Toomey easily wins Senate primary

BETHLEHEM—Republican Pat Toomey, the former congressman who became a Pennsylvania conservative icon, easily won his party’s Senate nomination Tuesday, capturing more than 80 percent of the vote and setting up a November contest against Democrat Joe Sestak.

Almost three hours after the polls closed, Toomey rallied about 150 supporters at the Best Western hotel here, and with his wife and children by his side, celebrated the landslide win over conservative activist Peg Luksik.

And he…

May 18, 2010 at 11:58 pm | Comments (0)

Poll: Senate race ‘too close to call’

Senator Arlen Specter holds a statistically insignificant two-point lead in the final days before his primary election showdown with Congressman Joe Sestak (D-7), according to a new poll.

The Quinnipiac University survey released Wednesday echoed what has now become an overwhelming body of polling data that shows Specter double-digit lead over his challenger having completely evaporated. In the poll, Specter wins 44 percent of the vote, compared to 42 for Sestak. And in an indication…

May 12, 2010 at 8:25 am | Comments (21)

Drafting Peg Luksik… onto Glenn Beck?

Usually e-mail or phone-call campaigns are geared toward passing or opposing a piece of legislation, or at least electing a candidate.

But after Pat Toomey recently appeared on Glenn Beck’s Fox News program, Senate primary opponent Peg Luksik’s campaign wants a piece of that action, and is enlisting her supporters to make it happen.

In an e-mail to supporters this week, campaign manager Jason High loudly proclaimed in the subject line “Help us get get…

May 5, 2010 at 3:05 pm | Comments (3)

Luksik recalls own pregancy in talking pro-life credentials

Underdog Republican Senate candidate Peg Luksik this week kept up the focus on abortion, her signature political issue to which she has recently returned in earnest as she looks to draw a contrast with front-runner Pat Toomey.

In a four-and-a-half-minute Web video, Luksik and her husband talk about their sixth pregnancy, and the dangers it posed to both her and their unborn child. Their sixth child, PJ, is also featured in the video.

Last week,…

May 4, 2010 at 7:45 am | Comments (3)

Luksik: Toomey is no pro-lifer

Republican Peg Luksik this week called into question Pat Toomey’s pro-life credentials, taking perhaps her most direct swipe yet at the party’s front-running Senate candidate.

Luksik’s campaign seized on a voter guide issued by the anti-abortion group LifePAC of SouthWestern Pennsylvania, which included Toomey on its list of candidates who oppose abortion rights. Though Toomey has for several years now described himself as staunchly pro-life, he had a more libertarian-style, pro-choice image in the late…

April 28, 2010 at 7:00 am | Comments (13)

It’s tax time—cue the Luksik rant

Well, it looks like Peg Luksik has taken another dive into the deep end of the delusional pool for her latest op-ed offering.

This time, like every time, Luksik is bemoaning the fact that she has to pay taxes, repeating the tired old “conservative” complaint that federal taxes might just be unconstitutional (didn’t Wesley Snipes try that one a few years ago?) with the insinuation that the “government” just takes your…

April 15, 2010 at 3:43 pm | Comments (9)

Breaking the contract

In every country, there is a relationship between the citizens and the state. The nature of that relationship determines whether the citizens are free or the state is a tyranny.

It was a break in the citizen/state relationship that caused the Revolution that created America. The Declaration not only explained how the relationship had been broken, it explained what a proper relationship should be. It said that citizens had endowed rights and the reason those…

April 14, 2010 at 10:30 am | Comments (7)

Beyond disrespect

We display yellow ribbons to support our military men and women. We pray for them, privately and publicly. We write letters and send supplies. In every segment of our society, Americans are telling the members of our Armed Forces that we appreciate their sacrifice and value their service.

With one exception.

The administration is planning to bring the terrorists who attacked America on 9/11 onto American soil and into American civilian courts for trial. The…

March 2, 2010 at 1:42 pm | Comments (13)

Luksik wants debates with Toomey (Updated)

Republican Senate candidate Peg Luksik on Thursday called for a series of debates with GOP front-runner Pat Toomey, as she continues a primary run in which garnering attention against a standard-bearer like Toomey has been difficult.

“I have attended public event after public event and been inundated with people opposed to the Senate and House health care proposals not because they have been told by the media that it is a bad bill, but because…

February 25, 2010 at 2:05 pm | Comments (7)

Between candidate forums, Morris calls Specter a ‘doddering old fool’

Former Clinton administration adviser turned conservative pundit Dick Morris headlined a dinner of state Republican Party insiders Friday night, delivering a scathing critique of Democrats in Washington full of punch lines targeting local incumbents and rooted in a belief that Pennsylvania can lead the way toward a Republican return to power.

“You can free us from Arlen Specter, who you inflicted upon us in the first place,” Morris said in targeting the Republican-turned-Democrat early and…

February 12, 2010 at 10:16 pm | Comments (43)