Spector switch illistrates Obama's popularity!

Mottleydude said:
You would be the only one surprised. That's why the Republican party is on it's way to being a joke. It's becoming a small tent regional party of ideological far right conservatives. That's an untenable position for any politician that has a broad based electorate to answer to. As long as you are derogatory of anyone not far right enough or conservative enough the you're party doesn't stand a chance. Unless Republicans start working hard to get rid of the conservative ideologues running their party they are seriously fucked.

What will it take for ya'll to see this? Losing ten more senate seats? Losing half a dozen presidential elections in a row? A Supreme Court composed completely of democratic appointees? When will you see the light?
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I don't know how you argue this other than anything it is, Spector trying to keep his position. He's not the first politician to do it nor will he be the last.
 
And why shouldn't he take the route that is most likely to get him the seat, as long as the voters of Pennsylvania agree in both a primary and general?
 
Watermarx said:
And why shouldn't he take the route that is most likely to get him the seat, as long as the voters of Pennsylvania agree in both a primary and general?
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Did I argue he shouldn't have done it? Did I say he was wrong for doing it? WTF?
 
He just voted AGAINST Obama's massive spending budget. :clink:

Norman Paperman said:
The only things it illustrates is the fact that he knows he can not win the Republican nomination, and his main interest is retaining is office any way possible, plain and simple. I'd be surprised if he could win on the Democratic ticket as well. Especially after more than 40 years with the Republicans.Then again, I think he has always been a Democrat and registered as a Republican out of political expediency. When he won the office of District Attorney in 1965, he ran on the Republican ticket as a registered Democrat.
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Jarod said:
The public is very happy about B. Obama's first 100 days and that is illistrated by Arlen Spectors switch to the Democratic party. It appears that part of the deal was that Obama would agree to campaign with him for reelection!

I doubt many Democrats were trying to make deals to get Bush to campaign with them in the last election!


Obama is off to a great start, the Democrats Regan[sic]!
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Didn't Benedict Arlene switch from the Democrats under Reagan?

All this shows is that the man has no core values, except self aggrandizement.
 
Norman Paperman said:
The only things it illustrates is the fact that he knows he can not win the Republican nomination, and his main interest is retaining is office any way possible, plain and simple. I'd be surprised if he could win on the Democratic ticket as well. Especially after more than 40 years with the Republicans.Then again, I think he has always been a Democrat and registered as a Republican out of political expediency. When he won the office of District Attorney in 1965, he ran on the Republican ticket as a registered Democrat.
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Exactly, the point is that the Republican party has become sooo narrow focused and so small that its long term elected members are being expelled by the few voters left in the party!
 
Jarod said:
Exactly, the point is that the Republican party has become sooo narrow focused and so small that its long term elected members are being expelled by the few voters left in the party!
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You have it backwards. The republicans, once elected, just become big government fascist wonks, like the dems.
 
I think it demonstrates a matter of political expediency, not of the popularity of Obama. If Obama had never run, you would be saying the same of whoever won the WH (It wouldn't have been an R). It isn't the person, it is a rejection of the overspending from the party that everybody has said hasn't objected and will not reject the people who participated in it.
 
you are brilliant and we think so much alike

i bet you are as pretty as you are gifted in expressing your thoughts here

you give me goose bumps
 
AssHatZombie said:
No. It illustrates what a scumbag Spector is for switching parties rather than facing the actual democratic process.
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how is his switch not part of the democratic process

he is looking at his current electorate and looking to represent them

this is not the first time that a politician has switched parties and likely will not be the last...how would you feel if it was a dem switching to rep?
 
DonQuixote said:
how is his switch not part of the democratic process

he is looking at his current electorate and looking to represent them

this is not the first time that a politician has switched parties and likely will not be the last...how would you feel if it was a dem switching to rep?
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He is unwilling to face the republican primary. That's avoiding the process.
 
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