Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) is going to run against Sen. Arlen Specter in the Democratic Senate primary in Pennsylvania. Specter, as everyone knows, was a Republican all his life, but just recently switched parties because he knew he could no longer win re-election as a Republican.
Sestak has been hitting Specter on not being a good enough Democrat, which would seem a logical line of attack against someone who, until just the other day, was a Republican. Specter, says Sestak, constitutes a "flight risk" for Democrats.
All this must be getting to Specter, who, on Thursday, called Sestak a "flagrant hypocrite" because Sestak himself was not a registered Democrat until 2006, and did not vote in primary elections from 1971 to 2005.
Sestak calmly replied that the reason he did not vote in primaries in the stated period is because he was an officer in the United States Navy and he felt that naval officers should be non-partisan. After he retired from active service, he registered as a Democrat.
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