Hewitt is correct. Because of the filibuster rule, no one Specter might oppose is going to get confirmed anyway.
And as Hugh points out, Specter has the credibility necessary to sell nominees to the other side.
What? Specter doesn't have the "credibility" to "sell" nominees to the other side. In some respects I agree with Hewitt, but to say that Specter can "sell" the other side anything is a naive stretch at best.
We are talking about the SAME committe where documents were uncovered CLEARLY demonstrating FELONY obstruction of Justice by intentionally manipulating the delay of a sixth Circus appointment while an important civil rights case was in front of it. That same judicial committee member has a problem with keeping women alive in cars when he's driving drunk, and HE has more sway over the dems on that committee.
The Libs are under seige and have retreated all the way to the castle keep. Their last citadel which offers the only hope for survival of their policies is The Court. There can be no "selling" to the left of any nominee who will change the status quo on the Court. They are at their Atlantic wall in 1944 and they know it. They will not compromise, they will not surrender. They cannot, their very existence is at stake.
We have fought and won an election that surpasses in importance any American election since 1864 (and perhaps since 1860 and certainly since 1980) animiated by the certain knowledge that the soul of our culture and our democracy were threatened domestically by enemies within who are more subtle and more dangerous in their own way than international terrorists who would kill our bodies as well as our soul. The principle fruit of that victory is the right to nominate Justices who will put stop to the Court's political manipulations. We also have the naked political power to assure confirmation up to but not including a filibuster. The fillibuster is Omaha Beach. Here is where the Libs' Atlantic Wall must finally be breeched.
Those of us old enough to remember the Bork and Thomas hearings know how this will be played out. Television will rivet the entire nation. The pundits will distort the issues to favor the left. The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee must be able to lead the assualt on the very existence of the Left.
Senator Specter has regretably revealed himself in his latest remarks to be uncommitted to the battle. Are we to sustain another halocaust against the unborn because we suffered the wrong man to sell out the victory so dearly won at the ballot box? How many more partial birth abortions must we condone?
The Libs are not without allies in the defense of their last redoubt. The whole of the Mainstream Media know that their ability to shape our culture at the ballot box is gone for a season. The whole of the Academic Legal establishment know that their very respectability and power are at stake. The cultural secularists know that their ability to drive God from the schoolhouse, the courthouse and the town commons will be crippled. The homosexual agenda will be derailed, and they know it. Feminists fear that rationality will finally be brought to bear on laws affecting gender relations. They fear the family might be saved in takt. In short, every desciple of The Frankfurt School knows that everything they have agitatied for leading to the undermining of the American experiment in representative, republican government will be frustrated for at least a generation. All of these institutions and many more will rush to the defense of the filibuster and no restraint in the name of decency can be expected from them. Such fastidiousness such as respect for the traditions of the Senate will encumber only Conservatives in this fight to the death.
We need a Paladin but Specter is not our man.
Hewitt is correct. Because of the filibuster rule, no one Specter might oppose is going to get confirmed anyway.
And as Hugh points out, Specter has the credibility necessary to sell nominees to the other side.
Except we now have the votes to change the rules to simple majority so Specter is irrelevent.