Benedict Arlen is dead!

[quicksdraw]

I don't mean to sound pleased, but this turncoat piece of sh** is finally dead. What great news for all 2nd Amendment supporters.

Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies - Yahoo! News

 

[hornadylnl]

 

[IndyDave1776]

I agree with you. One hates to be so harsh as to rejoice in the death of another human being, but that man is no loss to civilization whatsoever.

 

[hacksawfg]

These guys also celebrated someone being dead.

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I may not like the way Obama runs the country, but that doesn't mean I'd be happy if he died tomorrow - the guy is still a husband and father, my disagreeing with him doesn't mean I wish him ill. It's no wonder that this country is in the state it's in when people can't even have the courtesy to show respect for the deceased.

Oh, who am I kidding, this is the internet, there's no room for civility here.

 

[Survivalcookie]

He might have been a flip flopper but he did help get gulf war syndrome looked at as a disease and helped get more funding for breast cancer and Alzheimer research. He had a good long life. may he RIP.

 

[GREEN607]

I remember him for taking "the citizen's side" in the Ruby Ridge debacle. He was tough and fair in his seeking the truth of what happened there.

He's a turncoat, because his political life became more important to him, than his principles.

But I wish he will R.I.P.

 

[Denny347]

Good Lord people are shallow.

 

[hornadylnl]

Good Lord people are shallow.

Conservatives are so far above liberals.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

A turncoat? Ok, but consider this, if not for Arlen Specter there would be no Heller. There would be no McDonald.

Specter was an early vote against Bork.

Count your blessings, boys.

 

[KG1]

Conservatives are so far above liberals.

and hornadylnl is so far above everyone else. Just ask him.

 

[hornadylnl]

and hornadylnl is so far above everyone else. Just ask him.

Please quote where I've ever asserted that.

 

[CarmelHP]

Having made a young man's mistake of once voting for Specter 30 years or so ago, I am glad that he is out of the Senate, not that he is dead. I learned my lesson and never voted for Lugar after arriving in Indiana, and am glad he too is gone from the Senate, but wish him no personal harm. Death is a shared, common human estate and we shouldn't wish it, or rejoice in it, lightly. As an aside, he wife, Joan, sold some very good cheesecakes.

 

[John James]

Please do not use such word games to insult Benedict Arnold.

Though he turned his coat, Arnold spent at least some time putting his neck on the line for liberty.

 

[jamil]

I don't mean to sound pleased, but this turncoat piece of sh** is finally dead. What great news for all 2nd Amendment supporters.

Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies - Yahoo! News

Everyone has a right to live, and everyone dies. The 2nd amendment does not hinge on a person's death.

 

[jedi]

A turncoat? Ok, but consider this, if not for Arlen Specter there would be no Heller. There would be no McDonald.

Specter was an early vote against Bork.

Count your blessings, boys.

For us young lads who are unknoweledgable and ignorant how or what did Specter for for the Heller and McDonald cases?

Thanks!

 

[CarmelHP]

For us young lads who are unknoweledgable and ignorant how or what did Specter for for the Heller and McDonald cases?

Thanks!

Specter was instrumental in sinking the Bork nomination. Bork has since made some pretty anti-gun statements and would have likely not voted in favor of 2nd Amendment recognition if on the Supreme Court. Specter, by the way, had a higher ACU rating and better pro-gun record than our former Senator Lugar. Specter voted against the AW ban in '94.

 

[Que]

I remember him for taking "the citizen's side" in the Ruby Ridge debacle. He was tough and fair in his seeking the truth of what happened there.

He's a turncoat, because his political life became more important to him, than his principles.

But I wish he will R.I.P.

I listened to a report on NPR this morning and it seemed more like his party turned on him. It sounded like his principles became more important than his political life. He felt that he needed to vote in favor of the stimulus packages because he lived through the Great Depression and believed it was the right thing to do. He said, "I support my party, but there comes a time when I must vote my conscience." After he was one of three Republicans to vote with Obama, his political career was over as a Republican.

He did some great work and I hope those actions are remembered.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

For us young lads who are unknoweledgable and ignorant how or what did Specter for for the Heller and McDonald cases?

Like Carmel said, he helped torpedo Bork after Justice Powell stepped down in '87.

Specter was one of the six Republicans that voted against Bork. Kennedy was then nominated and confirmed as Bork's replacement.

With Bork Heller and McDonald would have been disasters.

Spectre may have been many things and not universally loved, by Right or Left, but given a wider view his actions will echo throughout time.

 

[indiucky]

I don't mean to sound pleased, but this turncoat piece of sh** is finally dead. What great news for all 2nd Amendment supporters.

Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies - Yahoo! News

Those that watched the Ruby Ridge and Waco hearings know that the man was (at one time) on the "right" (whatever that means) side of history.

Ironically he and Bernie Sanders were some of the harshest critics of how the events were handled.

Ofcourse Benedict Arnold was the hero of Saratoga before he turned traitor.

 

[Ted]

Please quote where I've ever asserted that.

Seems to be a general impression upon many here.

So why don't you get your lawn chair, and just enjoy what you've created for yourself.