on Specter:

After more than half a century of escalating judicial activism — judges imposing their own beliefs instead of applying the law — our country is at a crossroads. There is an opportunity — one that may not come again in this generation — to make judicial appointments that will restore the rule of law….
.…The real question is not what Senator Specter says now but what he would do as chairman of this key committee that judicial nominees pass before during the confirmation process. That committee has become a place for character assassination against judicial nominees who believe in adhering to the written law…
….Senator Specter has been one of those to whom what matters is not a judicial nominee’s qualifications but how they are likely to vote on abortion, anti-trust laws, or whatever….
…Senator Specter is also one of those people who is often wrong but never in doubt. He has mangled the meaning of such basic concepts as “judicial activism” and “original intent.” It would be a tragedy for him to become chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he could mangle nominees and in the process mangle the Constitution of the United States.