Arlen Specter the Defector, leaves the GOP.
Just a quick update, but in case you have not heard , Arlen Specter left the GOP after decades of work in the Senate and joined the Democrats. Arlen Specter has been a source of so much pain to the right and so many questions have been raised regarding his true allegiance, that he finally realized that he can no longer continue this lie. Without beating around the bush too much, I truly believe that he has been living a lie all this time and either had the wrong conception of what the GOP stood for or after decades of being a public servant bent under the inevitable sway of connections, backroom deals and shady politics. Either way, unlike what the news article suggests, Specter's switch does not threaten the filibuster majority because nothing changed. He will continue to vote the same way he always voted and his new label will simply keep the conservatives off his back. No, this switch was more political. I personally suspected he was going to retire this upcoming election,