Reply #58: He needed the dems more than we needed him

[zipplewrath]

His challenge wouldn't have cost nearly the money it did cost the DSCC if the democrats had just backed the right guy.

And if they had been nearly as attentive to Coakley, as they were to Specter, they might have stopped that vacation, amongst other debacles.

And if Specter was going to run for a democratic candidacy, he HAD to vote for the stimulus and HCR. Otherwise he'd a been exposed for exactly what his opponents would have claimed, a republican running in a democratic primary.