RIP Arlen Specter

[Uncle.Ruckus]

Wife just got a Breaking Message from CNN on her iPhone. No link yet.

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/son-says-longtime-outspoken-gop-senate-moderate-arlen-specter-of-pennsylvania-has-died/2012/10/14/537c7c12-1620-11e2-a346-f24efc680b8d_story.html

 

[Beaker]

Not sure if my comment should be left to the politics thread, but Specter was of a moderate Republican breed that hardly even exists anymore. RIP.

 

[Steak Snabler]

I guess heaven needed a Magic Bullet Theory.

 

[Drip]

RIP. I know he will be missed by WIP.

 

[Liut]

RIP. I know he will be missed by WIP.

Too easy to try to impersonate. ;D

Seriously, I'm surprised he lasted this long. Seems like the man had been in poor health for years. RIP.

 

[Boom_70]

It was already on the politics thread where it should be. His political career died years ago.

 

[Liut]

It was already on the politics thread where it should be. His political career died years ago.

Yeah, well I avoid that thread like the plague. IMHO, Ruckus posting here was just fine.

 

[Drip]

It was already on the politics thread where it should be. His political career died years ago.

Yeah, well I avoid that thread like the plague. IMHO, Ruckus posting here was just fine.

I don't blame you. They don't play fairly on that thread.

 

[Pilot]

The Pride of Russell, Kansas. Well, the small print underneath the Pride of Russell, Kansas.

 

[Boom_70]

Michelle Bachman says good riddance!

 

[Liut]

The Pride of Russell, Kansas. Well, the small print underneath the Pride of Russell, Kansas.

Did not know both Arlen Specter and Robert Dole were from the same Kansas town. Thanks.

Pretty small odds two such influencial men in American politics would hail from there.

 

[Colton]

RIP.

(Footnote: magic bullet theory was horse****)

 

[old_tony]

RIP.

(Footnote: magic bullet theory was horse****)

The magic bullet was near-perfectly replicated by a sharp-shooter in one of those Kennedy assassination programs on Discovery Channel.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

RIP.

(Footnote: magic bullet theory was horse****)

The magic bullet was near-perfectly replicated by a sharp-shooter in one of those Kennedy assassination programs on Discovery Channel.

I'm sure it was.

Give the Specters my condolences.

 

[old_tony]

RIP.

(Footnote: magic bullet theory was horse****)

The magic bullet was near-perfectly replicated by a sharp-shooter in one of those Kennedy assassination programs on Discovery Channel.

I'm sure it was.

Give the Specters my condolences.

So I'm a shill for a guy I couldn't stand because I saw a show that you didn't?

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Actually, I think I saw the show. Fairly easy in hindsight and a controlled environment to get things to come out to support whatever premise you might be pushing.

Believe what you want. I'll always believe Specter was one of the all-time hucksters who sold one of the most heinous sales pitches ever, and the American public, at the time, bought it.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Sounds like a take custom-made for the Politics board.

 

[Drip]

RIP.

(Footnote: magic bullet theory was horse****)

The magic bullet was near-perfectly replicated by a sharp-shooter in one of those Kennedy assassination programs on Discovery Channel.

I'm sure it was.

Give the Specters my condolences.

Specter stood up for what he believed was right. He, in my opinion, was wrong abut the single bullet theory, but he never wavered.

 

[old_tony]

Actually, I think I saw the show. Fairly easy in hindsight and a controlled environment to get things to come out to support whatever premise you might be pushing.

Believe what you want. I'll always believe Specter was one of the all-time hucksters who sold one of the most heinous sales pitches ever, and the American public, at the time, bought it.

That's all well and good. Except for the fact that conspiracy theorists rest their case on the idea that it's simply not possible to do what the "magic bullet" did, and now we know it is possible.

Meanwhile, it's now just short of 49 years later and not a single person who was part of the conspiracy has ever once let anything slip out either intentionally or via loose lips while having a few drinks.