Welcome to The Patriot Post: "Sen. Arlen Specter made official what many Republicans already knew by announcing that he was joining the Democrat Party this week. Specter cited his belief that the Republican Party had 'moved [too] far to the right' for him to remain among its ranks. In reality, Specter was scared of facing conservative Republican Pat Toomey in the 2010 primary, a race he was trailing by 20 points and widely expected to lose. Specter announced, 'I am unwilling to have my 29-year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate.' Um, sorry Arlen, but that is what we call the electoral process."
Yet again, though, voters are the ones who get cheated. Switching political parties in midterm is one of the most opportunistic things politicians can do. In fact, in 2001, when Vermont's Jumpin' Jim Jeffords switched from the GOP to the Democrats, handing control of the Senate to the Democrats in the process, none other than Arlen Specter decried the move as unethical and unfair to the voters. "I plan to propose a rule change which would preclude a future recurrence of a senator's change in parties, in midsession, organizing with the opposition, to cause the upheaval which is now resulting," he said then. My, how times have changed.
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