Arlen Specter Reduced to Begging Democrats to Save Him
This from Pittsburghlive.com….
‘Benedict Arlen’ plots with enemy
by Tribune-Review staff
Arlen Specter appears spooked.
At a town hall meeting at Point Park University Thursday, the U.S. senator acknowledged his long political career was in jeopardy because of his vote supporting President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package.
Noting that he barely squeaked by former U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey in the 2004 GOP primary, Specter asked for help in the 2010 primary, which is more than a year away.
He suggested Democrat students in the crowd of about 100 temporarily change their registration to Republican so they could vote for him in the primary, then revert to their previous Democrat registration.
Perhaps Specter — one of three Senate Republicans to vote for the stimulus bill — was moved to make the request after meeting some angry voters earlier in the day in Cranberry.
At a press conference announcing federal funding for the expansion of Freedom Road, two people stood behind Specter holding signs that read “Benedict Arlen — Wait Until 2010.”
One woman disrupted the news conference to read a long statement complaining about Specter’s “betrayal.”
HAUNT SPECTER. Financial shenanigans committed during his 2004 re-election campaign continue to prove costly to Sen. Arlen Specter.
Specter paid the Blank Rome law firm another $17,178 in legal fees related to a Federal Election Commission audit of his 2004 campaign. Specter’s audit-related legal expenses now top $100,000, according to The Morning Call of Allentown.
The audit determined that the Specter camp collected more than $1 million in excessive contributions, didn’t disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in receipts from political committees and missed a key filing deadline before the 2004 Republican primary.
(Remember, that was the contest in which Specter was nearly defeated by former U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey, who now is seriously contemplating a run for governor next year.)
The pressure is clearly getting to the specersaurus, millions of emails, calls and letters as well as feet in the street with protest signs. How degrading is it for this traitor now to ask democrats to switch parties to save his ass?
Pat Toomey I ask you to not seek the Governorship and run once more for Specter’s seat in the Senate.
Its time for this dinosaur to stumble off to the history books and you clearly have the best shot at him.
Ken Maddox of OneMillionConservatives.Org
