Specter was the rule, not the exception ~ By Erik Rush

By Erik Rush I have been asked – very frequently, of late – the question that Republicans the nation over are asking: What might they do, what strategy might they employ to regain a majority in the House and Senate, and ultimately retake the White House? My initial response is one I typically don't verbalize, that being: Don't bother. Amid concern among Republicans that Democrats are within nanometers of having a filibuster-proof supermajority in Congress, the defection of GOP Sen. Arlen Specter to the Democrat Party is an object lesson in both the duplicity of American politicians in general and the counterfeit nature of altogether too many Republican lawmakers in particular. Practicality dictates that if the GOP isn't going to be any different than the Democrats (as evidenced by their behavior when they had a congressional majority and the White House), why not save their energy and let the Democrats run America straight to hell on white-hot rails? I have found the overtures on the part of Republican politicians to the American left in order to accomplish this "return from Elba" disgusting in the extreme. Rather than examining their own failure as a direct result of spineless gravitation away from conservatism, for some reason they have taken the Democrats' recent successes as an indictment of conservative principles. Apropos Sen. Specter's party switch, radio talk-show host Tammy Bruce commented last week that the Democrat Party already has a de facto supermajority, considering all of the Republican lawmakers who are "willing to carry the water for this socialist [President Obama]." [Continue reading]

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