A Conservative Supreme Court is crucial to Conservatism and Spector helped make that happen.
As a Republican, he may have been an irritating prick but on balance, I repeat, he did more good then harm when the alternative would have been another Democrat vote.
HearMe: “...when the alternative would have been another Democrat vote.”
Well of course that’s true in most cases, but you’re framing the argument to support your conclusion. You seem to ignore the possibility of a more conservative senator than Specter. Since the party elites worked hard to ensure we never got the opportunity to run a conservative in Specter’s seat, I guess we’ll never know.
Either way, I don’t think most conservatives are going to tolerate your way anymore. We’re tired of getting shafted by the party moderates. I suppose if our moderates were like their moderates, who nearly always vote in lockstep with the party, it might have been different. But “our” moderates always seemed to end up voting like Democrats. Strange, eh?