Democratic Senate Candidate for PA Endorses Alito

And left-wing bloggers are going bananas.

Scott Lemieux heads a post, "Casey: Anything Santorum Can Do I Can Do Too!" and writes: "I am on the record of being highly skeptical of Robert Casey Jr.'s claims to be a staunch progressive who happens to be extremely reactionary on women's rights, but I was also open-minded. ... That's enough; Casey should not be the Democratic nominee."

Booman Tribune: "We are under no obligation to take this shit ... The Republicans are bad enough. Lieberman is bad enough. We need Bob Casey, Jr. like we need a hole in our collective heads."

I guess I understand this reaction, as I'm not happy with Republicans who vote against conservative judicial nominees. Still... I don't know. Seems to me you don't vent against a strong challenger to a sitting Republican Senator you so despise (Santorum, of course).

New York State isn't, on the whole, super-liberal. Liberal, yes. Super lefty-blogger-liberal, no. Even New York isn't ready for the lefty bloggers' brand of all-liberal, all-the-time-ism.

Do they not understand that maybe Pennsylvania -- a swing state, unlike New York -- is not the battlefield to make a stand for super lefty-blogger liberalism? As has been observed, Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh and Philadelphia surrounded by miles and miles of Alabama. (Not true and kind of demeaning, but I always thought that was kind of funny.)

Eh. Is it just me or is the entire sinestrosphere just goofy? They're in a perpetual contest to out-lefty each other, and, as far as I can tell, it's a forty-thousand-way tie.

posted by Ace at 03:26 PM

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