Arlen Specter's announcement that he is changing party affiliations underlines that the Republican party has moved so far to the right as to become functionally irrelevant in large parts of the country. Sen. Specter says says he didn't leave the Republican party, but that the party left him.
I grew up in Pennsylvania, and have been dismayed in recent years as conservatives hoodwinked blue collar rural and suburban voters there into voting against their own interests, through crass manipulation of their social and economic fears.
The Rove, Bush & Cheney crowd convinced a lot of moderate folks that they were conservative, against logic and common sense. It is good to see this pendulum swinging back..
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