Another "Freeper for Hoeffel"

[ButterflyBlood]

To: mwl1
"Specter now owes Bush and Santorum, at least through 2006. I think he's gotten the message."

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Or else what? Specter will never face a GOP primary ever again. If he gets reelected, what's to stop him from veering even further left? And since he's already proved that he can get Santorum and Bush and George Allen to cover for him whenever someone points out that he's more liberal than several Senate Democrats, all he has to do is publicly consider switching parties and Santorum and Bush and George Allen will again come to his rescue. Let's face it, if Specter wins reelection, he will become the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, block as many conservative judicial nominees as he wishes, and the Senate Republicans won't do a damn thing about it.

So here is what I propose conservatives do. If there's a chance that the Democrats will recapture the Senate if Hoeffel defeats Specter, then we have no choice but to hold our noses and support Specter, since a Republican-controlled Senate with Specter as Chairman of Judiciary is less bad than a RAT-controlled Senate (no matter who chairs Judiciary---and believe me, he'd be even worse than Specter). However, if it appears that the GOP will have at least 51 Senators even if Specter loses, I think we'd be better off voting for the Constitution Party Senate nominee. Mind you, I have never before suggested such a course of action. I'm 100% pro-life and a conservative across the board, but in 2000 I supported the pro-abortion RINO Lincoln Chafee over the pro-life Democrat Weygand in the Rhode Island Senate race because Senate control was in play, and a Republican-controlled Senate with one fewer pro-lifer would be able to approve many more pro-life bills than a Democrat-controlled Senate with one more pro-lifer, since if the RATs controlled the Senate they would not let pro-life bills get to the floor (as they proved during the 18 months in which Daschle was majority leader after Jeffords switched). But the marked difference between 49 and 50 GOP Senators is leagues greater than the difference between 52 and 53 GOP Senators. Arlen Specter's liberalism, chicanery and seniority makes this the one case in which a Senate with 53 Republicans (but with Specter chaiting Judiciary) would be worse than a Senate with 52 Republicans (but with Kyl chairing Judiciary). So if it looks like any three of Richard Burr (NC), Jack Ryan (IL), John Thune (SD), David Vitter (LA), George Nethercutt (WA), Tom Coburn (OK), Bill Jones (CA) and whoever get the Colorado, Wisconsin and SC nominations will win, we would have at least 51 Republicans in the Senate even if Specter loses (since Georgia will be a certain GOP pick-up). And I have to tell you, right now I think we have the edge in at least 5 of those 10 Senate races, so if it looks like Specter's election would merely boost the GOP Senate majority from 53 to 54, I will do something that I have never done before---hope that a Republican Senate nominee loses. Unfortunately, it would be the only way to ensure that Bush's judicial nominees receive fair treatment in the Senate.

1,124 posted on 04/28/2004 7:36:07 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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[Gman]

1. Its such a pretty sight to watch

when their heads explode into millions of pieces. Something does it to them several times a year. Its fun to watch!

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Hit me, baby, one more time

Arlen Specter is 74 years old. Odds are that this is his last term in the Senate. He has one last big fight to face: Joe Hoeffel. And to win against Joe Hoeffel, he's going to have to court a lot of liberal Democrats.

So what are the chances that he's going to dance to the tune played by the New Right?

Pennsylvania ought to now be a write-off for the radical right. They are not doing nearly as well as they were even four years ago. I guess "God-fearin', gun-totin', cross-burnin'" Heartland Americans would prefer to have a decent job with good wages and benefits than a Political Lifestyle founded in sarcasm and hatred.

Besides which, most of those Heartland Americans aren't nowhere near as dumb as the GOP thinks they are.

--bkl

[calimary]

3. Actually, they owe HIM.

Especially bush. If bush wants to see more republi-CONS than Democrats in the Senate, he AND Santorum, too, are going to be forced to make nice-nice with this guy. After all, they're gonna want his votes on their issues, and they can't afford to alienate him any further, especially since he already veers to the middle/left more often than they like.

[robbedvoter]

4. The news were already saying Specter won another term

Do they know something we don't? Are general election cancelled?


From the article: "Veteran GOP Sen. Arlen Specter narrowly won a
fifth term..."