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February 15, 2006

Schumer Paves the Path

by AltHippo @ 5:14 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

As I mentioned yesterday, Paul Hackett’s withdrawal from the Senate race in Ohio was disturbing, and for a couple of reasons. First, Hackett came across as real. He just lacked the arthritis-inducing sludge that’s accumulated on the vertebrae of certain career Dem politicians. Second, Hackett withdraw partly due to the heavy involvement of Chuck Schumer (NYT via Correntwire):

Mr. Hackett said Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York and Harry Reid of Nevada, the same party leaders who he said persuaded him last August to enter the Senate race, had pushed him to step aside so that Representative Sherrod Brown, a longtime member of Congress, could take on Senator Mike DeWine, the Republican incumbent.

Kos, meanwhile, rallies the blogosphere around the Deus Ex Dem, a golden calf he seems increasingly at ease with. As shystee puts it:

Thanks, Kos! Way to crash the gates!

Schumer’s involvement with the Casey-Pinnachio primary is deja vu all over again. As BooMan23 notes in a conversation between Schumer and Governor Rendell: (quote originally from myDD)

Schumer called up Governor Rendell and asked him who the best candidate would be to beat Rick Santorum. Rendell reportedly said, “Bob Casey, but he won’t run, and you don’t want him to run.” Schumer explained what happened next:

I said why wouldn’t we want him to run, he said he’s pro-life. He’s a deeply religious Catholic man. Bob Casey.”

“I said, those days are over Ed. Yes I’m pro-choice, but we need the best candidate. We can’t insist that every democrat check off 18 different issues before they get (unintelligible) we could do that, we can’t anymore. And so, we persuaded, Harry (Reid) using his very…Harry has amazing insights into people…and we together persuaded Bob Casey to run.

Anyone hear the one about the path to a second Santorum term being paved with good intentions?

The support for Casey is premised on the notion that he’s got such great name recognition, because of his late father Bob Casey, Sr. Who was so popular as governor that they named Planned Parenthood v. Casey after him.

About that famous Casey name recognition. As much as it pains me to quote townhall.com in a non-ironic fashion, Tim Chapman has a point:

Casey’s base knows little about the candidate who has thus far been nearly invisible. But as his base learns about his positions—especially on abortion —he exposes himself to the ire of the left. Already, two would-be primary challengers, Chuck Pennachio and Alan Sandals, have seized this issue as a rallying cry in hopes of building momentum for a viable primary challenge. Both Pennachio and Sandals issued press releases this week calling for a “real Democratic” option in the Democratic primary.

“Bob Casey can’t win a tough campaign against Rick Santorum without a strong turnout from the pro-choice majority in Pennsylvania,” said Pennacchio. “Democrats should not repeat the mistake we made in 2000 in nominating an anti-choice candidate [Ron Klink] who failed to mobilize core Democratic voters and ran well behind the winning pro-choice candidate [Al Gore] at the top of the ticket.”

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One Response to “Schumer Paves the Path”

  1. eRobin Says:
    February 15th, 2006 at 11:12 pm

    Who was so popular as governor that they named Planned Parenthood v. Casey after him.

    Brilliant :)

    Thanks for chiming in. We’ll be running the Petition Drive/Blogswarm until the 24th so post early and often.

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