The Washington Times quotes Arlen Specter today,
Specter: Kemp would be alive today
“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.”
Aside from the fact that we have found no cure for any kind of cancer, even with all our research, this reminds me of all those movies where someone joins up with the bad guys and then has to perform some evil deed against the good guys to prove his loyalty to the bad. Think Annakin Skywalker in Star Wars. As soon as Arlen Specter makes his move to the Democratic Party, he demonstrates his new-found convictions by accusing his former associates of killing one of their own, nevermind that government largesse has never resulted in any kind of cure for any disease. This is political posturing at its most despicable.
What the movies don’t show you is that people who would do this had evil in their hearts from the beginning. They were not coerced into the evil act, they were looking for an excuse. Arlen Specter has been waiting for this day, when he is finally free to voice the feelings of his heart.
Jack Kemp, who passed away this weekend from cancer, would be ashamed for Specter. And Specter should be ashamed, too. He obviously has always belonged where he is now–among the ranks of the liberal democrats.
