It wasn’t a great shock to the conservative movement yesterday when Arlen Spector, former Republican from PA announced that he was switching parties. He had been voting against conservatives for quite some time now, siding with the Dems in the wasteful stimulus bill, again like many others, without even reading its contents. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings if he took the two ladies from Maine with him. If not for that whole cloture thing.
The man showed his true colors yesterday, only a month or so having promised not to leave the party. But like many these days, he put cushy job over principles. Showing both sides of his stripes yesterday he contradicted his motives at every turn during the speech announcing his move. In the beginning saying that he had become more in line with the Dems in his way of thinking, and moments later stating there was no way he could win his primary fight, and that he wasn’t ready to end his political career that way.
They can have him………….