Hewitt is right. Spector is only one of one hundred. The main thing is getting the nominee out of committee to the floor. If he is committed to that, even if he opposes the nominee on the floor vote, then he should receive the chair.
That's what I think makes Hewitt wrong. I don't care about Specter, per se. I think we need to stage a public hanging, purely for the purpose of shaking the place up and reminding Frist & Co. that they didn't get all those new GOP Senators for free. Specter conveniently stuck his neck in the noose, so let's do him.