"The ''Moderate'' Arlen Specter - Bush and GOP Front Man"

If Arlen Apector is a moderate, so was Martin Borman.

The Progressive Daily Beacon: "The ''Moderate'' Arlen Specter - Bush and GOP Front Man":

"In Republican and media circles, Specter is considered a 'moderate,' which is coded language for a GOPer willing to do and say whatever it takes to appear to be mainstream, while in reality furthering the most stygian policies of the Party. As a so-called moderate, Specter has become adept at straddling both sides of every subject and choosing one over the other only when political expediency requires him to do so. Republicans like Specter are the equivalent of a political Rorschach test: people see in Specter whatever they hope to see. Their perception, however, is never linked to reality.

Arlen Specter's 'moderate' Republican nature allows him to adopt any political shape, take any side on an infinite number of issues and, most of all, cut dark and unholy deals. In the era of the Rove-Bush Republican Party, no one is more abhorrent than GOP members who aren't fully committed to the most extreme elements of the Party's agenda. The Party is not comfortable with so-called moderates because they have a tendency to sell out their Dear Leader when they need to save their own political hides. Uncomfortable with those who are able to step around unpalatable items on the extremist agenda, Bush and Rove want party members to be faithful zealots.

This reality of the Republican Party makes one wonder just how much of his soul Specter had to sell in order to get Bush, Rove, and the likes of Santorum to come to his political rescue in 2004. The permanent senator from Pennsylvania must have prostrated himself so as to convince his ideologically-driven masters to save him; it shows in nearly everything Specter does. "