>>I'm embarrassed to say he is a Republican <<

Patrick ... you're embarrassed by Arlen Specter but not:

Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Phil Gramm, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Rick Santorum, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Bill Frist, Tom DeLay, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rush Limbaugh, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Trent Lott, Jean Schmidt, Paul Wolfowitz, Heinrich Himmler, Michael Savage, Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, ....

... oh, okay, you get it. Okay, maybe Heinrich Himmler doesn't belong on the list (just seeing if you were paying attention). But maybe he does.