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Specter rejected by Pa. Dems in bid for 6th term

PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter on Tuesday was defeated in a Democratic primary in his bid for a sixth term after taking the risky step of switching from the GOP.

Voters picked U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak as the party's nominee and rejected the 80-year-old Specter in his first Democratic campaign.

With 65 percent of precincts reporting, Sestak received 339,402 votes, nearly 53 percent. Specter received 304,179 votes, about 47 percent.


Awesome doesn't even begin to describe this.

Next stop: McCain


Specter rejected by Pa. Dems in bid for 6th term - Yahoo! News
 
Good news. Specter was always a Republican. I'm glad to see the Democrats boot him for a real Democrat.

There's no difference between electing a Republican and electing a Republican pretending to be a Democrat.
 
PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter on Tuesday was defeated in a Democratic primary in his bid for a sixth term after taking the risky step of switching from the GOP.

Voters picked U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak as the party's nominee and rejected the 80-year-old Specter in his first Democratic campaign.

With 65 percent of precincts reporting, Sestak received 339,402 votes, nearly 53 percent. Specter received 304,179 votes, about 47 percent.


Awesome doesn't even begin to describe this.

Next stop: McCain


Specter rejected by Pa. Dems in bid for 6th term - Yahoo! News

Excellent. I'm glad to see the Democrats have a spine and boot the Republican out of office.
Sestak is running much stronger in head to head against the Republican.

Finally the Democrats are growing a spine.
 
Good news. Specter was always a Republican. I'm glad to see the Democrats boot him for a real Democrat.

There's no difference between electing a Republican and electing a Republican pretending to be a Democrat.

real republicans were calling that clown a RINO for years.

good riddance
 
PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter on Tuesday was defeated in a Democratic primary in his bid for a sixth term after taking the risky step of switching from the GOP.

Voters picked U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak as the party's nominee and rejected the 80-year-old Specter in his first Democratic campaign.

With 65 percent of precincts reporting, Sestak received 339,402 votes, nearly 53 percent. Specter received 304,179 votes, about 47 percent.


Awesome doesn't even begin to describe this.

Next stop: McCain


Specter rejected by Pa. Dems in bid for 6th term - Yahoo! News

Sestak is a 3-star Admiral. He's got an interesting story.

As did Specter.
 
I would've voted for Sestak.

If anyone has seen "Mongol" then we should treat traitors, regardless of whom they betrayed, the same way.

:]
 
Excellent. I'm glad to see the Democrats have a spine and boot the Republican out of office.
Sestak is running much stronger in head to head against the Republican.

Finally the Democrats are growing a spine.

No matter what you feel about his politics-- you have to respect Specter's fight against cancer.

I heard him tell his story in Stern and it was amazing how he fought back.
 
Good news. Specter was always a Republican. I'm glad to see the Democrats boot him for a real Democrat.

There's no difference between electing a Republican and electing a Republican pretending to be a Democrat.

Indeed! I'm glad the Democrats of Pennsylvania didn't buy his turn of coat. From what I've read of Sestak, he's a good guy.
 
Indeed! I'm glad the Democrats of Pennsylvania didn't buy his turn of coat. From what I've read of Sestak, he's a good guy.
Who will lose to Toomey because the American Electorate has seen what Leftwing Liberalism does and they don't like it!
 
Indeed! I'm glad the Democrats of Pennsylvania didn't buy his turn of coat. From what I've read of Sestak, he's a good guy.

yup. unlike some of our public caterwauling class, i approve of the return of ideology. let us see an honest campaign between two proponents of competing beliefs.
 
yup. unlike some of our public caterwauling class, i approve of the return of ideology. let us see an honest campaign between two proponents of competing beliefs.

I agree, wholeheartedly.
 
[stereotypical liberal talking point]Its good to see how moderates in the democratic are treated[/[stereotypical liberal talking point]

Can't honestly say I'm surprised, or I blame the Democrats. When a guy doesn't represent your constituency and isn't viewed as much better than the other side then you try and get rid of him.
 
From what I heard, right now it is a statistical dead heat.

I just grabbed the nearest statistic I could find, but I agree, it's very close.

Especially with Liberal suckholes like Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

One man's suckhole is another's constituency, yes? It's all in the ideological point of view.
 
Who was Obama supporting in this primary? Seems he was just campaigning for one of these guys.
 
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[stereotypical liberal talking point]Its good to see how moderates in the democratic are treated[/[stereotypical liberal talking point]

Can't honestly say I'm surprised, or I blame the Democrats. When a guy doesn't represent your constituency and isn't viewed as much better than the other side then you try and get rid of him.

Huh? He wasn't a moderate? He was a turn coat, opportunistic Republican.

Big diff!
 
Yeah is it always the evil Liberals with you Bassman, and


Gina I wouldn't bother with Bassman he is a little bit crazy

On Topic: Good news, because when something smells like A REPUBLICAN it is a republican. :)

I am glad that the people decided to throw out the rino for a real Democrat.
 
Who was Obama supporting in this primary? Wasn't he just out campaigning for one of these guys? hmmmmm
 
Gina I wouldn't bother with Bassman he is a little bit crazy

Ahhhhhh...as long as he doesn't go "personal", I'm good.



Who was Obama supporting in this primary? Wasn't he just out campaigning for one of these guys? hmmmmm

Obama didn't stump for Specter. Arlen had to depend on video clips from last year.
 
Meh, Specter has been a fairly reliable Democratic vote since he switched parties, so I wouldn't have been upset if he had won. I'm not going to shed any tears for his loss though. Sestak appears to be polling stronger against Toomey anyway.
 
Who was Obama supporting in this primary? Seems he was just campaigning for one of these guys.

I answered this post in another thread, but FWIW:

Obama didn't stump for Specter, he was forced to rely on video clips from last year when he jumped to the Democratic party.
 
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