PA-Sen: Matthews to Sign New Contract?

[ccharles000]

From the Politico:

TO BE ANNOUNCED TUESDAY, or soon: Chris Matthews signed to a long-term contract at "Hardball." Last night, he was being affectionately called "Senator" at Linda Douglass' chic holiday party.
If this is accurate, then we don't have to worry about Tweety throwing his hat into the ring against Arlen Specter. Not that I'd think he could win a contested primary against a competent Democrat, but it'd still be nice not to deal with any of his nonsense on the campaign trail for the next year and a half.

http://www.swingstateproject.com

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Oh good. Now there will be some REAL qualified PA Dems...

the one that understands the people, not greed.

Hawkeye-X

[Hokie]

5. Agreed, Matthews would be an aweful candidate

All Specter would have to do is pick among Tweety's thousands of hours of stupidity on the air and use it against him. My favorite is the "smell of English Leather and Aqua Velva" comment about Fred Thompson. Now that was beyond weird.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/14/matthews-probes-thompsons-smell-sex-appeal/

[AllentownJake]

6. It's probably not going to be Specter

It will be either Toomey or some other conservative.

The PA GOP is the lunatic fringe now. All the moderates registered as democrats for the PA primary and have not registered back as GOP.

With a competitive Senate Primary and Competitive Govenor's race...they most likely aren't going back.

2 points seperated Toomey and Specter in 2004. With the nutjobs arguing that they need to get more conservative look for Specter to loose in 2010 in the primary.

[polichick]

2. Interesting...

When his book came out he mentioned that it felt good, but that he'd always wanted to run for office. Maybe economic times are too hard to risk that dream right now.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. The Politico blip

where the citation is listed: http://www.politico.com/playbook/1208/playbook516.html

Let's hope this is true. Democrats in PA have to have a seriously strong candidate in order to unseat Specter and that candidate MUST be able to pull Specter's Philly cross-over votes back to the Democratic candidate.

[AllentownJake]

4. He wouldn't win this is good news.

The only way he wins is if Specter loses in a Primary. Even than with his tendancy to shoot his mouth off he could lose to a guy like Toomey who would be Rick Santorum but worse.

[bigdarryl]

7. Nobody is beating Spector sorry to say he's a lock for reelection

[liberalpragmatist]

8. Good. Maybe Joe Sestak could run? nt

[rvablue]

9. This is fabulous news......Tweety needs to keep to what he is good at

bloviating on TV.

You can't interrupt and talk over people in Senate hearings.