After exploiting the death of Jack Kemp for political self-aggrandizement, is there any lower depth to which Arlen Specter could possibly sink?
Why, yes. Yes, there is. He pimped a “Specter for the Cure” website under the guise of rallying people to help lobby for increased medical research. One wrinkle: “Specter for the Cure” is actually “Specter for His Campaign Coffers.”
Here’s how he plugged the site over the weekend:
“And one of the items that I’m working on, Bob, is funding for medical research. I’ve been the spear carrier to increase medical research. And I’ve even established a Web site, Specterforthecure.com, to try to get people to put more pressure on Congress to join me in getting more funding.
Via the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the truth:
While it appears at first glance to be a fundraising site for a reform movement to help Sen. Arlen Specter fund programs that will seek cures for major diseases, it’s actually a fundraising arm for Specter’s re-election.
A Specter spokeswoman told The Watchdog: “Specterforthecure.com is explicit throughout — including the name itself — that the site raises money for a candidate.
The dude is anything but guileless.
Well he’s really taken with the Democrats way of doing things hasn’t he?
Posted by: tim aka The Godless Heathen | Tuesday, May 05, 2009 at 01:42 PM
Specter will not be missed. He is now a Democrat liability and that is fine. He wasn't going to stand in Obama's way on spending issues anyway.
Specter jumped ship like any good traitor. You can see the 'real' reasons the GOP is happy at:
http://firstconservative.com/blog/top-ten/why-the-gop-is-happy-specter-is-out-top-ten-reasons-republicans-are-glad
Posted by: MAS1916 | Tuesday, May 05, 2009 at 02:12 PM