Principles don’t mean the same to Arlen “Pro Choice” Specter as they might to you or me. You see, his are rather flexible, depending where his currents interests lie. Which really makes him more of an opportunist…
Arlen will do what’s best for Arlen, period. It’s what he’s always done.

One more foolish man who has sold his soul to the Pharisee wing of the Republican Party.
Too bad he won’t notice the error until it’s too late.
Gotta love Arlen’s “single-bullet” theory though. What a masterpiece in bullshit!
This suggests that the failed Harriet Miers nomination may have been a setup to pave the way for Scalito.
BYW, has anyone noticed that the Rethugs are charging that the nickname Scalito is an ethnic slur?
I guess that combining two Italian surnames that share a three-letter sequence is disrespectful. But wait — those three letters are ALI. Are Scalia and Alito radical Muslim terrorists? Are the rethugs claiming anti-Italian defamation to distract us from this fact?
There is of course the old political joke about the politician who said, “I stand by my principles. And one of my principles is flexibility.”