Open Thread

May 4th, 2009 9:59 AM

For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Specter hints Kemp died of GOP agenda?

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..."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."

Has this guy lost his mind, or is he being taken too literally?