[JohnBovenmyer]

You forgot to mention Rick's price, which Specter did honor, Justices Roberts and Alito! A mere 40% of the votes that (I pray) will overturn Obamacare, 60% if you give Arlen credit for earlier enabling Justice Thomas. Against 1.6% of the votes cast for it in the Senate. And as for Arlen being the final vote needed to pass it I'm far from certain Olympia Snow wouldn't have flipped if necessary to get it through. If Justice Kennedy will just come through I'd say Rick's bargain was a good one regarding Obamacare. If he doesn't I guess you'll just have to blame the whole thing on Reagan for appointing the last Supreme Court vote needed to let it ride.

Had Toomey been nominated and lost we'd have had neither Roberts nor Alito, we'd have had two recordless RINO wimps. Had Toomey been nominated and won - a less sure win than Specter - he wouldn't have chaired the Judiciary committee, one of the other RINO squishes would have and probably wouldn't have gotten, at least, Alito through. It may be the only thing he was good for, but Arlen was capable, when motivated, of getting tough picks through the committee and he paid Rick's price. Specter's pro-abort friends should disown him.

[LambSlave]

Specter claims the conversation never happened and that he made no deal, and if that is true the end result would have been the same. Regardless, making deals with the devil against Toomey, a true conservative who would have very likely won without this betrayal, is morally bankrupt.