Two slices of toast
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Two slices of toast
Pass the butter, please.
Arlen Specter just popped. You never know in politics, but based on my experience in watching polling trends, only a mid-May blizzard or some other freak phenominon of nature can at this point prevent the five-term senator from losing the Democratic primary to Rep. Joe Sestak of Delaware County, one week from tomorrow. Over the next week, you will see some remarkably nasty attack ads from Team Specter and intensive campaigng from his erstwhile East Falls neighbor Ed Rendell and maybe even from Barack Obama, although if anyone on the Democratic side has any common sense (heh) they will allow the president to save face by announcing that he's busy dealing with some crisis in D.C., since there are so many to choose from. None of this will work. Specter has already thrown the dirty-ad kitchen sink at Sestak.
It just hasn't worked.
What amazes me is that the pundits didn't see this coming a year ago. Everyone is acting all stunned by the Sestak ad showing Specter's endorsement from a Will Ferrell-esque George W. Bush and his political flirtations with Sarah Palin, when it was obvious a year ago that such an ad was coming and that it would destroy Specter and that he would melt faster than the Wicked Witch of the West the second that it hit the airwaves. Do the talking heads even know who votes in an off-year Democratic primary? If not, hop into my Prius and I'll drive you down to the Whole Foods and show you -- they are NOT voting for an ex-Bush "ally"...ever.
Also, there was so much talk of what a political genius that Specter is, when it turns out that his only genius is in using the power of incumbency to raise millions of dollars. In fact, his handling of the party switch -- when he looked into the camera and said the main reason he was switching parties was to get himself re-elected -- was actually the biggest political botch I have ever seen in my life. I'm sure he thought that didn't matter, because Rendell and Obama and the supposed Democratic machine would save him in the end. Except that those two guys and and the creaky "machine" couldn't elect a dogcatcher in Pennsylvania right now (I think Obama's fortunes here will improve greatly in 2012 as long as the economy improves as well -- but that's two long years away).
Which is why Specter is toast. Hey, it's been a heck of ride, Arlen, for about 50 years. Now Pennsylvania's senior senator will be able to enjoy something that I -- and quite possibly you -- will never experience.
Retirement.
"Now maybe in RG world it says Obama signe TARP but in the reality based world, it says something completely different." You posted a quote on TARP, then thanked Obama, which makes no sense in any world.— RG- "His insights on Japan are based on fact," They are based on opinion, not fact. Its interesting you can't tell the difference between the two.— RG
""His insights on Japan are based on fact," They are based on opinion, not fact." Wait....you are telling me that the Nobel Laureate doesnt base his insights on facts? Your ignorance is telling. Why dont you just say that you are just clueless instead of making everyone wait for your increasingly desparate posts?— Les Ismore- "Wait....you are telling me that the Nobel Laureate doesnt base his insights on facts?" What factS? That Japan has the highest debt to GDP ratio amongst developed countries, that they've experienced two lost decades, that they still struggle with high ue and low growth? Yet Krugman blames the stimulus failure on their attmepts to balance a budget 6 years into their recession?— RG
- "Why dont you just say that you are just clueless" Coming from the person who said Bush's deficits killed the economy, but Obama's will save it. Or who said Bush's policies killed the economy, while praising TARP, a Bush policy. Les, don't blame me that you're wading in the shallow end of the gene pool.— RG
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