Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Endorses Jim Clymer

By now we had hoped to be rid of Sen. Arlen Specter.

Unfortunately, Pat Toomey, the brave and conservative Lehigh Valley congressman we endorsed in the May primary, could not surgically remove our state's four-term cancer from the U.S. Senate.

We have the next-best thing to Mr. Toomey, however, in Constitution Party candidate Jim Clymer, a Lancaster lawyer who is as close to the kind of principled, small-government conservative Republican we can hope for in 2004.

Thus, we wholeheartedly endorse Jim Clymer for U.S. Senate.

Jim Clymer's chances of winning are nil. But a vote for him, which we strongly recommend, will not be wasted.

The more conservative Republican votes Clymer racks ups, the better. If he wins, Pennsylvania gets a senator for whom principles -- most of the right ones -- matter. And if his vote total puts unrepentant boilerplate liberal Democrat Joe Hoeffel into the Senate, the GOP gets the lesson it deserves for supporting part-time Republicans like Arlen Specter.

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review