Yaas. Actually, it was seeing Specter talking the other day that started this line of thinking. He's the kind of person I'm looking for: moderate by instinct, trying to protect his own skin and be left standing when the fallout is over in a couple of years. These are the people who need to get the message that, behind all the noise being raised by the extremists, there are a lot of people looking for the middle ground.

One thing I learned from the Clinton years is an appreciation for opportunists. I may not 100% respect them, but they're rather more predictable and less likely to do something utterly stupid than the ideologues...