by Smitty
It’s important to remember that the square roots of a house divided against itself cannot multiply. Michelle Malkin reports that Castle is showing just how worthy he was of any support:
A Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) campaign source confirmed to The Hill late Tuesday that the longtime congressman will not be endorsing Christine O’Donnell.
More at Hot Air, where the NRSC is sporting stage 5 cranial rectalitis:
They’re trying to limit the damage from the race but they’re only going to end up expanding it, and to pull the plug on her when she’s literally in the middle of her victory speech will stick in the craw of righties nationwide who are excited by her win. Just spend what you have to spend on her to give her a fair chance of winning, which is unlikely but possible. If you shortchange her, you only alienate people you need in November.
Get bent, ye sore losers. Rick James explains what the GOP requires:
Unity:
Brother, sister,
There’s got to be,
Uuuuuuniiiiiity.
Yeeeeeeahhh.
Unity.
Unity’s what missing in our
Liiiiiiiiiives.
Can’t you see?
Wee need looooooove.
A little word of confidence.
Every now and then.
A little hoooonesty,
And trust among us.
A little love and harmony,
And there’ll surely be,
Some unity,
Unity,
Unity.
(Unity)
On the other hand:
Via Daniel Foster,
–CNN’s Mark Preston quotes an unnamed GOP official: “Until she demonstrates some viability in the polls we are not going to have any money for her.” The official said it is now incumbent on Jim DeMint, Sarah Palin, and the Tea Party Express to support O’Donnell. “They got her here.”
Hey, that’s just the kind of idiocy that brought you the national debt and budget deficit. Thanks, unnamed GOP [censored].
Also, one hopes the Progressive notion that the Tea Parties are some GOP sock puppet has been retired. The Ruling Class had better re-read the first three words of the Constitution, for those eleven letters are key.
Dan Riehl seems to be having some difficulties with Karl Rove. How long until we see a Downfall parody with Karl Rove in the ‘Stache chair?
As of this posting (8:37 EST) O’Donnell’s money bomb has reached 145% of her $50k goal.
NRSC, you need to get a clue. I hope O’Donnell raises $1 million today just to send a message to the NRSC.
As of this posting (8:37 EST) O’Donnell’s money bomb has reached 145% of her $50k goal.
NRSC, you need to get a clue. I hope O’Donnell raises $1 million today just to send a message to the NRSC.
Every $ sent to O’Donnell is essentially a gift to the DNC, since it is diverting resources from places like NV where the GOP candidate actually has a chance.
Every $ sent to O’Donnell is essentially a gift to the DNC, since it is diverting resources from places like NV where the GOP candidate actually has a chance.
Want some Preperation H for that butthurt, Jon?
Want some Preperation H for that butthurt, Jon?
Jon,
Since most people giving to O’Donnell are most likely not going to give a dime to the RNC, this is all new money to focus on winning a seat assumed lost and to send a message to the RNC.
Me personally, I have given to local candidates that the RNC won’t support because they don’t think they can win. As far as I am concerned, the RNC has a myopic and defeatist attitude that should be flushed from the party. The TEA Party is trying to do that now.
Jon,
Since most people giving to O’Donnell are most likely not going to give a dime to the RNC, this is all new money to focus on winning a seat assumed lost and to send a message to the RNC.
Me personally, I have given to local candidates that the RNC won’t support because they don’t think they can win. As far as I am concerned, the RNC has a myopic and defeatist attitude that should be flushed from the party. The TEA Party is trying to do that now.
All fun aside, I do hope that last night will be the end of three myths that have badly damaged the Republican Party:
1- “too conservative to win”. Something Rove and the Country Club Republicans want to lose in the static is the fact that O’Donnell didn’t just beat Castle, she skunked him: massive voter turnout, and over 7% margin. Evidently the DE Republican voters have a very different idea about how conservative they want their candidates to be than the national RNC and its paid sockpuppets do.
2- “you’ve got to suck it up and vote against the Democrat.” Evidently you only have to suck it up and vote against your own beliefs if you’re a Conservative… RINO’s and squishes get a free pass to change parties, support the other guy, or just go home and sulk. Sorry, squishes (and you know who you are): If this election is a matter of national importance… and it’s critical to win this seat… then it’s time for YOU to shut up, sit down, and support the winner of the Primary. Just like you would have told ME to do.
3: “Karl Rove, the great political fixer.” Nope. Karl’s advice cost the Republican Party big in ’06 and ’08, and listening to him will cause the nation to lose big in ’10. Same for Tom DeLay. Anyone can listen to a bad councillor once… listening to him for the third time is a sign of brain damage, or a will to lose.
All fun aside, I do hope that last night will be the end of three myths that have badly damaged the Republican Party:
1- “too conservative to win”. Something Rove and the Country Club Republicans want to lose in the static is the fact that O’Donnell didn’t just beat Castle, she skunked him: massive voter turnout, and over 7% margin. Evidently the DE Republican voters have a very different idea about how conservative they want their candidates to be than the national RNC and its paid sockpuppets do.
2- “you’ve got to suck it up and vote against the Democrat.” Evidently you only have to suck it up and vote against your own beliefs if you’re a Conservative… RINO’s and squishes get a free pass to change parties, support the other guy, or just go home and sulk. Sorry, squishes (and you know who you are): If this election is a matter of national importance… and it’s critical to win this seat… then it’s time for YOU to shut up, sit down, and support the winner of the Primary. Just like you would have told ME to do.
3: “Karl Rove, the great political fixer.” Nope. Karl’s advice cost the Republican Party big in ’06 and ’08, and listening to him will cause the nation to lose big in ’10. Same for Tom DeLay. Anyone can listen to a bad councillor once… listening to him for the third time is a sign of brain damage, or a will to lose.
D.C. is turning chaotic as the brokers try to salvage their positions. The House Democrats will be losing members and staff while the GOP – especially the conservatives – will be gaining. The Senate could well experience the same flip if the Right stays smart. Some won’t help, but most will. Meanwhile, the Karl Roves of the political sludge fight for life as their grasp of control slips through their fingers. They will lose money and opportunity along with reputation.
Chaos is good. Plus, it induces thirst for Tea.
D.C. is turning chaotic as the brokers try to salvage their positions. The House Democrats will be losing members and staff while the GOP – especially the conservatives – will be gaining. The Senate could well experience the same flip if the Right stays smart. Some won’t help, but most will. Meanwhile, the Karl Roves of the political sludge fight for life as their grasp of control slips through their fingers. They will lose money and opportunity along with reputation.
Chaos is good. Plus, it induces thirst for Tea.
“If this election is a matter of national importance… and it’s critical to win this seat… then it’s time for YOU to shut up, sit down, and support the winner of the Primary”
That’s one of my biggest annoyance with some people. Their candidate doesn’t win the primary, but they won’t support the other candidate in order to take the seat from a worse candidate?
Also, it is beyond me why local, state and federal candidates can’t work together to get elected. Find the similar platform and get it out there for people to see. We have that going on here in my area, because the 3 U.S. House candidates aren’t considered to be able to oust the incumbents, which includes Bob “Who are you” Ethridge.
“If this election is a matter of national importance… and it’s critical to win this seat… then it’s time for YOU to shut up, sit down, and support the winner of the Primary”
That’s one of my biggest annoyance with some people. Their candidate doesn’t win the primary, but they won’t support the other candidate in order to take the seat from a worse candidate?
Also, it is beyond me why local, state and federal candidates can’t work together to get elected. Find the similar platform and get it out there for people to see. We have that going on here in my area, because the 3 U.S. House candidates aren’t considered to be able to oust the incumbents, which includes Bob “Who are you” Ethridge.
Dean, you’re seeing that very clearly from the NRSC and Rove: “We think that O’Donnell won’t win, so we’re going to do our best to make sure she loses.” Then, when their prophecy self-fulfills, they pen smug little editorials (and you just know they’re storing them to hard drive right now, in preperation for November) about how they were right all along that the candidate they kneecapped was just plain unelectable.
The missing link is that the people invloved don’t really care if a Republican or a Democrat wins as long as the victor supports the status quo and is ‘someone we can do business with’.
Dean, you’re seeing that very clearly from the NRSC and Rove: “We think that O’Donnell won’t win, so we’re going to do our best to make sure she loses.” Then, when their prophecy self-fulfills, they pen smug little editorials (and you just know they’re storing them to hard drive right now, in preperation for November) about how they were right all along that the candidate they kneecapped was just plain unelectable.
The missing link is that the people invloved don’t really care if a Republican or a Democrat wins as long as the victor supports the status quo and is ‘someone we can do business with’.
Every $ sent to O’Donnell is essentially a gift to the DNC, since it is diverting resources from places like NV where the GOP candidate actually has a chance.
That’s a wonderfully lefty way of looking at things. The “resources” in question are not yours and not the GOP’s. The people whose “resources” they are can allocate them any way they damn well please.
Every $ sent to O’Donnell is essentially a gift to the DNC, since it is diverting resources from places like NV where the GOP candidate actually has a chance.
That’s a wonderfully lefty way of looking at things. The “resources” in question are not yours and not the GOP’s. The people whose “resources” they are can allocate them any way they damn well please.
I haven’t sent the national Republicans anything since 2006. Nonsense like their actions last night is why.
I haven’t sent the national Republicans anything since 2006. Nonsense like their actions last night is why.
Hey Mike Castle, there is a new joke going around, have you heard it?
What did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!
Hey Mike Castle, there is a new joke going around, have you heard it?
What did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!
Let’s note – Rove on Sestak:
“One of two things is true, you can’t have two things true. One or the other is true. Either Joe Sestak is lying and he was not offered a position in the administration in return for getting out of the primary.
[…]
Or, he’s telling the truth, in which case somebody inside the White House committed a felony…”
Criticizing the construct of a “deal” made for some nice ammo for Rove, and he got to fire away with righteous indignation. At the time Rove was right and it was proper to expose political corruption. But what about now?
If the shenanigans being reported by Team O’Donnell’s Tea Party contingent are true, then Rove has a helluva problem on his hands. He found it appropriate to deal with Tea Partyers surreptitiously to undermine O’Donnell to the benefit of his “moderate” man Castle; yet, he found it inappropriate for Team Obama to deal with Sestak. Now you could split hairs that the associations aren’t exactly the same, but the intent surely was/is.
Rove has damaged himself heavily. In trying to save his reputation for backing and losing a “guaranteed win” in DE in November, he is intent on damaging O’Donnell so that he can have an “I told you so moment” if O’Donnell loses. It’s more than petulance here. Rove’s influence and subsequent money is at stake, and he’s invested in sabotaging O’Donnell. Now everyone sees who he really is (if they didn’t know already) along with a nice dollop of hypocrisy on top.
What a stupid design for an architect. He built his own trap.
Let’s note – Rove on Sestak:
“One of two things is true, you can’t have two things true. One or the other is true. Either Joe Sestak is lying and he was not offered a position in the administration in return for getting out of the primary.
[…]
Or, he’s telling the truth, in which case somebody inside the White House committed a felony…”
Criticizing the construct of a “deal” made for some nice ammo for Rove, and he got to fire away with righteous indignation. At the time Rove was right and it was proper to expose political corruption. But what about now?
If the shenanigans being reported by Team O’Donnell’s Tea Party contingent are true, then Rove has a helluva problem on his hands. He found it appropriate to deal with Tea Partyers surreptitiously to undermine O’Donnell to the benefit of his “moderate” man Castle; yet, he found it inappropriate for Team Obama to deal with Sestak. Now you could split hairs that the associations aren’t exactly the same, but the intent surely was/is.
Rove has damaged himself heavily. In trying to save his reputation for backing and losing a “guaranteed win” in DE in November, he is intent on damaging O’Donnell so that he can have an “I told you so moment” if O’Donnell loses. It’s more than petulance here. Rove’s influence and subsequent money is at stake, and he’s invested in sabotaging O’Donnell. Now everyone sees who he really is (if they didn’t know already) along with a nice dollop of hypocrisy on top.
What a stupid design for an architect. He built his own trap.
Mike Castle, by your Benedict Arnold attitude, you show that Riehl, Levin, Stacy, Smitty, and Palin were right. You are no better than Scozzafava.
Mike Castle, by your Benedict Arnold attitude, you show that Riehl, Levin, Stacy, Smitty, and Palin were right. You are no better than Scozzafava.
PS: Kelly, you were right and I was wrong. HAte it, but there we are.
PS: Kelly, you were right and I was wrong. HAte it, but there we are.
The long knives come out for Christine:
I think Obama missed who the bitter clingers really are.
The long knives come out for Christine:
I think Obama missed who the bitter clingers really are.
$175 would be the max amount given in total by the RNC and NRSC towards the Delaware campaign. O’Donnell camp changed their goal from $50k to $200k. That new goal is currently at 61%.
So, if O’Donnell raises over $200k in less than 24 hours, does that make the RNC and NRSC reverse their statement about support?
$175 would be the max amount given in total by the RNC and NRSC towards the Delaware campaign. O’Donnell camp changed their goal from $50k to $200k. That new goal is currently at 61%.
So, if O’Donnell raises over $200k in less than 24 hours, does that make the RNC and NRSC reverse their statement about support?
Now that I think about it, I want to reiterate and underline my first
point: Running against a “far more electable” entrenched incumbent of many DECADES standing,
who was aided above and below the table by the state and national GOP, and
in the teeth of a massive bipartisan smear campaign… O’Donnell created a
massive voter surge that brought her from way behind in the polls to a 7%
victory with heavy turnout. It’s not just the woman- she does have
issues- it’s the message, and the ideology. If the GOP is too stupid to
face that fact then America is better off without them.
Now that I think about it, I want to reiterate and underline my first
point: Running against a “far more electable” entrenched incumbent of many DECADES standing,
who was aided above and below the table by the state and national GOP, and
in the teeth of a massive bipartisan smear campaign… O’Donnell created a
massive voter surge that brought her from way behind in the polls to a 7%
victory with heavy turnout. It’s not just the woman- she does have
issues- it’s the message, and the ideology. If the GOP is too stupid to
face that fact then America is better off without them.
Back when Republicans had ‘the numbers’ ie majority in Congress, I recall the ‘socially liberal center-right pork-busters’ going after all the big spending Republicans.
Fascinating how so many of those same ‘pork-busters’ of 2004-2006 elections insist that today we must vote for big spending Republican candidates in the 2010 election because their premise is that ‘moderate-independent voters won’t vote for fiscally-conservative Republicans because of the social issues’.
I suppose the social-liberal right of center pork-busters may have once had a good argument however their argument was blown to bits when Democrats won the majority in 2006 and again in 2008 after they ran so many ‘fiscally conservative-socially conservative’ Democrat candidates ie blue-dog Democrats in 2006 and 2008.
Back when Republicans had ‘the numbers’ ie majority in Congress, I recall the ‘socially liberal center-right pork-busters’ going after all the big spending Republicans.
Fascinating how so many of those same ‘pork-busters’ of 2004-2006 elections insist that today we must vote for big spending Republican candidates in the 2010 election because their premise is that ‘moderate-independent voters won’t vote for fiscally-conservative Republicans because of the social issues’.
I suppose the social-liberal right of center pork-busters may have once had a good argument however their argument was blown to bits when Democrats won the majority in 2006 and again in 2008 after they ran so many ‘fiscally conservative-socially conservative’ Democrat candidates ie blue-dog Democrats in 2006 and 2008.
Christine should be gracious to Castle and his Delaware supporters, (not because Castle deserves it) because she needs Castle supporters to win the general. Castle is a tool, but she needs to win over those people who supported him (similar to how Didier supporters abandoned their sore loser candidate to support Dino Rossi against Patty Murray).
Christine should take Rove and the NRSC/RNC on directly (which will help her win over indies who are the biggest group of all in Delaware), should focuse on her fiscal conservative positions, tell Delaware how she will do a far better job for them in DC than the lunatic lefty who is the Democrat candidate.
Christine should be gracious to Castle and his Delaware supporters, (not because Castle deserves it) because she needs Castle supporters to win the general. Castle is a tool, but she needs to win over those people who supported him (similar to how Didier supporters abandoned their sore loser candidate to support Dino Rossi against Patty Murray).
Christine should take Rove and the NRSC/RNC on directly (which will help her win over indies who are the biggest group of all in Delaware), should focuse on her fiscal conservative positions, tell Delaware how she will do a far better job for them in DC than the lunatic lefty who is the Democrat candidate.
I would have prefered a choice beyond Castle or O’Donnell. I do not care for Castle’s cap and trade RINOism and I do not care for Christine’s social con positions. But Delaware picked O’Donnell and I know she is far better than Coons. And even though I do not live in Delaware, her winning is far better for me.
“The official said it is now incumbent on Jim DeMint, Sarah Palin, and the Tea Party Express to support O’Donnell. “They got her here.”
Sounds like someone is ecnouraging the inevitable, a third party. Screw the GOP and their butthurt RINOs. We don’t need ’em.
I would have prefered a choice beyond Castle or O’Donnell. I do not care for Castle’s cap and trade RINOism and I do not care for Christine’s social con positions. But Delaware picked O’Donnell and I know she is far better than Coons. And even though I do not live in Delaware, her winning is far better for me.
“The official said it is now incumbent on Jim DeMint, Sarah Palin, and the Tea Party Express to support O’Donnell. “They got her here.”
Sounds like someone is ecnouraging the inevitable, a third party. Screw the GOP and their butthurt RINOs. We don’t need ’em.
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Don’t get me wrong, I hate RINOs as much as anyone, but, when the Conservative candidate beats the RINO there’s got to be Unity and the RINOs are sore losers, but when RSM’s cousin beats Haywierd for the nomination it’s supposedly time to support the Libertarian candidate with no chance instead of the nominee the Republican voters selected? Where is Rick James then? Hmmm? What rhymes with “gypocrisy”? Isn’t that supposed to be a characteristic of the other side, not us?
Don’t get me wrong, I hate RINOs as much as anyone, but, when the Conservative candidate beats the RINO there’s got to be Unity and the RINOs are sore losers, but when RSM’s cousin beats Haywierd for the nomination it’s supposedly time to support the Libertarian candidate with no chance instead of the nominee the Republican voters selected? Where is Rick James then? Hmmm? What rhymes with “gypocrisy”? Isn’t that supposed to be a characteristic of the other side, not us?
Red,
O’Donnell gathering up indies and others dissatisifed by both Dems and GOP will not necessarily create a third party. Reagan did essentially the same thing on a far broader national scale and reinvigorated the GOP from mismanagement under Nixon and Ford.
It is a plan that could work.
Red,
O’Donnell gathering up indies and others dissatisifed by both Dems and GOP will not necessarily create a third party. Reagan did essentially the same thing on a far broader national scale and reinvigorated the GOP from mismanagement under Nixon and Ford.
It is a plan that could work.
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@24 — John Smith
You’re either missing the point completely or rhetorically hitting the nail on the head by asking questions with such obvious answers.
It’s becoming completely evident that these anti-establishment O’Donnell-types are nothing else if not self-inflated “my way, or the highway” folks who would rather make these contests personal issue than actual ideological triumphs. I find it disturbingly ironic that, while clamouring for “unity”, they’re throwing around gay-baiting ad-hominem like “butthurt”, as though it were going out of style, just because someone civilly expresses an opinion contrary to theirs: that, politically, the selection of O’Donnell was really a mistake.
I’m not a fan of Castle, and I think he’d be precisely the kind of Maine-twin maverick that would come back to be a thorn in our collective side, but if the alternative is a histrionic, dishonest, self-absorbed lunatic like O’Donnell, I think the choice was obvious. The woman has lied about her education, has lied about her professional experience, has lied about her very un-conservative financial background, *ran a private consulting business out of her employer’s office on his time*, has misappropriated *campaign funds* to pay the mortgage on her *private residence*…the list goes on and on: this woman, by her very actions, has no sense of propriety, and she clearly thinks none of the rules and standards that apply to all the rest of us should apply to her.
And if you want to talk about “sore losers”, wasn’t it O’Donnell who made ridiculous accusations about Mike Castle a) being gay, and b) sending thugs out to stalk her children? Is that supposed to be “fair play”? Is that the way, O’Donnell supporters, that a candidate properly and politely expresses her displeasure with being behind in the polls?
If I’d been accused of being a gay child-stalker, hiding in the bushes for the next opportunity to pounce on a defenceless woman and her children, I would never endorse that woman either.
I understand the need to rebel against poor establishment candidates — I was, I am somewhat sad to say, officially a Huckabee supporter up until the nomination was officially conceded to mac. But rebelling against a long-time winner who better represents the DE constituency at large (he may be pro-abortion — which I detest — but then, I’d wager, so too are more than 50% of DE voters) in favour of a dishonest shrew who sued her employer for demoting her to clerical work, claiming undue mental anguish because she *had been on fox television*.
…Really?
I’m not impugning a decision to support the candidate that you agree with most, even if that candidate is less suited to win. I think that sort of thing should be a political consideration, sure, but I don’t think that voting one’s conscious over pragmatism is necessarily a bad decision. What *is* a bad decision, unquestionably, is reactionarily voting for a candidate who has displayed nothing but blatantly perfidious self-aggrandisement and tendencies toward unethical violations of rules and standards for personal gain — just because she is the anti-establishment candidate.
We on the *Right* who oppose O’Donnell couldn’t care less about her anti-masturbation stances or borderline-divisive religious statements. We could probably care a little less that she is less suited to winning in DE. What we definitely care about is the fact that she has *repeatedly* shown that she’s the type of person to not think twice about telling lies or breaking rules for her own benefit. You can say that it’s just politics, but this woman isn’t even a real politician yet, and she’s taken the slime to “a whole ‘nother level” already.