Arlen Specter - what the hell?

Don't get me wrong..... I think the very idea of 2 political parties is detrimental to our democratic process. It wasn't designed that way and didn't even really come about until John Adam's presidency when Jefferson cut away politically from Adams and Hamilton. And I certainly would never chastise anyone for ever realizing their political views were wrong and changing to try to be better, or realizing that the party they are involved in has moved away from their values and making a change. But all the explanations I've seen Arlen Specter give for joining the Democratic party just make me hang my head in disappointment. Apparently, he has changed parties because he doesn't believe he could win a Republican primary in 2010 and to save his own butt and his 30 year career, he's changed parties. How can I possibly respect that? We all know that politics is all a big game and politicians are only in it for their own careers and don't really care about issues, or their constituents, or the United States as a whole....but can't we just pretend that's not true. Don't come out and hold a press conference and admit it!! Let's just try and remain delusional as long as possible and think that our lawmakers are actually motivated by making the world a better place.....just for a little longer.