He seemed to be a genuine guy. I didn't know he was ill. Apparently ill for quite some time.
Arlen Specter dead at 82 - CNN.com
Arlen Specter dead at 82 - CNN.com
Specter was considered conservative during much of his time. Then, when the radical far right took over the Republican party, suddenly he was labelled a moderate and too conciliatory by those radicals.
God forgive him.
His stand on abortion was no different from Romney until the latter saw the politic winds change.
Maybe he just changed his mind
Flip flop Mitty does that quite a lot.
Arlen Specter was a political opportunist from his earliest days.
He is no real loss to the USA.
By the way, I met him several times when he was the District Attorney of Philadelphia. I was not impressed.