Specter to switch parties

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Not sure if this is confirmed yet, but Human Events is reporting that Specter is about to switch.

If this is true, congratulations to my Democratic friends on gaining a great Senator and achieving 60 votes in the U.S. Senate.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31639

Update: Washington Post confirms it
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/specter-to-switch-parties.html

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

If this is true, congratulations to my Democratic friends on gaining a great Senator and achieving 60 votes in the U.S. Senate.

Now he can put "Obama and Specter for Working Families" and win that way.  What's your point?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

If this is true, congratulations to my Democratic friends on gaining a great Senator and achieving 60 votes in the U.S. Senate.

And yet your Facebook status says nothing like this. Pick a side, Don. Really.

Huh?  My "Congratulations" here is kinda tongue-and-cheek... its not something they accomplished, its a "gift" that "we" gave to them.  

For reference, my Facebook status says this:
"Don Johnson is sad that the Democrats now have 60 votes in the Senate to rubber-stamp Obama's radical agenda."

I am upset that my own Party, through its own actions, has thrown away any hope of opposing Obama in the near term.  That being said, I must snicker a little at Specter denying Toomey the pleasure of defeating him in the primary.

Read some of the poster comments on the sites that are reporting this.  Statements like "Take McCain and his daughter with him", etc., etc.  How many more seats do you want to give to the Democrats? 1?  5? 10?  How many more seats are we going to give away before we get a handle on the RINO-hunters?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Don, who are you supporting in the General?

At this point, write-in Tom Ridge.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Rush Limbaugh is now advocating that McCain switch next.  Do you agree with that Phil?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

The Facebook and Conservative website comments are amazing.  Our own activists want to give away Snowe, Collins, McCain, Alexander, Gov. Schwarzenegger, to the Dems.

This is insanity.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

The Facebook and Conservative website comments are amazing.  Our own activists want to give away Snowe, Collins, McCain, Alexander, Gov. Schwarzenegger, to the Dems.

This is insanity.

Alexander who? Lamar?
Why? What has he done to be considered RINO?

Because he doesn't fit the Jim Bunning/Bil Sali model of "victorious" GOP leaders.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I'll give Phil this: I'm not sure if the Republican party left Arlen...it probably did, that's probably still not really Arlen's motivation for leaving, aside from 200,000 or so people like me who left the primary electorate.

LOL Moose - whats hilarious is that Rush Limbaugh just took credit on the radio for those party-switchers, claiming that they were a part of "Operation Chaos".

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Democrats are like an ugly girl who needs a prom date: They'll take anyone.

And we're the snobby bitch who is waiting for Prince charming that will grow up to be an old mistress because nothing was ever good enough for her.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

The Facebook and Conservative website comments are amazing.  Our own activists want to give away Snowe, Collins, McCain, Alexander, Gov. Schwarzenegger, to the Dems.

This is insanity.

Irrelevant. Stop trying to change the subject.

How is the fact that our Party is going to be reduced to two redneck drunks sitting outside a trailer somewhere in Alabama irrelevant to this subject?  That is until one of the drunks accuses the other drunk of being a RINO, and Jimbo the drunk becomes America's last Republican.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

So far, she said, she's staying put. "I believe in the traditional tenets of the Republican Party: strong national defense, fiscal responsibility, individual opportunity. I haven't abandoned those principles that have been the essence of the Republican Party. I think the Republican Party has abandoned those principles.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

The Facebook and Conservative website comments are amazing.  Our own activists want to give away Snowe, Collins, McCain, Alexander, Gov. Schwarzenegger, to the Dems.

This is insanity.

You mean Lamar Alexander??

Yeah - listening to the radio now and callers are calling in saying that they "wouldn't shed a tear if RINO Lamar Alexander joined Specter with the Democrats...and McCain too"

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I didn't really want to say this but:

Keystone, you were right.  Specter is a spineless, opportunistic, scumbag.  I apologize for doubting you.

Now kiss his ring.

You don't want to know where he keeps that ring....