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.
He defended Clarence Thomas. Arlen's not my dream Republican but I'll take a RINO any day over a Democrat.