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Long Island Tea Party.

I hope the rumors are just exaggeration that she isn’t as ethically challenge as she sounds. I can’t handle the idea of two Dan Maes.

You people talk about the NRSC like dogs all the time, falsely accuse them of trying to steal the Alaska primary (never recanted, and repeated above by one of the commenters, but a 100% LIE), and then you wonder why they don’t write your candidate a check?

If the stakes weren’t so high, the stupidity would be hilarious.

(a race)

(a race)

As Henry Kissinger said about the Iran- Iraq war– “Too bad they can’t both lose.” Nothing about this campaign removed the huge numbers of questions and criticisms I have about Ms. O’Donnell but the way that the Establishment went all out to slime her made me think that the Del. Republican Party might have been second only to FL for corruption.

The fact that folks are still blasting her post-election (i.e. Karl Rove, NRSC) either tells me that the fit is going to hit the shan post-primary and we are going to have huge buyers remorse, or that the Republican establishment is universally idiotic to the point of political suicide. I’d place equal money on each proposition, but O’Donnell is the Republican nominee and I support her for the seat.

I think it’s a safe bet that some pudding was violated tonight.

I am not going to forget the traitors who revealed themselves tonight. This Chrstine victory has flushed them out.

Five Reasons O’Donnell Could Win
—Ace
1. Coons could always self-implode. There is a small but nontrivial chance any politician will simply blow up. Odds are maybe 2% of that, but it’s somethin’.

2. Coons isn’t ideologically suited for Delaware himself. He’s called a “bearded Marxist” — he too may be too extreme for Delaware. Thus, we’d have a Republican too far to the right battling a Democrat too far to the left. Not great chances, but not an impossible longshot, either.

3. Coons may not be a great practical candidate, either. Mike Castle just wins elections — until now — so when he entered the race no more experienced Republican challenged him. And, I think, no serious Democrat rose to the challenge, either. Just Coons. (In fact, he was unopposed for the nomination — apparently no one else wanted it, like O’Donnell versus Biden.) So he’s not a superman, either.

4. O’Donnell could actually grow as a candidate. She’s got a serious amount of work to do, and I don’t know if she can do it. But until now she has been entirely on the defensive against attacks from within her party (which is something that has caused a lot of anger among her supporters). Now she’s freed up from the constant defenses to do something besides all that. Will she rise? Probably. Enough? Probably not — but who knows.

5. The Red Wave might even be bigger than we thought. Actually, I don’t know about this one, because I was already thinking of an even bigger Red Wave than most people were and even my big Red Wave, in my mind at least, wasn’t enough to do the trick. But with a little help from Coons, and a little help from herself… who knows.

If any mix of those above reasons pan out, the O’Donnell backers will look like geniuses, because there is no doubt, we will have traded a very light purple Castle for a very red O’Donnell. That will be some trick, a deep-red Senator in a blue state.

I don’t think any of that will happen. That is why I have contended so hard against this, what I think is an emotion-based move.

But.

It could happen.

Posted by Ace at 10:09 PM New Comments Thingy

Five Reasons O’Donnell Could Win
—Ace
1. Coons could always self-implode. There is a small but nontrivial chance any politician will simply blow up. Odds are maybe 2% of that, but it’s somethin’.

2. Coons isn’t ideologically suited for Delaware himself. He’s called a “bearded Marxist” — he too may be too extreme for Delaware. Thus, we’d have a Republican too far to the right battling a Democrat too far to the left. Not great chances, but not an impossible longshot, either.

3. Coons may not be a great practical candidate, either. Mike Castle just wins elections — until now — so when he entered the race no more experienced Republican challenged him. And, I think, no serious Democrat rose to the challenge, either. Just Coons. (In fact, he was unopposed for the nomination — apparently no one else wanted it, like O’Donnell versus Biden.) So he’s not a superman, either.

4. O’Donnell could actually grow as a candidate. She’s got a serious amount of work to do, and I don’t know if she can do it. But until now she has been entirely on the defensive against attacks from within her party (which is something that has caused a lot of anger among her supporters). Now she’s freed up from the constant defenses to do something besides all that. Will she rise? Probably. Enough? Probably not — but who knows.

5. The Red Wave might even be bigger than we thought. Actually, I don’t know about this one, because I was already thinking of an even bigger Red Wave than most people were and even my big Red Wave, in my mind at least, wasn’t enough to do the trick. But with a little help from Coons, and a little help from herself… who knows.

If any mix of those above reasons pan out, the O’Donnell backers will look like geniuses, because there is no doubt, we will have traded a very light purple Castle for a very red O’Donnell. That will be some trick, a deep-red Senator in a blue state.

I don’t think any of that will happen. That is why I have contended so hard against this, what I think is an emotion-based move.

But.

It could happen.

Posted by Ace at 10:09 PM New Comments Thingy

looks like someone is hacking the christine donate page got a middle finger on it with -6605 raised….dirty tricks by the GOp establishment neve rends do they

looks like someone is hacking the christine donate page got a middle finger on it with -6605 raised….dirty tricks by the GOp establishment neve rends do they

Gee, Estragon: I wasn’t aware that the NRSC spent campaign support cash based on what commenters who don’t even live in the same state as the candidate say in third-party blogs.

Wow… until you spoke up, I never realized how petty and incompetent they really were! Thanks, dude!

Who was that handsome black fellow behind Christine during her speech?

It’s always bad politics to not at least congratulate the candidate who supposedly is closer to the principals you stand for, even if you don’t believe she’s electable.

Off the top of my head:
“We’re proud of the Delaware GOP for refusing to compromise, and we’ll work with them to see the most reasonable approach in what might now be a much more difficult race to the average Delaware voter.”

Or you could choose on-it’s-way-out Bush era bitching and stupidity: “Not one cent! The Tea Party wants her, the tea party’s got her! WAAAAH!”

Tough choice.

…and now Castle’s people have said that he’s not gonna support her for the election.

Don’t that just make the, “Castle’s really a good Republican, and you should be ashamed of calling him a RINO!!1!” lobby look stupid.

DaveP, why in the heck would pure conservative outsider O’Donnell want the endorsement of that gay RINO adulterer Castle who divides his time between hiding in her bushes and voting to impeach President Bush?

qq, why would an American care what your opinion is?

DaveP, that’s exactly my question to you: if Castle is such a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad Republican sellout whose career highlight was impeaching President Bush, why would you or the O’Donnell camp *want* him to endorse her?

Why do you care what HIS opinion is?