Casey: Anything Santorum Can Do I Can Do Too!

I am on the record of being highly skeptical of Robert Casey Jr.'s claims to be a staunch progressive who happens to be extremely reactionary on women's rights, but I was also open-minded. Well, just like Ricky "Five Angels" Santorum he's endorsed the arch-reactionary-on-every-conceivable-issue Sam Alito for the Supreme Court. That's enough; Casey should not be the Democratic nominee. Chuck Pennacchio doesn't support the right-of-Scalia Alito, and he deserves the support of Pennsylvania Democrats.

...it's worth noting as well that Harry Reid--an actually progressive pro-life Democrat--is strongly opposed to Alito, and Russ Feingold will be casting his first vote ever against a Supreme Court nominee. Alito--Scalia or Thomas without even a libertarian streak--will probably the most reactionary Supreme Court justice in over a half-century, and the idea of someone who endorses him being the Democratic candidate for Senate in a state carried by both Gore and Kerry is unacceptable.

...in comments, Susie Madrak notes that another progressive, Alan Sandals, is running in the primary. Definitely check him out too; I don't know enough to claim whether he or Pennacchio would be preferable.