Anybody who still believed Arlen Specter’s self-written bullshit about being a Northeastern version of John McCain’s Straight Talk Express should be disabused of this notion once and for all after Specter ramrodded the gay-marriage ban amendment through the Senate Judiciary on a party-line vote.
The one thing that surprises me is that, in his contretemps with Feingold, Specter didn’t trot out his old “I was a Warren Commission attorney” shtick.
Let me rethink the point of this post, though.
Specter’s well into his 70s, will hold Judiciary’s chair as long as the GOP holds the Senate, and is never going to seek the GOP presidential nomination. In other words, he has little GOP capital to gain by such blatant support for the bill.
So, rather than showing his true pandering colors, it appears he’s simply showing his true colors.
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