Specter's body language as he exited the podium after not even congratulating Sestak on his stunning win was that of an angry, bitter man. He didn't even have the grace to shake hands with supporter as he made his way out of the "victory" party in Philadelphia.
To the Chickaboomer reader who predicted a 55-45 win for Sestak: you win Chickaboomer's political crystal ball. Sestak won 54-46. The Universe takes out the Wizard of Odds. Rep. Sestak said fuck you to the Obama White House that tried to get him out of the race by bribing him with a job as Navy secretary.
Philadelphia Inquirer: Specter, 80, famous as an electoral Houdini, finally found himself in a tight spot he could not escape - standing for election in a year of voter hostility to Washington incumbents. Not even his surprise switch in parties 13 months ago could save him.
Keith Olbermann, co-hosting MSNBC's wall-to-wall "Mini Super Tuesday" election coverage, threw up a weird non sequitur afrer Specter split: that the TVs in the Philadelphia hotel ballroom at Specter's last stand were tuned to Fox News. Olbermann said something like they didn't realize they were watching the wrong channel.
Fox News peppered regular prime time shows with election results rather than going wall-to-wall like MSNBC. CNN did the same as Fox News. I swallowed my intense distaste for Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews and watched MSNBC - "The Place For Politics."
Matthews's obvious grimaces after Specter failed to get out of Houdini's locked trunk were inappropriate and unprofessional. Matthews had that chill up his leg like I'd predicted Monday. Matthews has enough rudimentary political expertise to know which way the wind's blowing. Or for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee, Matthews, seething as the anti-incumbent, anti-Obama activists are cutting the umbilical cord with political parties and truly becoming what Sen. John McCain phonily branded himself: mavericks.
Tea Party Republican Kentucky U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul's stunning rout of Kentucky's senior Senator Mitch McConnell's political machine candidate is a neon sign of the new political times. Screw your party machines; we don't need you to win and we owe you squat.
The cable news talking heads blabbed Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning about Pennsylvania 12 where the Dem handily whipped the Republican in a congressional district John McCain won in 2008 - the late, corrupt, bring-home-the-bacon playground of John Murtha. This was not a primary - the real thing.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and other speculators are blaming the NRCC - National Republican Congressional Committee - for dropping the ball on the one race Repubs should've won.
But the Dem candidate Murtha ex-staffer and protege Critz donned the mantle of a conservative Dem during the campaign. Dem incumbents facing re-election in November who went along with Obama's big government big spending are shitting bricks.
In Arkansas, incumbent Dem Sen. Blanche Lincoln failed to get the 50% required to avoid a runoff (she got 45%), and faces her Dem opponent in June. TV's Wise Men are predicting a blanching of Blanche.
Joe joked about the time he and Willie Geist won the Masters golf tournament. And on, and on, and on.
Blumenthal might has well have put an M-16 to his head. He's dead.
The only Tuesday winner? Indiana Republican Congressman Mark Souder. On any other day, the eight-term Souder's resignation effective Friday over an affair with a staffer would've fed the anti-Republican family values cable news grinder for multiple news cycles.
Souder was smart to leak his statement to Fox News before the shit hit the fan Tuesday morning. Fickle CNN and MSNBC had too much competing political election news to give Souder the proper customary liberal reaming.
The Biggest Loser: Obama. Every political candidate he's either endorsed or campaigned for has lost. If this were sex, flaccid Obama would be popping those little blue pills.
Olbermann saying they are watching the wrong channel. Hmm. Like Steve Martin's character in "The Jerk", while getting shot at, saying, "Someone is shooting at these oil cans!"
ReplyDeleteFOX should have gone with election coverage so we wouldn't have had to watch MSNBC. it's hard watching those clowns
ReplyDeleteI went to MSNBC when Greta Van Susteren had a borrrring interview with John McCain on immigration. Pre-taped, I think.
ReplyDeleteShe's annoying and hard on the eyes.
agree you all, could not believe greta did that, I sent her an email that what a mistake that was, had to switch to msnbc and cnn to watch sestak, the little they showed of him and the panel that cnn was not to bad, mary matilan was on and I like her, believe it or not forehead was not to bad, went blank on his real name, I think its paul begala, rush calls him that, why the hell did greta do that?
ReplyDeleteBut Fox beat MSNBC & CNN combined in the election night ratings.
ReplyDeleteSandra, you got Paul's name right!