Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter says he’s not ruling out making a run for re-election in 2010.

Appearing this morning on WRTA’s Two-Way Radio program with Jason High, Specter said if his health holds up, he’ll probably go for it. Specter, Pennsylvania’s senior U.S. Senator, was first elected to the Senate in 1980 and is currently serving his fifth term.

This really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Yes, Arlen said in 2004 that this current term would be his last and that he would retire in 2010, at the age of 80, but did anyone really believe him? I didn’t. Arlen has every intention to stay in the Senate until the day he is dead and buried. There is hope, though, and that is Pat Toomey. Toomey came within one percentage point of knocking Arlen out in the 2004 Republican primary. Toomey’s name recognition has only catapulted since then. If Toomey makes another run against Specter, I don’t think Snarlin’ Arlen will squeak it out this time.