I don’t get the big deal. Senator Specter (Ex-R, Now D, Pennsylvania) has changed his party for one very public reason: he has no faith in the Pennsylvanian Republican electorate and doesn’t believe he will get reelected in the Republican primaries. That’s it. Politics. Obviously, for him, the party doesn’t matter, the paycheck does, and he probably won’t help pull-through with that “Filibuster-Proof” majority the Dems are all worked up about.
He even publicly states that he will not always vote with Dems on “matters of conscience.” Yeah, “conscience,” meaning his Republican track-record. To me, that’s even worse, because that just turns the party into a tool, not a representation of ideas, which is what it was originally designed to be. I’m pretty sure this old ghost’s dreams of being reelected in 2010 will manifest into haunting failures. Puns. I’m so clever.
