Senator Arlen Specter from PA yesterday announced that he was switching parties from Republican to Democrat. Apparently the man has been a republican for 30+ years in the Senate, but he's only now realized that the democrats are closer to his personal philosophy. Actually, he said that the republican party has recently moved further to the right and away from his own beliefs.
I know it's now an over-used expression, but "Really?" After eight years of being in the republican party under Bush, during which time the religious right took over leadership of the party and the Constitution was practically ignored ("Free Speech Zone" anyone?), only NOW he feels like the party moved too far to the right. Let's also not forget that the republican party during Clinton's administration practically hunted the President from the day he got in office, spending years and millions of dollars to find some crime to accuse him of. At the end, what did they get to impeach him? A lie about a blow job. And THAT's the party that Specter thinks wasn't too far to the right for him.
What do those years have in common? The right ruled the Senate. So, no matter how conservative the party was, Specter was ok with it as long as it was in power. Now that the republicans have practically destroyed the country and people (voters) have moved to the center/left, and now that the dems are in power, NOW Specter has decided that the republicans are too far to the right. What it comes down to is this: Specter has decided that he can't win a primary race in PA next year against a conservative candidate, so in order for him to stay in power he's got to change parties, beliefs be damned. He'll do anything to stay in the country's most powerful men's club, and he'll change his own philosophy to be on the winning team.
Is it any wonder that the average citizen doesn't trust politicians?
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