It doesn’t really matter that McCain endorsed Specter (shocking, I know), or that Lugar did, lamely. Neither is on the judiciary committee. Specter seems to have public support from Collins, Hagel, McCain, Lott, and Gregg. None of them are on the judiciary committee. So call. Remmeber this, before you get caught up in assurances that Specter voted for Thomas and that he says he will support the president’s nominees: besides his actual post-election remarks (read them here), you know this man’s temperament. And can you imagine the influence he will wield on a whole host of issues as chairman, behind closed doors? It’s not the Bork public spectacle I’m foremost worried about. It’s the names he makes the White House cross off their list before hearings even begin.