We didn’t lose Arlen Specter. He was never a republican.
The same could be said of Olympia. In fact, there’s an entire group of country club Republicans, patterned after Nelson Rockefeller and John Lindsay, who would fit in that category. They don’t mind expansive government as long as it suits them.
Folks like the aforementioned remind me of that British diplomat or general who was horrfied their intelligence service was reading the enemy’s mail. Anachronisms not meant to survive the changing face of battle, military or cultural.
One woman who married into money on Chicagoland’s North Shore was horrified by the idea of pre-emptive strikes against an adversary. Of course, she also thinnks Zero deserves a chance as far as his performance as President (she voted for him), which kind of tells you how brain-dead some so-called Republicans are. I swear the MSM has turned her and many of her neighbors into part of the Kumbaya crowd.
He was a "Robert Kennedy DemocRAT!"
Absolutely he was a republican. In the same mold as Guilliani, McCain, and Romney.
He was never a conservative.
She is next......
Snowe needs to go....
and also Lindsey Graham...another R.I.N.O. and McCain suck up.