Arlen Specter Dies at Age 82
Posted on | October 14, 2012 | 21 Comments
One should never speak ill of the dead, and therefore I will merely note that there is one less RINO in the world.
By contrast, Charlie Crist is still alive, so there’s probably no harm in saying that if Charlie got hit by a bus tomorrow, I’d be doing cartwheels.
UPDATE: Random meteorological observation:
For some reason, it seems to me, the sun is shining brighter today, and the sky is a more beautiful blue.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 14, 2012
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October 14th, 2012 @ 3:05 pm
Arlen was never a Republican…nor was he ever a RINO…he was always a Democrat and an opportunist.
October 14th, 2012 @ 3:25 pm
Let his passing be mourned, if it is mourned at all, by the Democrats who rejected him in their 2010 primary.
October 14th, 2012 @ 3:26 pm
Old Bolsheviks never die, at least not soon enough.
October 14th, 2012 @ 3:40 pm
Same with the young ones. *COUGH*Che*COUGH*
October 14th, 2012 @ 3:56 pm
The consummate politician. That is not a compliment.
I denounce myself.
October 14th, 2012 @ 4:11 pm
In truth, Specter was both a RINO and a DINO. All he cared about was his own career.
To be fair to the guy, his career did have a couple of bright spots. He was a key investigator for the Warren Commission, and as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate he was able to walk through a good number of decent judges.
October 14th, 2012 @ 4:15 pm
One should never speak ill of the dead…., okay then……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
October 14th, 2012 @ 4:16 pm
JFK has been waiting so long for Arlen to explain himself.
October 14th, 2012 @ 4:22 pm
As a born and raised Pennsylvanian, I spent 30 years screaming at his perfidy, but, and you have to come from the Philadelphia area to appreciate this, when he was a crime-busting DA, he and Frank Rizzo, first as Police Commissioner and then as Mayor, made a great crime-fighting team.
Enough to make people want to come back into Center City again because it was safe again.
October 14th, 2012 @ 4:47 pm
God worked his magic? I know that’s bad. But I couldn’t resist because he was exactly as Rich described below.
October 14th, 2012 @ 4:48 pm
If flag-burning is speech — and SCOTUS has ruled that it is — then so are cartwheels.
Then again, I’ve never really subscribed to the “never speak ill of the dead” thing. I was told it’s, “One should only speak good of the dead,” therefore in the case of today’s news I happily remark, “Good.”
October 14th, 2012 @ 4:54 pm
Looks like Jon Huntsman will have to carry on with the Arlen Specter Comedy Tour by himself. Hmmm, wonder if Crist is available.
October 14th, 2012 @ 5:02 pm
When I think of Arlen Specter I think of Katy Abram.
October 14th, 2012 @ 5:27 pm
[…] got the news via Stacy McCain, who is not exactly broken up over Specter’s demise at 82 One should never speak ill of the dead, and therefore I will merely note that there is one less […]
October 14th, 2012 @ 5:43 pm
Stacy, please die soon. I want to dance upon your grave, your rotten teeth and your bloated liver. Your inbred kids won’t miss you, your wife certainly won’t miss your disgusting breath and the media will not know you’re even gone, you’re that useless.
Please, please, die already. I look forward to that day.
October 14th, 2012 @ 5:55 pm
Now that Arlen has left us to receive his reward from that caucus in the sky, all I can offer is how I will always picture him whenever I hear his name.
October 14th, 2012 @ 6:14 pm
I will always remember him from Jerry Della Femina’s book FROM THOSE WONDERFUL FOLKS WHO BROUGHT YOU PEARL HARBOR. Apparently JDF was hired to do ads for Specter’s first campaign and asked, “So, what is Arlen Specter for?”
“Arlen Specter is for winning.”
(brief silence) “Okay. What’s he against?”
“Arlen Specter is against losing.”
That pretty much sums the man up, no?
October 14th, 2012 @ 6:40 pm
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October 14th, 2012 @ 7:58 pm
Now he can be a stand-in in for Jack Dodson on the afterlife Mayberry circuit.
October 15th, 2012 @ 8:09 am
From To Serve Them All My Days by Delderfield:
“If there’s one thing I can’t abide it’s this hypocritical refusal to be truthful about the dead just because they are dead. To hear some people talk at funerals you’d think dying was limited to the chosen few.”
October 15th, 2012 @ 8:18 am
Yay!