Club for Growth Backs Their Old Chief, Attacks Sestak
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) is getting some help from his old friends today. The Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax organization founded by Wall Street investors, announced a new 30-second ad today that will air statewide in Pennsylvania and attack Toomey’s opponent, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) as “very liberal.”
Toomey is a former president of the Club for Growth, which is currently ranked number three for campaign spending by interest groups on the Washington Post’s new interactive “Campaign Cash” table. He’s trying hard to cast himself as the moderate in the race, but if his previous record in the House of Representatives is any indication, he’s anything but.
But how conservative is he, you ask? To provide a frame of reference, the vote tracking service DW-Nominate puts him considerably further to the right than former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (R), who was defeated in 2006 by voters who considered his views to be too extreme. It’s a sign either of how far the center has shifted in the last four years, or how well Toomey is hiding his previous voting record from Pennsylvania voters.
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Comment posted October 7, 2010 @ 3:35 pm
“It’s a sign either of how far the center has shifted in the last four years, or how well Toomey is hiding his previous voting record from Pennsylvania voters.”
Perhaps, but it's also RACISM.
There is an anti-Democratic wave afoot in PA, WV, and surrounding areas, where predominatly white rural Americans who were once staunchly Democrats view the party as being against them because they're white.
The right has played them like a cheap fiddle, and it's getting results. They use race because it gets them elected. These people hate Mexicans, they hate blacks, they hate gays, they hate Muslims, and now they're getting around to hating who they see as liberals, even though they subscribe to many of the very same tenets as liberals. And that's because the media outlets that reinforce their base racist tribal instincts have poisoned the well of ideas so no rationality can get through.
No, Obama the black separatist Kenyan Muslim socialis is the enemy, and even though Obama backed Sestak's primary opponent Specter, it's irrelevant — Sestak is being painted as furthering the objectives of the “other” in the White House.
Make no mistake: this is a referendum on Obama, and inseparably a referendum on race. These people are staring in the face of the future of America and are panicked to finally realize it won't be a white one.
If you're white like me and circulate among them, you'll hear it spoken plainly; if you're an outsider coming around to ask questions, it's well-hidden.
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