn has egg all over his face now ,too.
Please take Collins, Snowe and McCain with you.
They all deserve each other.


33 posted on 04/28/2009 9:24:37 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: NormsRevenge
This is very good news. Steele and the other GOP bigwigs won't have to support Specter any longer for fear of losing a so-called Republican seat.
34 posted on 04/28/2009 9:25:09 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: NormsRevenge

Specter switches back from whence he came. He was a Dem until he wanted the nomination for Philadelphia DA and switched to the GOP only to get an available nomination, not for any reasons of principle.


35 posted on 04/28/2009 9:26:06 AM PDT by mak5
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To: NormsRevenge

Does that mean that Cornyn and the other losers will no longer support him for reelection?


36 posted on 04/28/2009 9:26:07 AM PDT by stop_fascism
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To: NormsRevenge

The leadership of the GOP is no better than union thugs. They back the most senior members irrespective of their leftist ideology.

The NRSC was ready to back this idiot for re-election right up to the time he switched parties.

This is why the public doesn’t take the leadership at the RNC and the NRSC seriously.


37 posted on 04/28/2009 9:26:23 AM PDT by AreaMan
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To: NormsRevenge

FoxNews just announced this. So I guess we can count on nationalized healthcare etc.


38 posted on 04/28/2009 9:26:41 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: NormsRevenge

THE man of principle - winning an election is the only thing matters.


39 posted on 04/28/2009 9:26:46 AM PDT by monocle
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It is tactically bad news to lose a Republican Senator, and an even-occasionally Republican vote.

Having said that, I've held Spectre in absolute contempt since he borked Bork. He's an opportunistic, morally-clueless traitor. I'm just happy he's removing the veil so we can actually see the T-shirt now.

40 posted on 04/28/2009 9:26:49 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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