Last night before bed when I checked Memeorandum to see what the blogosphere was buzzing about, I found the influential (and nominally non-partisan) web-site led with several stories about Delaware GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell. This morning (Pacific time) they’re down to two.
Now, I’m not disputing the relevance of these revelations, but am wondering, why all the focus on a candidate down by double-digits while ignoring the real record of incumbent Senators slightly edging their challengers? Shouldn’t it be of more interest to bloggers that a three-term Senator steered campaign cash to her son’s consulting firm? Or regularly traveled abroad on someone else’s dime?
Or what about the Democratic candidate in the president’s home state, closer in polls to his Republican challenger than Miss O’Donnell is to her Democratic rival? Alexi Giannoulias took a $2.7 million tax deduction from work done at Broadway Bank in 2006 after telling voters he had left the failed bank in 2005.
Isn’t that of more interest than whether the Delaware underdog “enhanced” her resume by listing as education institutions she didn’t really attend?
Methinks that even in the blogosphere, people want to define the GOP by the Delaware Republican. Perhaps, we right-of-center bloggers would do ourselves well not to play along with our counterparts on the left. Instead of dwelling on the Delaware race, we need to draw more attention to the shady dealings of Democrats in other states.
You can support Giannoulias’s Republican opponent here.
It sounds like this may be a LinkedIn problem:
http://www.redstate.com/ben_domenech/2010/09/28/lets-attack-christine-odonnells-linkedin-page/
I’m thinking I need to delete my LinkedIn profile. I never use it.
About Giannoulias…
He’s now saying he did indeed do that work, despite having earlier claiming he didn’t.
You stay classy, Alexi!!!! 🙂
If Christine had won the nomination on her own I doubt there would be the media obsession. The honey that draws the flys to her is the endorsement and support from the Tea Party. According to the Fox Poll this A.M. she is in single digits, 9%, but she probably is still in double digits in other polls. Anything negative about her is useful for denegrating the Tea Party. If she loses, which is likely, the failure will fall on the Tea Party and their successes will be ignored. She is a a fairly long shot. An even greater long shot is Star Parker, the former ¨welfare queen,¨ turned conservative running for congress in the California´s 37th District, the Compton area where registration is 12% Republican.
The media obsession to destroy O’Donnell is she is unexpected. The MSM already knew Mike Castle was going to win; when he did not, O’Donnell threw them for a loop. They are still dizzy from the loop. The more mud they sling at her, the stronger she gets to allude to another article…
@Roberto: Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
The presence of the Tea Party in 2010 has probably brought a net benefit to the Republican Party, but there are those who believe pushing the party to the right is making it unelectable in certain areas. To such people, Christine O’Donnell is proof of this.
The general idea is that the Tea Party aim to push the Republican Party further to the right will ultimately make the party as whole uncompetitive on a national level as the American public is simply not right-wing enough to give them another chance once they’ve seen them in office.
It’s a hypothesis that very much divides opinion. You either think it’s completely right, or complete bullshit. 2012 will probably make things clearer.