Breaking: Arlen Specter Mauled By Wingnuts!

I caught a bit of Arlen Specter's town hall event this morning at the end of the Dylan Ratigan Show. Below is a clip from the beginning of the event. I saw the first of seven questions and it was all wingnut all the time. At one point when one said something particularly wingnuttia virtually the whole crowd stood up and cheered. That will give you some idea of the political aspect of the mob. One woman said she was 35 years old and identified herself(as if she needed to) as a "Republican conservative", and then proceeded to rant about the politicians(hint Obama) destroying our consitution. Where do you think this Wingnutlady was when bloody dubya was wiping his behind with the document during the Cheney administration?


Many of those Rightwing conservatives I saw ranting about "government run healthcare" looked like they may well be well into Medicare, and/or other "government run healthcare programs"(just a minor observation).
My BIG question is; How are these people becoming like 80~90% of the audience at these events? Do they shove their way in ahead of people with intelligent questions and concerns, is there complicency with some of the organizers, does the 70%+- of Americans who want health care reform just not bother to show up? So many questions without answers.
Poor Arlen apparently was not the best guy to come back with pithy comebacks and revelations. A lot of his replies to Wingnuttia hysteria was something along the lines of, "ah, ah, ah, well, uh, uh, uh". Although he did throw in a zinger at the Bushistas after the 30something wingnut lady did her "poor constitution" whine.
I also realize that the conservative Repubs are already highly pissed at ol' Arlen for switching over to the heathens anyway. So they don't need to much prodding to hate him.
On a related note. I sort of like Dylan Ratigan's show, it's okay if you're a(Democratic) political junkie.

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