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The Despicable Arlen Specter
I, for one, am relieved that Arlen Specter finally came out of the closet as a Democrat. Having followed his exploits from just the other side of the Mason-Dixon Line, I've always wondered why so many of my freedom-loving friends think they'd gained anything by moving to PA, what with this doofus in the Senate, and the parade of other doofuses who have been mayor of Philadelphia and governor of the commonwealth.
Perhaps now that he is an avowed, affiliated Democrat, Pennsylvania voters will stop talking about what they had for supper last night and defeat him in the last election. (This is a sore point with me, after having spent a lot of time in York, Lancaster and Adams Counties. In my experience, Pennsylvanians would rather talk about where to get the best wiener schnitzel than about how their Constitutional rights are being sold down the river.)
But the one unforgivable thing that Senator Sphincter Specter has done is to try making political capital out of the recent death of Jack Kemp.
Here's what The Washington Times reported:
Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Democrat, said part of the reason that he left the Republican Party last week was disillusionment with its health-care priorities, and suggested that had the Republicans taken a more moderate track, Jack Kemp may have won his battle with cancer.
Mr. Specter, responding to a question from CBS' Bob Schieffer over whether he had let down Pennsylvanians who wanted a Republican to represent them, said he thought his priorities were more in line with those of the Democrats. "
Well, I was sorry to disappoint many people. Frankly, I was disappointed that the Republican Party didn't want me as their candidate," Mr. Specter said on "Face the Nation."
Specter continued: "If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine."
Notwithstanding the contradiction in Spectre Specter's last sentence, could he at least exercise the common decency to wait until Kemp's body is in the ground before uttering such gibberish?