This is awesome. Dent is a dead man walking. Callahan is building up an enormous war chest, and Dems are hungrier for this seat than ever. This is one of the best pick-up opportunities for Dems in 2010.

I’m not a fan of Dent, but why is Callahan’s campaign running negative ads already? I find all negative ads distasteful. Regardless, I support the idepentent running for Congress, Jake Towne, check out his healthcare platform. http://towneforcongress.com/platform-issues/health-care

that tea bagging bull crap is getting old. Jake Towne go find something better to do.

What a waste of money! If the goal of the ads is to get Gerlach or Dent to change their votes on healthcare insurance reform, it’s the same as flushing the cost of the ads down the toilet. It’ll never happen.

Instead, the DNC should be spending its money and effort trying to get Tim Holden and other PA Dem House members to change their votes. If successful, there then would be an accomplishment to campaign on.

Decisions like this one are a reason why Dems should not contribute to the DNC.

Again, it’s a silly numbers game (i.e., are there more Ds or Rs?). Ds and Rs don’t matter if healthcare insurance reform — and therefore lives — go down the drain.

Lee you are completely right. This is mere window dressing. The DNC knows that in order for their bill to pass they need to get their members in line. But the districts that many of their members represent do not want this bill in any shape or form. Pelosi is going to sacrifice these folks for her cause, but will likely fail. This ad running scheme is merely an attempt to shape the loss as one caused by the GOP. If you have a majority in both Houses and control the Executive branch, why can’t you do what you want without the minority party? I guess some of the Ds actually care about re-election or are concerned with representing the will of their constituents. Any failure to pass what they claim is reform falls squarely with the Democrats.

You have to wonder if Callahan is kicking himself for not running last cycle when he could have benefitted from the presidential coattails. Regardless of the money raised or the district targetted, this is going to be a very difficult year for the DCCC.

It is funny that the Democrats are attacking Dent, despite Dent’s enormous track record of consistently voting for more state power, regardless of shades of red or blue- he is an independent statist- shouldn’t Democrats like this?

Joseph, you make an excellent point about attack ads.
good grief, do you have an issue with Mr. Towne’s health care stance, or are you just generally fed up with people who don’t trust the government, regardless of political party?

if your problem is with people who are anti-government involvement in health care, I simply ask you consider the effects that Medicare, Medicaid, and the HMO Act of 1970 have had on the medical sector.

I believe, and I think Mr. Towne does too, that it was subsidies (to individuals and to HMOs) as well as tremendous taxes and regulations on the health care industry which have driven up prices. The government started managing health care with Medicare, then it subsidized and mandated corporate manged care (again, see the HMO Act of 1970). The entire concept of managed care is not a result of too much freedom or not enough regulation. It is a result of government interference. The most effective way to reduce costs is to put patients back into control of the health care that they get; the only way we can do this is through more tax incentives for HSA deposits, as well as payments for Traditional insurance (NOT HMO/ corporate managed care). We need to give larger incentives for individual responsibility than for 3rd party management.