An ominous Specter

The Washington Times ^ | 11-10-04 | Thomas Sowell

[JZelle]

President Bush had barely finished celebrating his election victory when Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania fired a shot across his bow, warning the president not to send judicial nominees before the Senate Judiciary Committee to be confirmed if they were the kinds of judges who might restrict the right to an abortion. More is involved here than just one headstrong senator with

[beckett]

Arlen Specter was the first attorney of record for Ira Einhorn, a leftwing political activist who was obviously and clearly --- from the evidence that was immediately available at the time --- guilty of murdering his girlfriend back in 1977. Through Specter's legal machinations, Einhorn made bail. He promptly jumped bail and spent 25 years as a free man before being held accountable in 2002 for Holly Maddux's murder.

Specter had no ethical compunctions in those days about defending a counter-culture radical. It is pure folly to think he has ever been or is now a principled Republican, or that he's a man who can be trusted to protect Republican nominees to the federal bench or the Supreme Court.

[JZelle]

He's a Bloomberg republican!

[beyond the sea]

Arlen Sphincter is a rat. Period. Take it from a Pennsylvanian who has watched his entire pathetic "career".