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TruckingDeals wrote:Neither is my guy, Jeb Hensarling.

I'll hate to see him go, and I'll welcome him back. Just gotta make a statement if we are to ever get back in control.

Wait a minute. So you'll vote for his Democrat challenger during the upcoming election, regardless of their policy? That doesn't make a lick of sense, man. Good grief, what has this world come to?

TruckingDeals wrote:If you want to keep your guy because "I don't think he is the problem", then, as I said before, YOU are the problem.

Ahem. His guy is Ron Paul, who is without a doubt the single and only person in the Federal Congress who is NOT part of the problem.

We were probably better off back before 1913, when Senators were chosen by our state legislatures. Back then, there's no way that people like Hillary Clinton would have been seated in the Senate. Maybe it's time to talk about the repeal of the 17th amendment to the Constitution.

stroo wrote:He actually was a Democrat before he decided he could get elected to the Senate as a Republican during the Reagan era.

Then why did the Republican establishment, including GWB, campaign so strongly for him in the primary? There was a true and popular conservative running against him. What gives? I'm honestly flabbergasted. This just isn't adding up right for me.

Specter wouldn't even be in the senate if the republicans hadn't campaigned for him so strongly in 2004. He just barely managed to win against his much more conservative opponent, Pat Toomey. George W Bush's last-minute endorsement of Specter is likely to have finally pushed him into a win.

So, thanks W and other republicans for giving us Specter.