To be fair, he's really just doing what thousands of moderate Republicans in Pennsylvania already did...leave the Republican party. Pennsylvania has really had a very (to me) surprising shift in voter registration. A lot of long time Republicans becoming Independents or Democrats. That means that the remaining folks who are registered as Republican are 1) smaller in number and 2) more hard core conservative. Toomey is right to challenge Specter. Specter doesn't represent what remains of the Republican Party in PA any longer.
Now, more interestingly to me, is whether Specter will get a serious primary challenge on the Democrat side of the aisle and whether this will change his vote on the Employee Free Choice Act. Specter was an EFCA sponsor in the last Congress but came out against it this time around, presumably because of the threatened challenge from Toomey. Republicans decided to challenge him in the primary even though he voted with them on EFCA, so now does Specter stick to this years opinion on EFCA or does he switch back to his previous stance on it and prove one of the deciding votes in the Senate? Judah On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:56 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <chumph...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> And he knew he was not going to win a Republican primary fight against >> Toomey, but now he'll win the general against Toomey fairly easily. If he >> wanted to stay in office, this move was inevitable. > > I just heard the sound clip from his interview where he said, "I will > not have my 29 year senate career changed by the republican primary > system." > > Oof, where's that bus? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296344 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
