Polimania

Posted By TomInReston on April 28, 2009

While Democrats inside the beltway are jubilant over Alen Specter’s decision to join their ranks — and I’ll admit I’m not unhappy at the prospect of having sixty votes in the Senate, when we do — I find the fawning over Specter to be an insult to grass roots Democrats across the country.

This is an example of the insiders club taking care of its own, and throwing a pretty strong candidate under the bus in the process. Democrat Joe Torsella had raised nearly $600k toward a contest against Specter (or the GOP nominee) and had Specter lost the primary to Pat Toomey, a Club for Growth half-wit, might well have won the seat for Dems anyway. He’ll likely get pushed out now to clear the field for Specter, who already has promised to continue voting like a Republican.

So never mind about what the Democratic voters want. The big guys want Specter, so those of us who bust our butts to elect real Democrats just have to get over it.

Thanks for nothing.

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