Time To Go

It is not necessary to tell you the news that Arlen Specter has switched sides to make a 60 vote majority for the Democrats. But I did want to share my impression of it.

Did you ever see the movie Dune? Think of the mutant guys kept alive by artificial means...who ought to have died.




Arlen Specter is one of them. This obsolete, scabby, wasted, tired, useless old man, clinging single-mindedly to power—for its own sake—would betray his country and sell his grandchildren to hold on to the power that he should have passed on to the next generation long ago. His unnatural, unseemly power-lust is disgusting to see, nauseating to watch.

He is the man who will not die [metaphorically speaking, of course].

No sacrifice by or of another is too great for his insatiable hunger. He'd suck his kids dry to extend his own life by 20 minutes.

He was going to lose—by choice of voters—and he knew it. And so he abandoned what few principles, and whatever dignity he still had. And should he win as a Democrat, he will crouch on a field of battle where his victory will mean nothing, and do honor to none.

Yes, he throws the Looters their winning vote. But he cleanses the Republican party by his absence. I think we might have got the best of this deal.

All the Looters got was the sort of husband that cheats on his wife.

And they can have him.

The Gunslinger