Democrats Not Taking Advantage of Bob Ney's Vulnerability

Bob Ney is supposededly a top target for Democrats due to ties to Jack Abramoff. But they haven't been able to get a candidate to take him on.

Ney will face challenges from either Joe Salzer or Zach Space to retain his job. Neither of these candidates can beat him. Their opponent can only lose.

But there is a bigger story here. With a republican candidate so vulnerable and high profile, the Democrats seem to have dropped the ball. They could have really hammered the Republicans with a strong candidate sending shockwaves reverberating through the opposing party.

The Democrats problem in this case is that the Ney District has a conservative base. The only candidate that could stand a chance at winning would be a moderate. Moderate Democratic candidates don't seem to be the focus of the Democratic party at the moment. Thus the lack of a high profile candidate