Amazing.
Pennsylvania’s Democrat senator — Robert P. Casey Jr. — is in a hot race for reelection with Republican businessman Dave McCormick.
Dave is a decidedly impressive candidate with a background in both the military and business. He is a seventh-generation Pennsylvanian, a West Point grad, a combat veteran, and he earned the Bronze star. He was also a highly successful businessman in his role as the CEO of Bridgewater Associates and served in government as undersecretary of Treasury and as deputy national security advisor.
Casey is famously the namesake son of the late Democrat Gov. Robert P. Casey Sr. After a longtime career in Pennsylvania politics, fueled in considerable part by the popularity of his dad, this would be Casey’s fourth Senate term if reelected.
Living here in the middle of Pennsylvania as I do, I am, along with my fellow Pennsylvanians, swamped with the usual political television commercials.
But what stands out in the midst of all the usual hoo-ha is a specific Casey attack on McCormick. What is that attack? Casey attacks Dave McCormick because McCormick has had the audacity — the nerve! — to say that he is — ready? — pro-life!
Ohhhh no!
Now, there is something going on here that is above and beyond the usual battle in this day and age between a pro-choice left-leaning Democrat and a conservative pro-life Republican.
And what would that be?
As mentioned, Sen. Casey is the namesake of his very popular late dad, Democrat Gov. Robert P. Casey Sr.
And as for those Pennsylvanians who are old enough to recall, Gov. Casey was decidedly seriously pro-life. Which put him in the headlines with stories like this one in the Los Angeles Times from the 1992 Democratic Convention.
‘92 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION : Denied Stage, Casey Calls Abortion a Party Litmus Test
The Times story reported — and bold print for this story has been supplied for emphasis:
NEW YORK — Pennsylvania Gov. Robert P. Casey, the most prominent Democrat in a state Bill Clinton considers vital to his presidential election chances, complained Monday that leaders of the party’s convention are bowing to wishes of “the radical far left” and denying him a chance to air his opposition to abortion rights here.
Casey charged that Democratic leaders have made support for abortion rights a litmus test for participation in party functions. He added that he speaks for a majority of Democrats who oppose unrestricted abortion rights and that it was “politically dumb” for the party to ignore those voters.
“I’m trying to get my party to be a mainstream party and not have a radical, extreme position,” Casey said.
Then there was this from October 1992 in the New York Times:
Protesters Silence Anti-Abortion Talk
That Times story reported:
Gov. Robert P. Casey of Pennsylvania, who was not allowed to give his anti-abortion views at the Democratic national convention in July, fared no better last night in Manhattan at a talk co-sponsored by The Village Voice and Cooper Union.
Knots of demonstrators in the college’s Great Hall, where Abraham Lincoln spoke on slavery in 1860, prevented Governor Casey from delivering his speech, “Can a Liberal Be Pro-Life?” at the Cooper Union School of Architecture.
Nat Hentoff, a writer for The Voice who introduced Governor Casey, repeatedly begged and scolded the demonstrators to let the Governor speak. “Murderers have no right to speak,” demonstrators shouted back, referring to arguments that women will die in illegal abortions if abortion is outlawed.
There are infinitely more stories out there recalling the fact that progressives of 1992 went out of their way to try and bully Gov. Casey into silence for being pro-life.
Among other things, they were livid that Gov. Casey was willing to fight for the pro-life cause all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he was famously named in the case Planned Parenthood v. Casey. That case, decided in favor of the pro-choice cause, like Roe v. Wade, was overturned by the current Court in its landmark 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
The irony, of course, is that in today’s world, Sen. Casey — who is doubtless where he is in part because he carries his father’s name — is running for reelection by slamming opponent McCormick for holding the same pro-life views that his own father held — and held when he, Gov. Casey, was savaged by pro-choice Democrat “progressives” for being pro-life. Views that Gov. Casey described as “a radical, extreme position.”
Now? Now Sen. Casey has not only abandoned his father’s famous stand for the pro-life cause, he is also making a point of spending serious money to flood the Pennsylvania airwaves with a commercial attacking McCormick for holding the same pro-life views as his own father.
Which all by itself shows just how far left the Pennsylvania Democrat Party has strayed since the pro-life supporting Gov. Casey spoke up fearlessly for the unborn.
As the saying goes, ya can’t make it up.
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