Specter Shows His Other Face
August 18, 2009 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Congress, Democrats/Leftists, Elections, Government, Corruption, Liberals, Society/Culture, Unions, Warner Todd Huston | Comments Off
-By Warner Todd Huston
Only a few weeks before Senator Arlen Specter (Traitor, Pennsylvania) flipped back to his original party, the Democrats, he made all sorts of pronouncements on how he wouldn’t support the cloture vote to help pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). He blustered that he couldn’t support the bill and that he’d vote against it.
But now he claims to be a Democrat. Now he has told a group of left wing, nutrooters at a convention in his home state that he will vote for cloture and will vote for the EFCA.
If this isn’t a perfectly clear example of a most unprincipled man, what is? One minute, while he pretended at being a Republican, he says the bill is no good, the next minute, as he pretends at being a Democrat, he’s all for it? Where does principle and honesty come in?
In America we expect two things from our elected officials, honesty and representation. Honesty comes in when we elect someone based on the principles they claim to serve and representation comes when we expect that politician to live up to those principles.
Of course we want our officials to vote the way we elected them to vote, certainly. But we elect a politician based on how they present themselves to us. If a majority votes a pol in who spouts conservative principles, he should vote that way. If a pol is elected based on his left wing principles, then a sudden about face is not desirable.
Specter won election because he was supposed to be a man of center right principles and he invoked those principles when he stood in opposition to the EFCA. But now, a mere party shift seems to mean a complete about face on principles. This makes Senator Specter a man that no one should ever trust under any circumstance. It makes of him a liar.
It means that his “principle” will change with the wind and that his vote is either entirely erratic or for sale to the highest bidder. In any case he is a man that can be trusted by neither the left, the center, nor the right.
This also proves that the battle against the Employee Free Choice Act is far from over.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as NewsBusters.org, RightWingNews.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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