The GOP has been up in arms about the defection of Arlen Specter to the Democrats, saying the 28-year Senate veteran's embrace of the majority party was a move of self-preservation and political expediency and not one of principle.
As if anyone thought otherwise.
What I find striking about this argument is not the venom directed at Specter -- that's pretty standard in the political world -- but that the GOP seems to be acknowledging its own irrelevence. In arguing that Specter switched because he couldn't win re-election next year as a Republican, isn't the party also saying that the Republican brand has little value -- at least in Pennsylvania?
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