From TPM Reader RF …
I’d have to agree with the first responder. Sestak is my representative as well. I donated money and worked hard for him in 2006. In 2008 I did neither because on some issues important to me (the war and whether anyone in the white house should be punished for criminal actions) he was a big disappointment. He’s very middle of the road on many things. However, if he opposed Specter for the nomination I’d donate and work for him again because he would be a *much* more reliable vote for so many important Democratic issues. There’s just no contest.
Arlen Specter thinks he’s a middle of the road moderate because he says one thing and then votes the opposite and he believes that somehow balances things out.
News is just out (we’ll be bringing you more in a moment) how Ed Gillespie and others are starting a new outfit with the stated goal of becoming the Republicans version of Democracy Corps. Good for them. And good idea for them.
But it does seem to me that this is maybe the 10th or 15th story I’ve heard in the last month or so of Republicans founding their version of this or that Democratic or progressive success story. And it occurs to me that there must be a good comedy routine here for someone. (Republicans to launch new canny Southern governor with impulse control issues …)
What other left-leaning success stories of recent years do you expect Republicans will soon be rolling out copies of?
GOP copycats fire back at Stan Greenberg: We are not partisan hacks!
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), then a US Attorney down in Alabama, made his name as a race and voting rights troglodyte by prosecuting three African-American voting rights activists on trumped up charges of vote fraud. That was back in early 1980s. (He’s was at it before it was cool, you might say.)
Brian Beutler just spoke to one of the two surviving defendants (who were speedily acquitted when the case actually went to trial) about what he thinks of Sessions’ elevation to top Republican on the Judiciary Committee.
Charlie Crist’s probable opponent if he runs for senate next year speaks out …
“If you agree with Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe on some of these issues, you might as well become a Democrat,” said former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, a Republican who is likely to run for the Senate, whether or not Crist does.
For my part, I would say that Rubio’s on the right track. Crist really should be expelled from the Republican party.