Specter defeated Toomey yesterday in a close election for the Republican nomination to run against Joe Hoeffel in the general election in November.

The race, one of the GOP’s most closely watched contests this year, tested the strength of the party’s conservative wing. Specter’s win also was a victory for President Bush, who endorsed Specter and is counting on his supporters to help him carry a state he narrowly lost to Democrat Al Gore in 2000….

If Specter is reelected, I doubt Bush will think it is a victory this time next year. Specter is currently opposing Bush’s judicial nominees. He will have even more power to stop Bush’s nominees when he is the chairman of the judicial committee. I believe Bush will rue campaigning for Specter.

“Now is the time, now that we’ve settled our family disagreement in the Republican Party, to unite for victory in November for the president,” Specter told cheering supporters in a two-minute speech early Wednesday morning.

Actually, it is a victory for pork, abortion, and liberal politics rather than for the president.