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Hey, Who’s That Guy in the Fedora?

Posted on | September 15, 2010 | 9 Comments

The Right Scoop has video of Christine O’Donnell’s victory speech, while I was shooting with the infamous pink BarbieCam in the front row:

Category: Delaware, Video

PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS HQ UPDATE: O’DONNELL WINS!

Posted on | September 14, 2010 | 145 Comments

States:

Delaware

DOVER, Delaware
UPDATE 10:40 p.m. ET — In an impr0mptu press conference following her victory speech, Christine O’Donnell was asked about reports that those treacherous bastards at the NRSC won’t support her campaign, and replied far more graciously than I would have: “For the greater good, we’re putting this [e.g., Castle’s smear campaign] behind us,” she said. “Together, we can win.”

UPDATE 9:25 p.m. — It’s a real celebration here now. The music right now is deafening: U2’s “Beautiful Day.” Here’s video of earlier, when the first results were reported on TV:

UPDATE 9 p.m. — Christine O’Donnell has won the Delaware GOP Senate primary, defeating Mike Castle, Allahpundit, Charles Krauthammer, and Jim Geraghty.  With 75% of precincts reporting, O’Donnell leads 53%-46%. Dan Riehl is reportedly offering pudding to Ace of Spades. The DJ here is playing Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion.”

UPDATE 8:34 p..m. –Cheers of “Go, Christine!” here at the Elks Lodge that is O’Donnell HQ, as she leads with 55% to 45% for that worthless RINO with 14% of precincts reporting.

PREVIOUSLY: I’m at Christine O’Donnell campaign victory headquarters at the Elks Lodge. No fewer than seven TV satellite trucks are in the parking lot. I’m seated at the press table between Alex Pappas of the Daily Caller and Robert Costa of the RINO-endorsing National Review.


Maryland

Official State Results

Update 10:00 PM
Senate:
Eric Wargotz, 34%
Jim Rutledge, 32%

Governor:
Robert Ehrlich, 78%
Brian Murphy, 22% (Sarah Palin endorsement)

MD-5 (Steny Hoyer-D, incumbent)
Charles Lollar, 64% (Oooh rah!)
Collins Bailey, 27%

Update 9:10 PM
Senate:
Jim Rutledge, 35%
Eric Wargotz, 32%

Governor:
Robert Ehrlich, 82%
Brian Murphy, 18% (Sarah Palin endorsement)

MD-5
Charles Lollar, 64% (Oooh rah!)
Collins Bailey, 26%

New York

Official State Results
Update 10:00 PM
Governor, to run against Andrew Cuomo (yeah, Ruling Class!)
Carl Paladino 72%
Rick Lazio 28%
7% reporting

NY-1
Randy Altschuler, 46% (yet another success story for this blog.)
George Demos, 31%
Chris Cox, 22%
17% reporting

NY-23
Douglas Hoffman, 55%
Matthew Doheny, 45%
4% reporting


Wisconsin

Official State Results

Category: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware, Election, Republicans, Senate

Greetings from Delaware!

Posted on | September 14, 2010 | 29 Comments

DOVER, Delaware — Allahpundit is mystified by the GOP Establishment’s pronouncement that it is “cautiously confident” of a Mike Castle victory. Well, after their all-out slime attack on Christine O’Donnell, anything but a Geraghty-pleasing Castle landslide would be . . . well, a small wonder.

“Small wonder” being sort of a nickname for this tiny speck of a state. Surprisingly, parts of Delaware are still rural. Ten miles west of Dover, near the town of Hartly, you see Amish buggies riding past cornfields. And guess what was the first campaign sign I saw after crossing the border from Maryland?

It’s like some kind of an omen, I tell you! Also, I heard two O’Donnell commercials on the local talk-radio station. Even Ace of Spades is now predicting a O’Donnell victory, although my best source with Team Christine here — who doesn’t want to be identified — says, “It’s gonna be a long night.”

Polls close at 8 p.m. ET here, and  Primary Election Night HQ will soon be in operation. Say a prayer.

UPDATE: PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS HQ

Category: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware, Election, Senate, Uncategorized

Stacy Is 28 Miles Out Of Dover

Posted on | September 14, 2010 | 21 Comments

by Smitty

I just got off the phone with him. He’ll be setting up The World’s Funkiest Laptop and offering full election coverage. Can we anticipate a Joe Miller-esque RINOplasty in Delaware? Stay tuned. Stacy blogs like he drives.

Category: Uncategorized

GOP Slime Time

Posted on | September 14, 2010 | 16 Comments

Jim Greer, the corrupt former Florida GOP chairman who tried to rig the Senate primary for his RINO buddy Charlie Crist, apparently decided that trashing Republicans might help him stay out of prison:

“Unfortunately, I found that many within the GOP have racist views and I apologize to the President for my opposition to his speech last year and my efforts to placate the extremists who dominate our Party today.”

Yeah, “racists” and “extremists” — tell it to the prison guards, Jimbo.

Category: Crime, Florida, Racism

VIDEO: 9/12 DC VA Attorney General Cuccinelli Intro And Speech

Posted on | September 14, 2010 | 3 Comments

by Smitty

There are insufficient superlatives available for Ken Cuccinnelli. If you only have time for one, try “3 of 4” below. Felice is a fine speaker in her own right, offering important ObamaCare insights:

The Rousing conclusion of the Cuccinelli intro.

ObamaCare is the greatest erosion of liberty in his life. He invokes Patrick Henry.

The lawsuit is not about health care, it is about liberty. Federalism is at stake.

Look: a public official taking his oath seriously. This is an increasing trend, but more is better. Wait — is our government less tyrannical than King George III and the Parliament, or more?

Is it really going to take another year and a half to kill ObamaCare through the legal system? If the State AG is the last line of defense, then KC is your sunshine band. OK, that was a stupid joke.

Cuccinelli is the man. I still figure that, ultimately, State-level leadership is going to have to band together for an Article 5 cram-down, if we want to alter the situation in DC away from corruption. If not the actuality of such a cramdown, then the credible threat of such is about the only thing capable of getting the Beltway culture to act in the interest of the US, and not the interests of the Ruling Class.

Category: Tea Party, Video, Virginia

Delaware Fever: Catch It!

Posted on | September 14, 2010 | 44 Comments

OK, how crazy has the Delaware GOP Senate primary gotten? Crazy enough that it prompted one ill-informed reader to send Michelle Malkin an e-mail accusing her of supporting Mike Castle and — wait for it — also saying that Allahpundit is her husband.

Never mind the absurdity of that last one. The ill-informed reader’s assertion that Malkin is a RINO-hugger contradicts all known facts about The Boss Emeritus. Not only did she endorse Christine O’Donnell two weeks ago, but Malkin is so hardcore that she was one of the very few prominent conservatives who supported J.D. Hayworth against John McCain in the Arizona GOP primary.

Malkin doesn’t usually make a big deal out of stuff like that because she seldom engages in Red-on-Red action, preferring to concentrate her fire on Democrats. By contrast, Dan Riehl has spent the past two weeks going after Castle and Castle’s supporters with a bloody vengeance. Over the weekend, however, things got so crazy that even Dan urged everybody to calm down.

Let’s be clear who is responsible for this vituperative environment: Mike Castle, his campaign consultants, Delaware GOP chairman Tom Ross and the national Republican Establishment. 

Just as when they tried to fix the Florida primary for Charlie Crist — “Those treacherous bastards!” — the Establishment’s cliquish favoritism angered and alienated the grassroots. O’Donnell’s candidacy thus became a rallying point for those who have tired of the top-down control approach to politics that became standard operating procedure for Republicans during the Bush administration, when the Rove-Mehlman axis called the shots and expected everyone to fall in line.

Such centralization of political authority might have been tolerable if it had actually led to the promised “Permanent Republican Majority.” Instead, it gave us Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid in 2006, then gave us President Obama in 2008.

So this online fight in Delaware isn’t about who’s a “True Conservative.” It’s about whether we are going to let the GOP elite do our thinking for us.

The problem with the GOP elite is not that they’ve got all the money and prestige. The problem isn’t that their egos are swollen with the arrogance of entitled privilege. The problem is that they’re politically incompetent.

Rather than admit that it was a foolish blunder to anoint a septuagenarian RINO like Mike Castle, the clueless clowns of the GOP Establishment doubled down and went negative on Christine O’Donnell. Thus it is the Establishment defeatists who have dictated this kind of doom narrative to the MSM:

With an assist from Sarah Palin, tea party activists in Delaware are trying to defeat the Republican candidate with the best chance to win Joe Biden’s old Senate seat and nominate instead a candidate Republican leaders say has no chance of winning the general election in November.

So how’s the “nuts and sluts” attack on working out for the Establishment? Here’s a text message I received this morning from an O’Donnell supporter in Delaware:

“Just spoke to a friend working polls in district in Wilmington stronghold of Castle. He says so far voter turnout is slower than usual. This is very good for Christine. Many have told him they’re turned off by Castle tactics. Leads me to believe many have stayed home. Those would typically be Castle votes.”

Will Christine win tonight? I don’t know. It would be the biggest miracle upset of the year. We have been supporting Christine O’Donnell since Smitty blogged about her in March, and we’re going to fight to the finish.

The polls close at 8 p.m. in Delaware, and I’m leaving at noon to make the 150-mile drive to O’Donnell HQ. Hit the tip jar!

PREVIOUSLY:

Category: Christine O'Donnell, Dan Riehl, Delaware, Election, Michelle Malkin

VIDEO: 9/12 DC Brazilian Momma Grizzly Roar

Posted on | September 14, 2010 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

I’m not saying that Ana Puig, of Kitchen Table Patriots is only worth listening to because she’s an attractive lady:

I’m not saying that, when you consider Tito Munoz, and Cuban immigrants I’ve seen elsewhere, and Ana’s speech, there is a pattern emerging of people who have escaped tyranny elsewhere, particularly in Latin America, threatening to melt microphones in raising the alarm about the current Congress and Administration:

I’m not saying that Instapundit should get this passionate, articulate, patriotic, attractive Brazilian Momma Grizzly on Instavision as soon as next week:

Why would I be pushy like that?

Category: Rule 5, Tea Party, Video
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