Stick a fork in Drink Tax Dan. He’s done.

Onorato has tons of material to illustrate the questionable ethics and incompetence of Corbett. He hasn’t used it. If he doesn’t understand that he needs to use it, he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance during this heat wave of winning this election.

I’ve always had the impression that Onorato is a limited kind of guy who hasn’t moved on from the politics of yesterday. Although he’d surely be a far better governor than political hack Tom Corbett, he evidently doesn’t have the vision or wisdom to win an election in today’s electoral environment.

Corbett loses….Toomey and the radical right are a drag on ticket

The two statewide races are over. Onorato and Sestak have trouble hitting 40% just two months before the election. They’ll both end up in the mid forties by November but will still lose. Obama’s low approcal ratings and the economy are desroying Democrats’ chances across the country.

IF Onorato’s going to go after Corbett as a corrupt political hack engaged in partisan prosecutions at taxpayer expense, he’s going to have to go “all in” and not pussyfoot around it.

He’s got to make it CLEAR that as Governor, he plans to make sure that Corbett is arrested and winds up behind bars.

That approach is going to take a smoking gun and some serious balls.

The second approach (more realistic) is that Corbett would drive the state into deeper deficits and bankruptcy. Dan needs to pin Corbett down and make a list of the services that Corbett would cut.

David, my esteemed opponent, Mr. Onorato just told Mr. David Broder that Governor Ed Rendell is his “role model.” Ed Rendell has a job approval rating of 30%. Take gun. Insert bullet. Pull trigger. Dan Onorato has just given Corbett the quote that will ensure that he does not win. That quote is tantamount to committing political suicide.

I agree with GOPHAWK that the only people who still love Ed Rendell are the reporters. They won’t focus on this quote and that is why Corbett will run it in an ad over and over again. Morph Onorato into Rendell and, like the guy said in Aliens: “Game over, baby.” Onorato will need to go into orbit and use nukes on Corbett to win.

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Despite his current standing, you can’t deny that Rendell has had a long, successful and powerful political career. I think that’s what Onorato’s referring to: a career role model.

The current problems with Rendell’s popularity are due to the budget crisis, which is the result of the loss of Federal dollars from the Bush/GOP destruction of the economy.

I don’t see how Corbett’s much of a “role model” (unless you are into selective prosecution).

Mr. Diano, you are correct.

Rendell and Fumo and Perzel have all had powerful political careers. One is in jail. One is on trial. One has not been indicted, yet. That is the kind of political career that the public is sick of. And Dan Onorato saying that Rendell is his role model is all the public needs to know to vote against him.

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Corbett hasn’t been indicted yet either.

Rendell revitalized Philadelphia as Mayor. He’s done a good job as governor on the issues. It’s a shame he wasn’t more successful against the NRA.

Mr. Diano, with respect, check the books of Philadelphia.

The revitalization was done with Wall Street shenanigans. They got paid up front. Ed got money to spend up front. Mayor Street and Mayor Nutter had to pay for the borrowing later. One of Ed’s Water Authority swaps went bad this year to the tune of fifty million. Several of his DRPA swaps went bad this year to the tune of thirty million. Those were not deals made by the current mayors. They were deals done by Ed. He might have gotten ten million apiece up front, but the taxpayers got hosed on the back end. The point is that he got the credit for treating everyone to champagne at the cost of soda pop but someone else is actually paying four times the price of champagne for those drinks long after he is gone.

Frankly, expect more debt explosions with all the borrowing by Ed as Governor, I would expect that the next two Governors will be wearing bomb proof clothing while the Wall Street operators raise a toast to their gift who keeps on giving, Ed Rendell.

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I was referring to the cleanup and revitalization in Center City. A friend of my (who happens to vote 100% Republican and HATES Rendell) worked down there when Rendell was mayor. My friend conceded that Rendell did a great job as mayor and improved the area.

I’ll leave you with this summary of Ed’s career as mayor from Wikipedia:
As mayor, Rendell inherited massive fiscal problems. The state legislature established a fiscal oversight board to monitor the City of Philadelphia’s fiscal issues. During his career as mayor, Rendell cut a $250 million deficit; balanced Philadelphia’s budget and oversaw five consecutive years of budget surpluses; reduced business and wage taxes for four consecutive years; implemented new revenue-generating initiatives, and dramatically improved services to Philadelphia neighborhoods. He also appointed Philadelphia’s first ever Latino deputy mayors, with the naming of Benjamin Ramos and Manuel Ortiz. Rendell’s cost-cutting policies brought him strong opposition from labor unions; however, he was re-elected in 1995, defeating Republican Joe Rocks with 80% of the vote. He resigned on December 21, 1999, shortly before the end of his term, to take up the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).