The Specter of Betrayal

Senator Arlen Specter has thumbed his nose (and that was the politest of the allegories I was considering) at Pennsylvania Republicans, and presto-chango has announced he is now a Democrat. "I am unwilling to have my 29-year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate." A curious position for a man, repeatedly elected to the US Senate by the Pennsylvania Republican electorate, it is in essence an admission that…well I have screwed you over royally and have no chance at reelection as your representative…so f-off. When reporters inquired as to what he had to say to those fine upstanding people who elected him his flippant reply was "I don't have to say anything to them. They've said it to me."

Well Mr. Specter what you have said to us is that like most politicians your constituents mean very little to you… what means the most to you is staying in office, by hook or by crook. If as you say, your principles have diverged from those of your former party, you ought to do the honorable thing and resign, instead of thumbing your nose at the constituents who elected you, as a Republican I might add. But resigning would not be politically expedient would it? So what did the Democrats offer you? An unopposed run in 2010? Big Daddy-O on the campaign trail for you? As a voting Pennsylvania Republican (at the time of your election), you disgust me.

On a lighter note, I am no longer a voting Pennsylvania Republican; having decided on the occasion of my retirement from the military that it was in my best interest not to return to what has become the Communistwealth of Pennsylvania. I decided that I did not want to live in either Philadelphia or Pittsburgh, nor living somewhere else in the state, support them. Having settled in a distinctly more conservative state, I welcome your defection and say good riddance, now all we have to do is get rid of the rest of the RINOs and return our party to its conservative base. Like you, Mr. Specter, I am seriously disenchanted with the Republican Party, though apparently for diametrically opposed reasons. If anything Mr. Specter, I will be leaving the party not because it is too conservative for my tastes, but because there is apparently little difference between the parties, except “in name only”.

I urge all conservatives to actively voice their principles in regards to party platform; to return to a small constitutional federal government. To those in our party who have abandoned principle to gleefully partake of the current orgy of socialist spending, federal bribery, pork, expansion, and dominance I quote Ronald Reagan “In this present crisis government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem”. The party has lost its way; however it has lost its way under the guidance and leadership of the likes of you, Mr. Specter, and for that, I thank you for leaving.

~Finntann~