Specter on Steele: ‘I wouldn’t pay a whole lot of attention to him.’

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This morning, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) spoke to Pennsylvania radio show “The Morning News with Nancy and Kevin,” where he was asked who led the Republican Party. Specter replied that he was “trying to bring it back in a sensible, centrist approach,” and indicated that neither Rush Limbaugh nor RNC Chairman Michael Steele are worth listening to:

NANCY: Where do you stand with him ?

SPECTER: Nancy, I think it’s a free country and we ought to let Rush Limbaugh express himself. I think that when the White House attacks him, they’re making a mistake for a couple of reasons. One reason is he’s got a right to say what he likes. And when you get into a fight with the White House, it elevates the guy who’s fighting with the White House.

KEVIN: Absolutely. What a mistake.

SPECTER: And National Chairman Steele, well he’s said so many contradictory things I wouldn’t pay a whole lot of attention to him.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/10/specter-on-steele-i-wouldnt-pay-a-whole-lot-of-attention-to-him/

(Steele's days are numbered and the MSM keep harping on Presdient Obama's 1st hundred days. The last laugh is on the GOP and the MSM) I say F--k all of them.

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1. I disagree with Spector on rush

free speech is one thing; spreading propganda to promote one political party (that just happens to be destroying America) is another - Obama should go after that lying bastard; it's time someone did

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2. President Obama cannot go after Rush but we the American people can...

I agree that Rush is a lying fat ass bastard who jus looks plain nasty... We voted for change and the President needs us to help and demand that this sort of BS stops for the good of the country.

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3. Steele said that he was going to try to get someone to run against Specter in a primary

challenge since he voted with the Dems. So that's probably what THAT was about. But he just doesn't get that the WH WANTS to elevate Rush. They don't care that it increases his "listenership" (if it really does). But on the other hand, the WH DID NOT ATTACK RUSH. All Gibbs and Emanuel did were point out what Rush said and how Repubs. had to grovel to him.

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6. No the WH did not attack Rush he started this on his own

Now the GOP will pay for his BS and the sooner the better.

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9. Exactly. Nobody made Rush say he hoped Obama failed before he was even sworn in!

And then he said the thing about people having to grab their ankles and bend over just because Obama's Black. The only thing Obama ever said about Rush was to Repubs.-that they can't JUST listen to Rush if they want to get things done. But the MSM's talking point is that the WH attacked Rush. :eyes:

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4. Have to hand it to Specter, he can be tough and mean...

not a milquetoast and a whiner a la the stereotype of the moderate Republican. He didn't roll over for Laura Ingraham, either, when she took him to task for supporting the stimulus.

Not that I think he's a swell guy; there's no coming back after his (and Orrin Hatch's) loathsome smear of Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearings, but I have some measure of respect for an occasional fighter rather than a consistent wimp.

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7. I have respect for him for going aganist his party to support the tarp

He probably has ended his career in the GOp by doing so. It takes alot of balls to go aginst your team and not back down.

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11. He has a tough primary challenge ahead, alright.

Pat Toomey, who challenged Specter in the 04 primary, recently announced that he's going to make another run for it. Toomey, who lost to Specter in the 04 by just 1.6%, is an ultraconservative across the board. This time, however, Specter won't have Bush and Santorum campaigning for him, plus a number of the more moderate to liberal Republicans switched party registration in 08 (the Democratic presidential primary was a real contest here), so that the conservative proportion of GOP primary voters has increased. Specter appears to hold out some hope of getting former Republicans to return to the party so as to support him, but that seems pretty fanciful -- he's a steady worker for Pennsylvania, but c'mon, Mr. Charisma he ain't. I'd say Specter's toast in the Republican primary, but as a Democrat he'd easily beat Toomey in the general. Rendell's been trying to convince him to switch; we'll see where it goes.

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5. The GOP are all over the place

good!


PS will specter join the Democratic Party soon?

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10. Maybe. The Repugs have no more room for centrist/liberal Repubs

There are about 3 left in the Senate. All the rest were voted out and not supported and those seats are with the Dems now. With Specter I am torn. I would welcome him into the Dem party if he really wanted to be there but he is not a progressive on many issues. We could also knock him off and get a Dem in the Senate. Then again he did support Obama on a few things already.

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8. I totally disagree with spector and

kevin. limpbaugh has a right to attack but the White House doesn't have the right to point out what a bloviating buffoon he is for wanting Obama to fail?

Give me a Break. The Dems have plucked limpbaugh out from under his rock and exposed him as the enemy of America.