His excuse for supporting Specter over Toomey was Specter agreeing to back the justices being brought to the supreem court.......not that that is a good excuse. Specter was ranking minority member....I think....someone correct me on this.....????
Specter was Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Republicans were trying to hold a slim majority. Pennsylvania had gone to Gore by 2-points in 2000 and ended up going to Kerry by the same margin in 2004.
Considering that the only check on Obama that we have right now is the slight edge we have in SCOTUS, I think Santorum did the right thing. Roberts and Alito are the two best things to come out of the Bush administration. If Toomey doesn’t win that election and that Senate seat had gone the other way, we don’t have Alito right now.