WE CITIZEN JOURNALISTS HAVE BEEN RESEARCHING A POLTICAL EQUIVALENT TO KEITH THE CANDIDATE ROTHFUS PLAYING THE CANCER CARD. THE CLOSEST THING THAT EVEN BORDERS ON MR. ROTHFUS’S CYNICAL PARTISAN ACTIONS IS ARLEN SPECTER WITH HIS 2009 BOOK, “NEVER GIVE IN!” OF COURSE, THERE THE SIMILARITY ENDS. SENATOR SPECTER SUFFERS FROM SO MANY MALADIES, HIS TREATMENTS COULD FILL UP A WHOLE SEASON OF HOUSE. ALSO, SPECTER HAS BEEN A TIRELESS ADVOCATE FOR CANCER AND MEDICAL RESEARCH. SPECTER IS MOST FAMOUSLY QUOTED ON MEDCIAL RESEARCH: “IF WE HAD PURSUED WHAT PRESIDENT NIXON DECLARED IN 1970 AS THE WAR ON CANCER, WE WOULD CURED MANY STRAINS….AND THAT RESEARCH HAS SAVED OR PROLONGED MNAY LIVES, INCLUDING MINE.” SPECTER HAS DESCRIBED HIS REPEATED HEALTH BATTLES IN GRAPHIC DETAIL AND HE ALWAYS FOUGHT TO IMPROVE THE LOT OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM SIMILAR ILLNESSES. WE WISH SENATOR SPECTER ALL THE BEST IN HIS NEW BATTLE WITH CANCER AND COMMEND HIM FOR ALL THAT HE HAS DONE TO PROMOTE MEDICAL RESEARCH! MR. ROTHFUS YOU MAYBE TRYING TO BORROW FROM THE SPECTER PLAYBOOK, BUT IT JUST DOESN’T PASS THE SMELL TEST! SHAME ON YOU AND YOUR DESPARATE CAMPAIGN FOR PLAYING THE CANCER CARD! STOP WITH THE BELTWAY SOUNDBITES AND START FOCUSING ON THOSE SUFFERING FROM CANCER IN WESTERN PA!