Perhaps your dilemma should force you to reassess your principles for, in the process, you may grow-up and recognize the importance of Constitutional-Limited-Government.

Adam — Joe Sestak has done nothing to make you think he would “veer” or change positions. Specter’s record, on the other hand, says nothing but. The polls show that Joe Sestak can win this race and beat Toomey. They also show that while Arlen Specter is better known, he has larger negatives than even Santorum had. If Arlen Specter should win this primary, it’s hello Senator Toomey. Too horrible to imagine.

Snarlin’ Arlen will NOT beat Toomey this time. Mark my words. I don’t trust Arlen one bit. To me Adam it’s pretty clear who should be the Dems anointed one. I’d rather have the Admiral than one that is only out to save his own hold on power. Besides Adam, your argument is rather weak. So stop yer frettin’. It’s time to man up Adam if you truly are a progressive. And if you are a progressive like you say you are, how can you support Arlen?

PA Dems backing Specter are like the Mass. Dems who backed a boring party insider they knew instead of an exciting new face. Boring means losing! My local Dem committee in PA-07 will work like crazy for Sestak–we know & trust him. But Specter will make PA Dems yawn & sit on their hands–like the MA Dems who lost to Brown

Adam..

Sestak is not the 2nd coming of Adlai Stevenson.

Check how he treats his own employees
Ask why he ditched the constitution on FISA
Ask why you, a dedicated democrat, should support someone (Sestak) who hasn’t even bothered to vote in many elections before 2006
Ask yourself why Sestak tried to embarrass Pres. Obama with the bogus, unsubstantiated claim of a job offer in return for dropping out.
Check the 2007/2008 connections between Sestak, his chief employee Walsh and an entity called the National Defense Industries Assn.(NDIA). This entity is a trade/lobbying group for the porkers who feed at the defense budget trough. At the time Sestak & Walsh were being wined & dined by NDIA, its membership included the likes of Bechtel & Blackwater USA. Interesting folks for a so-called “progressive” to be “pallin’ around with”.

Sestak is an empty suit, masquerading as a progressive. He’d be crushed in the fall.

Richard – if you think that party leaders don’t “offer” alternative job opportunities to candidates who they want out of the way, then you discredit the rest of your arguments. Simple as that.

I find it interesting that the polls don’t include a race of Sestak v. Toomey. Why not?

Frankly, I believe that it is becuase Sestak- Toomey polls if matched side by side with Specter -Toomey polls will show that Sestak actually has a better chance of winning than Specter for a number of reasons.

Whats the harm in doing a side by side if they were not afraid of the results? Why doesn’t PA 2010 post that in a nice chart that can be read easily? Or is PA2010 also afraid of Arlen Specter?

Look….

1. There is a lot of anti-Specter sentiment for a lot of reasons….More than most people are willing to talk about. Remember Thornburg vs. Wofford? And Scott Brown being 20 points down just day before the race?

Traditional media and polling just can’t cut it anymore. Media cites like Pa2010 and the live comments will tell you more than anything you read anywhere.

2. While Toomey is not currently in office and can claim a fight of anti-incumbency, the reality is that Sestak is the fresh face here. Toomey spent years in office and some may argue was in the Congress that created some of the problems we see today in spending. You decide.

3. Undecideds: The Polls stopped talking about the undecideds becuase they have never seen so many undecided in more than 20 years …. They just don’t know how to account for them and are too embarrassed to tell their client for whom they are doing polling that they have no clue what that means.

4. Negatives: Specter has the highest negatives. Toomey the second highest negatives. Why is no one posting that?

The reality is that undecideds and negatives are not being given the consideration they should so the polls are just pushing what they want to tell.

Republicans: If you want Toomey to win – get your Dem friends to vote for Specter in the primary.

Democrats: If you want to win the seat for dems, the only chance is voting for Sestak.

Sestak has proven himself to me as untrustworthy, for a lot of reasons, but primarily for trying to pin a felony on President Obama and his administration. Some True Blue Democrat he is … NOT.
Arlen Specter has been a moderate during his time in the Senate. In my opinion, he switch parties last year, not because he was changing, but because the GOP had simply become an extremist right-wing Party of No.

This really isn’t even a question…There is only one Democrat in the field. Specter is only a Democrat because he’s running from pat toomey, not running for democratic ideals. Joe Sestak is willing to lose his job for what’s right; Specter would never do that.

Adam,this election is about us and what being a democrat means. I registered as a democrat 42 years ago and cast my first presidential vote for Hubert Humphrey. Over the next 42 years I never voted for a Republican for national office. Why? Not because they had an R after their names on the ballot. I never voted for republicans because they espoused a political philosophy that I found corrupt at best and morally bankrupt at worst.
I am a democrat. I don’t believe government is the problem. I don’t believe in trickle down economics or tax cuts for the rich. I don’t believe in racism masquerading as states rights or fear and loathing disguised as tea party patriotism. And most of all I don’t believe that my party’s core, fundamental ideals are time sensitive. It is as true today as it was 42 years ago that government has an important role to play in reigning in the worst excesses of the marketplace. It is as true today as it was 42 years ago that cutting taxes for the richest Americans does not produce tickle down wealth. And it’s as true today as it was 42 years ago that all Americans deserve equal rights under our constitution. You can’t say you believe in those ideals today when you supported and sought the support of Rick Santorum 4 years ago. You can’t say you believe in those ideals today when you voted for and actively campaigned for Bush/Cheney 6 years ago and McCain/Palin two years ago. You can’t say you believe in those ideals today when over the last 30 years you supported every one of the Reagan and Bush tax cuts for the rich. You can’t say you believe in those ideals today when as recently as a year ago you said you would not become a democrat because, and I quote, “ I think each of the 41 Republican Senators is a national asset, because if one was gone you would only have 40. The Democrats would have 60 and they would control all of the mechanisms of government.” Of course 3 weeks later Arlen Specter did switch parties and suddenly having 60 democrats in the Senate was no longer such a danger. As Rendell has said,”we have to give our base a reason to get out, a reason to feel proud of who we are and what we stood for as a party. And I don’t think that up to now we’ve done a very effective job in doing it.” Arlen is exactly the wrong person to achieve that.

Like I said, I’ve never voted for a Republican for national office and I don’t plan on starting now. I’m voting for a democrat on May 18th. I’m voting for Joe Sestak.