Specter might be a bastard...

[Drunken Irishman]

But now he's our bastard.

:D

[lamp_shade]

1. That's kinda how I look at it too.

[Raine1967]

2. ROFL!

Indeed.

[Gman]

3. Damn right!

[nevergiveup]

4. about now

I would give that bastard a big kiss and buy him a steak dinner.

[ohheckyeah]

5. If nothing else

we get the pleasure of seeing the wingers freak as they lose their 5th most senior senator.

[TygrBright]

6. I WISH he was just a bastard. Bastards are easy.

Specter is a loose cannon, maybe one of the biggest loose cannons EVER. An official, major-league embarrassment to any party, group, cause, issue, or idea he identifies with.

And batshit crazy as well.

Maybe the GOP has finally figured out the smart way to fight back. "Ha! We'll send them Arlen!"

This is not good. Not at all good.

Any minor short-term benefits are going to be far outweighed by the continuing price.

gloomily,
Bright

[asphalt.jungle]

7. he's more liberal than some of these conservadems that he's about to join

he won't be the most conservative blue dog so it's not like he's going to swing that bunch further to the right.

oh and the media talks about no bipartisanship, well the dems are like two parties and the president has to bargain with both of them ... that's bipartisanship.