Arlen Specter Uses Final Floor Speech to Call Republicans Cannibals

So long Arlen Specter. Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Departing Republican-turned-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter on Tuesday said conservative Republicans who backed Tea Party challengers against establishment candidates in the recent elections engaged in political cannibalism.

In his final floor speech, Specter complained there’s scant room for centrists like himself in a polarized Senate where civility is in short supply...

“Eating or defeating your own is a form of sophisticated cannibalism,” he said.