RIP Arlen Specter

You should have called him a champ.

 

A moderate Republican? In which life?

The guy was stench, exhibit A as to what is wrong with politics these days - a career politician who hung on forever and won elections based on his name and his power base and not because he actually was good at his job.

He was a Democrat - until it was politically favorable to be a Republican -- and then when it became cool to be a Democrat again, he switched back....

His "guiding principle" was always clear - do what helps the re-election cause.

What a fraud.

I am sorry anyone is dead but that doesn't change history and who he truly was.

 

Maybe I'm forgetting someone, but I can't think of another U.S. Senator more impersonated by would-be radio entertainers than Arlen Specter.

 

I also saw those shows. Every single Secret Service agent who was on the scene heard three shots, from behind, and are convinced LHO was the lone assasin. The blood/spray pattern they saw/experienced also illustrated the shots came from behind. They did not look like the kind of people who lied about what they saw.

And the "magic bullet" re-inactment was hardly a controlled experiment. Looked to me to be almost a perfect duplication of the assasination. And it showed the one bullet could easily inflict the wounds to Kennedy and Connolly.

 

The left hander Bob Dole?

 

You could be right. Senator Specter's voice was one of a kind, though.

 

Maybe it's just me, but I don't know that I've ever heard someone try to impersonate a senator on a radio show.

 

The Edgar Bergen and Joe McCarthy Show was widly popular back in the day ...

 

ha. he has to work his way up to champ. ; )

 

What an outrageous scam that was! "I'm a ventriloquist and I'm going to do my act on a radio show. Good luck seeing whether my lips move or not, suckers!"