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As to the question, "Why did the President and Senator Santorum support Senator Specter for reelection?", the answer is simple, they believed he could win the seat, and his Republican opponent (a hard-line conservative in at best a moderate state) could not. The facts bore out the wisdom of that decision. While Mr. Bush lost Pennsylvania, Mr. Specter won. Specter did famously support Clarence Thomas, and Justice Scalia. Last I heard, neither of those two gentlemen has been accused of turning into flaming activist lefties.

Senator Specter says that his comments were taken out of context by the MSM, after Dan Rather, how hard is that to believe? He probably made some injudicious remarks to reassure his Pennsylvania "base" that he's not going to propose Pat Robertson for the next Supreme Court vacancy. If Specter's definition of the "radical Right" doesn't include Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, why should we worry about it? Is someone seriously suggesting that the President renominate Judge Bork, or something like that? The point about having someone like Specter running Judiciary is that he can (probably) keep his fellow "RINOs" in line when the chips are down, as well as persuading the "moderate" Democrats that any nominee he (Specter) can live with probably isn't a closet snake handler or poison drinker. Republicans may currently hold a 55-45 edge in the Senate, but if you drive away the NE Republican "moderates" by "Borking" Specter(okay, they're liberals under an assumed name), then you'll not only destroy your working majority, but you'll give the "moderate" Democrats an excuse to join the Filibusters.

I think you make some good points and have been thinking about what you and others have said in this string.

Based on what the MSM has done in the past and the info here about Ms Jordan, I'm wondering if this wasn't a set-up job.

Even if Specter (who is definitely not one of my favorite Senators) stays on as Judiciary Com head, I tend to think that after the thousands of calls, etc he has gotten the message that he needs to tow the party line and the wishes of many, many Rep voters, the Admin, and other Senators. As long as he promises to get the nominees through the committee and to a floor vote quickly (which I believe he has done), I think we'll be ok

I wonder if someone else is put in as head of the J.C., if it might not just give more fodder to the MSM and the Libs (as if they need more).

Not only do we need to get good judges approved, we need to get some of the poor execuses off the bench (the 9th Circus Court of Appeals may be a good place to start).