While this week’s defection of 79-year-old RINO Arlen Specter to the Democrat Party came as a momentous shock in American politcs, an examination of the “moderate” Republican Senator from Pennsylvania’s career shows he may have been a False-Front Conservative all along.
Specter came to notoriety in 1964 as the ambitious junior counsel in The Warren Commission, who devised and promoted the so-called “single bullet theory” to explain the assassination of American president John F. Kennedy. Most Americans
Arlen Specter demonstrates the "single shot theory".
to this day do not believe one bullet ricocheted through Texas Governor John Connally’s wrist and fatally hit President Kennedy.
At the time, the 30-something Specter was a registered Democrat who came from a family of liberal, Jewish Democrats. When he ran for Pennsylvania District Attorney in 1965, he switched allegiances to the Republican Party and handily beat incumbent Jim Crumlish. During this time, Specter earned a reputation as a tough-on-crime prosecutor.
Ira Einhorn celebrates the first Earth Day
Specter threw that reputation on its head in 1979 while in private practice, when he defended Ira Einhorn. Born to a middle-class Jewish family, Einhorn was a celebrated Leftist who created Earth Day and was known as “Unicorn” to his radical hippie friends Abbey Hoffman and Jerry Rubin because his last name is German-Jewish for unicorn. Einhorn was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux, who had been missing for a year-and-a-half when police found her mummified corpse stuffed into a trunk hidden in Einhorn’s closet.
Specter successfully argued that Einhorn was not a flight risk and should have his bail reduced from US $100,000 to US $40,000. After Montreal socialite Barbara Bronfman, heir to the Seagram’s fortune, paid the 10% minumum for his release, Einhorn fled to Sweden and avoided arrest for 16 years.
After Einhorn was tracked down in France living under an alias 1997, Specter argued the Unicorn would face the death penalty in the United States if extradited back there. This gave Einhorn four more years of freedom from American justice as wranglings over legal inconsistencies between France and the United States were ironed out.
Robert Bork
As Senator, Specter opposed the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987. His opposition to the nomination is seen by many as the key reason why the social-conservative Bork was derailed. Many Republicans at the time never forgave Spectre for his betrayal of conservatism.
When Specter ran for President on the Republican ticket in 1995, he was seen by some as being able to “trim the far-right fringe” of the party represented by the social conservatives Pat Buchanan, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson. During his campaign, Specter said, “Neither this nation nor this party can afford a Republican candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a President of the incompetent left.”
Bill Clinton wags his phony finger of indignation.
During the impeachment proceedings of President Bill Clinton in 1988 and 1999, Specter argued against his own party’s handling of the case, infamously invoking Scots Law to show the case against Clinton was “not proven.” Specter voted “not guilty” in the impeachment case of Bill Clinton.
Specter has a decidely pro-abortion voting record, and was rated 21% in 2003 and 0% in 2006 by the National Right to Life Committee. Specter publicly warned President George W. Bush in 2004 against nominating a pro-life Supreme Court Candidate. “When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, overturn Roe v. Wade, I think [confirmation] is unlikely,” Specter said. “The president is well aware of what happened, when a number of his nominees were sent up, with the filibuster. … And I would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations which I am mentioning.”
Finally, Specter was one of only three Republicans to break ranks and vote in favor of Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, aka “The Stimulus Bill,” on February 10, 2009. Specter’s vote is considered to be the straw that broke the elephant’s back and caused many to back former Pennsylvania congressman Pat Toomey to run against Specter in this year’s primary.
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I hope his cancer comes back soon and kills him!
Arlen Spectre is now where he truly belongs, in the home and hearth of the Communist Party (Demo-rat party).
A “moderate” republican indeed! The record on this joker shows his affinity for the left particularly with his support for the Earth day creator, murderer Ira Einhorn. It would figure that a mutant like Einhorn would come up with “Earth Day”
Arlen, fearing that he will loose his position as a Republican Clown Senator in the upcoming Pennsylvania primary apparently returned to his true form, a left wing looser, and made a deal with his old left wing pals to save his pathetic soul.
Now Messiah and grand wizard of Ooze, Kenyan Hussein will have his stooge right in his back pocket to give him the rubber stamp Senate he needs for a Marxist dictatorship.
In turn ,the Kenyan wizard will provide Arlen victory by bringing the Acorn shock troops into Pennsylvania to stack the Ballot boxes for Arlen the Fink’s victory. After all voter fraud is one of the Wizard’s best magic tricks, that’s what got him where he is today.
It’s awesome to have Benedict Specter out of the Republican Party! There are two more in that Senate that I hope join him.
Horowitz is the “false-front conservative.” Specter has never claimed to be much of a conservative, but even as a Republican he seemed to side more often with the Democrats. He’s now where he belongs. Good riddance!
He got his payoff as did Gerald Ford by lying about the Kennedy Assassination with the “magic bullet” theory, and Ford by parroting the Warren Commission. He then went on to defend degenerate murderer Ira Einhorn, founder of “earth day”. Good riddance to this flatulent gasbag! The Republican Party needs to purge itself of cheap politicans like him, and return to principles and convictions. He is just out for himself and all the perks that come with being on the “inside”. Hey, why not make them all pay back for the benefits they recieve while in office after they leave. You’ll see how many like him leave politics! They’re basically ALL whores! Sorry to insult whores with the comparison.
You guys are hilarious. Only a few comments on this thread, but we’ve got one death wish, one equation of today’s corporatist Democrats as communists, a lovely pair of ridiculous ad-hominem attacks on a duly elected President, and a couple good-riddances.
I certainly hope the Right “sticks to its principles” for a while longer — what you are missing is that it’s your core principles that are shrinking your party, not your leaders’ admitted lack of adherence to them. America is done with this. The dialogue is moving.
As for the “convictions” of the Republican party, we can certainly hope for some trials — I for one am not ready to convict until all the facts are in, but we’ll see how it goes.