It's for real. Look for some old stories of his campaign in 1996.
Specter's whole Presidential campaign was to get the pro-abortion GOP to back him.
It may be correct, all the dates and names check out (although Snowe was just elected to the Senate, kind of strange to name her). But you have no more evidence than Dan Rather, and I don't feel like getting burned. It does sound like Senator Scottish Law, though.