Shameless Specter Uses Kemp

Senator Arlen Specter has used the memory of Cancer victim Jack Kemp (who succumbed to the disease on Saturday) to defend his opportunistic switch to the Democrat party and advance his own campaign.
Not only did Specter invoke the name of Kemp but he also attempted to bring Richard Nixon back to life as he talked about how we "could have" conquered Cancer if we followed Nixon's plan.
I suppose when you get to be as old as Specter you can recollect whatever you want as there are few people who are still alive who can dispute you.
Still, Specter ought to be ashamed of himself.
And he would - if he had any shame.
But he is truly shameless - a desperate, self-possessed politician who looks out for himself first, last and always. He's like an old vaudevillian who clings to whatever piece of the spotlight he can beg, borrow or steal because he knows no other life, no greater dimension, no greater glory.
Here's the story from Tom LoBianco at the Washington Times:
Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Democrat, said part of the reason that he left the Republican Party last week was disillusionment with its health-care 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' Bob Schieffer over whether he had let down Pennsylvanians who wanted a Republican to represent them, said he thought 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 "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." Mr. Kemp died Saturday of cancer. He had been the running mate of 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole.