Gerlach’s campaign hasn’t written a new press release or statement since 2002. They just change the name of the Democrat that they attack. Lazy.

Lazy is one word for it.

Weak is another.

This is the same Jim Gerlach who was running for Governor because he couldn’t get anything done in Washington anymore. He’s right, let’s show him the door!

He can’t get anything done in Washington and the voters are clearly in a mood to turn out career incumbents.

Your time has finally come Gerlach. Exit left…I mean right.

trivedi is an idiot. gerlach wasn’t in congress when they voted to go to war with iraq.

Shocking news…you’re wrong. Jim Gerlach assumed office 1/3/03, Iraq war started 3/20/03. Who’s an idiot? Are you another armchair warrior? While Dr. Trivedi was on the front lines you were probably watching FOX and getting all excited seeing the war from the comfort of your living room.

wow, the best thing a GOP’er had to say was that Gerlach wasn’t a Congressman when the Iraq war happened…..good job. And seriously Jim, take a page out of PA-12, people are sick of it. Turn out from Dems last night was very high. Nearly 42,000 voters in a Primary. YOU ARE VERY WRONG if you think people will support your crap. Nice try. Incredible stuff from Trivedi.

And Allen, seriously calm the F down.

Poor liberal posters. You have your panties in a bind again about Gerlach. Only six months until he is reelected. What will you do with yourselves then?

Panties in a bind? You mean motivated/active/excited to defeat him right? We have a strong candidate who excites the base like we’ve never had before. Lois couldn’t do that and neither did Roggio. Careful what you say, because the more you talk, the more we work. Nice try though.

I think it would be news item this cycle if there was a Dem candidate that wasn’t going to be attacked by the GOP as a liberal.

Aahh Oooh, The Banana Boat is coming to get you.

First of all, Trivedi IS a liberal by anyone’s definition. He wouldn’t be supported by Daily Kos if he wasn’t…..among a million other things. You all must be afraid of that R’s calling it like it is or you wouldn’t have a had such a rabid reaction. You know Trivedi’s brand of liberalism won’t fly in Gerlach’s District or with the average voter. And if you are referring to the Critz race, the guy all but ran as a Republican. He was prolife, against the healthcare bill, fiscal conservative etc. etc. etc. The worst thing is, you guys have reached new low. Attacking Gerlach’s wife. Pathetic. Be men and women and stick to the issues. Attacking someone’s spouse is REALLY LOW!!!

And “liberal” isn’t a curse word. I wear it like a badge of honor!

Gee, I’ll bet the soldiers whose bodies Trivedi repaired in Iraq really cared if Trivedi was a “liberal”.

You republicans are so intellectually lazy that you have to resort to labels, and distorted ones at that.

However imperfect that the stimulus of early 2009 was, can Gerlach honestly say that Pennsylvania would have been better off without it? If so, he must be channeling Herbert Hoover.

This is awesome! Trivedi is seriously going to walk all over Gerlach.

What do our opponents mean when they apply to us the label “Liberal?” If by “Liberal” they mean, as they want people to believe, someone who is soft in his policies abroad, who is against local government, and who is unconcerned with the taxpayer’s dollar, then the record of this party and its members demonstrate that we are not that kind of “Liberal.” But if by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.”

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I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well. But I believe in a government which acts, which exercises its full powers and full responsibilities. Government is an art and a precious obligation; and when it has a job to do, I believe it should do it. And this requires not only great ends but that we propose concrete means of achieving them.

Our responsibility is not discharged by announcement of virtuous ends. Our responsibility is to achieve these objectives with social invention, with political skill, and executive vigor. I believe for these reasons that liberalism is our best and only hope in the world today. For the liberal society is a free society, and it is at the same time and for that reason a strong society. Its strength is drawn from the will of free people committed to great ends and peacefully striving to meet them. Only liberalism, in short, can repair our national power, restore our national purpose, and liberate our national energies. And the only basic issue in the 1960 campaign is whether our government will fall in a conservative rut and die there, or whether we will move ahead in the liberal spirit of daring, of breaking new ground, of doing in our generation what Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson did in their time of influence and responsibility.

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John F. Kennedy – September 14, 1960
http://www.liberalparty.org/JFKLPAcceptance.html

its always very funny to watch all you wacko libs get so revved up

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it

Personal attacks like the ones above are all these liberals have going into a year they know they’re going to lose

Progressivism has failed

It failed under the big-spending policies of Bush and has continued to do so under Obama and Pelosi

Progressives will point to Tuesday’s election in PA-12 as evidence Republicans are still doomed because Americans support Obama and his policies. Critz ran on a pro-life, pro-gun, anti-big government platform.

Pathetic all around and I hope they don’t ACTUALLY believe they stand a chance come November because if so they will be sorely disappointed

Alinsky,

Really? “Personal attacks”?

Like this?: trivedi is an idiot.

Or, this?: wacko libs

Are you channeling Karl Rove?

And you are lumping Bush in with Progressives? You must be one of those tea partiers who awoke in January of 2009 after a lifetime of political and academic slumber and now wants to run the world.

Progressivism has not failed, America has failed Progressivism.

First of all I’ve been voting conservative since well before Obama, so no, I’m hardly a tea-partier

I’m not trying to defend personal attacks by people who post on a website, but I am saying it’s a tactic of the left (and clearly some on the right) that shows nothing but desperation

And yes, the out-of-control spending and growth of some federal government programs (Medicare Part D) under Bush were progressive policies

And if Progressivism comes with large government and high spending/taxes, then how do you say “America has failed Progressivism” when we look countries like Greece and Portugal? Progressivism has failed where ever it has been attempted.

Americans are finally waking up to the fact that these policies cannot be sustained. While I am not a “Tea Party Patriot” I see why progressives and liberals would fear them.

As Lincoln said “You may be able to fool all of the people some of the time. You may even be able to fool some of the people all of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”

Bush’s Medicare D was not progressive, don’t even try to sell that.

Until it was fixed by Democrats this year, it was a failed corporate policy, invented to make sure that Big Pharma and For-Profit Insurers got the billions that their big-bucks lobbying and PAC contributions had entitled them to in the open trough for high rollers that was the Bush Administration.

Health care won’t be progressive in this country until we have a single-payer system and get profits out of the equation.

By the way, that’s my opinion. Manan Trivedi backs a strong public option, which is a nice halfway measure that will pressure insurance companies to keep their rates lower, but won’t guarantee the same across-the-board quality and simplicity that single-payer would.

Medicare Part D is a perfect example of how America has failed Progressivism.

Take a good progressive idea: making prescription drugs affordable for people of limited means, but set it up so that it not only cannot sustain itself (failed to levy any tax to support it), but rips-off the taxpayer by refusing to demand better pricing for the products from the suppliers.

Throw in for good measure a gap in coverage that will punish people for daring to use the program and you’ve got the perfect tax-money-transfer-to-the-pharmaceutical-industry scheme. It’s bound to fail, which proves that programs like this don’t work, and enriches corporations at no expense to the political class.

Reagan-style Progressivism at its finest!

I can’t wait to see the Charter School Profitability and Teacher’s Union Destruction Act that will be cleverly named the “Public Education Reform Act”. And, before you say it, Obama will be 100% behind it. Makes you wonder what they’ve got on that guy.

In the end, we get the government we deserve.

Bruce,

Maybe we should co-ordinate so we aren’t typing all over each other :^)

I’ll be honest while I don’t agree with Alinsky Rules, the debate both of your are having is substantive. Better than most of the drival in politics these days. Good for both of you. I look forward to the candidates and their supporters having these debates as the campaign for PA-06 moves forward.

I think we make way more sense than, say, Maddona & Young.

Oh, and one more thing.

While I don’t think that all government programs are worthwhile (subsidies for ADM, for one), if your conservative buddies hadn’t spent the Social Security Trust Fund and run one eternal and one optional war using the national credit card, we’d have an additional $4 trillion+ in the treasury.

Then if we went back to the marginal tax rates that existed during the Eisenhower administration of 90% beyond a certain income level, and capital gains rates of 35%, we’d have enough money to buy China.

Don’t try to tell me that it’s Progressivism that’s failed.

He slimes everyone that comes near him what about him marrying Rich Women then going off with all of their Money

It’s too bad he’s been such a card carrying member of the gNOp this year. No moderate credentials to run on. Believe me this district isn’t a conservative bell weather. And Gerlach isn’t a family man either, so keep trying.

Voted to authorize use of force in 2002. Mr. Gerlach was running for Congress at that time. I don’t know for sure, but I’m PRETTY SURE that he was supportive of the President in this matter even before he was elected.

Gerlach you are the scum of the Earth

Enough is enough…what kind of person are you? Speaking of scm of the earth…..you’re acting like it. I am sure that Mr. Trivedi would not condone your posting….

Concerned for PA: I’m not sure about that. The Trivedi campaign ran dirty against Doug Pike, and it’s a tribute to Doug that he didn’t fire back.

I expect Trivedi to run a dirty campaign against Jim Gerlach, who’s really been a decent public servant,

Yeah, after all Jim Gerlach doesn’t run a dirty campaign, right? He didn’t call Lois Murphy a terrorist or anything. He wants to be re-elected by any means necessary, how is he going to attack a war veteran/doctor?

The Pike campaign was loaded with ammo…..speaking of ammo how many wounded terrorists did Trivedi save on the battle field instead of our soliders?

Seriously Minchy, go run or something, your fat ass needs to get into shape for this battle, stop spouting your mouth off on this website.

No worries. I’ve been ready for this one. Thanks for your concern over my weight! I love how low ball you right wingers can get. Just proves my point if you have no platform to speak of you just bash everyone. My fat ass will be laughing in November, that’s for sure.

WOW. That was just sad. I am not sure who Minchy is or how this gentleman might now him, BUT, that’s just terrible. After supporting Pike in the Primary, I am already rev’ed to go for Trivedi. He certainly pulled off a great victory over an incredibly well funded candidate by exciting and inspiring people, I have no doubt he could do it again. Can’t wait for this one. As a lonnnnng time resident of the PA-06 it’s time for a congressman who actually does something for us!

Minchy is a lard butt socialist from Berks County. His last triumph was the egregious Charles Corbit campaign for Prothonotary.

Critz won in the 12th temporarily by campaigning as a conservative Republican. More blue dogs. That really helped out in trying to get your fine health care bill passed.

“Progressivism has not failed, America has failed Progressivism.”

Use that as a slogan… please.

Name calling, Name Calling, Name calling=the GOP platform. Awesome.

Do you guys have any substance?

in what way did trivedi run a dirty campaign, he didn’t even run an ad? so confused….

Hey Minchy! Yeah, the Republicans have no creativity. They are regressives. That’s what the “r” in Republican represents. All this name calling started with the Reagan campaign when he made the word “liberal” sound like a dirty word. One way that Reagon achieved this was by lying about the “welfare mom with the Cadillac”. This person didn’t exist. Rush Limbaugh picked up the Reagan lie baton and discovered that he could make money by using it. The Republican misinformation highway continues to this day with the support of FOX News and the Corporate sponsored Tea Partiers. The sad part is that the Tea Partiers don’t even know that they are being used by Wall Street, big oil and other Corporations to keep the wealthy in power and to suppress the middle, working class.

When all someone can do is call another person a name, as onenastybeast and Fat Al just did, that person just demonstrated that they have no intelligent thoughts to add to the conversation.

This is my first time commenting here and I must say that most of the comments are civil.

Kevin Shaw… you make the most intelligent statements.

Negative moves numbers… as “Not Ready” Trevedi will discover