He regularly thumbed his nose at party-line automatons
(NEWSER) - It's so easy to dislike Arlen Specter, writes Dana Milbank. Let us count the ways: "Ornery, vain, disloyal, and a brazen opportunist." And let's not forget the infamous quote that brings all those characteristics into play: "My change in party will enable me to be reelected." And yet, "I will miss him," Milbank writes at the Washington Post . "Whatever his faults, he fought the forces of party unity and ideological purity that are pulling the country apart." More»
