Indiana's Joe Donnelly, Fighting Jackie Walorski and His Own Democratic Party

Donnelly is not considered pro-life. Where are those endorsements?? You can call yourself whatever you want, it doesn't make it true. Talking about lies and half truths... seems to be a lot coming from that camp. I'm really disgusted.

I grew up in the St Joe County Indiana area (where South Bend is located) and have long seen the hold the dems have in that area. I no longer live in Indiana but my opinion is if it walks like a Republican and talks like a Republican it should BE a Republican. Donnelly is sitting on the fence with conservative ideas but wants the backing of the Dems to stay in office as a Republican running for office just does not do well in the northwest area of Indiana. As for me, I would love to see the Republican candidate kick behind up there.

Donnelly is a Tea Party Democrat. He will not be the last. Democrats used to stand for states rights, limiting or in some cases eliminating governmental intrusions into personal lives, direct and as-local-as-it-can-be connection between common people and the those who represent them. Common sense was once sought rather than scorned by them. Democrats were considered a "big tent" where strict adherence to a shrieking agenda was not required, etc. Until the Democrats return to their core principles, or at least articulate AND live by some principles other than "we want power", "the Republicans are worse and probably are secretly evil and hating you and plotting to enslave or exploit you" and "it's a federal problem and needs a federal solution" and "we are the the only ones who will keep supplying you on your bread-and-circus habit", the slow progression away from their junk will continue. That said, the same is true of Repbulicans. I don't think most Repubs or Dems have figured out how fundamental the danger is of the spirit behind the Tea Party... the Repubs are trying to coopt them, and the Dems distance themselves as if teh TP'ers have nothing to do with Democratic politics.... it will not be quick and there will be 3 steps forward and sometimes 2 steps back, but the baby boomer administration of this country without principle or plan must eventually crash down. Money that is not valueless is frosting produced by real economic production,by work that generates more than its inputs, and cannot be decreed or legislated into existence. Freedom means some folks need to be free to fail. You cannot keep promising a group that you are there to lift them up when all you do is placate them while they stay down, and aren't even given the freedom to try on their own.

Mr. Donnally may be a fine man. We in IN know, however, that he is a big union supporter and with the legislation the Obama admin has in it's playbook waiting for the new congress, we can't afford to take any chances that he will actually buck the Pelosi plan. He votes his party. He was not so vocal in his "independence" during the past two years.