rssThe Club for Growth Comes Out Swinging
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 2:34 pm
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It took a little while, but the group that — let’s be honest — did a lot to make today’s news happen is out with a statement on Sen. Arlen Specter’s decision to switch parties. From Chris Chocola, the new chairman:
Senator Specter has confirmed what we already knew – he’s a liberal devoted to more spending, more bailouts, and less economic freedom. Thanks to him, Democrats will now be able to steamroll their big government agenda through the Senate.
This also shows how unprincipled he is. Just a few weeks ago, he stated quite clearly that he was remaining a Republican because he thought he had “a more important role to play there.” And he said “the United States very desperately needs a two-party system.”
This cynical play for political survival calls into question whether Pennsylvania taxpayers can believe anything Arlen Specter says. If his only principle is personal ambition, can he really be trusted with the serious issues that face our country?
The Club for Growth PAC enthusiastically endorsed Pat Toomey for Senate in Pennsylvania when Specter was pretending to be a Republican. Club members will be even more committed to Toomey’s candidacy now that Specter has revealed his true identity.
Hypocrisy, expediency, etc — they’re making the argument that they only exposed Specter for the scoundrel he is.
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4 Comments
Comment posted April 28, 2009 @ 8:13 pm
WE know Obama plan will not work.Republicans need to keep cool.As soon as the brainwashed wake from their KOOL AID poisoning ,thing will swing the other way just like with Bush.
Comment posted April 29, 2009 @ 8:12 am
You republicans are morons – and hypocritical as all get out. watch Bush demanding prosecution of war crimes (when it was the other guy) and cannot say “I was just following orders.”
We should follow what the idiot said then, and prosecute.
Freaking GOP – stupid, small minded, ignorant and dead. Who will step in as the other party. Thank God America has finally woken up!
Comment posted May 4, 2009 @ 12:21 pm
The “Club For Growth” should be called the 'Club for Extintion', because that is what the republican party will be if it continues to follow the right-wing pied piper, as it has for the past thirty years. Specter may have been a RINO, and he may become a DINO. Most people are somewhere in the middle, and any party that caters only to its base is in danger of becoming irrelevant. Unless the republicans do more than just attack, and/or put window dressing on extemist polices, they lose.
Comment posted May 4, 2009 @ 7:21 pm
The “Club For Growth” should be called the 'Club for Extintion', because that is what the republican party will be if it continues to follow the right-wing pied piper, as it has for the past thirty years. Specter may have been a RINO, and he may become a DINO. Most people are somewhere in the middle, and any party that caters only to its base is in danger of becoming irrelevant. Unless the republicans do more than just attack, and/or put window dressing on extemist polices, they lose.
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