Sen. Pat Toomey has Ed Rendell and Chuck Schumer to thank for his re-election

By Robert Field

According to the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: “McGinty worked to overcome her status as a relative unknown to most voters by latching on to a traditional Democratic message and tying herself closely to Clinton, President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other party stars.”

Yes, Katie McGinty was relatively unknown and undistinguished, while former three-start admiral and two-term congressman Joe Sestak was the opposite.

Sestak was running way ahead of McGinty in polls, in part due to years of efforts touring the state, helping other candidates, and expressing a relatively populous message.

But Sestak, when summoned to meet with Senator Chuck Schumer who headed up the Repubican Senate Election Committee, and being led earlier to believe that he had the endorsement of former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, was not willing to kiss Schumer’s ring (or ass) by relinquishing his power to determine how he would vote on future issues.

Soon thereafter Rendell reneged on his verbal endorsement and publicly supported little know McGinty. Then days before the primary, Schumer and Rendell tapped millions in Democrat party and indirectly PAC funds meant for the general election to broadcast outlandish lies accusing Sestak, among other things, of opposing Social Security.

So what can we surmise from all of this? Sestak likely would have been more acceptable to the populous wave than establishment linked McGinty and he would have defeated Toomey.   And perhaps, just perhaps, with Sestak on the ticket, Hillary Clinton may have carried the state.

We can’t be sure about either supposition, but we maintain the Schumer and Rendell abused their positions and power to deprive the Democrat Party and the Commonwealth of the far superior and more popular senatorial candidate.

What a tragedy for Sestak, the Democrats, and, to our way of thinking, the State.