Feeding the Mouth That Bites You By Doug Patton

"The Republican Party never learns. Time and again, apparently on the theory that real conservatives just can’t win against liberal Democrats, party bosses seem compelled to support wishy-washy, moderate-to-liberal Republicans over solid conservatives in primary elections across the country.

In 2004, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (RINO-PA) was justifiably fighting for his political life. After years of betraying the principles of the Republican Party, which had kept him in power for decades, Specter was being challenged in Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate primary by a conservative congressman named Pat Toomey. Toomey was well on his way to winning that primary when the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the White House rode in like the cavalry to rescue Specter. The party even enlisted the help of Pennsylvania’s junior Senator Rick Santorum on Specter’s behalf, a move that arguably cost Santorum his own seat two years later."

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