Yes. Lieberman is a liberal on every issue but the WOT, but he voted his conscience on that one issue, and the voters in Connecticut respected him for it and rejected the peacenik candidate.
Specter didn’t vote for Porculus because it was a conscience issue. He voted for it because it was pork.
Also, I would add, the Democrat leadership pretty much abandoned Lieberman. But the Republican leadership pretty much ignored Specter’s misbehavior. If he loses, it will be because of the voters, not the party.
In other words, there are scarcely any resemblances at all between these two. Just some typical leftist distortions.
I would make 2 additions to that statement: 1. He voted for it because HE'S A LIBERAL and 2. He voted for it because he specifically got billions more in funding for the National Institutes of Health.