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The Spectacle Blog
Long-time Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter died today. Late in his career he tormented conservatives, and his political career ended pathetically and badly. (Jim Antle wrote about him for us earlier this year.) Yet who will ever forget the prosecutorial job he did on Anita Hill during the Thomas hearings? On June 15, 2006, I believe it was, he was our guest at our monthly Saturday Evening Club gathering. He proudly sported a summery seersucker suit, and couldn’t have been more engaging or even conservative-sounding. He got along splendidly with Grover Norquist, though what I remember most is his mentioning how it was that he, the son of a junk trader in Kansas, ended up in Pennsylvania. It was because his sister had enrolled at Temple University, and so he moved to Philadelphia with her as her chaperone. How could anyone dislike someone so old-school?
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PCPSmokerII| 10.14.12 @ 3:04PM
While you might be impressed with his chaperoning duties, AS(S) was all about AS(S). If you want to know what he was really like, listen to Mark Levin on the subject. He was just another worthless statist destroying the Republic. Good riddance Sphincter, hope you burn in hell.
mjs-pa| 10.14.12 @ 7:29PM
Specter tormented conservatives his ENTIRE career. Only a romney "republican" could have any affection for benedict arnold.
spike59| 10.15.12 @ 5:44AM
Specter was about Specter; had he though he could win another term running on the CPUSA ticket, he'd have been out campaigning in a Mao suit...had the Nazi Party offered him a slot and he thought he could win THAT way, he'd have installed a gas chamber in his campaign HQ
Kitty | 10.15.12 @ 6:26AM
I won't go as far as spike59, but he is correct when he says "Specter was about Specter," an opportunist who was vile at times.
LarryK| 10.15.12 @ 10:36AM
Arlen Specter was for Arlen Specter PERIOD!
C. Vernon Crisler | 10.15.12 @ 11:15AM
Arlen Specter, good riddance. Why do we conservatives hate Specter? For the same reason Americans hate Benedict Arnold or Christians hate Judas. A turncoat is a dishonorable man, no matter how much service he may have rendered before his betrayal.
Occam's Tool| 10.15.12 @ 12:15PM
RIP, Putz.
Big Bob| 10.15.12 @ 12:45PM
There was no one from PA as obdurate as Spectre was. Loyal to no one, Dem, GOP, Dem...etc. He told stories lying about some financial topics that he knew to be false, and when corrected, remained adamant about his position. No love lost I'm afraid. I disagree with your attempt to make peace with this man.
Simon Templar| 10.15.12 @ 1:38PM
To the author:
I know that it is not nice to be critical of those newly deceased in our culture but we do not have to celebrate such politicians as Spectre with his particular history. You are not obligated to ignore the truth nor over compensate either in your attempts to be a nice DC political insider.
You write for a conservative web magazine and I am guessing that you present yourself as a conservative. What little I have learned about this man political record gives me no doubts that he served himself first and his ambitions and he was not a conservative nor a Republican. He moved in a particular direction when it served his personal ambitions. This is NOT something to overlook nor celebrate. He does not sound like a "nice" guy...in fact he sounds like the typical 20th century politician that has brought this nation to collapse.
Warrior| 10.15.12 @ 3:24PM
He was not a Statesman nor did he subscribe to "r"epublican principles. I believe it would be fitting to commemorate his contributions to the Republic by having a stall named after him at rest stop on a Pennsylvania toll road. Then we all can properly pay tribute to his character, values and more importantly pay our last respects in a fitting fashion.
Crassus| 10.15.12 @ 1:43PM
Good grief, Wlady. I've always liked your writing but this piece is beyond pathetic. You don't have to suck up to Specter anymore. Now that he's dead you can tell the truth about what a lying, vicious weasel he truly was. He could have been the poster boy for what is wrong with American politics. Don't try to soft soap the man. It's beneath you and TAS.
Skippy| 10.15.12 @ 3:24PM
Reinhard Heydrich was a charming, affable man as well.
They are both in Hell this afternoon.