For Specter, full circle
By E. J. Dionne | Wednesday, April 29, 2009 | The Washington Post
“…In announcing his switch to the Democratic Party Tuesday, the maverick Pennsylvanian was doing more than trying to save a political career jeopardized by the increasing conservatism of the Republican Party. He was also ratifying a decisive shift in American politics. The GOP in his home state had once been a bastion of moderates and liberals including William Scranton, Hugh Scott and Richard Schweiker. In the age of Barack Obama, Republicans of that stripe are flooding into the Democratic Party. Specter is not a leading indicator. His conversion is the culmination of an inexorable trend….”…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR2009042802735_pf.html
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