re: #222 VioletTiger

avanti, people like Specter are not really conservative—anybody who voted for the porkulus bill or the spendulus budget are not really conservatives or moderates. He didn’t leave the party because it was leaning too far right. He let because there was no way he could win the primary. He is saving his ass, that’s all.

OK, assume a hypothetical. Would it not be possible for a conservative to vote for the stimulus if he/she truly believed not doing so would cause more harm in the long run ?

I agree he left the party for the reasons stated, and the fact that the GOP had abandoned him.