Posted on 05/03/2009 7:28:50 PM PDT by Steelfish
Specter: GOP priorities contributed to Kemp death
By Tom LoBianco May 3, 2009
Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Democrat, said part of the reason he left the Republican Party last week was disillusionment with its healthcare priorities, and suggested that had the Republicans taken a more moderate track, Jack Kemp may have won his battle with cancer.
Mr. Specter, responding to a question from CBS's Bob Schieffer over whether he had let down Pennsylvanians who wanted a Republican to represent them, said he felt his priorities were more in line with those of the Democrats.
"Well, I was sorry to disappoint many people. Frankly, I was disappointed that the Republican Party didn't want me as their candidate," Mr. Specter said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "But as a matter of principle, I'm becoming much more comfortable with the Democrats' approach. And one of the items that I'm working on, Bob, is funding for medical research."
Mr. Specter continued: "If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine."
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This man is beyond disgusting.
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What a jerk.
He is one low man, using the death of another to take political shots.
man has lost his mind
yep. spoken like a true democrat.
What a pile of excrement.
FOAD, Mr. Specter. You’re not fit to shine Jack Kemp’s shoes.
What a despicable thing to say. Specter has zero shame.
Well, he's found his political home.
I was sure this was parody. I was dead sure.
Nope.
Republicans killed Jack Kemp.
Wow!
When is the train going to leave the tracks from the hyperbolic speeds it is travelling?
Really?
What an amazing find Steelfish.
So now we’re going to politicize the death of Jack Kemp????
Are these people for real?????
And a pre-scandal John Edwards said Christopher Reeve would get up out of that wheelchair if only we could do stem cell research.
Has Joe Biden been in touch with Chuck in the wheelchair, who he wanted to stand up? Maybe Chuck will stand up if only we have socialized medicine.
Arlen Specter isn’t half the man Jack Kemp was. I understand Arlen battled cancer and is a survivor. How could a cancer survivor make such a politicized idiotic statement????????
I see Arlen has been accepted and given a mebership over at DU.
Specter, you are a pig.
So in addition to being an opportunist, a traitor, and an all-around schmuck, he's also an Algore-type who pretends to know science when he has no clue.
Yes, he is right, this type of individual is tailor made for the RAT party.
One of the most repulsive things I’ve ever heard a politician say.
Really?
Waiting for him to say Obama laid hands on him, cast the demons out and turned him Democrat.
The reason there has been no war on cancer as promised a generation ago is that all that money went to funding the Great Society and its social programs. Enjoy your new home in the Democrat Party, Arlen.
Please tell me he did not really say this.
Granted, this is standard fare for liberals, and would only confirm what we all know if he would say things like this, but still...
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