Has PA-18 Gone Mad?

Yes, yes it has. One can tell becuase the same people who assured us of a Hillary! landslide now assure us that PA-18 is a harbinger of GOP electoral Armageddon in November and the only thing that can stop it is Bruce Willis and his rag tag team of oil rig misfits.

Our friend Bill Katz at Urgent Agenda writes the following:

The "journalists" of CNN are having a field day. John King, who normally sounds marginally sober, was already speaking of a "blue wave," and actually used the Senate race in Alabama as an example. In that case, the Republicans, in a Republican state, worked hard to lose an election by putting up Judge Roy Moore, a toxic candidate with a questionable background. The Democrats put up a candidate who ran far to the right and sounded like a typical Republican.

There may well be a blue wave in November, but it didn't begin last night in Pennsylvania, and it certainly didn't begin in the oddball Senate race in Alabama.

Bill Katz is our house pessimist. The man gets paid to worry. He's not worried. You know its BS when the media are trying to lump in Alabama in this whole blue wave thing. 

One other item. Last year there were four special house elections and the GOP won all of them.

PA-18 was lost becuase of local issues on the ground. The question for the GOP is not will there be a blue wave, the question is what went wrong in PA-18? Mostly we think the Dems had an ex-marine, pro-gun candidate who doesn't sound like pox-ridden Nancy Pelosi and the GOP had a lackluster snoozer who sounds like your uncle at Thanksgiving. That is the Dems had a good candidate, the GOP had a bad candidate.

Circumstances, Ideas, Candidates. Remember the mantra people.