Specter: Teabaggers "not necessarily representative of America."

Specter: Health Care Critics Don't Speak for America

(CBS)Fiercely vocal opponents to President Obama's health care reform agenda have a right to speak their mind, but don't "represent all of America," Sen. Arlen Specter said Wednesday.

The former longtime Republican, who switched party allegiances in April, was one of several Democrats to face heated criticism from constituents in town hall meetings across the country over proposed health care reform. (See video below.)

Opponents have railed against the Democratic proposals, characterizing them in general as government-run health care that will overburden taxpayers. Critics have taken specific issue with so-called "death panels," which will supposedly force elderly Medicare patients to seek end of life treatments. (Though those rumors have been proven false.)

"These people have a right to be organized," Specter said on CBS' "The Early Show" Wednesday. "I'm not going to complain about the fact that they are organized. They have a right to do that and they have a right to speak. But I think we ought to understand that they're not necessarily representative of America."

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http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/12/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5236021.shtml

I hope he realizes that he helped create the very monster he is facing at his town halls.

not like the absolute cro-magnon men such as Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich, Sensenbrenner, Coburn, Inhofe, etc.

I live in PA and have always followed his voting record.

But he was happy to receive the political support of both Bush and Rick Santorum during his last bid for reelection. He made deals with Bush in order to gain his support. Specter squawked and fussed about a lot of things Bush did, but during the 108th Congress which was the time frame for his last reelection bid, he voted with his party more than 85% of the time. He allowed Bush and his fellow Republicans to do a lot of damage to this country.


http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/108/states/pa/

Teabaggers are not representative of America ... they are representative of a bunch of lunatic anti-Americans who are idiots ...