Specter primary challenge now official

Or so says Jim Geraghty.

Regardless of party affiliation, a Sestak - Toomey race would much better benefit Pennsylvania, and the nation as a whole, than any race involving Specter. Specter, the democrat-turned Reagan republican- turned Obama democrat is the worst type of politician; an opportunist with no coherent ideology other than his own political survival.

UPDATE:
Oh it gets sooooo much better. Specter challenges the Dem bona fides of his primary opponent on the basis that Sestak is not really committed to the democrat party because.... wait for it... he[Sestak] has only recently become a democrat. According to Specter, this makes Sestak a " flagrant hypocrite".

On Thursday, Specter's campaign sought to bring into question Sestak's roots to the Democratic Party. Specter's campaign sent out a list of Sestak's voting history in Delaware County, which the senator's campaign said showed that Sestak registered as an Independent in 1971, didn't vote in any primary elections from 1971-2005 and that he officially registered as a Democrat in February of 2006. Sestak was elected as a Democrat to the House in 2006.

"Congressman Sestak is a flagrant hypocrite in challenging my being a real Democrat when he did not register as a Democrat until 2006 just in time to run for Congress," Specter said in the statement. "His lame excuse for avoiding party affiliation, because he was in the service, is undercut by his documented disinterest in the political process."