Specter has built his whole career on lies. What else could you expect from him?
I assume he promised Rove that he would help Bush take Ohio in return for their crucial support in the primary, but after he was nominated he had campaign literature printed up urging his constituents to vote for Kerry/Specter.
It was obvious even to a political amateur like me that it would have been far easier to deny him the chair of the Judicial Committee from the start than it would be to get him out of it, once he was in, and that has certainly proven to be the case.
I'm not blaming any of this on you, as your temperate reply to my earlier post suggests you recognize. It's just a very sad business. It's also sad that many Freepers responding to your admirable post seem to take it as a vindication of Miers. Far from it. It suggests that she is a Gonzalez clone who was OKed by the Democrat leadership. The only hope I see there is that she does not appear to be anything like as weak as Gonzalez, from what little we know of her.
So, perhaps given Bush's weakness on the arm-twisting front--or, rather, his tendency to twist the arms of his political allies rather than those of his enemies--Miers is now indeed the best we can hope for.