Okay first of all, wow. 61 pages of posts devoted to this one U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Is it really that important?
I predict it will have well over 1,000 pages by November 2, 2010 (Election Day).
You can't really blame Arlen for leaving the Republican Party. I think he did so for personal politically ambitious reasons after seeing that he would never beat Pat Toomey in the GOP primary. That notwithstanding, I do agree with him. The Republican Party has become so polarized that you
have to be a conservative to be in the party. Moderates are almost all but gone in the party (save for the Sisters of Maine and the three GOP governors in New England, as well as Charlie Crist and the Governator). The Party of No has quickly become the party of exclusion.
As much as I respect Arlen for his views on the social issues and sympathize with and pray for him for his cancer, we need to have a REAL Democrat working alongside Bob Casey Jr. in the U.S. Senate. Arlen's already said that he's not going to be a rank-and-file Democrat, which if you ask me basically means he is going to vote the same way he did as a Republican, only thing that's changed is that he now has a D after his name as opposed to an R.
If I lived in Pennsylvania and were voting, I'd vote for Joe Sestak or Allyson Schwartz should she enter the race over Arlen.
And the fact that Obama, Biden and Rendell have all lined up behind Arlen is a little upsetting if you ask me. The people of Pennsylvania should and will get to decide who their senator is, not the other way around.
