A Casey Collapse?
Written by Mark Harris on August 4th, 2006An interesting political storm is brewing in Pennsylvania politics. Sen. Rick Santorum is the #1 democratic Senate target in the country and the Dems scored a huge coup by getting State Treasurer Bob Casey Jr (who authorized all the pay raise checks btw) to run against him in the election.
The rest of the story I am sure most of you know about how Casey jumped out to an early lead and the problems with DC piled ontop of Santorum, but what is happeing in PA today is interesting. The Green candidate for Senate submitted 90,000 signatures to get on the ballot, he needs only 67,000 valid signaturs to make it. The Casey people reacted as expected, viciously attacking Romanelli (green candidate) as a mere pawn for the Republican Party and Rick Santorum.
A new poll due out Sunday supposedly shows Rick well within single digits and within striking digits of Casey. This is the same Bob Casey that blew a 20+ pt lead to Ed Rendell in 2002. This is still a hard fight for Rick, but to put it bluntly fighting hard is what Rick does best.
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As a MIdwestern Republican party official I am somewhat horrified at the lack of attention devoted to the actual discovery of the large quantities of illegally, and publicly disclaimed, chemical weapons in Iraq.
The liberal arguments for minimizing such the discoveries are pure sophistry (and I’m happy to take on any specific argument). The significance of the discoveries, other than the obvious vindication of their existence, seems to create a presumption that there is more, perhaps much, less unfound.
I don’t know why every major Republican isn’t jamming this down the libs throats, including the Democrat running dogs in the press.
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Well, to be honest I think a bit of it has to do with a late game decision to change the reasoning for going to war. If the administration had stuck to the chemical weapons allegations then this would be helpful, but since they weren’t patient enough for that they retroactively put our rationale in vague emotional terms that don’t really mean very much.
It may have been a good idea at the time, actually. It’s hard to see Bush winning re-election if he kept making the WMD argument. On the other hand, they aren’t exactly constructing a replica of the Statue of Liberty in Basra harbor these days, so it’s hard to say that the reasoning supplied by the neo-conservatives (loaded term, think nothing of it) has really had a great deal of success itself. France would probably have been a better place to start a war on a human rights basis….