Sestak email blitz gone wild! [View All]

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I just got two emails from Joe Sestak within 24 hours, asking for money... its gotta be totally annoying. The second was a real stretch, someone better take him to the eye doctors because now he's seemingly envisioning that he's the spokesman for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party base, which ive obviously been a member of for years longer than he has. Here's this guy (Sestak) that moves to the state a couple years ago, was a lifelong independent, who hardly voted... and then now acts like he's the torch carrier. Then has the nerve to divide the Party for his personal political gain, when we need to be the "Big Tent Party" and unite together to win in 2010.

Here's an little excerpt:

"There is a real disconnect between the Washington, DC establishment and Democrats in Pennsylvania. With each passing week, as we've climbed in the polls, we've heard it. We've seen it. There is a visible, increasing crescendo by Pennsylvania Democrats that an injustice has been rendered upon us."

If Joe wants to talk about disconnect between Washington DC establishment and Democrats in Pennsylvania that's fine. I keep seeing claims on various blogs that his family may no longer live in their Edgemont home in Pennsylvania. So that excludes them from being "Democrats in Pennsylvania." Keep your eyes open.


Sestak may seemingly be pulling another "Tricky Ricky" Santorum on us Pennsylvania residents (w his Penn Hills home)... says something like i guess his wife appears to be a registered voter in Virginia, and switched right after Joe got elected to Congress in 2006. Ironically, the Sestak's appear to be not only part of the Washington DC establishment, but also "established in Washington DC" as opposed to Edgemont if this premise is true. So yes, from my perspective, there seems to be a disconnect with Joe's logic from the outset that he includes himself as one of the Pennsylvania Democratic party base, when i come to the conclusion that he seems an obvious carpetbagger, which wont go over well.

Here's another little excerpt from Sestak in his update/solicitation:

"Pennsylvania Democrats did not ask for Arlen. Pennsylvania Democrats did not seek out Arlen. Pennsylvania Democrats do not want Arlen ... whom we've been voting against all these years.

As Lyndon Johnson said, "the vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice" ... and that powerful instrument will soon be unleashed by the Democratic base, but we need your financial support to do so."

A couple observations from this one, is that Joe Sestak includes himself in the "we" (long time) Pennsylvania Democrats. I for one, do not want Joe Sestak speaking for me as a Pennsylvania Democrat, so he should use the "I" insted of "we". He already tried that a few months ago, using a quote from Jim Burn Jr, and misrepresenting the prominent Allegheny County Democratic Party leader in an email to supporters giving them the impression that he supports them, when in fact he does not. He finished the first sentence with "whom we've been voting against all these years." Sestak is obviously new to Pennsylvania and was not a member of the Democratic party until opportunism surfaced in 2006. Thus, it is quite clear that Sestak himself from his voter record was a "no show" at the polling place while in the military, so the statement is essentially false. Joe hasnt been voting "all these years" and never showed up to vote.

I do find it interesting that Sestak uses a quote from Lyndon Johnson, the escalator of the Vietnam War who lied and disappointed the Democratic base in the late 1960s. Sestak, of course is a hawk like Johnson who has come out for a troop surge in Afghanistan, which will cost billions of dollars and stretch our troops even thinner on deployments. Joe's really confused w Afghanistan and I am proud to say... Joe Sestak... YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR THE DEMOCRATIC BASE. Sestak, like Johnson ran as the "warrior against the war" in 06, then turned around and voted for the Iraq wars and to fund Dick Cheney's office. He too... has some things in common with Lyndon Johnson. Sestak favors a policy that will take atleast another 3-5 years and hundreds of billions of dollars... but a daily Kos article said that US surged involvement will have us in Afghanistan for a much longer term commitment.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/8/17155/6197

With this kind of foolishness, its hard to see how we can focus on jobs and healthcare, when Joe Sestak wants us to spend billions fighting an open ended commitment of a war. So I for one, give Arlen credit... jobs should be the focus and not feeding the military industrial complex for decades to come... having our children go to war, with largely debt financed supplementals. So, to speak for the Democratic base as a much longer term Democrat than Joe... Joe you DO NOT speak for us, and we are glad that President Obama, Vice President Biden, Governor Rendell and Senator Casey have welcomed Arlen aboard, where he'll be a great ally in the Senate as he's already shown. Stop trying to speak for others and start worrying about speaking for yourself on Afghanistan.