You misunderstand the Pennsylvania situation completely.
1) Welch supported Sestak against Curt Weldon in a congressional race. Not Pat Toomey. Curt Weldon was about as corrupt as a congresscritter can get.
2) While I agree the state committee should have stayed out of it, they decided to endorse because they were afraid that former Democratic COMMITTEEMAN with tens of millions of dollars to spend– Tom Smith– would win a primary with seven people in it.
2.5) In this regard, they were actually trying to ensure the LEAST conservative candidate was not selected in the primary.
3) All the candidates had an opportunity to secure that endorsement (except for Smith, really) and all of them tried.
4) If you go to the trouble to learn about Welch you would, actually, discover he is very temperamentally suited to winning the ring suburban counties of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, which is key to winning a statewide election in PA.
4.5) He is, in fact, very conservative on fiscal issues, and as a successful entrepreneur and person engaged currently in incubating multiple businesses, he understands economic and technological issues far, far better than the other candidates.
