Club for Failure

The Club for Growth seems to represent the fanatical lemming wing of the GOP. First it ran ads agains Howard Dean before Iowa, even though Dean was the candidate the Republicans "wanted" to run against. Now they are trying to replace Senator Arlen Specter with a more conservative primary challenger. To the Club for Growth, Specter is a RINO (a Republican In Name Only) and so they have created an ad that compares him to John Kerry. Knocking out Specter seems like a really bad plan is probably counter to the interests of the Republicans. Pennsylvania is a swing state, but it leans Democratic, it went for Gore in 2000 and has a Democratic Governor. Replacing a moderate republican senator with some wingnut will most likely cost the Republican party Specter's senate seat and given the party's small majority, it might even cost them control of the Senate. If this comes to pass, the Naderites of the Right at the Club for Growth deserve the thanks of every loyal Democrat.