Posted on 04/29/2008 5:27:51 AM PDT by Abathar
The possibility of the host of MSNBC's "Hardball" Christopher Matthews, running against Senator Specter of Pennsylvania, a Republican, for Mr. Specter's senate seat in Pennsylvania is intensifying.
Although Mr. Matthews said to Bill Maher of HBO that he's "not getting involved in it" when asked about whether he would seek the position in 2010, it is odd to employ his television program in a way that would make him a favorable candidate to run for senator of Pennsylvania as a Democrat.
Mr. Matthews, who is from the Philadelphia area, broadcasted his show from Philadelphia during the week of the Pennsylvania primary. Political figures that appeared on his national show were the mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, and an African-American congressman of Philadelphia, Chaka Fattah. In addition, Mr. Matthews interviewed on "Hardball" the chairmen of the Democratic committees of Allegheny, Montgomery, and Lackawanna counties, James Burn Jr., Marcel Groen, and Harry McGrath, local figures vital to any statewide candidacy.
The "Hardball" host would not be a complete neophyte to politics. He was a former staffer to President Carter and the speaker of the House, Thomas O'Neill. In 1974, he ran for congress in Pennsylvania. His brother, James, a Mongtomery County Commissioner, ran for lieutenant governor as a Republican in 2006.
If Mr. Matthews were to run he would join others in the entertainment business turned politician or who attempt to turn politician such as actor/body builder Arnold Schwarzenegger who is the governor of California and comedian and commentator Al Franken who is running for the Senate from Minnesota.
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I hope Specter has the health to stomp Chrissy.
Would he run as a male or a female?
We’re hoping here in PA for Pat Toomey to beat old Arlen in the 2010 primary, then whoop Chrissy’s ***.
Specter is trying a PR campaign to play conservative right now by talking about a flat tax with Gorver Norquist.
A typical pre-election trick from Specter.
Difficult to select just one response:
And we’d notice the difference how?
Mathews is incapable of abiding the Senate rules on civility.
Is he changing jobs, just in front of getting fired for lousy ratings?
This is a extreme example of how our POS liberal candidate is slightly better than their POS liberal candidate.
Can’t we seek some new blood? Perhaps that nice gentleman that GWB endorsed Spectre instead of?
Hmmm - a comma might have been used there.
Or perhaps the intention came through.
WHAT?
He was a “staffer” for Jimmy Carter?
WOW!
He is DEFINITELY qualified to be a Senator.
I thought Specter was retiring.
I wish specter was a republican
Why not Rick Santorum taking out Spector in the primary?
Typical tough guy Chris. Go after a guy with cancer. Be a big ego boost for him.
Chrwissy has a deaf ear to Pennsylvania politics. He opposed Fast Eddie Rendell who supported Hillary. Fast Eddie is on the record that MSNBC was in the tank for Obama. Chrwissy has no chance with those bitter voters. As clueless as Specter is, he is smart enough to read local politics. Chrwissy is a talking head at the bottom of the cable network food chain, he could not master the wholesale or retail politics necessary to win a state wide office that is unless DC becomes a state.
I don’t know all the answers but if Toomey’s in there, Rick knows his road back starts with ditching Arlen and supporting Pat Toomey.
If he dares to run with Toomey in the race he is simply Arlen’s boy again splitting the opposition.
Draft Lenny Dykstra now!
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