Why Chris Matthews will ardently support Obama over McCain: Because he has to (run-for-senate)

[elpresidenteAlex]

The reason behind Matthews support for Obama is fund-raising.

As a senatorial candidate, Chris Matthews could make great use of Obama's aura and influence to raise millions of dollars for the race against Arlen Specter.

Don't believe me Matthews is going to run for senate?
Let's see:

Several outlets, the Baltimore Sun being the latest, have raised the possibility of Chris Matthews running for senate in Pennsylvania under the Democratic ticket.

When asked by the Sun about the possibility of his brother running for senator, Jim Matthews said his older brother "isn't yet taking any formal steps towards a run.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/05/hardball_for_real_host_eyes_se.html


The New York Times' magazine recently said, "The more intriguing notion is that Matthews could challenge Senator Arlen Specter, who is up for re-election in Pennsylvania in 2010. This has been rumored before, but Matthews has been particularly obsessed with Pennsylvania of late, devoting hours on and off the air to the state’s upcoming Democratic primary, staying in close contact with the state’s party apparatus. “I talked to Eddie Rendell today,” Matthew told me on the phone a few weeks ago, urging me again to call the Pennsylvania governor."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13matthews-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all

The Raw Story quoted Matthews in April as saying, ""Well, you know when you grow up, some kids want to be a fireman? I wanted to be a senator."

The New York Sun ran a story on April 29th titled "A ‘Hardball’ Senator?"
http://nysun.com/editorials/hardball-senator

Matthews is doing what he needs to do to get elected a couple of years from now, and I don't blame him. This is also a break for Democrats since his show will be one less weapon in the mainstream media arsenal against us.

[davidinalameda]

1. Senator Tweety?

yick

[FrenchieCat]

2. We'll see......

I know that Matthews did more than his share of pastorbating, so I don't know if he "on Obama's side".

[deadmessengers]

3. He's got some pretty significant health issues if I remember correctly

Didn't he just take an extended leave of absence from his show to deal with some health issues? Diabetes, wasn't it?

Of course, Specter has his own problems, but I would think that Matthews' health issues would have to become an issue in the campaign.

[AlCzervik]

4. his campaign won't get past the "Exploratory" phase imo, his mouth is his

achilles heel, every stupid fucking thing he's ever said on camera and whatever stupid fucking things he'll in front of a crowd will end his chance before he raises a dime.

We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits. We don't want an indoor prime minister type, or the Danes or the Dutch or the Italians, or a Putin. Can you imagine Putin getting elected here? We want a guy as president.

[SoCalDem]

5. heh heh heh.."lean in Erin.. get closer.. you're a knockout" slobber slobber

and of couse he cannot pronounce his state.. calls it pennsivania

[AlCzervik]

7. they'll be passing out spit guards to the crowds. Ok the few people who show.

[Robeson]

6. Arlen Specter has a seat for life. It was a reward for the Kennedy coverup...

...his seat will be vacant, when he wants it to be.

[jbnow]

8. I know he'd love to be Senator but I'm not sure

that's the reason he'd lean Obama if he does.

He really, really, really does not want more war. I recall when the Lieberman/Lamont race was going on and people on the panel would say it wasn't easy for voters, some loyalty to Lieberman, felt torn. Matthews would say things like they should start thinking and quit feeling and not be so torn if they really are against the war. They should think about when their grandkids ask later what they did to end the war, do they really think a vote for Lieberman will do that? Think how they will feel if their vote is a difference that keeps us in Iraq, gets us into Iran.
He'd get passionate and I don't think he was so pro-Lamont.
He worries about something starting with Iran and I think that would be his one issue with McCain.
Obama? In Pennsylvania he yacked on about how the clinging/bitter statement was how Obama really felt and he said it to rich friends, no attempt to put it in context.
On Wright he said over and over "How could he listen to that for 20 years?" and would talked about money they gave to the church.
MSNBC's own Tamaron Hall told Chris Matthews that she went there, that it's one of two churches you're encouraged to go to when you move there. She described it some and said she never heard that kind of language and she checked with more than a dozen people who regularly attend there and they didn't hear that language and it shocked them.
Matthew's response? That it was hard to believe.

Chris hasn't been too ardent.