Exactly. Specter is off to a great start with a strong POSITIVE campaign ad.

Who will be the first to run a negative ad?

Great start for someone who is dead in the water. Can’t attract any more voters than he already has and that support is soft and mushy. All those endorsements and they hasn’t gained a single voter in months.

Bill-
Sestak has not been able to get above 30-35% in the average polls. He hasn’t gained voters in months.
On Twitter, Specter is beating Sestak 4-1 in new followers in the last month. Sestak’s gained 80 new followers and Specter got 320 since mid-March.

It’s a dead campaign, sucking up expensive life-support (dollars that could be going against Republicans).

The little Admiral is the one who’s dead in the water and sinking.

David – “$$ going against republicans”? – Sestak IS running against a republican. What Democrat proposes a flat tax?!?

Specter admitted he couldn’t beat Toomey when he ran away from the Republican primary. Why should we just hand the seat to Toomey this fall?

And the little man here is the one who continues to carry his vindictiveness around like an albatross. That will sink *you* David … well actually it seems it already has, and that is a sad thing to see.

i.m. anonymous: Sestak (undoubtedly because of his mounting legal woes) is obviously unprepared to commit his $5 million to advertsising. That means Senator Specter will emerge from this primary with a staggering $9 million. This easily eclipses Toomey’s paltry $4 million. How, exactly, can Toomey defeat an incumbent who enjoys an overwhelming fundraising advantage? Answer: he cannot. Period.

And what is truly sad, “i.m. anonymous,” is the cognitive dissonance and denial that supporters of Sestak The GOP Hack and Toomey engage in. Specter has the monetary power in this race – and he will triumph as a result.

i.m.anonymous-
1) 200,000 moderate Republicans left the PA GOP in 2008. The fact that Toomey would be the choice of those remaining is actually an argument in favor of Specter not representing the extreme right-wing, Tea Party crowd.

2) Like it or not, Specter got recruited to our team by Obama, Biden and Rendell. All our elected Dem congressmen are supporting Specter over Sestak.

3) Sestak’s “rap” has been that anyone who doesn’t support him and kiss-his-ass is “disloyal”, despite all the disloyalty he’s shown to the people that helped him get elected and others in the Democratic party.

4) Sestak “ran away” from the supposed offer to run as anointed Dem candidate in Jan 2009, when it looked like Specter was going to be unopposed and be the GOP nominee. Sestak didn’t change his mind until Toomey re-entered the scene and looked vulnerable to any Dem, in the wake of Obama’s popularity.

5) What Democrat votes for a minimum wage increase, then pays his Federal Congressional Staff less than minimum wage? Looks like Sestak supports flat-wages.

6) Sinking? I’ve been expanding my reach and influence. I’ve been helping candidates and committee people (far more than Sestak) and I have a loyal following that respects me (even the ones that disagree with me on Sestak).

7) The “sad” thing is that you, and many of Sestak’s other supporters hide behind anonymous identities when you attack me. I’m the ONLY Delco Dem who helped Sestak in 2006 who had the balls to go after him publicly for his betraying Iraq vote. And if the other Dems had stood up to him, he might have actually done more than take them for granted and earn their future support.

So, Mr. “i.m.anonymous”, I’ll still be standing, long after Sestak is a bitter memory. Once Lentz wins, the mystique of Joe Sestak as the “one and only” will be shattered, and people will see what an ungrateful pr*ck he truly was.

When you are willing to criticize me under your own name, feel free to post again. I won’t hold my breath waiting for any courage from you.

Despite my disagreements with Bruce and Bill, I do respect them for posting under their own names. Lee, may still like Sestak, but he was one of the other early posters with his real name, and he has at least some around to a realistic assessment of Joe’s chances.

The anonymous guy raises a fair question. How does a Democrat support a flat tax? Raising taxes on the poor while lowering them for the rich, all for the sake of “simplification” is harder for me to swallow than Specter’s poor record on guns, labor, the environment or retirees. A flat tax? Really?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a Sestak fan. I might still vote for Specter in the primary because there’s plenty I don’t like about Sestak either. It probably will turn based on who’s negative campaigning I find more distasteful.

But seriously, a flat tax? I might need to do more than hold my nose to vote for Specter in the fall. I might need a barf bag.

PS. Don’t try to deny it, Specter-lovers. He said he supported a flat tax TODAY at the Press Club Luncheon. It’s on PCN, so check it out when it replays.

A vote for Specter is a vote for Bush.

Adam-
The sales tax is a flat tax. And Arlen’s position is not all that “flat” because he would have some tax breaks for the poor and eliminate a lot of business deductions that the rich use to lower their taxes.
Changing the capital gains tax from 15% to 25% would balance the budgets.

I’m for the following “flat” tax: everything you make over $30,000 to $40,000 is taxed at 25%. So, no tax on the “basic living expenses”, and then tax EVERYBODY at the same flat rate after that.

This is still progressive and flat at the same time. There is still flatness in the sales tax, gas taxes, tele-communications usage taxes that everybody pays. But, the poor are protected and the rich have the “same” rule and don’t pay taxes on their first $40,000 either.

Whether the right number is 25%, 22%, 27%, etc, is something that would have to be calculated by the IRS and CBO based on the Federal budget.

Adam S.: Hi there. Does an ardent Democrat make unsubstantiated accusations against the incumbent Democratic President of the United States? Representative Sestak has – repeatedly and unapologetically. Does a progressive Democrat closely align themselves with avaricious arms manufacturers? Representative Sestak has – in fact, Dragonfly Pictures, a Delaware County-based arms manufacturer, is among his biggest contributors. Does a true Democrat echo the sentiments of right-wing reactionary Rick Santorum? Sestak did – just last week.

GOP Hack Sestak is the one who is not genuinely committed to the Democratic Party.

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davedon’t you know that regressive taxes like sales,gasoline,and the various so called sin taxes take a bigger percentage of poor and middle class budgets, the “flat tax” bill that Arlen introduced one month prior to seeing his poll numbers vs. Toomey is just more shifting of the tax burden from those who have it to those that don’t,good old basic republican tax policy. His flat tax bill excludes capital gains and interest. It is nothing but another naked republican grab for the wealthy at the expense of working families,don’t worry though Arlen is sure to include a few crumbs for the middle class. BTW he is OLD and INFIRM, thank god they had handrails on the stairs from AF-1 when he had his ride,or he would have been sprawled at the bottom,he had a death grip on that railing all the way down. If he can barely navigate a set of stairs then I don’t really think he is fit.

Bill-
In my version of the flat-tax, that I outlined, the usage taxes wouldn’t be a big burden for the poor, since they’d be freed of the Federal Income tax. I’m okay with sin-taxes on tobacco, because price is a barrier to teens starting smoking.

My point was that with the proper protections for the poor using a baseline value that gets no tax, a flat tax is reasonable and fair. Obviously, I pulled $40,000 out of the air, but it’s probably close to a good baseline number (the baseline would shift for single/married/# of dependents). I wish the Dems would propose something like this. It’s very liberal because the poor are safe, and the rich lose their loopholes and paying 15% capital gains. The kind of income wouldn’t matter.

I just want to note that Adam S. and I are not the same person.

Who gives a damm about your version, were talking about the version that Arlen introduced as a bill one month prior to his ending his thirty + year hiatus from the Democratic party.

Bill-
I care about my version.

The point (which you regularly miss) is that a flat-tax concept isn’t all that radical. Sure, Arlen’s version doesn’t have my fixes, so it’s not going to pass anyway. But, I’ll bet if it were adjusted as I suggest, Specter would probably go for it as well as a significant bi-partisan majority. It addresses the concerns/criticisms of each side, while achieving the dual goals of simplifying the system and reducing the time/cost/complexity we currently have and being fair over a wide range of incomes.

I’m hoping his staff reads my versions and adopts it as an alternative to his version.

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