Specter has been performing stand-up comedy in nightclubs over the past few months. Specter makes X-rated Romney joke

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter took a jab at presidential candidate Mitt Romney Wednesday by teasingly comparing him to an adult film star.

“The Republican Party has moved so far to the right, you can’t recognize Mitt Romney. What Mitt Romney will appear in October? Mitt Romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen,” joked Specter on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”


“I did not say that … the great senator from the state of Pennsylvania said that,” responded Donny Deutsch, a panelist on the show.

Specter cited “Bill Ross” as the person who first came up with that joke — he meant comedian Bill Maher.

The former senator, who famously switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party in 2009 before being defeated for the Democratic nomination in 2010, has been performing stand-up comedy in Philadelphia nightclubs over the past few months.