Ok we live in Lower Merion, and we can't ignore the obvious as hard as we might try. Honestly, politics is just the gift that keeps on giving.

Look, it is entirely possible his decision regarding the nominating process was legitimate, but seriously, Obama vs Clinton vs McCain vs Huckabee vs Ron Paul vs whomever else is bad enough, but honestly, when will the fun end with an election that hasn't even had a primary yet?

(Bet it will sure be fun to be a fly on the wall at the upcoming Lincoln Day Dinner)

County sheriff, GOP chairman fire off accusations in endorsement aftermath
By MARGARET GIBBONS , Times Herald Staff

COURTHOUSE — The fallout from the controversial Republican endorsement for the 17th District state Senate seat continued Wednesday.

“The endorsement was fair and above board,” said Montgomery County Republican Chairman Ken Davis in responding to earlier claims by county Sheriff John P. Durante, who was one of the candidates for this seat, that Davis had “hijacked” the election for his own candidate.

“He (Durante) is just unhappy because he lost face,” said Davis. “Let’s face it. He got his butt kicked.”

Durante, in turn, played a voice mail Davis left him over the weekend, berating him for usurping Davis’s authority.

...Lower Merion Commissioner Lance Rogers, a 33-year-old Republican lawyer, won Monday night’s endorsement by municipal committee people in a 112-57 vote over Durante, a 58-year-old Conshohocken Republican who last year won election to a third four-year term as county sheriff.

The state Senate’s 17th District, which is represented by Democrat Connie Williams, includes the Montgomery County municipalities of Norristown, West Conshohocken, Bridgeport, Conshohocken, Narberth, Upper Merion, Plymouth, East Norriton and Lower Merion. It also includes the Delaware County townships of Haverford and Radnor, two Delaware County municipalities that have Davis and Durante locking horns.

Durante maintains that the approximate 100 municipal committee members from Delaware County should have participated in the endorsement. Davis disagrees, contending it is traditional for the county that forms the largest part of the district to make the endorsement so as not to have split endorsements.

Davis noted that he had a similar arrangement with Bucks County this year