CPAC Speakers Trash Arlen Specter

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The high villain of the Conservative Political Action Conference during Thursday's morning session isn't Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). It's a Democratic senator who, after the 2010 elections, may no longer even be in Congress.

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), who abruptly abandoned the Republican party last year, has been the butt of several jabs and jokes casting him as liberal waste that the GOP was smart to shed.

Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio said, "The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many." The next speaker, Sen. Jim DeMint (D-S.C.), recalled with glee how he and his political action committee, the Senate Conservatives Fund, helped drive Specter away from the Republican Party in early 2009.

"The best way to [regain] the trust of the American people and to reclaim a Republican majority is to find and support candidates who believe in the principles of freedom," he said. "It is that simple."

"So we endorsed Pat Toomey over Arlen Specter in the Republican primary," he added. "That seemed to encourage Arlen to follow his liberal roots back to the Democrat Party."

For those Republicans who believe the GOP needs to be more of a big tent crowd, the CPAC forum was not the venue to express those sentiments. The audience offered hearty applause for the Specter swipes. They cheered even louder when DeMint insisted that he would "rather have 30 Marco Rubios in the Senate than 60 Arlen Specters."

Comments

[irishred]

04:03 PM on 02/18/2010

“What tiny little creditability Cpac has (I'm being charitable here) is completely lost when they cheered on Dicky Boy and lizzy snake. I know that Spain is still looking into war crimes that Dicky Boy have committed and only a matter of time before Dicky Boy is indicted by the world court.”

[BPCentrisAmerican]

12:42 PM on 02/18/2010

When a political party with an extremest base and zero ideas a lacking in vision or goals except to tear down this country, than a bit#h session is what you get. This is what the CF convention dose every year, attack anyone not like them, this is also the bases of the tea-party movement, when your whole movement, conservative or otherwise in rooted in hatred, regression, bashing liberals, which seems to be everyone theses days and vague slogans like "take our country back", than there isn'y much else to talk about.

[Friction57]

12:31 PM on 02/18/2010

""The best way to [regain] the trust of the American people and to reclaim a Republican majority is to find and support candidates who believe in the principles of freedom," he said. "It is that simple."

People speak in platitudes when the don't have anything real to offer.

Sign me up for FREEDOM by golly, Freedom from the right would be just finne with me

[Gould123]

12:46 PM on 02/18/2010

Now we have Politicians insulting an jokeing about each other? Does the childish behavior never end? I don't like spectrum, but I want to talk about Issues, an we must convience them of this!

[Jeff317]

12:26 PM on 02/18/2010

Specter is an interesting cat. Started off as a Dem - then ran as a Rep for a DA spot in 65 - returning to his oringinal party over 40 years later.

He was pretty honest in citing the reasons for his recent switch including the fact that he was polling way behind likely 2010 GOP primary challenger Toomey. The one thing that kind of sucks for the guy is that the Dems nixed his seniority on many committees. Well I guess the other thing that sucks is that guys whom he used to chum around with in the Senate for years are now using him as a punchline. Surely CPAC has better things to discuss than lame Specter jokes.

[Gould123]

12:48 PM on 02/18/2010

It's time we the people tell these nut case's we want to hear them debate the issues, not call each other names, an crack jokes about your oponent an Our Prez. It time WE end the crap!

[Willow207]

12:23 PM on 02/18/2010

Glenn Beck "Mad"...more like "rabid"....and other illness which would disqualify his ability to be deemed rational or intelligent....


Beck and his Fox-twin Rush, two dysfunctional addicts, must make their Fox Daddy, Ruper Murdoch proud!!!



http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-22/the-making-of-glenn-beck/?cid=hp:mainpromo4


Please....feel free to share this link and story!!!!!”

[thisisit12]

12:16 PM on 02/18/2010

Got a question.... Is this a conference on policies or this is a conference on bashing people? They are acting like my child's 2nd grade class. They seem so immature to me. I would not vote for these Rep. again. Please get back to GOVERNING, if it is possible.

[Jeff317]

12:28 PM on 02/18/2010

Heheh - I was thinking pretty much the same thing when I read Speaker Pelosi's press release on GOP and Stim dollars today.

[blacktea]

12:12 PM on 02/18/2010

I must say, I will never understand the will to dominate others. What is this clown still doing in the Congress?

[dfranz]

12:10 PM on 02/18/2010

I like the new Republican policy of exclusionism. It makes sense because you can't have an army of robots if everyone doesn't think exactly the same. It's mob speak and when they're surrounded by all those like wise thinkers they can all congratulate each other for being smarter than everyone else and everyone will agree.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

12:18 PM on 02/18/2010

Like I said before, Republicans never seem to understand the limit of overreaching and how damaging it can be, this one flaw always seem to undo them. The GOP base and most vocal leadership are dixiecrats are pretending to be Republicans now. Dixiecrats overreched in the 60's and are doing it again, now as Republicans. I love it.

[StJames]

12:09 PM on 02/18/2010

I weonder how these people would feel about Rubio if they spent a week in Miami.

[BPCentrisAmerican]

12:23 PM on 02/18/2010

I grew with hard headed Cubans like Rubio, you would think 50 years after the Bay of Pigs these people would lighten up a little.

[StJames]

12:34 PM on 02/18/2010

Yep...and they are all about the "privleges" that should go with wealth. They fled Castro and would turn us into a 2-tier society in a heart beat if they could.

[jklaffer]

12:04 PM on 02/18/2010

I suppose these guys consider Arlen Specter far left too. It's a scary time when right leaning moderates are now considered far left marxist / communist / socialists.

[truegreen]

12:03 PM on 02/18/2010

Imagine the outrage from the republicans and media if democrats talked this CRAZY....

[truegreen]

12:00 PM on 02/18/2010

CPAC is an excuse for KKK loons to gather in a room and spew their conspiracy theories.

[SallieParker]

12:03 PM on 02/18/2010

Flagged.

[cybertoothcat]

03:35 PM on 02/18/2010

FAVORITED!

[LORISNJ]

11:56 AM on 02/18/2010

".....DeMint insisted that he would "rather have 30 Marco Rubios in the Senate than 60 Arlen Specters."

This is one time I hope Senator DeMint gets his wish - and mine - 30 Republicans and 70 Democrats and Independents in the Senate - that is a Congress I would love to see!

[thisisit12]

11:52 AM on 02/18/2010

The BIGGEST KKK ralley of the year. And it is not about black folks, it's about keeping the party pure.

[lilma]

11:52 AM on 02/18/2010

And these are the people that you are getting ready to vote back in office. Shocking!!!!!!!