Joe Sestak not running in new PA-07

[Mr.Phips]

Sestak was an idiot for leaving this seat to run for Senate in the first place.  If he had run for PA-07 in 2010, he likely would have been reelected and Republicans would have conceeded the seat to him by taking by swapping much of Chester and Lower Marion with Gerlach.  People with Sestak's intelligance dont deserve to be in Congress anyway.  Same goes for Brad Ellsworth in Indiana.  You dont leave your safe seat to run for Senate in a year where unemployment is 10% and your party holds the White House. 

[Mr.Phips]

Sestak was an idiot for leaving this seat to run for Senate in the first place.  If he had run for PA-07 in 2010, he likely would have been reelected and Republicans would have conceeded the seat to him by taking by swapping much of Chester and Lower Marion with Gerlach.  People with Sestak's intelligance dont deserve to be in Congress anyway.  Same goes for Brad Ellsworth in Indiana.  You dont leave your safe seat to run for Senate in a year where unemployment is 10% and your party holds the White House. 

Good point. Democrats should have ceded all 33 Senate races by not running candidates at all. It was especially stupid to even contest this blue state seat. What?

Democrats already had a candidate and incumbent here, Arlen Specter.  This is like if Steve Chabot tried to challenge Mike DeWine for the Ohio Senate seat in 2006.   

[Mr.Phips]

Mr. Phips is right: Dems had a terrific candidate in Specter, a man who would have been comfortably defeated, allowing the GOP to spend more money on Senate contests in Colorado, Nevada and Washington.

Specter had horrible favorability ratings and trailed by much bigger margins than he trailed Toomey in 1992 and yet in the end, he won by three points thanks to hard negative advertising, which Sestak refused to do.