Disgusting and idiotic.

“Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Democrat, said part of the reason he left the Republican Party last week was disillusionment with its healthcare priorities, and suggested that had the Republicans taken a more moderate track, Jack Kemp may have won his battle with cancer.

Mr. Specter, responding to a question from CBS’s Bob Schieffer over whether he had let down Pennsylvanians who wanted a Republican to represent them, said he felt his priorities were more in line with those of the Democrats.

“Well, I was sorry to disappoint many people. Frankly, I was disappointed that the Republican Party didn’t want me as their candidate,” Mr. Specter said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “But as a matter of principle, I’m becoming much more comfortable with the Democrats’ approach. And one of the items that I’m working on, Bob, is funding for medical research.”

Mr. Specter continued: “If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.”

Moron.

First, I’ve had five family members with cancer in the last 10 years so I know something about this disease and I also know that NOTHING could have saved them, cancer kills. Since Nixon declared war on cancer nearly 40 years ago 2 out of 3 people will be affected some form of cancer, it was 1 out of 3 then.

During this time Democrats held the presidency for 12 years, and for 20 years from 1972 until 1994 they held congress. There was no change in at all in the general funding of research during that time.

This type of nonsense is what many Pennsylvanians have witnessed for many years and yet still sent him to Washington, but now it’s apparent that he’s become a vile and crazy old man. It’s time he moved out to pasture and stopped making a fool out of himself.

Technorati Tags: , ,