Specter's Switch

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter's party switch led me to a number of thoughts.

First, given that Specter was first a Democrat who switched to the GOP, I was reminded of Winston Churchill's comments about party switching. He said something to the effect that "anyone can rat (switch parties) but it takes real style to re-rat".

It is rather sad that Specter, 79 years old and a cancer survivor, wants so badly to cling to his job that he would switch parties after 29 years in the Senate. Does he really think he's indispensable? Like most career politicians, it appears the answer is yes.

It also really irks me that the Bush White House and the GOP National Committee supported him in 2004 against Pat Toomey's primary challenge. When will the national GOP figure out that RINO's are not the answer?

Finally, I hope that the voters in PA send the Senator the same message another Englishman, Oliver Cromwell, sent to the "Long Parliament":

"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, .....Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves gone!

So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.

In the name of God, go!"

It's a message the GOP should give to all of its RINO's