Snowe calls Specter move 'devastating'.

[sinkingfeeling]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/28/snowe-calls-specter-move-devastating/

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sen. Olympia Snowe — one of the three moderate Republicans including Arlen Specter who supported President Obama's stimulus package — told CNN Tuesday that she has also been approached many times about becoming a Democrat, but that it hasn't happened for a while.

"I've been asked, but not recently," she said.

Snowe said the Republican Party never learned its lesson from the "painful" party switch of Sen. Jim Jeffords in 2001.

"For me personally and then for the party, its devastating," Snowe said of Specter's move. "I've always been concerned about the Republican party nationally, about their exclusionary policies towards moderate Republicans. That's not a secretly held view on my part."

[Arugula Latte]

1. Well, Olympia, there's an easy solution to that ...

[Lyric]

2. "I've been asked, but not recently"

Is somebody dropping a hint there? Time to have a nice chat with Ms. Snow...

:D

[truebrit71]

15. I concur...sounds like she wouldn't be averse to a little chat...

...

[C_U_L8R]

3. C'mon in Olympia, the water is fine

the preacher says that that sin's been warshed away too. Neither God nor man's got nothin' on me now.

[demwing]

17. Well I'll be a sonofabitch.

C_U_L8R's been saved!

[onehandle]

4. Keep voting against flu legislation and you will be "concerned" about your own ass.

On edit: That was Collins. I get them mixed up.

[derby378]

5. Hi-yooooo!

:rofl:

[hatrack]

8. I think that was Collins, wasn't it?

:shrug:

[onehandle]

14. I think you're right. I get them mixed up.

oh, well...

[KamaAina]

20. Wasn't that "Swine Flu Sue" Collins?

Or was it both of them?

Come to think of it, the third R making demands about the stimulus package was -- Arlen Specter.

[yy4me]

6. If I lived in Maine, I'd be sending lots of e-mails and making lots

of phone calls to my Senator. She could easily jump on board and have the backing of the people.

[lazyriver]

22. I sent Senator Snowe an invitation just after the election. It was

a sample wedding invitation card I found in a box of wedding stuff in the attic. I doctored it up to cordially and respectfully ask her to leave the sinking ship she was on and come hang out with us at the "cool kid party".

I never got an RSVP but think I have a few more of those cards kicking around...

[yy4me]

26. Maybe she needs a reminder. How rude of her not to have

replied to your kind invitation. Tell her there is going to be another party and she is still invited.

[lazyriver]

30. I received a form letter reply to every other letter I sent to her office

but those were all just regular white paper, business style letters expressing my views on key issues. My guess is it passed through the hands of a loyal GOP aide and ended up in the trash.

[Psychic Consortium]

7. The party's over......

the Republican party that is....

[WI_DEM]

9. I'd love to see the Maine Two switch what a kick in the ass that would be.

[liberal N proud]

10. We can all hope it is devastating to the GOP

Maybe this will bring the whole house of good ol' boys to their knees once and for all.

[seemslikeadream]

11. Come to the light Olympia

[valerief]

12. Sounds like she wants to be asked again. nt

[Lex]

19. Yep.

Sure does.

[progressoid]

13. hmm...

I wouldn't mind having Snowe switch sides.

[billyoc]

16. How do you ask someone to be the last Republican in New England?

Come into the light, Olympia...

[valerief]

28. LOL!!!!

:rofl:

[FightingIrish]

18. The story caption on the CNN home page reads "Ticker: GOP Sen. 'devastated' by Specter news"

The story itself calls the Specter move devastating but doesn't suggest that she was devastated by it.

[t0dd]

21. um

"For me personally and then for the party, its devastating," Snowe said of Specter's move. ...

[Warren DeMontague]

23. So, what, are there like 3 pro-choice Republicans left, now?

I don't mean in the Senate, I mean in the whole country.

[Occam Bandage]

24. If you're feeling excluded, Olympia, c'mon over. nt

[Psychic Consortium]

25. The republican party ends, Dem party splits in two.....

some jumping ship......

[damntexdem]

27. Then devastate them some more.

Keep teaching them lessons until they learn. And then kick them a couple more times just for spite. ;-)

[Blackhatjack]

29. Careful Snowe ... showing concern for Specter will earn you more grief from Repubs...

That foxhole that Snowe, Collins and Specter were occupying just inside the confines of the Repub Party just got a lot emptier.

And don't expect any entreaties to remain loyal to the Repub Party, they don't like you because you are not a rightwing, conservative 'true believer.'