“Blessed”. Ha! I guess you are part of Joe’s strategy that voters will fall down to their knees praying in thanks for his arrival.

Sestak’s campaign is collapsing. It’s more than the “big endorsements”. Sestak has a terrible reputation among local legislators, their staffs, and professional campaign staffers (not to mention Hill staffers). Outside of the drones and lemmings in Delco that don’t know any better, Joe is not well liked (and quite the opposite in many cases).

His failure to find a campaign manager is related to no one of quality willing to work for him and put up with his abuse and “cult” setup (and for below average salary).

His campaign itself is all negative, despite his promises to run “for something” in a positive way. Negative campaigning can work, but it has to better delivered and better connected to reality. Sestak’s trying to lay blame on Specter for the economy, and it doesn’t pass the smell test. If Specter was the chairman of a key banking committee that authored bad legislation, Sestak might get some traction, but that isn’t the case. Also, Sestak’s delivery of attacks is poorly executed, come off as phony and stiff, and is turning off voters the more they see him.

As I said months ago, if Specter makes good Dem votes he will be accepted as a Dem. Specter’s approval rating among Dems is now around 70%.

Sestak’s reliance on uncompromising loyalty (over competence) has isolated him in political circles with a bunker-style mentality similar to Bush and his inner-circle of non-dissenters.

Sestak’s failure to engage in local Delco Dem politics in a constructive way and to use his resources to build the party has not won him friends locally. His draining of resources actually caused damage.
True or not, the consensus opinion among the Delco Dems I meet is that Sestak has zero respect for the local party or the candidates. It’s as though he deems them too “weak” to deserve his support, or fears being dragged down with them.

Sestak totally misses the point that HE was a long shot candidate in 2006 and these people busted their @sses for him on faith, despite him being a first-time candidate. Sestak has not grasped the need to return that faith to our long shot candidates, so he has withheld vital support.

Sestak’s experiment to bring his “military style” to civilian politics (staffers) has been an unmitigated disaster that has driven away top talent and earned him a poor reputation on the Hill.

I think Sestak would be a bigger disaster as a Senator, but more importantly, I think Toomey would crush him in the election, due to Joe’s poor campaign style and lack of infrastructure. His operation in the 7th district doesn’t scale to the state level. As it is, his congressional operations, especially his 2006 victory, have been horribly inefficient and disorganized. In 2006, he won by marshaling overwhelming force (and making everybody do twice as much work to counteract the chaos).

Connie, enjoy the Sestak Kool-aid while it lasts. Sestak is being rejected by the voters for Senate.

dave lewis-
Sestak ran as anti-war, then voted for everything Bush put in front of him to continue Iraq. Sestak wants to go further than Obama’s escalation in Afghanistan by removing timetables (of all things).
While in the Navy, Sestak participated in these conflicts and there is not the slightest evidence that Sestak opposed them or objected to them in ANY way.

dave, Sestak has a bad reputation in political circles all around the state. I was telling my friend today about how Sestak invited Westmoreland committee people out for a morning coffee “Kitchen Call”, then didn’t pick up the tab for the coffee. Her jaw dropped at the utter clueless stupidity.
Nobody has to break or even twist arms to get support for Specter among the political insiders. And frankly, if it wasn’t for the likely retaliation by the Sestak lemmings in Delaware county, you’d see a lot more endorsements for Specter.
The plan for some in Delco is to give Sestak lip service praise, but not lift a finger for him. Then feint disappointment and surprise when he loses, and try to co-op his misguided supporters to help them fight to “honor what Sestak was fighting for”.

The only county endorsement Sestak is guaranteed to win is Delaware. He might get Lehigh. Specter will get more than 60 of the 67 counties.

Specter voted for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq in Oct. 2002

Now
On February 17, 2007, Specter was one of seven Republicans to cross party lines and vote in favor of cloture on a non-binding resolution opposing the troop “surge.” The measure failed 56-34. Joe Sestak was against it too.

Since then:
The surge as been working in Dec. there was no combat deaths in Iraq.

With Boeing in the district backed by a union what do think is going to happen.

As for Joe chances in May if you can’t hear the arms breaking to get Specter elelcted one must be deaf.

In the end it will not look like primary at all. No choice if you like or dislike Specter.

Even though Specter has been vigorous in his support of key Dem votes, he can still retain his ownership of the center with his approach and the moderate compromises he contributes.

Sestak, on the other hand, has portrayed himself so far to the Left (and he really isn’t even a progressive), that he’s allowed Toomey to appear as a moderate. Though in fact, Toomey is to the Right of Santorum. Watch the Allentown healthcare debate. Sestak was correct on the facts/figures and Toomey was still able to slaughter him.

Lee-
The person that Sestak pretends to be would make a great Senator. Unfortunately, I learned the hard way after 2006, that “Campaign Joe” is very different from “Congressman Joe” on the issues. When Sestak failed to follow through on his signature campaign issue of standing up to Bush on Iraq and demanding Timetables, many of us realized that we’d been suckered.

The questions now are:
1) What’s going to happen to Sestak’s $5 million?
2) How can we get that money into the hands of Dem candidates that need it?

Seriously! That kind of money, spread around effectively, could tip a lot of races to the Dems.

I am from the 7th CD and there is no way I could support Sestak, nor will I. I am very hopefull that Bryan Lentz will be his replacement and the 7th CD will finally have a real Democratic rep and the war-mongger can just fade away into nothingless where he belongs.
I do know of 3 great campaign managers that have turned him down to run his campaign. One from Mass, one from NY and one from DC. After all they can see a sinking ship and want nothing to do with the campaign.
I talk to Democrats all over the state and not one in impressed with the little admiral Joe. To be honest he may win Delaware county and Montgomery but the is 67 counties in Pa and I believe Specter will take Philadelphia and Pittsburgh by out of sight numbers that the little admiral can’t imagine. Goodbye Joe you may have stayed too long, but maybe the republicans will have him, who knows