{"id":4418,"date":"2006-11-08T18:13:17","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/11\/08\/how-did-supporting-specter-work-out-for-you\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T23:13:17","slug":"how-did-supporting-specter-work-out-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/11\/how-did-supporting-specter-work-out-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How did supporting Specter work out for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">In addition to the war, which he called a key factor in the losses of fellow Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Rick Santorum and others, Specter said his party will have to become &quot;a lot more progressive and a lot less ideological.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Specter commended Santorum for his candor, but said Pennsylvania&#8217;s junior senator paid the price at the polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;Rick took a lot of controversial positions,&quot; Specter said. &quot;You saw the results yesterday.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">I do wonder if Sen. Specter campaigned for Rick Santorum as much as he had done for him? Somehow I doubt it. I truly will miss Sen Santorum in the Senate and I doubt if Senator-Elect Casey is going to be all that pro-life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">I thought this quip to be rather funny over at <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=Nzg5NjVlZjliYzI3Mjg3MTI2M2Q4MmQ2YTFiZTA3MTQ=\">The Corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">In the Senate, he will impress few and function as a wholly owned subsidiary of Chuck Schumer, except when he is occasionally given dispensation to cast a pro-life or pro-gun vote. &#8211;John J. Miller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the war, which he called a key factor in the losses of fellow Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Rick Santorum and others, Specter said his party will have to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}