Yep... you're one of the ones I would have expected to be smack in the middle of this hysteria-as-activism. As a friend of mine put it, it's the same old "conservatives" snatching defeat from the jaws of victory every single time.
It takes 3 parts common sense and 1 part courage to stand for principle and clean house within the GOP.
The Dems have their own Specters destroying their party -- the Howard Dean-wing has got them going BACKWARDS.
But in the case of so obvious a historical snake as Specter, and so important a committee as the Judiciary Committee, it's a no-brainer to de-capitate him before he destroys a LARGE component of the GOP win -- Supreme Court appointments...
As a friend of mine put it -- slap some lipstick on ANY pig, then an (R) besides it's name, and some political eunuchs feeled compelled to bring it home to "meet the folks."
Specter was responsible the last time for stealing the victory. EVERYONE knows he'll do it again or at least attempt it. (He will approve only replacements for conservative justices -- his record shows that he is adamant for status quo, ie. a judicial activist court.) How do we help to restore sanity to the bench by putting Specter at the vanguard?
That's the part that just makes no sense at all.
If you look to the past, the Senate needs all the support and backbone we can give them. The faxes and emails do no harm. It only encourages them. Even if they have a plan to overcome Specter down the road, our constant pressure can only help.
Nevertheless, I can find no good reason to approve Specter's appointment. The man came out swinging against Bush, he has a record. If not Specter, who can the Republicans squash? For crying out loud, the Borkinator's first words after election were fighting words. I just don't get it.