Ridge Refuses To Say He’d Vote For Toomey Over Dem Specter

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Tom Ridge: an Arlen Specter Republican?  The former governor of Pennsylvania has refused to say that he’d vote for Republican Pat Toomey over Dem Arlen Specter should the two meet in the PA US Senate race.

Ridge  appeared on this afternoon’s Hardball.  He began by announcing that he will not seek the GOP nomination for Senate. But at the end of the interview, when Chris Matthews asked about  his preference between Toomey and Specter, Ridge played it coy.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: If you had to vote between Toomey the conservative Republican or Specter the ex-Republican, who would you vote for?

TOM RIDGE: It’s a wonderful country, this America: it’s called secret ballot.

MATTHEWS: Come on!: aye or nay?

RIDGE: You got my answer, Chris: that’s hardball.

Hardball?  I’d call it very soft and squishy.

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This was written by Mark Finkelstein. Posted on Thursday, May 7, 2009, at 4:43 PM. Filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.   []

One Comment

  1. bigtimer wrote:

    Good catch Mark…

    I am so glad RINO Ridge got out!

    Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 1:12 PM | Permalink

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