From AOL. COM:
When the White House asked Rep. Joe Sestak to go on TV last summer to defend its planned shutdown of the Guantánamo Bay prison, he was happy to do it. During his appearance, he told me with a big laugh, national Democrats sent out a blast e-mail signed by Vice President Joe Biden. The gist: “Arlen Specter is our guy.”
The story nicely captures Sestak’s journey from prize Senate recruit to skunk at the garden party. Top Democrats finally succeeded last spring in persuading Sestak, a retired three-star admiral from the Philadelphia suburbs, to take on Specter, a five-term Republican senator. But they failed to persuade Sestak to drop the idea when, a few weeks later, Specter suddenly became a Democrat. So Democrats who once looked forward to a heated Specter-Sestak showdown this fall now have on their hands a potentially divisive nomination race to be settled in the May 18 primary…
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