Chris Matthews...a new low in weaselhood for the Democratic Party. A slobbering, drooling, knuckledragging, spittle-flecked, loudmouthed, obnoxious twerp. There have GOT to be better Dems in Pennsylvania than this idiot. I'd really hate to be put in a position of rooting for that ghoul Specter.

Ha!!!! I got mad at CM for awhile. Sometime in 2003 he sounded more and more like a moderate Rep and this lasted until sometime in 2005. All of sudden he started screaming:

Where all all the WMD's
There's no proof of a nuclear program in Iraq
What are we doing in Iraq?

But sometime in 2005 he turned. He felt he had been lied to personally and he started looking at all statements coming from the White House like I had since 2002.

He thinks of himself as a Philly guy. He thinks of himself as blood tied to the working class. I think he thinks too much of himself.

But there are worse people than he who runs for office. And he has strong Democratic ties going back to Carter.

He uses the words "Peace Corps" sometimes like Guliani uses the words "Nine-eleven".

But that might bode him well in a New Administration that is going to push for more volunteerism.

Chris is bright and experienced and he could really be good at making a political point.

Spector has been through hell and back with his illnesses and he has always been a moderate. But he caucuses with the devil and his votes have never really helped the progressive cause.

It would be a fun race to watch.

Having worked with this guy at the SF Examiner way back when, I can recall a deeply insecure, yet very intelligent and well-informed guy who deeply wanted to be both right and liked. Many years have passed since then, but the guy I knew would get mauled in a big league political scrap.

Chris Matthews voted for George W Bush in 2000. He made his career on television as a President Clinton hater. He lives and votes in Bethesda. He's vulernable as another Joe Lieberman "democrat." Matthews' views may have changed since 2005, as one of the commentators notes, but No Joe Lieberman is a powerful argument.

For years Matthews was toiling in relative obscurity writing a column for the San Francisco Examiner when he apparently looked around and noticed a lot of people riding the anti-Clinton bandwagon to fame and fortune. Not one to miss an opportunity Matthews became the host of a new show called "Hardball." With snide comments, opinion offered as fact, selective guests and subject matter, he set off as many before him; Rush Limbaugh, Ollie North, Lucianne Goldberg, Matt Drudge, etc. to attract the Clinton haters with a constant stream of rumor mongering, criticism and viciousness.

His guests were among the most vociferous of Clinton's enemies; Robert Barr, Dan Burton, WIlliam Bennett, to name a few. Matthews once interviewed ex Congressman Bob Livingston and when Livingston tried to quote Matt Drudge, Matthews got into a snit, looked down his nose and told Livingston he doesn't allow Drudge to be quoted on Hardball, obviously implying that Matthews and Hardball were above pseudo-journalists like Drudge.

However, it was the same Matthews who had Rush Limbaugh on Hardball, and when the interview was over, said to Limbaugh, with a smile from ear to ear; "you're great, you're great, you have to come back." To this day, with Clinton long out of office, Matthews couldn't kick the cheap shot habit as he still manages to throw in a snide remark now and then. So today Matthews is obsessed with Hillary, and his commentary about her fits the mold. And don't forget how he swooned at Bush in that flight suit.

As to his man of the people BS, he lives out there on Nantucket in a McMansion with Jack Welch
and the late Tim Russert

One other thought about Matthews, his ego is as large as the Space Shuttle, and the unwritten law to guests on any of his shows; thou shall not disagree with Chris.

As jpearson insinuated above, Matthews is a weasel. If he's the candidate for Senate, I'm staying home.