Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune once again gets it.

[Drunken Irishman]

:rofl:

[ccharles000]

1. lol

[Hekate]

2. He quit in disgust-- that was my take, too. I loved the spin: It's internal to Pennsylvania...

Yeah, right. :rofl:

Hekate

[bvar22]

3. He clearly stated his reasons for switching parties.

He said he switched because he could not get re-elected in Pennsylvania as a Republican.

[Hekate]

4. The entire press conference is well worth listening to. There's more depth than that one sentence.

[Lyric]

5. Yes, he clearly stated his reasonS.

Implying more than one.

Here's another: the Republican Party has moved too far to the right.

[demwing]

6. It must not have been that clear! You clearly missed it.

Here's the critical portion:

"It has become clear to me that the stimulus vote caused a schism which makes our differences irreconcilable. On this state of the record, I am unwilling to have my twenty-nine year Senate record judged by the Pennsylvania Republican primary electorate. I have not represented the Republican Party. I have represented the people of Pennsylvania."

Only the most cynical reading of this pasage would draw from it the same self serving message you found.

Clearly (and I say this clearly, without the cloud of partisan bias), Spector pissed off the Republican party, and does not want to throw his career on the coals of right-wing partisanship that feed that bias that is the furnace of the Republican Primary. Spector is confident he can win the state, just not the Primary.

[bvar22]

7. I see.

I'm self serving, but Specter changing parties because he can't get elected as a Republican isn't.

LOL.

That only goes to show that you can fool SOME of the people ALL of the time.

[demwing]

10. No, I said you were cynical and partisan

You can chose to judge by his time, circumstances, and explanation, or you can assume a bias and ignore all other evidence

[Cha]

8. Says a bunch of pointyass

whiners of NO.

Some reporter ask Obama about Spector and I didn't get hear it all but it sounded like he gave a good indication of the reality of the situation.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. love it