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The Spectacle Blog
Stop the presses!
Forget the Ground Zero Mosque!
Have you heard? Have you heard?
Holey Moley! Former Republican Senator from Nebraska Chuck Hagel is here in Pennsylvania today to endorse…Democratic Senate nominee Congressman Joe Sestak!
Yes! Yes! It’s true! It’s true!
It’s just amazing! The Liberty Bell in Philadelphia has been put back to work, its chimes heard all over the state! Men, women and children have been swarming into the streets everywhere from Altoona to Aliquippa weeping copious tears of joy! Eagles are lying down with Steelers and the Phillies have told the Pirates there will be war no more!
The ex-conservative ex-Senator who lost so much popularity in Nebraska he couldn’t run for re-election will be swarmed today in both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh as he announces his endorsement for Sestak. Hagel, un-re-electable in his own state, is being held up as a role model for Independents like Congressman Joe! Catch that subtle shift? Once fiercely proclaiming he was a “progressive,” Sestak is now stapling his future to a new found claim of independence. There is that troubling devotion to the Pelosi agenda, but hey…if labeling oneself as an Independent worked so well for Hagel in Nebraska, just think what it could do for Joe Sestak!
Seriously?
The only people in Pennsylvania who know Hagel remember him vaguely as the dialectic guy who hung out with Marx. Groucho and Chuck. What a pair.
Seriously.
This is big news from the Sestak campaign? A cheese steak could draw a bigger crowd in Pennsylvania than Hagel. And doubtless has somewhere today already.
The GOP’s Pat Toomey, leading in the polls, is surely having an excellent laugh.
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Paul Zummo | 8.24.10 @ 12:28PM
Come on, man. Between this and the Michael Bloomberg endorsement, Sestak is all but a sure thing. As soon as he gains that all important Lincoln Chaffee endorsement, it's a done deal.
Bob K.| 8.24.10 @ 1:01PM
I wonder if the soon to be former Senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter, who is originally from Kansas and, like Hagel, is a mid westerner; will also endorse Sestak, and if it will make any difference to the voters here?
Toomey is originally from Connecticut.
Tim*| 8.24.10 @ 1:04PM
We,Tea Party Rebels Support Pat Toomey .
"The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters in Pennsylvania shows Republican Pat Toomey picking up 46% support, while his Democratic opponent Joe Sestak earns the vote from 37%. Five percent (5%) prefer a different candidate, and 12% are undecided.
In every survey conducted this year, Toomey's support has stayed in the range of 42% to 47% of the vote. Aside from a brief surge in support following his mid-May primary victory over incumbent Senator Arlen Specter, Sestak's support has fallen in a narrow 36% to 40% range since tracking began in February. "
Warrior | 8.24.10 @ 2:17PM
Why does anyone believe that there is a tremendous amount of different between the R and the D? Doesn't Hagel, Specter, Snowe, Collins, Chaffee, Brown, McCain, etc. proved that we have now moved to a vote about liberal lites and progressives. It's the same two parties that have brought us to the brink of being a socialist nation. The only true Constitutionalists get ridiculed. Let the neocons now chime in on how Toomey will be so much better than Sestak and how the same Republican party that brought us all those entitlement programs between 94 and 06 is going to be better. It's truly a shame that we have to go to the ballot boxes holding our noses and picking the lesser of two evils.
Tim*| 8.24.10 @ 2:41PM
Tell us all ya know about Pat Toomey's Stand on the issues Warrior ?
Warrior | 8.24.10 @ 4:28PM
Bite me Tim. Pat Toomey's voting record shows him to be very conservative on social issues. He's clearly much better than the alternative. However, he'll be a reliable vote for entitlement programs just as he was as a congressman. I do like that he is in favor of a flat or fair tax. The question still remains, does his election start conservatives on the path towards a Constitutional government or will he again side with those who spend money we don't have but only at a lesser rate than the D's.
Tim*| 8.24.10 @ 5:13PM
Get Bent Warrior .
Do your Homework.
RealClearPolitics Interview: August 17th ,2010
" RCP: How much trouble is the American economy in right this minute?
Toomey: In big trouble if we stay on the path we're on. Now I'm confident we're not going to stay on that path. I think the voters are going to repudiate this leftward lurch this fall, and we'll have a very different composition of Congress starting in January. We'll get off this path. But the deficits and the debt are completely unsustainable. The huge tax increases -- some of which have already been passed others of which the Democrats are threatening -- those can only be devastating to the economy.
We already talked about how bad cap-and-trade is. Card-check is another real threat to economic growth. You look at the litany and these policies are already, today preventing us from having the kind of economic growth that we should be having. The wildly excessive spending and debt will prevent us from having the future growth that we could be having if we don't get it under control very, very soon."
Then Read : http://www.ontheissues.org/PA/Pat_Toomey.htm
Warrior | 8.24.10 @ 5:45PM
And Obama ran as left of center moderate. Do you want be to post links BO's campaign quotes. Read your own propaganda and call it homework, but don't lecture me. You are as bad as the rest here who only have an opinion and no tolerance for others.
Tim*| 8.24.10 @ 6:12PM
Hey Warrior , I'm A Pennsylvania Tea Party Rebel and was one of the Conservatives , who started chasing Arlo Shincter out of The Republican Party with Real Conservative Pat Toomey starting in The 2004 , When Ricky Santorum & Bush had to step in the last weeks to save Specter's Political RINO-CINO Ass.
We lost The Republican Senate Primary by a little more than 1%. out of over 1Million Primary Votes cast .
Pat Toomey is past President of The Club For Growth ,that started RINO Watch.
Warrior | 8.24.10 @ 10:28PM
Bravo for you. I get it, you like Toomey and have a collection of press clippings to prove he's the conservative candidate. If I were to vote in PA, I would hold my nose and vote for Toomey because Sestak is a penis with ears and a progressive. Conservatives keep tap dancing around the Constitutional issues and are running on one line slogans. When Toomey gets in office and if he takes stands and votes as a real Conservative on issues other than social, I will post on how wrong I was about him. I truly hope he proves me wrong, but somehow I doubt it.
Oldefarte| 8.24.10 @ 2:07PM
What a complete MORON! Chuck Hagel does not even reside in Pennsylvania. What, did he [as Johnnie Carson use to say] come to the FORK IN THE ROAD [while showing a picture of a table fork] and go left out of Nebraska? Hey, maybe Arnold S. from California will wey in also, huh?????
Brian| 8.24.10 @ 11:32PM
Reminds me of Dole who just gave Crist money and endorsed Hillary for Senator a few years back. It's all about the big tent.
ejp| 8.25.10 @ 12:15AM
Chuck Hagel was the most contemptible of Republican phonies in the Senate, since at least with Snowe and Collins and even Specter there was no pretense of them being conservative in any sense. But Hagel kept masquerading as a conservative yet when it came to standing up for pro-life positions and the hijacking of the judical nominee process you could always count on him to keep his mouth shut. The only time he'd ever yap was to push his warmed over George McGovern foreign policy to bash the President and make himself the darling of the media elite.