Arlen Specter wants Norm Coleman to win the disputed Senate race in Minnesota, a stance that will likely enrage liberal activists and Democrats.

According to leaked excerpts of an interview with the NY Times Magazine, Specter said:"There's still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner."

A Coleman win, of course, would deprive Democrats of a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. The prospect of reaching that threshold is what made Democrats so ecstatic about Specter's party switch.

The excerpt, teased on The Page, indicates Specter agrees with Coleman's argument that ballots weren't counted according to a consistent standard.

Fergawdsake:

WOODRUFF: Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter has been in Tallahassee for much of this day, and he joins us now.

Senator Specter, thank you very much for being with us so late this evening. Let me ask you about something that Senator Joe Lieberman, your colleague, said tonight in his remarks. He said, "How can we teach our children that every vote counts if we are not willing to make a good faith effort to count every vote?"

SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (R), PENNSYLVANIA: I would respond by saying there has been a good faith effort. When Senator Lieberman says there has not been a reasonable effort, I would remind him that the Supreme Court of Florida extended the time, I would remind him that when Vice President Gore came in with a special request to order Dade-Miami to have a recount that the Supreme Court said no that they had gone far enough. There was a count, there was a recount, there was a re- recount, and I think the time has come to move on.

The man is a hypocritical Republican ass to the bottom of his soul and always will be.

Update: Apparently, this was a weird response to a question about whether or not Arlen was concerned that there were no more Republican Jews left in the Senate. Whatever.