The primary election results on Tuesday in Pennsylvania and Kentucky have the media preaching the message that the voters have anti-incumbency fever and that the Democrats may not be in as much trouble as originally thought.

It may be more accurate to portray voters as anti-Obama agenda or anti-establishment and that Democrats are still on very shaky ground.

Let’s start with the Specter-Sestak race.

Arlen Specter saw his 30-year career in the Senate end in large measure due to his support of the Obama agenda. He based his campaign on that support and received widespread support from the White House. Another factor, though not as important as his embracing of all things Obama, was the fact that he switched his political affiliation from Republican to Democrat when it became apparent that he would face a tough re-election battle against Pat Toomey over a year ago. The strategy obviously backfired on Specter.

The Specter loss, while not as surprising as the dumping of Bob Bennett in Utah recently, does have an anti-incumbent tone to it but both Bennett and Specter were big government politicians and that ultimately cost them their seats. Add to that the Rand Paul victory in the GOP Senate primary in Kentucky, where he soundly defeated the hand-picked selection of Mr. Establishment Mitch McConnell, and you can see it’s not just about incumbency.

In the special House election in Pennsylvania to replace the late John Murtha, Mark Critz, the former regional director for Murtha, won 53% of the vote to fill the remaining term.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was elated at the win, which many observers thought could go to the Republicans despite the large Democrat registration edge, but in the end Critz prevailed. Pelosi was so ecstatic that she cited the victory as an example of how the Republicans’ attempts to nationalize an election with an “anti-Obama, anti-Pelosi” message didn’t work.

Pardon me, Nancy, but Critz campaigned as pro-life, pro-gun, anti- cap and trade and said that he would have voted against the health care bill. That’s about as anti-Obama as you get.

Sean Hannity even remarked on his radio program yesterday that based on his campaign, Critz was as conservative as he is.

Yet according to conservative strategist Richard Viguerie there is no such thing as a conservative Democrat these days, as they will almost always vote the party line.

Critz took a page from the Democrats’ 2006 playbook when candidates who ran to the right on guns, abortion and anti-Bush sentiment helped sweep the Democrats back into power. That may work in a special election with a short campaign cycle, but in a general election where voters are upset with the growing government intrusion into their lives and want principled leadership, that won’t work. They have had 16 months of a President who was all about style and lacked any substance and the country has paid the price for it.

There probably won’t be enough time before November to see what type of a Democrat Critz will be and that will be to his advantage, but there will be plenty of other Democrats in less safe seats that gave their unwavering support to Pelosi and the President thinking that they had a blank check only to find out that it was going to bounce them out of office in November.

So, Speaker Pelosi, you can expect more of the anti-Obama, anti-Pelosi campaigning and unlike the special elections it will have an impact because the voters want to save this country, not destroy it.

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