This one is already getting nasty — and the primary is still a year out. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has had to tweak an attack ad on conservative challenger Pat Toomey after the ad incorrectly claimed Toomey had traded the type of derivatives back in the 1980s that led to the current housing meltdown. Toomey countered that the credit default swaps at the center of the crisis did not exist when he was a Wall Street trader.
Specter moved on to his next line of attack this weekend, demanding that Toomey, who is president of the fiscal conservative watchdog group Club for Growth, identify the group's corporate donors and release how much bailout money they received.
Toomey's camp on Monday morning blasted a statement pointing out that the Club for Growth doesn't take corporate donations.
"Arlen Specter’s bad poll numbers must be causing him hallucinations," Toomey spokesman Mark Harris said. "Everything he attacks Pat Toomey with is either proven false by neutral analysts or is something Specter himself has done." - Politico
Specter has drawn enormous fire after he broke with the Republican Party on the huge Stimulus. He has watched his polling numbers collapse and is deep trouble for re-election. It is well deserved and he did it to himself.
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