SPECTER NEED APOLOGIZE TO ANITA HILL BEFORE HE JOINS DEMS

Republican Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is about to switch parties.  Yeah, Dems can use two more votes to overcome filibusters in the senate (hopefully Al Franken will get there soon), but when I think of Specter all I think about is his ruthless questioning of Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings back in 1991. 

When I hear Specter’s gravel voice I'm reminded of his mean spirited questions.  In my gut I knew Anita was telling the truth during the hearings. 

Specter had an agenda—to push for confirmation of the least qualified candidate for Supreme Court justice ever, simply because the committee needed a black justice to fill the seat left vacant by Justice Thurgood Marshall.  Clarence Thomas was probably the only black pro-life/anti-affirmative-action Republican lawyer in the entire country. 

So, to achieve their lofty goal, Specter and his brethren first had to destroy Anita Hill’s credibility.  They succeeded with lies and innuendo (history has shown this).  

ClarenceThomas got confirmed, yet to this day he feels the need to attack Anita Hill.  In his recent book Thomas says she wasn’t qualified for the job at the EEOC.  She was (Yale graduate, DC bar, law firm experience, etc.)  He’s the one who wasn’t qualified.

Arlen Specter's like all politicians.  He'll do anything to get elected, even switch parties and maybe even apologize to Anita.  Better late than never, and maybe for the wrong reason, but so what?