There isn't a conservative bone in Specter's entire body. This is incredible to me.
The process is this: use the media to define the word conservative by means of association with personalities and not ideology. Therefore, Scott Brown is a Conservative; Romney is a conservative; heck....Specter's right-hand-man is a Conservative.
Watch and see if liberals don't start talking about someone being a conservative liberal instead of a left-wing liberal.
i can think of one instance where Specter even acted like a Conservative. That would have been during the extended Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. Specter had suggested having Anita Hill charged with perjury.
He knew that at the time of many of the incidents she reported, Hill didn't work for Clarence Thomas.(And Judge Kirchner knew it too and should have been charged with perjury as well).
i don't think it was a matter of ideology, i think that the whole incident with Hill's bogus charges p!ssed Specter off.
As for the person referred to in P-Marlowe's post, let us just say that he wouldn't have been the only one.
Recall that both President Bush and (former) Senator Santorum both endorsed Specter over conservative Pat Toomey for the Republican Senate nomination.. It's one of the things that helped Santorum lose to Bob Casey Jr.
Bismark once said that politics is a lot like making sausage...you don't really want to know what goes into it.
That's the major reason i've been a Libertarian since 1988. What you don't know CAN, and usually is what will hurt you.