This is surrendering without a fight. The Democrats will filibuster anyone who doesn't promise not to reverse ROE.
Now can you explain why Specter voted against Bork?
this bashing of Specter makes me sick. It reaks of tactics used by the Democrats.
Has everyone forgotten that Clarence Thomas was dead meat and saved in part by Arlen Specter's cross-examination of Anita Hill? As a Republican in "blue state" he risked his political hide going to bat for now Justice Thomas.
Already I can see disaster getting good nominees if a perceived "moderate" like Specter is dumped.
If you are going to respond to my post, perhaps you would actually address the substance of it?
If Terry McAuliffe's wife wrote an article trying to turn GOP senators against each other, folks here would see right through it. Longtime Kerry pal and Dem operative Jim Jordan's wife writes one and we eagerly oblige?
And she's ALREADY been caught using her position at AP to deliberately try to damage GOP Senators...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32268
Who is Lara Jakes Jordan?
For starters, she is married to veteran Democratic Party operative Jim Jordan, the former executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and manager of Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid.
Not surprisingly, the Massachusetts Democrat was among the first to criticize Santorum's remarks, using it as an opportunity to attack the White House. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Kerry got an advance copy of the article given his connections.
But there's more to the Lara Jakes Jordan story.
In January of this year, Mrs. Jordan was one of the signatories on a letter to her bosses at the AP attacking the news organization for "rolling back diversity" by not extending benefits to domestic partners.
In a symbolic move, the signatories to the letter returned key chains AP management gave them to "celebrate" its corporate diversity. The key chains carried the slogan: "AP Diversity: Many Views, One Vision.
It seems Mrs. Jordan's ideological fervor is not reserved only for her private life and her corporate politicking. This woman clearly ambushed Santorum on an issue near and dear to her bleeding heart.
I've been in the daily news business for 25 years. When I got started a quarter century ago, there was an old newsroom saying that went like this: "I don't care if you sleep with elephants as long as you don't cover the circus."
Mrs. Jordan violated that old newsroom ethic. She abdicated her right to cover the circus because she was sleeping with an elephant – or, in this case, a donkey.
That's why I say these catcalls for the head of Rick Santorum are nothing more than a political sideshow. It's not Rick Santorum who should be forced from office for clearly stating views that have been considered mainstream for the last 5,000 years. It's Lara Jakes Jordan who should be drummed out of the news profession for scoring cheap political points under the guise of news reporting.
It's not Rick Santorum who should apologize to anyone. It's the Associated Press for sponsoring this political hit piece.