Good Bye Arlen Specter... You Won't Be Missed
By: Les Carpenter III Rational Nation USA The soon to be former Senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter received his just deserts Tuesday. The party switching, self absorbed and self serving pol with very few scruples was handily defeated in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary by Joe Sestak. During an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell before election results were in he had some interesting comments: What you see happening across the country is that the tea party organization has taken over. Is we're not careful, if you don't field the strongest candidate... frankly, like Arlen Specter... they're going to take over. Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating. They want to go back to the gold standard, it'd be an 18th century America." Let me get this straight, a movement that supports a more limited role for the federal government, balanced budgets and fiscal sanity, elimination of unnecessar...