More on Specter

Hugh Hewitt raises some interesting questions about the wisdom of toppling Specter. I'm not sure whether I buy all of this -- I don't, for instance, care much in the long term whether Lincoln Chafee or Olympia Snowe want to become Dems, because those seats will probably go Democratic when they retire anyway, and they are effectively voting that way now. But I do think if Republicans can get the Judiciary Committee up to 11-8 it may be the better part of valor to leave Specter where he is so we can make the argument that we are a "Big Tent" party that isn't afraid of different opinions.