Good-bye, Arlen: Wonkette Remembers the Republican/Democrat Old Guy From PA

Such tragedy, that this 80-year-old lifelong politician never really got his "shot" in the limelight.

Ha ha, that is a joke about Arlen Specter's first famous political thing, which was authoring the bizarre fantasy known as the "single bullet theory," in which a single bullet from Lee Harvey Oswald's gun was responsible for about a hundred different wounds through the bodies of President John F. Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally. Later, he heartily endorsed the McCain-Palin 2008 ticket. This concludes our only edition ofGreat Moments in the Life of Arlen Specter.[ Philly.com / PA2010 ]