Topic: Arlen Specter
Specter: A Democrat, and in between, a Republican, leaves US Senate after 30 yearsAs Arlen Specter leaves the Senate after 30 years, the one-time corruption-busting Philadelphia prosecutor and architect of the "single-bullet theory" of the John F. Kennedy assassination says he wouldn't ...
Departing Sen. Specter accuses GOP of cannibalizing its own, says little room for centristsDeparting Republican-turned-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter on Tuesday said conservative Republicans who backed tea party challengers against establishment candidates in the recent elections engaged in political cannibalism.In his final floor ...
Arlen Specter, decided to become a Democrat, because he thought his Republican Party had left him. Mr. Specter has said his vote will not be "automatic". Phil Gramm was a Democrat who felt his party had left him! Fast forward to now ...
Longtime Republican Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania switched his party affiliation in April of 2009 , announcing that he would run for re-election in 2010 as a Democrat . Senate Democrats Deny Specter Committee Seniority (May 5, 2009) In a statement, Specter ...
The title of a recently released ABC News article is " Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter was defeated by another Washington insider CONGRESSMAN Joe Sestak (which means that Sestak is not exactly a newcomer), Utah Sen. Bob Bennett was ousted by a TEA ...
The title of a recently released Yahoo! "In an Arkansas runoff, Sen. Blanche Lincoln could fall to a fellow Democrat, Lt. Gov. Bill Halter, who says "the only way to CHANGE Washington is to change WHO WE SEND THERE". We said the ...
The title of an ABC News article released on May 18, 2010 is " "In Kentucky, Tea Party-backed candidate Rand Paul captured GOP Senate nomination, defeating GOP establishment candidate and Secretary of State Trey Grayson". OK, Sestak himself has only been on ...
Several months ago, it was posited and bandied about that the Obama regime had offered some type of administration position to Pennsylvania politician Sestak to encourage him to drop out of the US Senate race in that state. Just before this story ...
Arlen Specters' recent change of political party was unexpected by many, myself included, and is just another interesting chapter in the recent history of politics in the United States. Mr. Specter decided to change parties mostly ot keep his hopes alive for ...
When in the two months leading up to the 2010 Democratic Primary, Joe Sestak erased a 20 percentage point deficit to defeat Republican turned Democrat Arlen Specter. With two months to go until the November General Election, Sestak once again faces a ...