{"id":13632,"date":"2012-04-02T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13632"},"modified":"2012-04-02T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T18:05:43","slug":"good-riddance-arlen-specter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13632\/good-riddance-arlen-specter\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance, Arlen Specter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a rough re-launch into the public consciousness for former Senator Arlen Specter (R\/D-PA) since switching parties and losing the Democratic primary in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>While hocking his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Among-Cannibals-Political-Governing\/dp\/1250003687\" target=\"_blank\">memoirs<\/a> during media appearances Specter has made off-color comments about Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, and Rick Santorum, insulted at least one radio host, and drawn attention to his book\u2019s portrayals of former fellow senators Ted Kennedy (D-MA) as a \u201cwalrus\u201d and John Thune (R-SD) as looking like a movie star \u201cin or out of clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/arlen-specter-meltdown-radio-hosts-describes-former-senators-odd-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Blaze<\/em><\/a> website has a helpful compilation of Specter\u2019s lowlights during his media blitz, including Glenn Beck\u2019s radio show co-host reading excerpts from Specter\u2019s book; such as the nugget about the time another senator cut in front of Specter to get a \u2018free\u2019 (i.e. taxpayer-funded) massage in the Senate gym.\u00a0 Arlen\u2019s take-away from the experience: collegiality is dying in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Reagan once said, \u201cPolitics is not a bad profession.\u00a0 If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.\u201d\u00a0 In Specter\u2019s case, Reagan\u2019s observation still holds true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a rough re-launch into the public consciousness for former Senator Arlen Specter (R\/D-PA) since switching parties and losing the Democratic primary in 2010. While hocking his memoirs during media appearances Specter has made off-color comments about Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, and Rick Santorum, insulted at least one radio host, and drawn attention to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,1077,1084,456,365,178],"class_list":["post-13632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arlen-specter","tag-politics","tag-rick-santorum","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-sarah-palin","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13636,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions\/13636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}