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Why MSM can’t let go of Christine O’Donnell

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She has become the 2010 version of Sarah Palin, suddenly catapulting into the national spotlight.

When I first read about her past communion with crooked covens, it seemed the media were trying to hold her up as the new poster child of the Tea Party (as if such tea party favorites as Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, Joe Miller and other thoughtful conservatives did not exist).  With Miss O’Donnell as the face of the movement, they hope contend, it’ll be discredited in no time.

Seems I wasn’t the only one to come up with that notion.  Via Meryl Yourish (via Gateway Pundit), I found this insight from Marc Ambinder:

The media is going to help the Democratic Party’s national messaging, which is that the GOP is a party full of Christine O’Donnells, a party that wants to take away your Social Security and your right to masturbate. Well, maybe not that last part, but then again, the implicit message of the party is that the GOP is about to elect a slate of hard social rightists to Congress.

While he’s on the money on this one, I think he’s off the mark on several other points.  (After this week, I don’t think the O’Donnell race will register much with voters outside Delaware.)

I think this tack will fail, indeed, backfire.  When voters look at such sterling Republican candidates as Toomey, Miller, Rubio, Carly Fiorina, Rob Portman, Kelly Ayotte, Ron Johnson and Dino Rossi, they’ll see Republicans don’t fly around on broomsticks, but instead have backgrounds in business and public policy as well as a genuine commitment to sound conservative principles and real reform.

Comments

  1. The thing is, even Democrat politicians campaign on the ideas of fiscal responsibility and reforming Washington. What makes the conservative and Tea Party candidates “radical” is that they seem like they will actually follow through.

  4. When voters look at such sterling Republican candidates as Toomey, Miller, Rubio, Carly Fiorina, Rob Portman, Kelly Ayotte, Ron Johnson and Dino Rossi

    But who is going to SHOW voters those candidates? It certainly isn’t going to be the same MSM that went wall to wall with 24 hr coverage of Tom Delay when he was indicted, and didn’t even mention it when the case was thrown out of court.

    We have to stop complaining that the MSM is corrupt, and take our message straght to voters.

    That’s why I hope everyone is already donating and volunteering for the GOP or their favorite candidates, because Democrats have the media, they have superior organization and they have more money. And they are going to fight and cheat like never before this year. Not just to protect the Obama agenda, but because whoever wins these elections will control redistricting and draw the political landscape for the next decade. And you can bet the same Obama Democrats that put the Census under control of the White House and ACORN is going to cheat like hell to get control of that process.

    Everything the media is doing now, about hyping up the Republican advantage is designed to get the Democrat base riled up to vote. This is what Democrats did NOT have in 1994. No one saw that wave coming. They see this one coming and are preparing for it.

    Winning the house is not a done deal. And if we want to do it, Republicans who have never done so before need to organize, donate and volunteer.

  8. Very Interesting:

    The Republican Establishment and the Left having now made O’Donnell’s actions in her twenties an issue, the question comes round.

    What was Chris Coons doing in his twenties?

    Answer? He was in Africa volunteering for the South African Council of Churches, a group that holds to the self-same Black Liberation Theology philosophy preached by James Cone and Jeremiah Wright. The philosophy that has at its core the principles of “Marxism dressed up as Christianity.” The philosophy that is at the very heart of the Obama administration and its actions since taking office two years ago.

    http://spectator.org/archives/2010/09/20/chris-coons-volunteer-for-libe/

    HT: Mark Levin

  9. TGC, The Spectator notes that the MSM has dutifully whitewashed this period of Coons’s life as “‘spending’ time in South Africa and Kenya doing relief work.” Which is a bit like saying Robert Byrd spent time in his youth working with an advocacy group concerned with the status of blacks in America.

  10. The Mamma Grizzlies have got the Dems flummoxed. Christine O’Donnell looks to them like the Girlie Grizzliette that they can isolate and trample. The MSM is salivating and Chris Coons in not on their horizon, let alone anywhere near their target zone.

    O’Donnell has no choice but to gut swipe Coons which how grizzlies kill. They like their prey to bleed out and get ripe before they dine.

  14. No and they still revere a mob backed President who accomplished very little but was martyred by Oswald, for some reason. Not to mention the chump who came after who stole his Senate election and who keeps people in poor to this day.

  15. The MSM and the Dhimmicrats just might overplay their hand with all this “witchcraft” nonsense. Wiccan is an accepted religion in the US military and there are Wiccan stone circles at many military installations and even at the US Air Force Academy where they are tamping-down a Christianity scandal.

    Lots of “ordinary people” have one or two weirdos, or real-losers, in their dating history.

  16. Can I say….
    on the one hand you have
    Marco Rubio, Scott Brown, Sarah Palin and Christine O Donnel.
    On the other you have
    Harry Reid, Barbara Mckulsky, Henry Waxman, and MS Pelosi.
    As a gay man……..nuff said.

  17. I think if the Lamestream Media want to make her youthful poor judgements an issue, then it’s only fair to apply that standard to all politicians.
    So when will Chris (horse’s ass) Mathews demand to see BO’s Columbia and Harvard records and transcripts?
    Yeah, right. Don’t hold your breath.