Arlen Specter, who spent 30 years in the U.S. Senate infuriating colleagues, retires as the voice of compromise.
Pennsylvania’s longest-serving senator was defeated in the Democratic primary after having switched parties. Vilified by the right as a RINO — Republican in Name Only — he became the left’s new whipping boy as a DINO.
Miraculously, liberals and conservatives who couldn’t agree on the color of a red barn were finally united: all Arlen cared about was Arlen.
It was a rallying cry that animated both sides, but it ignored a lifetime to the contrary… (more)
EDITOR: “There was a little girl withi a curl right in the middle of her farhead. When she was good, she was very very good, and when she was bad she was horrid.”
