Bloodbath.  Bloodbath.  Bloodbath!

You just know if Sphincter loses the primary, he'll run as an independent.

Vote for me or I'll kill your family.

 Arlen may still win the primary based on his "Magic Ballot" Theory.

LOL.

"We found a stack of ballots on a stretcher..."

Ace,

I switched for Operation Chaos and remain a democrat. I brought this up in an earlier thread.

I am voting specter and so are a few other PA morons.

You know the standard joke about an ousted politician being relegated to a new career as the greeter at his/her local WalMart?

Pity Arlen is such a bitter old prune that the joke isn't very funny.

Anybody got any good jobs for ol' man Spectre?

Don't talk about Rush and Specter.  Does anyone else here remember the last time Specter had a primary challenge?  It was Pat Toomey in 2004.  A lot of us were busting our buts in support of Toomey.  That primary was a big deal, nationally. 

Then just before the primary, Rush brought Specter onto his show and threw his big arm around him, yucking it up.  I'll never forget it.

Rush will never acknowledge that he did it, but he sure as hell did.  Anyone else remember?

i remember voting for toomey and being pissed Bush and Santorum backed specter, but i don't remember the Rush thing, no.

The political commercials here in Pa have been a blast. If you're not paying much attention to them (to which I plead no contest) but look up once in a while you see George Bush singing the praises for Specter followed by that current Precedent guy a couple seconds later. The next commercial could just be the current Precedent guy followed half hour later by the Bush/Obama commercial.

Benedict Arlen is long past his shelf life.

Jack Wagner's are hilarious. It honestly looks like a college A/V club made them

You just know if Sphincter loses the primary, he'll run as an independent.

Don't think so.  Supposedly PA has a "Sore Loser" law that prevents him from doing so.

Yeah Mallamutt learned me some information on that in the Alabama Ag thread.

apparently if you lose a party primary you are done.

I have this vision of Specter screaming, red faced, into a phone, "Whaddya mean they aren't coming out here to campaign for me? After all I've done for those fucking assholes? You tell that cocksucker in the White House he better deliver the juice or I'll switch parties again!"

Goodbye, Arlen.

And fuck you.

Ben,

How bout a little advance recon for us?  Maybe get on a Dim committee or something?  The role of a lifetime buddy, go knock them dead.

well the election is tomorrow here in PA.

Again, I urge you PA Morons to vote specter, assuming you are a registered D.

He will get trounced by Toomer, whereas a Sestak Toomey race will be much closer.

Arlen may still win the primary based on his "Magic Ballot" Theory.

^{Pssst, Arlen...  Arlen!
*puts his thumb and pinky fingers up to the side of his face; mouths "call me"*}

I'd sure like to see Spinchter win so Toomey can go slingblade on his ass for a while.

On the other hand, it will be nice to see the dems stick it to that tratorous bastard.

Ether way, we win, and Arlen will be able to break wind silently from now on.

Heh.

Posted by: joncelli at May 17, 2010 02:46 PM (RD7QR)

An old fart, essentially.  It's a great Yiddish expression that you rarely hear, these days.

Can we get Rush Limbaugh to re-activate those Operation: Chaos agents -- Republicans who'd declared Democratic to vote for Hillary over the stronger Obama -- and get this alte kacher nominated so we can trounce him?

Rapscallion , skulldugery, hornswogglers...

I LIKEY ALOT!

Toomey isn't well liked in the Republican party. The Club for Growth has helped unseat many squishy republicans. Bob Bennett of Utah being one of them.

That is in part why i love Toomey. He will be one of those guys that actually wants to follow the Republican Platform. Not just claim to follow it to get elected and then betray it immediately after elected.

Specter strikes me as a very dispiriting candidate for Democrats

I bet that right there throws it for Sleestak.

Posted by: alexthechick at May 17, 2010 02:52 PM (8WZWv)

You know, the nice thing about accepting illegal immigration is that other laws can be ignored with impunity as well.

Like offering a bribe to someone in the form of a government position.  The whole Sestak job offer from the White House that under normal circumstances would be illegal if it weren't for the fact that we are now ignoring laws.

But, you know, when you win the election, you should be able to break all the laws you want...

...and nominate whoever you want to the supreme court.

Don't you just wish our Republican representatives were as forgiving?

"How do I look in this blue vest?"

Terrible.  In order to be an effective greeter, there are a few important skills to master.  I see in your record that you have mastered Lesson G.1 - Drawing Lines on Receipts with a Highlighter, but you still have yet to complete Lesson G.2 - Smiling and Saying Hello.

Pass the test, or have your blue vest returned to the front office with a receipt from the dry-cleaners by the end of your shift.

You know the standard joke about an ousted politician being relegated to a new career as the greeter at his/her local WalMart?

Pity Arlen is such a bitter old prune that the joke isn't very funny.

Anybody got any good jobs for ol' man Spectre?

Maybe he could audition for Walter's spot with Jeff Dunham.  He could practice his "hello, welcome to Walmart, get your shit and get out" while waiting on the election results tomorrow.

I just want to thank Arlen for all of his hard work on my behalf all those many years ago.  If it weren't for him, I would not have been able to spend those 16 years as a free man in Europe.

For that, he will always have my undying (snicker) support, no matter what.

Dr Spank: "An OK Senator"?

Specter is supposed to be a legislator in the United States of America. We have an American legal system here. During the impeachment trial, Specter voted in accordance with Scottish law (of all places). That vote should have rendered him illegible to legislate in this country.

A "no" vote would have been wrong, but at least legal.

Also, there's his vote for Obamacare, and the various stimuli and bailouts, which just capped decades of general douchebaggery on the Hill.

It's way too early to be hitting the bong; I recommend waiting until 4:20.

"I'd sure like to see Spinchter win so Toomey can go slingblade on his ass for a while."

You'se jus' a boy...you shouldn't be winnin' them elections, mmm-hmmm...

oh #51, phew.

Ignore my rant; looks like I got successfully trolled

Barry's endorsement is the kiss of death.

Yeah, but his ego would never let him consider that.

Anybody got any good jobs for ol' man Spectre?

Posted by: reason

Door knob polisher at Scranton's Joe Biden museum.

Interactive exhibit at the John Murtha gravesite ("guesss which one is the dead politician")

ballast for the next ship coming out of the shipyard in Philadelphia.

Avalanche inspector for the Poconos

Political advisor to Ed Rendall (might be too similar to suggestion #2).

"Coolest.  Girl.  Ever."

She gets all her news feeds on her PlayStation.

Anybody got any good jobs for ol' man Spectre?'

Life-sized garden gnome?

Hilarious and spot on!

Weren't Sestaks those critters that used to plague the hew-mans on Land of the Lost?

Click on my name. 

Sleestak is going to send Specter to the land of the lost.  Teehee.

Barry's endorsement is the kiss of death.

I think this is one instance where Barry won't have anything to do with the outcome one way or the other.

Specter fucked himself so totally that his looming defeat is entirely his own fault.

"He could rent himself out as a pinata for birthday parties."

Perfect!  He's already full of shit tootsie rolls.

"Life-sized garden gnome?"

I'm not sure how I feel about this.

Arlen is a walking Greek tragedy. And a duplicitous snake. Apart from the Franken debacle, who gave the Ds the 60 vote majority? And helped get us Obamacare? Yeah, him.

And what was the quid pro quo for the switch? The Ds would not field a primary candidate against him and the President, etc. would campaign for him. Looks like those promises had expiration dates.

Although the rumored admin job to Sestak to stay out of the primary conflicts with that set of facts, my view of these guys is that they'd say anything as a distraction [particularly if the "crime" is one in which they have the discretion whether to prosecute] to make Arlen think they weren't welching. Remember they still needed him on board.

On second thought, not a Greek tragedy, but a fucking fool. 

The Philadelphia CityPaper is threatening to shoot a cat in the head if you don't vote for Sestak.  Still trying to figure out why their election mascot is a cat taking a shit. http://tinyurl.com/2cz8ea8

73 -^{But the guy's gonna be 80 years old. Retire, already, you old hack.}

Spectre, McCain, et. al. - term limits for these old toads.  They make their living off of sponging the political system and almost unlimited perks.

Posted by: The White House at May 17, 2010 03:11 PM (4WbTI)

In retrospect, going with an untried political neophyte wasn't the optimum choice.

The Philadelphia CityPaper is threatening to shoot a cat in the head if you don't vote for Sestak.

I'm not sure I see a downside here.

I don't think that Sestak will be all that hard to beat because he is either a liar (in reference to saying he was offered an administration job to drop out) or he doesn't mind being called a liar by Obama. 

Neither of which are exactly endearing qualities, I think.

I so hope that the primary will have no clear winner, and that the Sestak and Specter camps will indulge in a weeks long drama of finding ballots in unlikely places:

Sestak operative: We just found 400 absentee ballots in the trunk of my Prius, boss!

Specter flunky: The A.M.E. pastor just called in to report six boxes of ballots recovered underneath one of the pews...

Posted by: Cicero, bitches at May 17, 2010 03:18 PM (Oxen1)

Uh, You can trust me (cherrily).

I don't think that Sestak will be all that hard to beat because he is either a liar (in reference to saying he was offered an administration job to drop out) or he doesn't mind being called a liar by Obama. 

Neither of which are exactly endearing qualities, I think.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber

Perhaps, perhaps. But if the fossil gets bumped off tomorrow, then the White House gets to either play kiss and make up, or ignore the loss of yet another Senate seat. And either way may suit Sestak. So the allegation hurts Spector, and results in no foul to Sestak.And the way that things are going, Dems cannot afford to just ignore him and let him sink. By that I mean losing states that the Dear Leader won in 2008. If Dem numbers in CA and PA tank, then the Manufactured Messiah needs either a rebound or other states to swing his way.

You know the standard joke about an ousted politician being relegated to a new career as the greeter at his/her local WalMart?

Pity Arlen is such a bitter old prune that the joke isn't very funny.

Yeah, being a greeter at WalMart is at least honest work done by pleasant people; I don't see Sphincter being qualified for it.

Best I can tell, the whole thing was orchestrated.

Obama got Specter to switch, making a stack of promises. Healthcare comes up. Sestak pops up out of nowhere as the leader of the opposition. Obama wrings his hands at Specter and says, "I'm sorry, I can't control this guy". Sestak flipflops and Obamacare passes. Sestak now has clear shot at Specter's seat, and meanwhile has shown Obama he'll play ball.

Obama knows the Pennsylvania electorate will fall for it, because said electorate voted not just for him, but for Murtha as well.

/yeah, "newsletter"

Posted by: td at May 17, 2010 03:25 PM (w7TI0)

Uh, did you learn your lesson?

Specter's spectacularly specious sagacity succinctly sucks socialist slime.

Posted by: Lisp

Thanks Slyvester.

P.S. Do NOT go near any newspaper offices in Philadelphia.

99

Sestak is going to have to tack right to win the general, and that will be difficult, given his Pelosi/Reid approved voting record. (On the times he actually did show up to vote.)

Independents can't vote in PA primaries, and they are the ones who swing elections. If the indies are still in a hateful mood against 0bamadems, Toomey's got this one in the bag. But he'll still have to make his case against Sestak, unlike if it were Specter which everyone in PA just wants to go away. Now.

And take Bob Schieffer with you.

Posted by: The Hon. Robert Carlyle Byrd, (D) WV

The Grand Kleagle (emeritus) speaks.

"You can count him OUT this election season unless he's campaigning for someone like Pelosi who comes from a brain-dead liberal district."

I hope he does.

If the Kiss of Death holds true, then AWESOME.

If she wins, the campaign stump & photo op will yield a bumper-crop of attack-ad fodder for 2012.

Speculem's in Scranton right? That's where I was from?! right? left? I gotta go vote there.

Speculem's in Scranton right? That's where I was from?! right? left? I gotta go vote there.

Posted by: Sherriff Joe Biden

Yes, but only when there's a prevailing NE wind greater than 5 knots. Otherwise, you're from the First State, oh foreign policy genius.

Rush and Hannity supporting Giuliani and giving us McCain for a nominee.

Let's be crystal clear here--?Rudy?!? ran one of the worst campaigns in American political history (WAITING FOR FLORIDA...WTF?).  So, in what way do Limbaugh and Hannity give McCain the nomination by supporting an awful campaign?  That's a huge stretch.  And more than a little nonsensical.

"We already have the oldest Congress ever and he and every other 80 plus year old ought to be sitting at their lake house telling stories to their grandkids and not sitting in Congress forgetting whether they just had lunch or not."

That reminds me...weren't we told that McCain would have shuffled off the mortal coil by now?  "One heartbeat away..."

I hope McCain buys some time on national television in 2012, plays a montage of "one heartbeat away" comments, and then holds up his two middle fingers while standing underneath a banner that reads "I'M STILL ALIVE, BITCHES!"

O/T Gateway Pundit has  a link to photos of Muslim Miss USA Rima Fakih winning a Stripping 101 contest in 2007.

Did she graduate with honors? Was there an oral exam? Please insert your cum laude jokes here.

"Bob, do you support the Obama Doctrine?"

"Umm... I'm not sure what you-"

"Preemptively sucking the cock of every communist or Muslim dictator you can get your lips on, without even being asked."

"I'm not sure I'm-"

"Well, it's too late to say 'No' now, Bob, you filthy cocksucker."

O/T Gateway Pundit has  a link to photos of Muslim Miss USA Rima Fakih winning a Stripping 101 contest in 2007.

Did she graduate with honors? Was there an oral exam? Please insert your cum laude jokes here.

I'm lapping this up.

OT, but highly moron friendly: Bat fellatio causes a scandal in academia: http://tinyurl.com/37u4ooc.

Linky no worky

I hope McCain buys some time on national television in 2012, plays a montage of "one heartbeat away" comments, and then holds up his two middle fingers while standing underneath a banner that reads "I'M STILL ALIVE, BITCHES!"

And then he tears out Katie Couric's throat with one hand like Dalton in Roadhouse.

I'll stump for Arlen at Cathy's Diner.

I hope McCain buys some time on national television in 2012, plays a montage of "one heartbeat away" comments, and then holds up his two middle fingers while standing underneath a banner that reads "I'M STILL ALIVE, BITCHES!"

That's perfect - except why wait for 2012? McCain could highlight his illegal immigration creds in the current primary race by then turning his back to the camera to display  LA MIGRA ironed on to the back of his T-shirt.

Can one reporter show me one cup of oil that has washed up on the coast of Louisiana?

 Still trying to figure out why their election mascot is a cat taking a shit.

I'm still trying to figure out why Specter isn't the cat shit candidate...

Posted by: Purity Republican at May 17, 2010 03:39 PM (SbFur)

What nuts?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 17, 2010 03:44 PM (B+qrE)

I'm still trying to figure out why Specter isn't the cat shit candidate...

Nobody likes a wind-flapper...

So doesn't this make Barky 4 for 4?? The RNC just needs to keep its trap shut and let these fuckwads dig their own holes.

147 Off-Topic: Okay please tell me if i'm overreacting but can anyone on here be courageous enough to blast HotAir bloggers?

I would, but that would require someone in charge to be at least a gamma or delta male.  As an omega male, I just hide and let them do whatever they want.

Did you see that despicable display of the oil execs before Congress last week?  They were tripping all over themselves to try and keep laying the blame at someone elses' feet.

Despicable.

Now, completely unrelated, I would like to discuss how badly Bush's failed policies continue to hamstring our attempts to revitalize our floudering economy by creating and saving jobs through Healthcare Reform and golf...  Let me be clear, so long as you sit around watching Laura Bush peddle her book on Fox News, and keep Tweetering your Facebooks on Kindle, we will never move ahead into the bold Eurpoean future I am trying to create.

Posted by: JohnW at May 17, 2010 03:50 PM (N/fBu)

gerrymandered districts, unscroupalous pollsters and the DNC will determine your faith...SUCKAS

"Nobody likes a wind-flapper..."

Have you seen his flaccid jowls?  You could re-upholster a '68 Cyclone with those sheets of leather.

Posted by: Arlen Specter

Lemme put it this way. When this occurs, "soon and very soon, thou art going to see the King", I predict massive throngs demanding a glass coffin and a state funeral, with multitudes lining the path of the proocession. All of this will be to assure themselves that you are truly dead.

"Hear the widow's curse. And may it melt you like snow in the sun."- Irish curse

So doesn't this make Barky 4 for 4?? The RNC just needs to keep its trap shut and let these fuckwads dig their own holes.

Posted by: dananjcon

He's actually "progressing". Before today,  his selections tanked in the general elections. Now they're set to die in the primaries. At this rate, by 2012, the mere hint of an Obama endorsement or visit itinerary will slay the first born of Dem County election committee members.

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2010 03:57 PM (OlnxK)

I keep telling myself to stay away but I can't stop going over and watching things get worse, I clicked on the post I mentioned hoping to look at a view I kinda agree with, instead I found comments being blasted and people basically being told to never criticize, you say LGF isn't fun anymore, HA isn't fun anymore either and I hope more people get away from that overrated POS

Posted by: Jean at May 17, 2010 03:57 PM (OlnxK)

Nah, man, Ace rules! Dudes, cmon, back Ace, Ace RULEs!!!! YAYAYAYYA

He's actually "progressing". Before today,  his selections tanked in the general elections. Now they're set to die in the primaries. At this rate, by 2012, the mere hint of an Obama endorsement or visit itinerary will slay the first born of Dem County election committee members.

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 17, 2010 03:59 PM (R2fpr)

Gives me hope for our future...just hope Toomey can pull it off.

The black queen chants the funeral march, the cracked brass bell will ring

In the court of the Crimson King

Bracing?  Like hell.

They threw Arlene an anvil with the Kagen nomination.

At the end Rush caved and said go with Romney but it was too late.

Forgive me for being underwhelmed by the prospect of Mitt at the top of the ticket.  (I was a Thompson guy, but Ferd!--spelling intentional--ran a worse campaign than Rudy.)

Arlen Spectator good get a job doing Public Service commercials.  Like he can sit in a wheelchair when the spot shows you why to not take a wheel chair down a street with a steap hill with a intersection at the bottom.  He could scream "OHH  SHIIIITTTT" on the way down!

#184 Theresa D - loved this article, thanks,

Gov. Brewer has got brass ones that's for sure.  Loved her comments -

It’s fair to ask whether he intends to be the Commander-in-Chief or the Comic-in-Chief,” Brewer shot back yesterday when announcing the launch of a website aimed at educating the United States about her state’s new law. “Since the president’s joke was so inappropriate, I suppose, if I wanted to join in the comedian game, I could suggest that he should not give up his day job.”

Although the above made perfectly clear what she thinks of Obama, Brewer wasn’t quite done yet. “Unfortunately, though, he isn’t doing very well at that one, either,” she added as a punchline.

Brilliant! 

Ref Ruch & Spincter

I remember. It was after Bendict Arlen had brain surgergy and the Rush wanted to promote cancer cure or research or something. Also the asshole had a book out.

At the time I though it was weird...

Bloodbath.  Bloodbath.  Bloodbath!

You just know if Sphincter loses the primary, he'll run as an independent.

I read he can,t something about a sore looser law or something

"White House Bracing for Specter Loss" - Ace

Bracing for a loss? Get real. They're throwing him under the bus.

It's called justice. First he was duped by them, and he was too sleazy to resist the temptation, and then they betrayed that weasel to get an even more liberal Sestak in the Senate. Spector was played for a complete fool, and what's cool is that by now he must know it..

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