i want fairness to be crosstalk tapper i appreciate that sam always always with the fairness lets talk about the pennsylvania senate race and congressman joe sestaks defeat of arlen specter here is a little clip from an ad that sestak ran against specter that is widely considered to be one of the most effective ads of this election cycle begin video clip specter my change in party will enable me to be reelected unknown for 45 years arlen specter has been a republican politician bush i can count on this man see thats important hes a firm ally unknown but now specter my change in party will enable me to be reelected end video clip tapper wow brazile wow tapper so first of all let me ask you a question george this this the republicans are trying to make hay over this alleged deal that the white house made to sestak if you dont run against specter well give you this other job a big deal or not a big deal will not a big deal its politics is a transactional business they offered him a transaction if they did and i dont see a thing wrong with it tapper they are trying to make a big thing out of it though will i dont care what theyre trying to do its a small thing look not since 1980 when four incumbent senators were defeated in for renomination has more than one been this year already two have specters the second bennett of utah was the first we also have blanche lincoln in arkansas the appointed senator bennet in colorado is a third and mccains fate is still in doubt so we could have five and thats part of the tone of the year but arlen specter as we saw in this ad when he changed party there was an agreeable absence of moralism and opportunism reigned he said im just doing this to save my own skin it didnt work roberts but it couldnt be a worse year for that it could not be a worse year for that because people are in this mood of hating professional politicians hating washington and and for him to just say im doing this to win and the end of that ad says he was protecting one job his and i mean just people hate the phoniness of it all tapper but you know there is one aspect to the specter failure to be to win that primary that i want to get into donna heres president obama campaigning hes on the trail with the four candidates with the four candidates that that he is supporting as president they are creigh deeds in virginia jon corzine in new jersey martha coakley in massachusetts and of course arlen specter do we have that tape begin video clip obama we know where martha coakley stands arlen knew that it was more important