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Beau78908 months, 1 week ago

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Agreed, RedRiverJ. Sens. Collins and Snowe should also leave the Republican party, which has clearly become more interested in gaining power than in trying to help the country.

Their bullying tactics against anyone who dares to think for himself are not helping their cause, but they don't seem to care that their out-of-the-mainstream ideas are losing them support, and quickly. Apparently, they're not familiar with the phrase, "cutting off your nose to spite your face."

Here's Specter's full statement on his decision to leave the Republican party:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/us/politics/28ca...

From that statement:

Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right. Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.

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  beavith18 months, 1 week ago
  
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  let's summarize and rephrase that statement.:
  
  "looks like the wind is blowing left. that's where i'm going."
  
  more like a drum major than a leader.
  
  yuk.
  
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    Beau78908 months, 1 week ago
    
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    Did you miss this part?
    
    "...the Republican Party has moved far to the right."
    
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      tanglang8 months, 1 week ago
      
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      By acting like liberals instead of conservatives they have moved farther right? You guys own big government, weak border security and ridiculous government spending. Over the last 8 years the republicans tried to out dem the dems when it came to these issues and were then called neocons. Now they are trying to get back to their conservative values having seen that acting like liberals will get us nowhere. Specter just wants to continue the failed policy of big gov, big spend and weak border security.
      
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        Beau78908 months, 1 week ago
        
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        Keep telling yourself all that, tang.
        
        By your standards, there are no longer any conservatives--certainly not the Republican party, which is booting everyone who's not a wacked-out follower of Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachmann and Dick Cheney (conservatives?) out of their party.
        
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