AP: Sen Arlen Specter Has died

AP ^ | 10/14/12

[Perdogg]

According to the AP ex Sen Arlen Specter has died.

[Forgotten Amendments]

I’d forgotten this:

http://jimbovard.com/blog/2012/10/14/rip-arlen-specter-one-of-the-heroes-of-ruby-ridge/

[ZULU]

If you can’t say anything good about the dead say nothing at all. So l won’t say anything at all.

[Democrat_media]

I will never forgive that communist “bastard” Obama for the harm he has done to our freedoms, to our economy and for the harm it has done to America. I hate that POS Obama more than anything.

[lightman]

FInal section of story:

Intellectual and stubborn, Specter played squash nearly every day into his mid-70s and liked to unwind with a martini or two at night. He took the lead on a wide spectrum of issues and was no stranger to controversy.

Born in Wichita, Kan., on Feb. 12, 1930, Specter spent summers toiling in his father’s junkyard in Russell, Kan., where he knew another future senator - Bob Dole. The junkyard thrived during World War II, allowing Specter’s father to send his four children to college.

Specter left Kansas for college in 1947 because the University of Kansas, where his best friends were headed, did not have Jewish fraternities. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951 and Yale law school in 1956. He served in the Air Force from 1951 to 1953.

Friends say his childhood circumstances made him determined, tough and independent-minded. Specter considered his father’s triumphs the embodiment of the American dream, a fulfillment that friends say drove him to a career in public life.

He entered politics as a Democrat in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, when he was an assistant district attorney who sent six Teamsters officials to jail for union corruption.

After working on the Warren Commission, he returned to Philadelphia and challenged his boss, James Crumlish, for district attorney in 1965. Specter ran as a Republican and was derided by Crumlish as “Benedict Arlen.” But Crumlish lost to his protege by 36,000 votes.

It was to be the last time until 1980 that Specter would win an election to higher office, despite three attempts - a 1967 bid for Philadelphia mayor, a 1976 loss to John Heinz for Senate and a 1978 defeat by Dick Thornburgh for governor.

After leaving the Senate in January 2011, the University of Pennsylvania Law School announced Specter would teach a course about Congress’ relationship with the Supreme Court, and Maryland Public Television launched a political-affairs show hosted by the former senator.

He is survived by his wife, Joan, and two sons, Shanin and Steve, and four granddaughters.

[BillyBoy]

>> We will forget you but will remember these things as a warning to never again elect anyone like you who claims to be a republican. <<

Bwahahaha.... you're killing me!

[FourtySeven]

Sounds like a Law & Order episode.

[rockthecasbah]

Prayers out to his family. May they find comfort in the Lord.

[FourtySeven]

Classic.

[cotton1706]

Who’s he?

[lightman]

May God have mercy upon his soul, and upon all our souls.

[Daffynition]

His career epitomizes the need for term limits.

[lightman]

Amen.

[NKP_Vet]

Specter is the RINO that led the charge against confirming Robert Bork. I will not miss him in the least. He also has to answer to God for all the unborn babies that had a hand in killing with his support of abortion on demand. God will not be happy.

[dennisw]

I for one am aware of that Arlen Spector fiasco and miscarriage of justice

Ira Einhorn: The Unicorn Killer

[Political Junkie Too]

Tip: when in doubt, right-click on the picture and look at the properties, especially the address, for clues.

-PJ

[BillyBoy]

Mark Kirk, the ultra-liberal RINO U.S. Senator from Illinois. 100% rating from Planned Parenthood, F- rating from the NRA (he's such a gun grabber that the Jim & Sarah Brady campaign to Prevent Gun Violence actually endorsed him OVER a Chicago machine Democrat!), opposed the Iraq surge, supported Cap n' Trade, immediately began voting wit the Dems for cloture during the "lame duck" session after promising voters he wouldn't, and so on, and so on. He's so liberal he makes Scott Brown look like Reagan.

A bunch of freepers told us we "had to" elect this guy in Illinois because it would "embarass Obama" and a socialist like him was "the best we can get", nevermind the fact that the Senator who held the seat immediately BEFORE Obama was a conservative.

And these same freepers that championed Kirk's election will tell us Lindsey Graham is unacceptable. Hypocrisy, much?

[dennisw]

“His career epitomizes the need for term limits.”

He was a lifer. The epitome of a Gov’t lifer supported by the US and Pennsylvania taxpayers. He knew he was ill and (ego driven) wanted to die with his boots on as a US Senator. The voters of Pennsylvania denied this vanity.

[a fool in paradise]

No final flip flop?

[MovementConservative]

Arlen, we will remember the stimulus. We will remember the numerous betrayals. We will remember your being against Robert Bork, so that other worthless moderate and liberal republicans could hide behind your filthy skirt. We will remember your silly “not proven” standard in the Clinton impeachment trial. We will forget you but will remember these things as a warning to never again elect anyone like you who claims to be a republican.

Arlen Specter also helped keep filthy hippy murderer Ira Einhorn out of jail and on the lam for so many decades. Holly Maddox waited a long time for justice in large part due to Specter.

[Revolting cat!]

He’ll always be our former ex senator!