Senator Cornyn, Please Do Not Support Specter Against Pat Toomey

Will Malven
4/16/2009

Unbelievably, Senator Cornyn (R-TX) Chairman of the Republican National Senatorial Committee has announce his intention to support RINO Senator Arlen Specter in his bid for reelection as Senator of Pennsylvania against his more conservative challenger, former president of the Club for Growth, Pat Toomey.

Given Senators execrable record of voting against the agenda of his fellow Republican Senators and the good of all Americans, particularly in supporting the Empty Suit in Chief's $700 Billion budget this year-one of only three Republicans in the entire Congress to do so-I find myself forced to voice my stringent opposition to this foolish move.

Tonight I have sent the following e-mail to Senator Cornyn's Communications Director protesting this decision.

Kevin McLaughlin
Communications Director
Office of Senator John Cornyn

RE: Senator Cornyn’s decision to support Arlen Specter against Pat Toomey


Dear Kevin,

I have been a long time supporter of Senator Cornyn both personally and in my blog (Houston Conservative), but I see little reason to support him any longer following his ill-considered and inexplicable decision to support Arlen Specter in the Republican Primary in Pennsylvania.

Arlen Specter is the epitome of the RINO mentality. He has stood against his party on the most momentous issues of our time and he has done so with no small amount of arrogance and disdain for the Conservative base of the Republican Party.

Senator Cornyn states:

“I believe that Senator Specter is our best bet to keep this Senate seat in the GOP column. A vote for Arlen Specter is a vote for denying Harry Reid and the Democrats a filibuster-proof Senate."

Is he serious? Of what possible value is a “Republican seat” if that Republican votes more often with the Democrat Party than with the Republican Party? In the single most important vote held this year in Congress, Senator Specter was one of only three Republicans to vote with the President and the Democrat majority…given that vote, I fail to see any sign that Republicans have any sort of filibuster capability.

We have already seen the benefit of supporting Arlen Specter against a more Conservative candidate. Six years ago President Bush put his support behind Senator Specter only to have the ungrateful RINO slap him in the face repeatedly. At what point will the Republican leadership finally comprehend the lessons of “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?” That is one definition of insanity.

I would hope that you would take a long hard look at what occurred across America yesterday. The Conservative base is angry and energized. Republicans, Democrats and Independents gathered yesterday to express their dissatisfaction with the manner in which Congress and this new President have been running this nation. Senator Cornyn and the rest of the Republican Party leadership would do well to recognize this. Conservatives consider Senator Cornyn’s support of Senator Specter a direct slap in the face and we do not respond well to this kind of affront.

Senator Cornyn says his responsibility as head of the NRSC is to guide the Republican Party back to its former majority status. He would do well to understand that this will only happen if he remains true to the traditional Conservative values that put Republicans in control in the first place. As the true Messiah said, “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

Traditional Conservative values are the heart and soul of the Republican Party and following on the heels, as this decision does, of the abysmal candidacy of John McCain (another RINO) for the presidency, you are rapidly losing those who comprise that heart and soul.

If the leadership of the Republican Party persists in this madness, they will relegate themselves to permanent minority status. I suggest that you and the Senator take a look at the reaction from we Conservative voters and bloggers to this announcement. I believe you will find that you have angered-possibly irreparably the base of the Republican Party.


Sincerely,

William C. Malven
Editor/Owner - Houston Conservative

P.S. A copy of this e-mail will be posted on my blog page.

Hopefully with enough of a backlash from we Conservatives, Senator Cornyn will change his mind and support Pat Toomey in his bid to unseat Senator Specter.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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