Posted on 10/03/2010 6:00:56 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. Arlen Specter urged “mainstream Americans” to turn out in droves to prevent a total rejection of moderate challengers and incumbents.
“Mainstream Americans must march to the polls this November to express themselves forcefully to stop extremists financed by undisclosed contributors from stifling our democracy,” the Pennsylvania Democrat said in a floor statement Tuesday morning.
Specter, who left the GOP for the Democratic Party last year after determining he could not win the Republican primary in his state, noted this year’s primary process has been particularly devastating to moderates. Specter, a moderate, is one of three incumbent Senators to lose this year. He lost in May to liberal Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak.
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In a thinly veiled charge, Specter took after one of his colleagues, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), whom he blamed for trying to impose a conservative purity test on Republicans.
“Within days of the start of the Obama administration, before the ink was dry on his oath of office, Republicans openly bragged about plans to ‘break him and engineer his Waterloo,” Specter said of DeMint’s statements during the health care debate. “Announcing that ideological purity was more important than obtaining a majority, the prevailing Republican motto was, ‘We’d rather have 30 Marco Rubios in the Senate than 50 Arlen Specters.’”
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“Pundits are saying this November our nation will be at the crossroads. I believe it is more like a cloverleaf,” Specter said. “If activated and motivated to vote, mainstream voters can steer America to sensible centrism.”
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The sooner the better with Specter!
Sour grapes from an aging oligarch witnessing the reemergence of citizen participation and empowerment.
This is why this liberal loser was thrown out on his ass. He doesn’t understand what an American is. The boy has been in the District of Corruption so long that he is totally out of touch with America.
These elitist in the Republican Party need to be put out to pasture. Specter,Murkowski and a few others like them were born to lead and cant take rejection. No better example of what an elitist is!
And then we'll see how long his cancer remains in remission.
“Flipper” is senile.
Nope,sorry...gotta disagree with ya.*Strongly* disagree.Mr Sphincter is absolutely sane and lucid.His pathology goes much deeper...he's totally,utterly amoral.
This is your typical back stabbing “good old friend” Once He’s rung every stinking favor He can out of ya, He tells the new neighbor what a worthless son of a b!tch you are cause your using your own mower while he wants to cut his own 3 week late lawn.
He is the perfect DEMOCRAT
yep- we’re the extremists benedict arnold....
but clowns like you who constantly vote against the wishes of the American people and your constituents on issues like health care reform, prohibiting minors from crossing state lines for abortion, barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions, stimulus spending, cash for clunkers, etc, etc, etc...well you are mainstream...
Dear Mr. Specter, mainstream conservative folks have collectively (lol) realized that extremist, leftist Alinskyites have pushed individual American liberty too far. We will be marching in November and the big government statists will be frogmarched out of public service.
He’s all that plus beginnings of senility.
From RINO to DINO. Specter has been the invisible man in Pa since the primary. He isn’t even helping to campaign for the DEMS running on any ticket in Pa.
Loser be gone!
Full Specter of traitor on display!
Prostitucians can’t reconcile that they can be fired by people!
Sweep the RATs and RINOs out into oblivion!
“Mainstream Americans must march to the polls this November to express themselves forcefully to stop extremists financed by undisclosed contributors from stifling our democracy,” the Pennsylvania Democrat said in a floor statement Tuesday morning.
So night is indeed day, up is really down, the left is actually mainstream, ordinary heretofore private citizens that are concerned enough about America’s future to get involved are “extremists”...Got it!
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