Obama nominates a judge, so Toomey, of course, bashes Specter

You’ve got to hand it to the people over at Pat Toomey’s campaign: Even with Senator Arlen Specter on the other side of the aisle, the Toomey folks won’t let an opportunity to attack Specter go by.

The latest is Toomey’s statement about President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. In a statement this afternoon, Toomey said: “For the past twenty years, the Supreme Court confirmation process has very regrettably become a political football. Arlen Specter has played those political games more aggressively than most, arguing against Judge Bork and for Justice Thomas, depending on Specter’s calculation of his own political needs. That approach is bad for our country. Just as it was wrong for liberal Democrats to adopt a knee-jerk opposition to Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, it would be equally wrong for Republicans to oppose Judge Sotomayor on a partisan basis. Judge Sotomayor deserves a fair hearing. If that hearing proves her to be of sound judicial temperament with the requisite knowledge of and respect for the Constitution, then she should be confirmed.”

For those of you keeping score at home, that was 81 words that went by before any mention of Sotomayor.