I’m not very invested in this assault and I don’t know if the fight against Specter is winnable. Indeed, I’m fairly skeptical since the one thing we know about Specter is that he’s an amoral survivor. Specter represented Ira Einhorn to further his political career for Pete’s sake. And he got away with it!
But Specter is worthy of our scorn. If conservatives fail to knock him out, it’s not like he’ll hate conservatives any less. And the rest of the committee and caucus will be put on notice that undue deference to Chairman Specter is not in their interests. And, if conservatives win, they win. Specter will want revenge of course. But I’m sure he wants that anyway already. And if he’s not the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee he’ll have less power to inflict it.
At the end of the day, a bad day for Specter is a good day. So give ‘em hell as far as I’m concerned.