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Specter says Obama ditched him after he voted to pass health law
thehill.com ^ | 3/12/2012 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 03/12/2012 10:45:51 AM PDT by mojitojoe

Former Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) writes in a new book that President Obama ditched him in the 2010 election after he helped Obama win the biggest legislative victory of his term by passing healthcare reform.

Specter also claims that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did not uphold his promise to grant him seniority accrued over 28 years of service in the Senate as a Republican.

Specter, who rocked Washington’s political establishment and made headlines around the country when he left the Republican Party to join Democrats in April of 2009, has kept quiet about these slights until now.

He makes surprising revelations about Republican leaders, as well — he writes that former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) told him that he would have made the same decision to defect from the GOP if he had been in Specter’s position.

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To: mojitojoe

So Specter now you know how the citizens that voted for you felt when you betrayed them. Were you really that naive to think politicians only lie to their voters?


41 posted on 03/12/2012 12:36:12 PM PDT by shoff (Vote Democratic it beats thinking!)
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To: dirtboy

We will hear the exact thing said by Dole was agreed to by Romney some day down the line.


42 posted on 03/12/2012 12:48:51 PM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: mojitojoe

Catamites don’t get kisses. They are there to serve.


43 posted on 03/12/2012 1:00:15 PM PDT by Psalm 144 ("I think we ought to listen to Alinsky." - Governor G. Romney, father of Bishop Willard M. Romney.)
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To: A. Patriot

“That’s what usually happens to a prostitute. Only Arlen didn’t get paid!”

Reminds me of a joke that has to actually be spoken to be truly funny:

“How do you make a hormone?”

“Don’t pay her.” (Whore moan?)

Is Arlen moaning here? I’m shocked, SHOCKED that democrats lied to him.


44 posted on 03/12/2012 1:10:42 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: A. Patriot

Are we really sure he wasn’t paid? Just askin’


45 posted on 03/12/2012 1:14:36 PM PDT by TEXOKIE
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To: Abby4116

Thanks for the info!


46 posted on 03/12/2012 1:21:45 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The facts of life are Tory." -- Margaret Thatcher)
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To: mojitojoe

THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING A DUMBASS, SPECTER


47 posted on 03/12/2012 1:22:21 PM PDT by Mr. K (Were the Soviet-Era propagandists as gleefully willing as our Lame-stream Media?)
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To: dirtboy

I bet if Romney was in Specters place HE WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME THING!! THAT IS WHY I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR ROMNEY

If he wins the primary, I am writing-in PALIN


48 posted on 03/12/2012 1:24:35 PM PDT by Mr. K (If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in PALIN)
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To: All

he’s the living definition of the term “useful idiot”


49 posted on 03/12/2012 1:29:17 PM PDT by newnhdad (Soylent green is people..)
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To: RinaseaofDs
“How do you make a hormone?”

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

50 posted on 03/12/2012 1:31:15 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The facts of life are Tory." -- Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Vaquero

Neither will I. I campaigned and voted for Bush both times but honestly, in his last term he really changed and was a huge disappointment to me.


51 posted on 03/12/2012 2:12:41 PM PDT by mojitojoe (American by birth. Southern by the grace of God. Conservative by reason and logic.)
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To: mojitojoe

So, Specter, your main beef is that they did not keep their word? Eh? If they had, you would be hunky dory with them and your own betrayal.

Well, Alan, there is no honor among thieves...and you willfully betrayed your constituency, your values. your nation, and your friends and took up with a bunch of thieves and thugs.

Now you are getting what you deserve, which is the consequence of all of that.

...and still, you will not be hurting nearly as badly as your betrayed nation will if ObamaCare, that you admit helping to pass, is not revoked, overturned, and voted out.

...no thanks to you.

Just get along Benedict...we’re not shedding any tears over the betrayal our enemies are working on one who willfully took up with them.

America at the Crossroads of History
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm

The Man who Despises America
http://www.jeffhead.com/obama-time.htm


52 posted on 03/12/2012 3:09:13 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: mojitojoe

Benedict Arnold felt the same way about how the British treated him. Neither side likes a traitor.


53 posted on 03/12/2012 6:49:39 PM PDT by Defiant (If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
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To: mojitojoe

Surprise, surprise, surprise!


54 posted on 03/12/2012 9:19:50 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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