Specter vs. Toomey
I still try to watch American politics as best I can, although unfortunately I don't follow as closely as I used to. One race that I am watching is the Pennsylvania Senate Republican primary. It's an internecine battle between longtime liberal Republican Sen. Arlen Specter and conservative congressman Rep. Pat Toomey. (For an idea of how bitter and negative this race is, just check out either of the candidates' ads.)
National Review magazine and various conservative groups have been working overtime to push Toomey. I'm with them. Specter has no meaningful record of conservative accomlishment. His record since he was first elected to the Senate in 1980 is the same: he spends the first five years of his term voting with the Democrats, then in the sixth (when he's up for re-election) he throws some bones to the conservative Republican base. Great strategy, and it obviously works.
But now there's actually someone better. Toomey is a real conservative, unlike Specter. Just a sampling of "Republican" Arlen Specter's record of shame:
-- Travelling to Syria last year to meet and try to reason with the terrorist dicatator at Damascus, Bashar Al-Assad. (the most recent of numerous futile visits over the years.)
-- Voting against the judicial nomination of conservative Robert Bork to the US Supreme Court.
-- Voting against school choice measures
-- Voting against banning human cloning
-- Voting for racist affirmative action quotas.
-- Regularly voting against tax cuts of all kinds.
The choice in this race is pretty easy. Specter must go.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 10:35 PM
