Sing-a-long With Cliff

More from Dem Chairman Cliff Wilson on Sestak's chances against Toomey in the fall.



Wilson says in a Sestak v. Toomey match-up, Sestak will be seen as a "moderate liberal" and Toomey will be seen as an "extreme" conservative.

But what makes Toomey an "extremist," he doesn't say. Of course, in general, the media will attempt to paint Toomey's social positions as being "extreme" when, in fact, they are more mainstream and moderate than Sestak's. Toomey is pro-life but not obnoxiously so. He will also be pro-gun and against gay marriage. But then so are a majority of Pennsylvania voters.

On fiscal issues, Pa. voters have grown more conservative the past two years. They don't like the bailouts that Sestak voted for or the huge spending bills that are putting the country further and further into debt. Wilson seems to be counting on the voters loving Sestak more for his military record than for anything else.

But Toomey won't attack Sestak's military record. He won't try to paint Sestak as a soft-on-terrorism, anti-war liberal. He'll be painting him to be a typical tax-and-spend, big goverment-loving liberal. And it should stick because Sestak's voting record as congressman reflects it to be true.