Former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-PA), whose conservative primary challenge against Sen. Arlen Specter caused Specter to switch to the Democrats, is showing off what could be his main talking point for the 2010 general election: You just can’t trust this guy.
“If Senator Specter does manage to win the Democratic primary, he has raised a real question about whether he can be trusted,” Toomey told the Cumberland County Sentinel. “He took one look at a poll and he abandoned the party.”
Toomey previously ran against Specter in the 2004 primary, and only lost by 51%-49%. After Toomey declared that he would be challenging Specter again, and when polls showed he could win the primary in a landslide, Specter then joined the Democrats — and is now facing a Dem primary challenge from Rep. Joe Sestak.
