"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler
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.
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.
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!
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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?
by Smitty
Andrew was his loveably caffeinated self at 9/12, and this blog takes pride in its shameless appreciation of his efforts. For some reason, clip 7 and the mention of Katie Couric is the must-see, though enjoy the whole thing.
He stars with a media shout out and laughably near-sighted attendance count:
Constitutional Übergeeks say: ‘Enough is enough.’
ACORN memories. Breitbart the merry trickster.
On the Second Day of Breitbart, MSM gave to me, crushed ACORNs on a platter. . .:
How arrogant can the MSM get?
‘The Abu Ghraib of the Great Society’:
Hug a reporter. They’re only evil as an organism. Breitbart will have a network! Is Katie Couric raaaaacist?
Tea Parties have taken the MSM’s job. Tea Parties are Breitbart’s citizen journalism empire.
No, Charles Krauthammer was not talking about Meghan McCain’s Dirty Sexy Politics:
Thanks to The Right Scoop for the video. Note that Krauthammer states as a fact that Christine O’Donnell will lose the general election. But why, then, did Krauthammer support John McCain, who lost so disastrously in 2008?
Krauthammer’s certainty that Mike Castle would be a “shoo-in” is equally questionable. If a Tea Party Express ad buy totalling something like $200,000 can put Castle in jeopardy of losing the GOP primary, exactly why should we believe that he is an invincible electoral juggernaut for November?
If O’Donnell pulls off a miracle upset Tuesday, it would be a continuation of the same pattern we’ve seen with Arlen Specter, Charlie Crist, Sue Lowden, Jane Norton and Lisa Murkowski: John Cornyn, the NRSC and the entire national Republican establishment lining up to tell us that their hand-picked pets are surefire winners — and yet they couldn’t even win their own primaries against underfunded challengers!
BTW, I’m hoping to rent a car and drive to Delaware to blog Tuesday’s results. Please hit the tip jar.
by Smitty
Mike Pence was the ranking speaker of the day. Very easy to edit, and served up in seven pieces a tartar for your red meat delectation, 51, 281, and 1:
Clip 2 unambiguously calls for ObamaCare repeal:
We don’t consent to runaway Federal spending. No new taxes: Reid his Pelosi.
No new taxes, continued, plus the class warfare quote:
Chases class warfare with a twist of Reagan:
Doom and gloom is ours, if we don’t remember in November:
Doing freedom’s work is proclaiming liberty throughout the land:
What an impressive leader. Thanks, Hoosiers, for sending such to Congress.
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For the record, no one has suggested — not even so much as hinted — that Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) has a relationship with his cattle that some might call “unnatural.” But when a congressman leaves a meeting with his constituents because he wants to spend “quality time” with his cows . . . well, Mary Katharine Ham certainly seems suspicious:
Etheridge then left the event an hour early, leaving only his staff behind, because he got word from his wife Faye that his cows had gotten out. As one local blogger put it, “Bob Etheridge presumably spends extended periods living in DC, so one would assume a standard procedure for caring for his cows in his absence would be in place.” . . .
Why would these cows be trying to escape Bob Etheridge’s farm? Does he abuse his cows the way he abused that kid with the video camera?
Again, it must be emphasized that there have been no formal accusations that Etheridge’s livestock suffer a twilight existence of shame and fear. Mary Katharine Ham is just askin’ questions, is all.
Meanwhile, one courageous woman has promised to end Etheridge’s degrading exploitation of North Carolina’s cows and taxpayers: