I couldn’t express it any better than Kevin Williamson did at The Corner on NRO.
About Christine O’Donnell: No strong opinion about the candidate, though I understand the reservations about her. I do not much weep for RINOs and rather enjoy the sight of them going down in flames.
What this really should communicate, I think, is that the Right needs a lot more Club for Growth–style candidate-recruiting efforts. If conservatives do not like O’Donnell, then they should be out identifying better candidates to run against vulnerable RINOs — because somebody is going to run. These incumbent takedowns are going to inspire a lot of new people to get into electoral politics, many of them without the sort of experience or backgrounds that Establishment types are comfortable with. Power, like nature, abhors a vacuum.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
What I’m upset with is the recent revelation of Karl Rove not disclosing his working behind the scenes for the Castle campaign by trying to cut a deal back in December with the Tea Party in Delaware not to attack Castle and keep them from endorsing Christine O’Donnell.
O’Donnell may not be the brighest star in the sky but at least she is a change. Everyone in Congress and Ex branch should be thrown out and new blood should be put in their place. In my 88 years I have never seen a time when this country has been run so badly. We should have new personnel every two terms for everyone in office. Let them come back and live under the mess they make
The Rove brand is seriously tarnished by what he has done in Delaware. It’s bad enough that he spent election eve trashing her. That he had an undisclosed conflict of interest ices it. Now that there is no more Castle campaign, Rove needs to eat some humble pie and get behind her.
I am beyond disappointed in him. Whatever shortcomings Christine O’Donnell may have, she’d be a far better vote in the Senate on the vast majority of issues than the Democrat (quasi Marxist) Coons.
I really don’t care that it took her a while to finalize her college graduation, or that it wasn’t easy for her to pay some legal fees, or any of the rest of the little personal attacks. I am sick and tired of a Senate made up of largely of hypocritical millionaires like John Kerry, Chuck Schumer, Maria Cantwell, Nancy Pelosi and John McCain. They have no understanding of what life is like for ordinary American who can’t afford the country club dues. Christine O’Donnell, if elected, would be one of the few real Americans in the Senate.
I am learning far more about the candidates AFTER the election than I knew before, which is why I didn’t take sides, but it appears that many of the attacks on O’Donnell from the Castle/establishment camp were highly misleading and dirty. Makes me glad she won.
I’m actually enthused by her victory. It shows that the Republican base dont want to change parties, but change Washington. That we are serious about saving the country, and that also reassures me that the enthusiasm and momentum is ALL on our side, and that we can win BIG in November.
Now go volunteer for your candidates! 😀
What AE said!!!
When offered a choice between the real thing and a pale imitation, the voters invariably go for the real thing. Choosing a middle of the road guy that sometimes, seems to, kinda, maybe, with some massaging, etc… and the real Dem in the fall they usually choose the real Dem. The fact that the establishment of both parties is getting its collective asses spanked is a wonder to behold.
Sounds fair enough.
Here’s why you don’t vote for RINO’s: Now that the primary is over, McCain supports Amnesty again.
I spoke to relatives in DE this morning – very staunch Republicans and they’ve worked very heartily for the Republicans for decades. Their explanation is thaore people showed to vote for O’Donnell than Castle because she she supposedly represented a shift further right and these voters only came out in he last few days simply because of Palin’s endorsement.
O’Donnell’s tried to run twice before and failed both times; there are also questions about her finances which have yet to be investigated – she doesn’t have a job and has supposedly used campaign funds for personal living expenses because she doesn’t have a job. Also, her credibility isn’t that great as she’s been caught a few times lying about her employment / education history.
The biggest surprise of all – I asked who are you going to vote for in November? Without a moments hesitation, they said Coons. I was shocked – these are folks who are fierce Republicans and never vote Democrat. I thought they were going to sit out voting altogether, but their reasoning was quite simple – they don’t want any chance that O’Donnell will be elected.
Careful what you wish for.
Progs always seem to have imaginary friends to suit any occasion. That said, O’Donnell’s biggest problem now is sore loser establishment Republicans who will sit this out or voted for the “bearded Marxist” out of sheer spite.
What a surprise; Kevin’s friends supported the ultra-liberal who was going to vote with the Obama Party on major issues and hate the conservative.
No surprise that they’re going to vote for the avowed Marxist Coons. You have to wonder just how addled any friends of Kevin’s are when they would rather vote for a Marxist than for a conservative Republican.
Additionally, even I voiced support for Hayworth over McCain on this very blog. A man of detestable principles is better than a man of none. No one can ever trust John McCain now.
The strange thing about taking down Mike Castle is that both sides seem to like it. Tea Partiers like the idea of purging the RINOs and working towards a more right-wing Republican Party, while the Democrats see this as the Republican Party shifting so far to the right that they won’t be able to win elections on a national level any more.
Of course just about everyone here brings Ronald Reagan up whenever the possibility of the Republican party moving to an unelectable position is suggested, but I already demonstrated that Reagan’s actual political in office was far more mixed than you remember.
The conclusion seems to be that either comparisons to Reagan are apt, in which case the Tea Party candidates will just shift towards the centre once in office to keep themselves there, or they aren’t, in which case you are truly in uncharted waters.
Harry Reid slobbers over the bearded Marxist, calls him “My Pet.”
Ronald Reagan was the last major Republican figure who came close to upholding the historical core values and principles of the Republican Party. Today’s true RINOs are “Republicans” like Christine O’Donnell, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, James DeMint, Sean Hannity, etc.
The Hannitys and Limbaughs talk about Reagan as if were some deity, but O’Donnell, DeMint, Bachmann and their fellow Tea Party estremists would likely deny Ronald Reagan the GOP presidential nomination if he were alive today and looking at 2012.
I guess “Reagan was too liberal for the Tea Party” is the dumb progressive talking point of the week. It is rich, coming from the people who always hated Reagan for his conservatism.
@V the K: The Ludwig von Mises Institute is a progressive organization now? Because that’s where I’m getting most of my information. I also feel compelled to note that the article in question was written in October 1988, when Reagan was still in office and when his actual policy was still fresh in the mind of the writer. After 22 years and a lot of wishful thinking about ‘the man who won the Cold War’, you’re liable to just remember what you want and forget what you don’t.
Pomposity: Adorning your comments with references that criticize target X for the motes in his eyes (in some places inaccurately, or misplacing the true blame), while under that very same set of standards, you and yours would have a forest of gigantic logs growing out of your eyes, does not make your stupid comments worthwhile.
It’s wonderful that you would visit the Mises institute. But I doubt you learn from your visits there. Clearly you learn nothing, from your visits here.
I just find it funny that people are lifting up O’Donnell as some kind of real down to the earth American when the woman has done nothing but spend her life as a political activist and is a serial campaigner. She has done nothing to get a bill pass, develop a policy, or anything that gives an impression she would be a good Senator. She can’t even handle her finances so why does anyone think she could handle America’s spending issues.
Castle was arrogant to ignore debating her but with her past and her attacks, like he supposedly was having affairs with men. I don’t blame him for not wanting to acknowledge her. He should have been more aware of the environment and worked like McCain did to stop Hayworth.
He ignored her until it was too late and with a closed primary, he couldn’t count on independents and conservative democrats to come to his aid. Another problem for Castle is that he seemed unstoppable until very recently and probably didn’t have any get out the vote effort in place to combat O’Donnell’s surge.
Funny O Donnell has financial problems eh?
The liberal Democrats have a treasury sec who didn’t know how to pay his taxes. But the Republican is supposedly disqualified?
Baloney, I sent $100 to Christine. My donation to Marco Rubio in FLA has helped him build a 14 pt lead there. Anyone but these tired corrupt old pols. Kick em all out. How does Castle, Specter, Lott, Spitzer, end up millionaires when all they’ve done is work in govt. A pox on all their houses. New faces, new blood, tea party til there’s no tomorrow!
Out of curiosity, is that a requirement for running for a Senate seat?
I wonder how many sitting senators would have to resign were those silly complaints prerequisites.
And the people who are experts at doing those things have gotten us $14 Trillion in debt, so what’s your point?
Maybe a lot less of them and it really wouldn’t bother me if we lost a bunch of them, and guess we all just have different standards for the people we vote for.