I was enjoying Specter’s campaign as well run, until I saw his most recent ad on what Sestak pays his staff. With all the other negative stuff he’s put out there about Sestak it seems like enough is enough already, and I’m wondering if he’s beginning to cross over into the territory of where voters are going to be turned off by his continued negative attacks. I also think Specter would be a stronger candidate in the general than you think he will be. It’s not a race on personality, there’s a lot of issues at stake and I think Specter is going to be able to portray himself as the more moderate option for Pennsylvania, which I think has appeal in this state.

Michael and David-
What you fail to realize in the pay issue is that Sestak doesn’t practice what he preaches when it comes to worker rights and treatment. Sestak’s he kind of boss who gets away with whatever he wants, and is the kind of boss Unions have been fighting.

When you add in that at least one female Congressional staffer left Sestak’s employ after being told she was “hired for her looks, not her opinion” and her job was “to look good for Joe” in public for his image, what you have is candidate who can’t be trusted with employment issues.

I hope you two will rush as quickly to Specter’s defense when Sestak starts airing his inevitable Bush/Santorum and Anita Hill attack ads.

Specter’s been in tougher fights than this. Wait till the endorsement ads roll in. Who endorsed Sestak? Eric “Tickle-me” Massa.

David-

To the extent that Specter’s negativity is turning people off, I hope you realize that you are adding to it. The wholesale negativity is one reason why I think it is at least arguable which candidiate would be the stronger in the general election.

As for Michael’s implicit prayer that Sestak and Specter beat each other up so badly in the primary that Toomey could slip by in November, I’d suggest that Toomey’s best opportunity is to expand his recently purchased moderate’s wardrobe to hide his true extremist self inside.

David, stop with the sexist smear on Sestak. You keep bringing it up, like so much else you post here, as if we should all just take your word for it. Unless you can document it, it didn’t happen.

“the consequent collapse of the logic behind Sestak’s candidacy” Thankfully Specter will win the primary because Sestak’s clownish campaign is incapable of beating rightwing Toomey.

Bruce-
I got the story directly from the girl that was on the receiving end of this and quit as a result.
How much documentation do I need when I got a first hand account of the story from the victim?
Other people in the Delco Dems know the story. I even ran into someone from her new job that started on my committee and knows the story.

Face it, Bruce. Your guy has no business running a office or having employees or anybody working for him.

Lee-
Sestak’s already lost. I’m just enjoying getting in my last few licks.

After May 18th, Sestak will return to the obscurity from whence he came. Unfortunately for him, he’s stuck as a lame-duck congressman for another 8 months, and having to find another career path (probably lobbyist for Haliburton, Blackwater or or some other military contractor).
Once he’s not running for office, I wonder how much longer he will justify paying his siblings $3,000 a month each?

C’mon now David, just because you SAY that you got the account first hand from a staffer means jack-squat. You have zero credibility amongst anyone here who even makes the slightest effort at objectively looking at the facts. You’ve got a millions stories and zero people to match them up to. Are we really to believe that the great David Diano is the repository to which all alienated former staffers run to? When it comes to these stories, fish or cut bait. Either provide a source or someway anyone else other than you could at least attempt to fact check it or it shows your lame dirty tricks for what they are…BS! You wanna trot out the same old rhetoric that’s shown to be crap, go ahead, but you just look foolish running away from any real issues and towards story time with Diano.

oh and congrats David, two posts in and you already resorted to a Massa reference…A NEW RECORD! Meanwhile, to the people who actually care about issues (the rest of us), such crap just makes you look like the candidate that you advocate for, willing to do and say anything in an effort to win people over, no matter how far off topic. I got news for you, it doesnt work for you and it definitely isnt working for Specter. Try discussing issues rather than slinging mud.

Arlen has always been a hard working, smart Senator who voted his conscience independent of party affiliation. As a lifelong Democrat I found him worthy to vote for even when he was a Republican. Now that he is a Democrat, I will vote for him twice (just kidding, but supposedly a good Allegheny Co. joke)