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Sestak Campaign Jumps On Specter-Santorum Deal
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Apr 17, 2010 01:37pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Author | David Dayen |
| News Date | Sunday, April 11, 2010 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "Joe Sestak’s primary campaign against Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter just hasn’t been able to gain traction, and he’s been searching for some angle to get back into the race. You cannot go wrong in a Democratic primary linking your opponent to Rick Santorum, I’d gather, so Sestak has to love this development:
Rick Santorum said Saturday that he endorsed then Republican Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in the 2004 U.S. Senate primary because he received a guarantee from the incumbent that he would support President Bush’s Supreme Court nominees.
The statement could be politically tricky for Specter, who faces Joe Sestak in the Democratic Senate primary on May 18, and his opponent immediately jumped on the statement as more evidence that Specter puts electoral survival over principle.
Santorum, speaking at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, responded to a question from a conservative who asked why he supported Specter over Toomey in what was a bitterly fought contest that year.
“The reason I endorsed Arlen Specter is because we were going to have two Supreme Court nominees coming up,” said Santorum, according to The Washington Post. “I got a commitment from Arlen Specter that no matter who George W. Bush would nominate, he would support that nominee.”
With the Supreme Court in the spotlight with John Paul Stevens’ retirement this has the potential to be major news. If this deal is correct, Sestak can lay a multitude of bad decisions from the Roberts/Alito court at Arlen Specter’s feet, up to and including all the truly horrible corporate decisions, like the Citizens United case." |
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