Specter can outspend Sestak into oblivion. And now he additional financial support!

He can out advertise Sestak $ for $!

Nope, wrong. Saturation ads throughout the state go for about $1 million per week. Both sides will be doing that. With only two weeks left, it’s not a matter of spending the money, it’s just a question of who’s paying.

This is an accounting story, not a political strategy story.

No matter what Arlen spends he can’t buy his way out of being identified by rank and file Democrats as being a 30 year republican.

Bill-
No matter what Sestak spends, he can’t run away from the report in the Navy Times about why he was “reassigned”. Release the records!

Bruce-
That $407,000 is nothing to sneeze at.

You remember that big “Act Blue” push for Joe the PA2010 reported on last month? Joe got a whomping (aka wimpy) $1,195 to date from 82 donations, which comes to an average of $14.50 per donation.
He’s got Jo-mentum now! LOL!

If Sestak had taken the (supposed) DSCC offer to be the Dem candidate in Jan 2009, you’d be sitting here telling us how $407,000 shows the strong commitment to an important Democrat, or something similar.

Merely having the DSCC be the one sponsoring ads sends the message that Arlen has the support of the party and is committed to his success.

David, we’ve always known the Democratic Machine was behind Specter. It was part of The Deal.

One thing that was not part of The Deal: My vote. Or the votes of any other PA Democrat. We get to choose where they go. And thankfully, the majority of them will not be going to Arlen Specter.

Bruce-
Joe never wanted to be part of a Democratic party. It was always the “Sestak Party”, which pretty soon will be more like the “Donner party”.

But, as you’ve said, you are voting against Arlen, more than you are voting FOR Sestak. That says a lot about Sestak’s lack of appeal.

If the Dems had a real liberal Dem (and neither Specter nor Sestak fits that description), then Sestak would have to ‘earn’ your vote. In this case, Joe gets your vote by virtue of not being-Arlen. Hardly a ringing endorsement.

Sure, I’m more anti-Sestak than pro-Specter myself. But, I really believe that Specter has the better shot at winning against Toomey (though I think the odds are 60-40 in Toomey’s favor against Specter and 75-25 against Sestak).

As far as “The Deal”:
1) I think we got a good deal with Arlen.
2) Sestak whines that Arlen got the deal that Joe turned down.
3) Sestak claims he was offered a deal by the White House, with nothing to back up the claim. He certainly wasn’t offended enough to report it at the time.
4) Sestak never put his “machine” to work helping other candidates or integrating (and contributing) to the existing Democratic party machinery. (Though Sestak seemed to snag parts whenever he could for his own machine).
5) I’ve lost count of all the Deals Sestak’s broken with the people he promised to help.

Vote for the Democrat in the Democratic Primary

Vote for Joe Sestak on May 18
http://www.joesestak.com

here’s the number for the dscc, (202) 224-2447. tell them to stay out of primaries, especially not to fund republicans!

hope menendez reads this…no money for dscc..let the party handle its primaries and save the money to fight republicans…disgusting to use dem dollars to fight a good dem like joe.

If you bloggers or any one else are far right wing conservatives, what you are about to read may not bother you much and you all will keep slamming Arlen Specter!

But if you are a true democrat that has been caught up in the SESTAK campaign for JOE AND ONLY FOR JOE, then what you are about to read MAY BE VERY HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH!

There is no telling what this MAX – DONOR below is really after if SESTAK gets elected, how will he joystick Sestak as a senator, or further down the road if he is elected to higher office!

I, as a TRUE BLUE DEMOCRAT, am very, very deeply concerned and if you are any type of democrat you should be equally concerned! Sestak clearly has motives beyond your belief!

Richard Mellon Scaife—once the Clintons’ archenemy and best-known as the man behind a “vast, right-wing conspiracy” that Hillary Clinton said was out to destroy them.

From Newsweek and Wikipedia:
In the 1990s, the heir to the Mellon banking fortune contributed millions to efforts to dig up dirt on President Clinton. HE BACKED THE CLINTON BACKING American Spectator magazine, whose muckrakers produced lurid stories about Clinton’s alleged financial improprieties and trysts. SCAIFE ALSO FINANCED A PROBE CALLED THE ARKANSAS PROJECT that tried, among other things, to show that Clinton, while Arkansas governor, protected drug runners.
SCAIFE IS PARTICULARLY WELL KNOWN FOR HIS FINANCIUAL SUPPORT OF CONSERVATIVE AND RIGHT WING PUBLIC POLICY ORGANIZATIONS OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES.

The Arkansas Project was a series of investigations (mostly funded by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife) that were initiated with the intent of damaging and ending the presidency of Bill Clinton.[1] Scaife spent nearly $2 million on this anti-Clinton project.

The investigations included the reexamination of the death of White House aide, Vincent Foster (which had previously been ruled a suicide), the investigation of a 1970′s real estate investment that Bill and Hillary Clinton had made in a development known as Whitewater, the re-opening of allegations that Bill Clinton had sexually harassed an Arkansas state employee, and the creation of wide ranging conspiracy theories about the Clintons.
The investigations funded by Scaife money mostly concentrated on the Whitewater investments, which extended to a conspiracy theory surrounding the death of Vince Foster, a Clinton aide with connections to Whitewater. Christopher W. Ruddy (a freelance reporter for the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) published a series of articles claiming Clinton was behind Foster’s suicide.[11] Although Clinton was never found to have broken the law by Ken Starr, Ruddy published his book, The Strange Death of Vincent Foster, regardless.

IT IS YOUR CHOICE whose SIDE YOU ARE ON!