He said that he was unwilling to let the voters in the Pennsylvania Republican primary determine his future. And guess what? GOP moderates in Pennsylvania reregistered Democrat in droves last election--some 1.5 million, I hear--and the remainder--or the "deadend revenant", as Rummy would say--has swung so far right that, in fact, voters in the Pennsylvania Republican primary are not his constituency any longer. The truth is that Specter is following his constituency, right into the arms of the Democrats.
The best summation by a talking head heard today, so far, is that the GOP has become a regional political party: Deep South and Alaska, plus the stubborn varnish of a thin layer of diehards everywhere else (and who really don't count, being in the permanent minority). You might want to consider the proposition that the best thing that could happen to Conservatives is for the GOP to finish dying, to make room for a new party to represent the right. Somebody needs to tell Michael Steele that he's trying to animate a corpse.
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No he didn't
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- Former member of the Warren Commission now a Democrat
- Democrats grousing about the bribes
- The GOP continues to contract into a narrow, regional party
- Excellent news!
- Excellent news!
- The extreme right-wing (read "base") has driven folks out.
- More like "still a Democrat."
- That he couldn't get re-elected as a Republican says a lot.
- He said that he was not about to let his 29 year career in the Senate be determined by his constituency.