A Portrait in Cowardice
photo courtesy / www.commonsensepoliticalthought.com
Dang, right when I was cookin up a smokin review on the first 100 days the gentleturd from Pennsylvania decides to come out of his liberal closet. Nice to see he's finally being himself. As we like to say here in the upper Midwest, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
The only good RINO is an unseated RINO. Go here to help if you are so inclined Pat Toomey for PA
Specter made possibly the lamest assertion of the year, and that's some stiff competition given President Narcissus' incessant blathering. (meaning no disrespect to the teleprompter of course)
Quoteth the turncoat..
" Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right."
If only that were only true. I don't know what the hell he's been watching but this observer has seen nothing but a steady decline of conservatism starting with Poppy, "read my lips" Bush in 1988 up to the present, albeit with brief show of life in 1992 with Gingrich and company. (might that have been a death rattle?)
Only a liberal in moderates clothing, or someone similarly delusional, could possible make a straight-faced argument that George W Bush and John McCain are too far to the right. Gimme a break. That's quite possibly even more ridiculous than calling Obama a centrist.
and this..
"I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate,"
Well, my Pennsylvanian is little rusty but I'll go ahead and take a stab at a translation;
" polling shows I'm about to have my ass handed to me by the party I betrayed - - so I'm switching sides".
This episode provides a couple valuable lessons for any observer of American politics today:
Rule 1. For a politician self preservation is the top and only priority. Period.
Rule 2. Party affiliation is not a matter of principle but merely a means to obey rule one.
Rule 3. The longer a politician holds office, the more they become part of the problem.
Rule 4. The longer they are part of problem the more the problem persists.
Rule 5. The more the problem persists the more a politician can convince voters of his necessity.
Rule 6. The more they convince the voters SEE RULE ONE.
Nice game they got rigged huh?
Ol Snarlin Arlen may just be the best argument for term limits, or the emergence of a third party, ever. And that begs the eternal question; will the Libertarians ever crawl out of their ideological cocoon and actually organize?
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