From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Senator faces primary challenge in bid for fifth term

Right wing has Specter in sights

Sunday, August 24, 2003

By James O’Toole, Post-Gazette Politics Editor

Opposition from the right is nothing new for Sen. Arlen Specter, but as he seeks a fifth term, he is facing an unusually prominent barrage of early opposition from national conservative voices.

The starkest display of the intraparty unrest appeared on national newsstands this week, as the conservative bible, National Review, appeared with a cover photo of Specter over the headline, “The Worst Republican Senator.”

Specter faces a challenge for the Republican nomination next spring from Rep. Pat Toomey, a three-term congressman from the Allentown area, whose uphill bid carries the hopes of Specter’s conservative opponents….”