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Campaign Crawlers
‘This Changes Everything’
A win for “We the People.”
DOVER, Delaware — Christine O’Donnell did not merely defeat Mike Castle in Tuesday’s Senate primary. She beat the Republican establishment, both nationally and in Delaware, and she beat a veritable army of naysayers who said she couldn’t do it.
O’Donnell also beat a vicious negative attack campaign into which her Republican opponents dumped every bit of trash they could find. Yet this had no apparent effect on the Tea Party-backed, Sarah Palin-endorsed candidate, who won with 53 percent of the vote to Castle’s 47 percent. Her little-known Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, can’t possibly hit O’Donnell with anything worse than she got from the GOP establishment. And despite all of it, she managed to be magnanimous in victory.
Asked about news reports that the National Republican Senatorial Committee would not support her in the general election campaign, O’Donnell said: “For the greater good, we’re putting this all behind us. Together, we can win.”
Some of O’Donnell’s supporters were not in such a forgiving mood, especially toward Republican strategist Karl Rove, who disparaged the Delaware GOP nominee on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program. “Might as well have been [Keith] Olbermann on MSNBC,” Michelle Malkin wrote on her popular blog.
The essence of the establishment’s criticism O’Donnell is that she is a “flawed” candidate who can’t win in November. Unfortunately for the establishment, their credibility was shattered when O’Donnell won the primary. Rove and the rest of them did all they could to beat her, and it wasn’t enough.
Among other things, according to local Tea Party activists, Rove tried to get Delaware 9/12 Patriots leader Russ Murphy to support Castle. “Rove tried to hustle [Murphy] and Russ wasn’t going for it,” said Doug Campbell, an activist who is running as a third-party challenger to Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden (against whom the state GOP is not fielding a candidate).
Despite the fusillade of establishment attacks, the Tea Party movement stood strong behind O’Donnell, as did Palin, Malkin, Hannity, radio talk-show host Mark Levin and of course Rush Limbaugh, blogger Dan Riehl, and The American Spectator’s Jeffrey Lord. And the result in Delaware — whose motto is “The First State,” as it was first to ratify the Constitution — is revolutionary. As workers cleaned up late Tuesday night at the Elks Lodge here that hosted O’Donnell’s victory celebration, longtime state GOP activist Vance Phillips said: “This changes everything.”
Certainly, Tuesday’s result will change the go-along-to-get-along bipartisan strategy of the Delaware Republican Party, whose chairman Tom Ross publicly declared that O’Donnell “could not be elected dog catcher.” But Castle couldn’t even win the primary that Ross and the GOP establishment tried to hand him on a silver platter.
In her victory speech, O’Donnell said, “The people of Delaware have spoken. No more politics as usual.”
Of course, not all of the people have yet spoken. Turnout was unusually high in this year’s primary, but O’Donnell’s Tuesday total of more than 30,000 votes will have to be increased if she is to win in November. However, as one staffer said, their own polls indicate that independent voters — who couldn’t vote in the closed GOP primary — favor O’Donnell over the Democrats’ little-known nominee, Chris Coons.
With seven weeks remaining until Election Day, O’Donnell’s supporters seemed confident that she will once again defy the predictions of pollsters and pundits to win Nov. 2. If so, it will be more than a victory for one candidate in one state. As the Tea Party activist Campbell said: “We the people are taking it back, one election at a time.”
About the Author
Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.
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Lucius Cornelius| 9.15.10 @ 6:16AM
With all due respect, I disagree with Mr. McCain. I knew Christine O'Donnell when I worked with her on a project 10 years ago. The criticisms I heard about her matched my memories of her. I liked working with Christine and I considered her to be a friend. But unless she has matured and changed in the last ten years (something that I don't rule out), she runs the risk of embarrassing herself and her supporters.
Of course, this is Delaware. They elected Joe Biden to the Senate all these years...hardly a gaffe free, error free person.
lucius's neighbor| 9.15.10 @ 7:08AM
yeah but i know you! child molester!
hows it feel creep?
Moderator| 9.15.10 @ 8:18AM
Stop it, Margie.
Patriot| 9.15.10 @ 11:53AM
That you, Derek?
geekmom | 9.15.10 @ 12:41PM
wth?
Toto| 9.15.10 @ 12:16PM
Have you read about O'Donnell's opposition to masturbation?
She states in a nineties interview, "The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can't masturbate without lust!"
She is an embarrasing dimwit. I'm just waiting for other dumb pronouncements from the Queen of Dumb to surface.
The rightwing, tea party Republicans are killing our party, and AmSpec celebrates them..
Booger| 9.15.10 @ 12:27PM
Dear Tootoo,
Well it's nice to know you're all in favor of self-pleasure. Maybe when you get to be a big boy and your mommy let's you out of the basement you can find yourself a REAL LIVE GIRL. Until then, I leave you to the pleasures of the Jocelyn Elders love manual.
Cordially,
Booger
El Rolf| 9.15.10 @ 12:46PM
Dear Boogersnot Boy,
You missed the point--if she is in fact a dimwit, and makes dimwitted pronouncements, her candidacy is not viable in the long-term and the loss is ours.
BTW, how do we know that YOU are not the one living hairy-palmed in his mother's basement?
And yes, masturbation w/o lust is technically possible. Not fun, but possible.
Occam's Tool| 9.15.10 @ 1:12PM
I think Christine will be better than a Libtard. And gentlemen, as someone who has studied sexual perversion in an academic manner (I am a board certified psychiatrist in my real life), leave the amateur hour slanderings out of it, and focus on kicking Libtard tail in the elections in November. Focus, people, focus.
Fredrick Ward| 9.15.10 @ 9:34PM
Amen to that, Occam's Tool.
KJW| 9.15.10 @ 1:41PM
Toto,
Where's she wrong in what she's saying? It is kind of hard to masturbate without lust, which is clearly defined as not of God (1 John 2:16).
A couple of weeks ago I heard Janet Parshall (think of her as somewhat of a gentler, evangelical Christian Sean Hannity - then again, to some that means anything but gentle) interviewing a man who runs a ministry for those recovering from pornography addiction, and heard the callers who've shared this problem. Some callers were VERY much against masturbation - saying that for them it became something they couldn't stop doing long into adulthood, affecting their marriages and relationships.
If Ms. O'Donnell actually had the courage to say this, good for her.
Tucci78| 9.17.10 @ 8:51AM
If Ms. O'Donnell wishes to use a public "bully pulpit" to rail against self-abuse - on her own time and on her own dime - who cares?
Distracting a government officer from governing is (in the words of P.J. O'Rourke) like distracting a bear from devouring your baby.
The key thought to maintain is that there is no lawful authority in the U.S. Constitution for any officer of the federal government to prohibit any kind of pornography - and no ability under heaven or upon earth for such an officer to criminalize and punish people for fiddling with their own personal naughty bits.
Indeed, any law against masturbation would make it a criminal offense to vote in most elections, wouldn't it?
Bobby| 9.18.10 @ 2:07PM
Actually Tucci, it would outlaw campaigning
Bo Darville| 9.15.10 @ 3:32PM
Hopefully, she gets Coons to admit he's all for it. Then we can have a clear understanding of where everybody stands on the issues!
emo| 9.15.10 @ 5:48PM
Im committing adultery 5x per day?????
RoBoTech| 9.15.10 @ 10:12PM
only to the OTHER four magazines you are neglecting!
Larry Cannon| 9.15.10 @ 7:50PM
And the left-wing, God-hating traitor Democrats are destroying your party.
GregLBS| 9.15.10 @ 8:20PM
The previous republicans were the ones that killed the republican party and got their butts kicked in 2006 and 2008.
I say throw all the career politicians out. If it takes a couple of election cycles to complete the process then so be it.
Fredrick Ward| 9.15.10 @ 9:32PM
You know, I find it refreshing that she is standing up for what she believes even if it is not a popular belief. Does the fact that she has a more strict moral code that she follows show her as a bad candidate? I do not believe it does. Actually, I feel it makes her more qualified because if she is willing to stand behind her beliefs in the public view, whether popular or not, then she will also be able to do so when it comes to raising a voice for the people she represents; whether that voice is popular with mass media or not.
larrym4| 9.16.10 @ 8:53PM
"You know, I find it refreshing that she is standing up for what she believes even if it is not a popular belief. Does the fact that she has a more strict moral code that she follows show her as a bad candidate? "
Nope. Unless you are a Muslim or a liberal, you hypocrite.
Fredrick Ward| 9.20.10 @ 11:46AM
Uh, ok. You make no sense at all.
SeattleBruce| 9.16.10 @ 1:31AM
"She states in a nineties interview, "The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. You can't masturbate without lust!"
Uh, Carter said this as a RAT in the 1970s and won. How is this so crazy? I think you guys just don't like people that take moral stands. In any case, this is not the most important feature of what she's doing and saying, unless you think people want to continue to participate in drive by political sound bites as usual.
Methinks the PEOPLE are fed up with politics as usual - including idiotic political sound bit GOTCHA politics.
Take your good ol' boy stuff and stick it where the sun don't shine.
Then get back to helping us beat the RATS and their socialism.
Please.
Otherwise, I may just have to call you crazy.
scythe| 9.16.10 @ 5:02PM
So...vote for her opponent: a jerkoff!
Trac5| 9.17.10 @ 12:06AM
I agree!
Tucci78| 9.17.10 @ 8:33AM
The religious whackjobs have always been an embarrassment no matter where they crop up. In the 1890s, remember, it was the Democratic Party that suffered this affliction, being forced by their "populist" infestation to put the disastrous William Jennings Bryan at the top of their ticket in so many presidential elections that it looked as if America was never going to be rid of the Republicans.
And then they went completely to perdition by way of "St. Woodrow" Wilson of the fascist - er, "progressive" - movement.
The problem with all popular democracies is that the "embarrassing dimwit" fraction has the ability to cast ballots, and to gain a majority at the polls it is necessary to offer these dimwits options which appeal to their dimwittedness.
What? D'you think that the National Socialist Democrat American Party (NSDAP) does not?
Their "embarrassing dimwit" constituency simply isn't religious.
Unless, of course, you can call socialism a religion.
Hm. Come to think on it....
McClarinJ| 9.17.10 @ 10:30AM
Most churches are opposed to masturbation. We may not agree with that view but it's hardly extreme.
Toto| 9.15.10 @ 6:19PM
Her murky financial past is publicised today! Much more to come!
O'Donnell's campaign manager has this to say:
O'Donnell's 2008 campaign manager, Kristin Murray, alleges that O'Donnell "was living on campaign donations -- using them for rent and personal expenses, while leaving her workers unpaid and piling up thousands in debt. She wasn't concerned about conservative causes. O'Donnell just wanted to make a buck."
Stay tuned for lots and lots of stomach-churning revelations about the Queen of Dumb.
SeattleBruce| 9.16.10 @ 1:44AM
"Stay tuned for lots and lots of stomach-churning revelations about the Queen of Dumb."
What have you done to try to steer this country off the road over the socialist cliff? Yet you slam O'Donnell. No candidate is pure and completely squeaky clean.
Nevertheless, lets get into the substance of your 'stomach churning revelations': Kristin Murray was fired by the Republican party in DE and then subsequently fired by the O'Donnell campaign after only TWO weeks (although Murray claims it was two months - not a huge difference no matter what you believe). Someone twice fired is not a reliable source, and probably has an axe to grind.
This is your source for truth?
What a JOKE. Check out your sources.
O'Donnell is not doubt imperfect, has said some embarassing things - but who hasn't.
Maybe even YOU have!! ;)
J.F.S.| 9.15.10 @ 7:23PM
You think this country is in a mess now -- wait until your TeaParty candidates get in, God forbid!
Idiots, theocrats, uneducated, lying, delusional, simpletons. We'll be nuked and conquered before we can blink. Be afraid; be very afraid.
Countries around the world, both good and bad, are watching---watching with amused, but edgily concerned eyes. Eyes wide open.
Fredrick Ward| 9.15.10 @ 9:42PM
It's amusing the type of attacks that the Tea Party is getting for standing up for such things like:
1. Protect the Constitution
Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does. (82.03%)
2. Reject Cap & Trade
Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation’s global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures. (72.20%)
3. Demand a Balanced Budget
Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax hike. (69.69%)
4. Enact Fundamental Tax Reform
Adopt a simple and fair single-rate tax system by scrapping the internal revenue code and replacing it with one that is no longer than 4,543 words — the length of the original Constitution. (64.90%)
5. Restore Fiscal Responsibility & Constitutionally Limited Government in Washington
Create a Blue Ribbon taskforce that engages in a complete audit of federal agencies and programs, assessing their Constitutionality, and identifying duplication, waste, ineffectiveness, and agencies and programs better left for the states or local authorities, or ripe for wholesale reform or elimination due to our efforts to restore limited government consistent with the US Constitution’s meaning. (63.37%)
6. End Runaway Government Spending
Impose a statutory cap limiting the annual growth in total federal spending to the sum of the inflation rate plus the percentage of population growth. (56.57%)
7. Defund, Repeal, & Replace Government-run Health Care
Defund, repeal and replace the recently passed government-run health care with a system that actually makes health care and insurance more affordable by enabling a competitive, open, and transparent free-market health care and health insurance system that isn’t restricted by state boundaries. (56.39%)
8. Pass an All-of-the-Above Energy Policy
Authorize the exploration of proven energy reserves to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources from unstable countries and reduce regulatory barriers to all other forms of energy creation, lowering prices and creating competition and jobs. (55.51%)
9. Stop the Pork
Place a moratorium on all earmarks until the budget is balanced, and then require a 2/3 majority to pass any earmark. (55.47%)
10. Stop the Tax Hikes
Permanently repeal all tax hikes, including those to the income, capital gains, and death taxes, currently scheduled to begin in 2011. (53.38%)
J.F.S., you call these delusional concepts? If this is delusional then let me have whatever the Tea Party is smoking. I need as much of that as I can possibly get.
Doug| 9.15.10 @ 11:30PM
Lookout Fred!
Next thing they'll do is call you an unreasonable, homophobic, racist bigot. *chuckle*
These people hate the truth.
Beboper| 9.16.10 @ 12:38AM
Rush quoted a third century Roman earlier today - one who witnessed the mid stages of their own empire's collapse:
Truth is the Mother of Hatred.
We saw the Truth elicit ugly reactions from supposed party allies (Rove, Castle, et al) who should have been classy enough to manifest an air of reconciliation for the sake of party unity rather than display the infantile manner of a child whose sucker was snatched away.
What they did, in fact, was to let us know that for them, public office is all about empowering them, the office holders and party operatives, and not the citizens; that the power attached thereto is something they have an exclusive proprietary claim to.
Even if Christine falls short, which I do not believe for a moment will happen given the dynamic of this particular election and the caliber of candidate she opposes, getting rid of Castle and putting the GOP establishment on notice was its own reward and well worth the struggle.
EAG| 9.17.10 @ 11:12AM
You are correct Beboper. Even if she loses in November, having the Republican voters in DE deliver the message to establishment GOPers nationwide that we have had enough of career politicians who see the seats of power as having "Reserved Seating" signs posted on them is well worth the effort.
We have plenty of "politicians" in government at all levels already - people who are polished and poised, who know just what to say and how to say - who do nothing to advance teh principles they pay lip service to just to appease and placate the people. I say it is great that the message is being delivered - we won't be appeased and placated any longer. We WANT "extremists" in power. If I may borrow from Barry Goldwater, we need people in office today who believe that extremism in the cause of liberty, freedom and capitalism is not a vice!
DesertFox| 9.15.10 @ 11:56PM
I would like to add:
11. Term limits for Congress.
12. Fair tax(e.g., 12.5% for every living soul)
Tucci78| 9.17.10 @ 8:42AM
It is the TEA Party campaigners' commitment to rule of law under the constraints of the U.S. Constitution which acts to mitigate the religious whackjob qualities of candidate like Ms. O'Donnell.
As Fred Ward observes, we have as their Number-One priority to:
"Require each bill to identify the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does."
This means that before they can try to enact any peculiar religious bigotry into law, they've got to find explicit authority for such measures in the enabling charter under which our federal government is supposed to work, and which has been treated like bathroom tissue by both the Republican and the National Socialist parties.
And such authority is simply not there.
So to the extent that the TEA Party people are constitutionalists first and religious conservatives a distant second, they're an option far more to my own personal liking than either faction of our permanent Boot-On-Your-Neck Party incumbency.
Jacobite| 9.17.10 @ 4:57PM
Ignorance must be bliss. The Constitution incorporated the Common Law of England as the basis of our own common-law jurisprudence. Blasphemy, sodomy, adultery (if not choking the chicken) were all crimes under the Constitution. Pornography was certainly proscribed under the 1st Amendment for 150 years, at which point another of the secret codes encrypted in the Constitution was broken by Leftist judges. People who see Thomas Jefferson defending pornographers or sodomites are delusional. He was liberal enough to propose, as an experiment, merely castrating rapists instead of the usual hanging. The fact is, none of the Founders would support any of the crap pushed as 'Constitutional' today. Some of the more energetic ones would probably put a .50 caliber ball in the brain of anyone proposing some of the more perverted and unnatural ones. They all owned firearms and used them. Omigawd!!!!!
SeattleBruce| 9.16.10 @ 1:33AM
"You think this country is in a mess now -- wait until your TeaParty candidates get in, God forbid!"
You really think O'Donnell could possibly be worse than say Pelosi, Reid or Rangel.
Now YOU'RE talking CRAZY talk!!
William In Spokane| 9.16.10 @ 11:21PM
@ Seattle Bruce... Dude, I think both your pony tail and your Birkenstocks are tied a little too tight.... Go crawl back to your endless shuffle of Nirvana CD's, polish off that power hitter you have hidden from your mom in the a/c duct, and understand for a moment that the rantings of the effeminate Pacific Northwest male are about to become the thing of ridicule that they have always deserved to be. Head on down to Pike street and try talking to the business owners that feed you from their hard work a little more than the latte drinking limp wristed wanna-be cyber elites you so desperately need to impress. You might learn something. So, which college is daddy paying for over their? U-Dub? Just when was the last forty hour blister producing work week experienced? Grow up.
Diamondhead| 9.16.10 @ 2:45AM
Who cares what other countries think?! Remember it was Europe that brought Nazism & Communism. Why would we want to immulate track records like that?
HDBPILOT| 9.16.10 @ 10:42AM
JFS,
If you don't have a reasoned argument, and all you can do is name call, why don't you spend your efforts at getting a life. Your entire comment made no point and just called people names. Is that the liberal version of "spirited debate"?
GreginOkinawa| 9.15.10 @ 6:18AM
Congratulations to the people of Delaware...and thatnk you!
D. Singh| 9.15.10 @ 6:19AM
Sir
May I be the first to congratulate Christine O'Donnell on her victory.
I am told that a long journey begins with a single step.
American conservatives have taken that step!
God bless you.
Appleby| 9.15.10 @ 7:16AM
How could she be worse than what we have now? Its past time to throw ALL the bums out, and if we end up with a few new bums, we can throw them out too -- and they know it.
The Congress was never meant to be a retirement home for fat cats or a House of Lords; it was meant to be an outfit in which people got time off for good behaviour; after doing their duty they were meant to go back to the work for which they were better suited: the farm, the factory, the office or the university -- or even the church.
After trying everything else, it may be time for us to *arise and return to our Father* and see what that will do.
Stephanie| 9.15.10 @ 8:05AM
AMEN, Appleby. AMEN.
RAMIII| 9.15.10 @ 8:48AM
Hear! Hear!
Sheila| 9.15.10 @ 11:07AM
Timeless truths; well said!
lee | 9.15.10 @ 7:50PM
Appleby: Right on Brother! (or Sister!)
GregLBS| 9.15.10 @ 8:22PM
Well said...
John DuBose| 9.15.10 @ 7:20AM
the BIG picture here is the same as everywhere in the whole USA. To get rid of Obamacare, a whole bunch of Democrats have to be removed from office. Ms. O'Donnell needs to stay with that to win.
JAWilson| 9.15.10 @ 7:22AM
My sense is that you can put up a loaf of bread and the Democrats will lose this fall. Its that bad out there for the bums in power.
And if the Republicans don't get the memo, they are out too. Tea Party is my party!
Melvin| 9.15.10 @ 8:00AM
JAWilson we're not going to give the Republican Party Leadership another chance to read the memo. The memo has been on the Republican Party's board for so long now, it is covered in dust from being ignored for so long.
The purge of the Republican Party Leadership must continue and not stop to let the RHINOs catch their breath and join forces with the Facsist Democrats for support.
The Republican Progressive Party Leadership has know since Ronald Reagan that their political philosophy was parallel with the Democrats.
The Democrat Leadership knew this and exploited it, hence Senator John McCain being labeled by the Democrats and media as a, "Maverick," and that old senile old fool loved having his rhubarb rubbed and stroked fell in league with the Democrats fascist philosophy. The more John McCain was stroked by the Ruling Elite Media the harder he fought Conservatives.
No the purge must be completed even at the sake of losing races, besides might as well have a Democrat win and vote with Democrats than have a Republican win and caucus with the Democrats.
joe oliva| 9.15.10 @ 1:04PM
YEP!
Maverick| 9.16.10 @ 12:42AM
I can't believe it took the mainstream media 20+ years to finally (right around March '08) to realize that McCain was secretly a fascist unstable right-wing adulterous kook all along. Thankfully they alerted us all before the election. He sure did have them fooled all those years, huh?
Melvin| 9.15.10 @ 7:50AM
The last day or so I have noticed and maybe the rest of you have noticed as well, that the Republican Party, and the Democrat Party are being protrayed as being victims of the Tea Party Insurgents, or Kamikaze Republicans, and Republican Party Extremists.
Republican Party Leaders have publicly stated that "Christine O'Donnell will not receive any support from the Republican Party, and that she could not be elected dog catcher."
Please, someone correct me here because I may have strayed, but isn't the Democrat Party the ones supposed to be stating things like that instead of the Republican leadership.
So, the Republican Party Leadership have put their full colors on display to prove to America that there isn't a Tinker's damn difference between the philosophy of the Democrats and Republican Party Leadership." So I guess it could be said, "The Tea Party was right?"
Donna| 9.15.10 @ 8:07AM
Melvin, your sentiments are my sentiments as well. I am thinking about my contributions and looks like they will go to individuals running instead of the “party” if they don’t support the team that was elected b/c “she can’t win”. OMG, this is what our government institutions have come to and it’s no wonder Ickmed dinner jacket in Iran doesn’t take us seriously when we say put the nukes away and play nicely.
John Navratil| 9.15.10 @ 9:21AM
Donna,
The best way for the Tea partiers to take over the Republican Party is to starve it and feed the candidates. This makes the king-makers irrelevant. And take the Republican Party, we must. A third party would take a generation to build.
Since the Party won't support O'Donnell, we must! I'll be sending her more money, today!
http://christine2010.com/
Sheila| 9.15.10 @ 11:15AM
I just called my disgusting Senator Cornyn's office and, in addition to my usual "I can't wait to support who ever runs against you when you're next up," I gleefully noted that for every NRSC mailing I receive, I'll send another donation to a conservative candidate. Thanks for the link to O'Donnell; I will send her something today as well.
Occam's Tool| 9.15.10 @ 1:14PM
Contact Senator Jim DeMint's office: he is supporting Conservatives with his PAC.
RoBoTech| 9.15.10 @ 10:22PM
"Agree. But that 3rd party? not a generation with tha Communist in the White House."
Hmmmm.....
If there was a registered open for business TRUE Conservative party viable by Summer 2011, I think it could be ready by 2012.
It's obvious the GOP is no longer the Conservative Party, so let the Moderates (RINOS) have it and start our own microphone.
Also, as far as O Donnell not getting GOP support? GOOD!
If we can carry her to victory without them, what does that mean?
It means we DON'T need the RNC and it's branches. And THAT would be a GOP killer right there as they make their living on our need, just as the Socialist Liar Obama needs the poor to survive!
DesertFox| 9.16.10 @ 12:03AM
Rush was saying if every conservative send her $1.00 she would be OK. I like the idea.
Harold F.| 9.15.10 @ 1:59PM
As a long-standing, committed Republican, I will tell you without any hesitation or reservation that the Tea Party mentality is a disgrace to the Republican Party. I have seen how you have behaved at your rallies (redneck shenanigans), and your behavior makes me nauseated.
Stop being such crude, fanatical bigots, and make some attempt at understanding and fitting in to the modern world.
I read these posts, and they sicken me. If you commenters are my fellow Republicans, then I disassociate myself from you. And, believe me, many of my friends and relatives feel the same way.
I read between your lines, and I sense that some of you are digusting, old whiners and bigots who will support the most unqualified right wingers because they are right wingers.
I turn 73 on October 23rd, but, thank God, I've still got some brains and I will not allow myself to become like some of you vapid old vipers spewing your hatred at Obama, not just because you sense he is liberal, but because he is--yes, I hate to say it, but I will say it--black.
Of course, you will deny this, but you know there's a lot of truth in what I am saying.
Open your minds, for God's sake!
Toto| 9.15.10 @ 2:04PM
Thanks, Harold.
You and I are two Republicans who think alike. Let's fight these tea partiers all the way, and let's get the word out to other moderate, fiscal Republicans to do the same.
Martin Treptow| 9.15.10 @ 2:37PM
Toto, go back to Kansas.
Harold, your age places the blame for these last 50+ years of government overreach squarely at your feet.
Trolls.
Fail.
Cheers!
InLineFour| 9.15.10 @ 2:39PM
Attack Tea Partiers personally, but don't debate them on their conservative principles. Spoken like true RINO's, both of you.
Mike| 9.15.10 @ 2:51PM
It is disgusting that you two descend into calling names (calling Tea Party people racist) because they don't agree with POLICIES.
Too many Republicans are RINOs - they will vote for Democrats over true conservatives because socially liberal positions are more important than Fiscal conservative positions. And they smear those who won't go along.
Obama campaigned against the big-spending Republicans - and is a disgrace because he has quadrupled the deficit that he was complaining about. Why is that racist?? Obama campaigned to be a "unifier" - but told the Republicans to shut up and give him everything he wants because he won the election. Isn't that doing the opposite of what he promised? (And am I a racist for pointing out this hypocrisy??)
Sorry - but I want ANYONE in elected office who promises to return to the Constitution and cut down the size of the government - regardless of how inexperienced that person is! Definitely better than an experience "Pol" who compromises and allows the growth of government. Too many years of RINOs going along with Dems (socialists) - which is why we have the problems we have today!
falling| 9.15.10 @ 6:54PM
Surely you aren't still doing the old...I'm a Republican BUT gig! That and the bigot, race, idiot cards are all played out. I am a conservative and my money will go to conservatives, not the Republican party!
Nick| 9.15.10 @ 3:20PM
Ohhh! Nooooo! Harold is embarrassed by us "right-wingers" and is going to leave us!
Please....please.....don't leave Harold!
What can we do?
Can we wash your feet?
Can we get you some petite marshmellows for your cocoa?
Can we stay locked in the basement, so we don't shame you, anymore?
Hey....you know what.......WHO CARES what you think, Harold?
Get out.
And, don't let the door hit you in your backside, on the way out!
Hope you like having you taxes raised by the "moderates." What a loser.
Douglas Beck| 9.16.10 @ 10:44PM
Harold!!! You are leaving???? How could you???? I bet you can't even find a Polling Place to vote for your Socialist Candidates...
WHO THE HELL CARES WHAT YOU THINK??? Senile OLD MAN???
Do they still allow you to drive? Get out of the way and let us Conservatives who are working and paying taxes to support you, VOTE THE RIGHT WAY ... Pitiful Old Fart...
Horace Indy| 9.15.10 @ 3:57PM
Harold’s mind is wide open, apparently, giving him the oft-claimed ability of those on the Left to view his opponent’s heart and to see the evil racist within. God bless your old soul, Harold! May your clairvoyance serve you well on your march toward … whatever! As for me, I’m going to continue voting for conservative candidates … just because they are conservatives. God forbid!
Sheryl| 9.15.10 @ 4:07PM
Harold F.,
Come on, admit it, it's not true that you "hate to say it" in regards to Obama being 'black,' and, of course, that being the only reason anyone might disagree with or dislike the man. You couldn't WAIT to say it! I'm surprised it took a couple of paragraphs to get to it! Some people, and I've noticed it's not the tea-partiers or conservatives in general, just can't stop talking about Obama's race. The rest of us are over it. We get it. He's (half) black. Wonder why some of us don't agree with the other half, as well! Could we move on now?
I'm also puzzled by someone who's 73 years old and who uses the word "old" as an insult at least twice.
DebateRight| 9.15.10 @ 4:19PM
I notice that attackers always have to "read between the lines" for the racism that is supposedly exhibited by the tea party.
Gerald Sills| 9.15.10 @ 5:59PM
You Sir! Are not a Republican, but a senile, ignorant old fool, and not nearly as intelligent as you claim. I too have been around a long time, and am sick of the Socialist dogma that infests the Republican Party, and their lookalike Democrat pals. Your philosophy was never a part of the Republican Party, but something you dragged in from your Roosevelt relatives. If you don't understand the goals of the Tea Party, then you are not a believer in Freedom. Perhaps you should camp out with your Socialist neighbors, and family, and leave the protection of the United States to true Patriots.
Monticello| 9.15.10 @ 7:30PM
All you conservatives who "hate socialism," please do the following:
Demonstrate your contempt to socialist programs by rejecting Medicare! Yeah, reject it, and pay your medical bills out of your own wallet.
We'll all have to wait "'til Jesus comes" for this to happen. (and we know how long that will be!)
Madge| 9.15.10 @ 7:33PM
You have the nerve to make fun of Jesus coming?
If I were in snatching distance, I would snatch you baldheaded.
Catherine Greene nee Parkinson| 9.15.10 @ 7:44PM
Some of these commenters are characters in the extreme. I must admit, however, that I laughed out loud at the wording of Madge's post, which must be intentionally amusing.
But I have a concern. Aren't many of these commenters a little unhinged. The more I read these posts, the more they seem to be written by inmates at a lunatic asylum.
Does anyone else sense that the readership at AmSpec is just a little kooky? The comments are often out-and-out bizarre.
Nick| 9.15.10 @ 8:29PM
Mere assertions, without any specifics.
What a shock!
Denny| 9.15.10 @ 8:44PM
"Not Long"
Al Adab| 9.15.10 @ 10:23PM
Personally I would LOVE to be able to excercise your opt out option. Too bad the Left who structured medicare ( I include many Republicans) didn;t ;eave us that option. BTW it takes too much and pays for nothing of value or need. Shoes and scooters? Yippee
poorlittlepinkus| 9.15.10 @ 11:25PM
Why would people reject something that they have been forced to pay into?
MikeBee| 9.16.10 @ 4:25PM
Monty,
We conservatives are actively preparing to live without Social Security or Medicare. Many of us don't expect it to be there for us, anyway. Can't wait to reject it. However, too many old RINO fools still depend on it, and want the rest of us to pay all of our money into their program, so that THEY can depend on it. They and their RINO politicians won't let us invest even a small portion of the Soc Sec/Medicare withholdings privately. No, we have to support their Xsses. Can't wait to live without Big Daddy government!
REB| 9.16.10 @ 11:16PM
Im not a teaparty person,but I support them,I hate socialism and I have already rejected medicare/medicaid and socoal insecurity,and no, I am not rich in fact I am unemployed...oh and I rejected unemployment compensation too...I and you too are not "entitled" to anything but freedom,you wouldnt understand the concept...retard.
falling| 9.15.10 @ 7:03PM
Harold, perhaps the reason you cannot see past the color of Obama's skin is because of your age. I realize that you were raised to be racist when you were a young tot, but todays generation of white American's have black American's as neighbors, friends, co-workers, girlfriends, boy friends, husbands, wives, sons, daughters, son and daughter in laws, grandchildren, nieces and nephews! Our children sit in the same classroom and sleep under the same roof. Some of us ARE black American's and that number is growing! BTW, if all we care about is Obama's skin, why on earth are we all talking about voting out REPUBLICANS who refuse to recognize our conservative roots?
Couchgrouch| 9.15.10 @ 7:08PM
Harold,
Egad! You epitomize the problems within the Republican party. Even at your advanced age and supposed life-lessons, you cannot differentiate several things:
1. The Republican Leadership, for the most part, is Democratic Lite.
2. The fact that Obama is black has absolutely no bearing for most Americans. It's his Marxist's policies which have us pissed-off, and the fact YOUR Republican moderates (democrats) have voted for these.
3. Your remark about "crude, fanatical bigots" proves you can't debate facts- you must, instead, resort to name calling; thus putting you, as a 'Republican' directly in step with the Democrats, who also call people (groups) unflattering names when they have no valid arguments.
Harold, you only got it half-right with you being a "committed Republican", you should just be "committed".
Couchgrouch
GregLBS| 9.15.10 @ 8:29PM
Harold, as a long standing, committed republican you are part of the problem. The current republican elite have driven the country and the party into a ditch.
The view that we can build a nanny state but just slightly slower than the democrats is a recipe for disaster.
And if you truly think myself and the large number of people who believe Obama is fundamentally on the wrong track come to this conclusion because he is black then you are seriously disturbed.
I suggest you open your mind...
Fredrick Ward| 9.15.10 @ 9:59PM
Harold,
If you support the vapid viper politicians in office now then you are as much a problem as they are. It is such thinking that has brought us to the place we are in this nation.
It is quite telling that you bring out the race card while trying to disparage a party who stands for smaller government, and protecting the constitution among other things that any self respecting conservative supports. It is also very telling that you show yourself to be an uppity wannabe elitist snob with the language you use towards those with whom you do not agree.
When you actually come up with a valid point, or, god forbid, facts with which we may continue our discourse in a mannerly fashion then feel free to respond. Otherwise, you are just like the pundits that need to be out of a job.
Doug| 9.15.10 @ 11:33PM
Respectfully sir; baloney!
Michael| 9.15.10 @ 11:52PM
Harold of course is the same type of Republican Moveone.org has post on every conservative site condemning any conservative idea as radical and announcing how as a life long Republican he support Obama/Pelosi
Give it up we know how you liberals work.
Radioman777| 9.16.10 @ 10:08PM
One things for damn sure. You've been an idiot for 73 years, so no reason for you to change course now. If you couldn't see people are opposed to Obama because he's a Muslim coddling Marxist, then you've got about the worst case of cranial rectitis I've ever heard of. If you want to leave, don't let the door hit ya in the ass on the way out. Good riddance!
Will| 9.16.10 @ 11:27PM
Liar....
Wes in MT| 9.17.10 @ 12:42AM
Harold you old fool!
the fact that Obama is black is what I like best about him. Sling the race card as if that's a new slam. There is no need to open my mind for the the cry of the blood of the millions who have been murdered by the very statist/marxist policies that all the white marxist acadamics that this grifter who sits in the office surrounds himself with. You are a fool if you think slinging the "racist" charge has any affect anymore. It's been worn out from overuse. Time to head to the old folks home for old RINOs, Harold. I am half your age but I know a GD commie rat bast*rd when I hear one. O has fit the bill from the start. Furthermore, as one who has raised 2 mixed race children, you can EFF Off, you sermonizing old liberal troll.
Prickly Thorn| 9.15.10 @ 8:00AM
We can either be heard in the ballot box with pull of a lever, or in the streets with the pull of a trigger. The prior is preferred, but the latter is no problem either.
canuckistani| 9.15.10 @ 9:21AM
Go back into the dungeon.
Patriot| 9.15.10 @ 11:56AM
Truth hurts, Canuck; but what would a weak willy Canadian like you know about fighting for freedom?
Martin Treptow| 9.15.10 @ 2:50PM
Troll.
Fail.
Cheers!
Sal| 9.15.10 @ 10:07AM
Troll.
Gerald Sills| 9.15.10 @ 6:00PM
What can I add to your statement? Oh yeah! AMEN! Go Patriots and to hell with the Socialist trash.
ChrisInMaine| 9.15.10 @ 8:09AM
Apparently, the Republican party leadership thought they were sheltered from the wave of discontent that is surging toward D.C. this year. They believed that the voter anger and the growing strength of the Tea Party would be directed at the corrupt Democrat Progressives in power.
They were wrong.
This is the start of a long overdue housecleaning. The conservative movement is on the march, and we're taking our party back, along with wresting control from the radicals in power.
Let's roll!
WRTolkas| 9.15.10 @ 8:19AM
Why do the Republicans still listen to Karl Rove, the "Dr. Frank Burns" of the Republican Party?
John Navratil| 9.15.10 @ 9:23AM
He wasn't called "The Architect" for nothing. But that was then and this is now. Mr. Rove's prognosticating skills appear to need a little improvement.
Anthony| 9.15.10 @ 11:11AM
As I blogged in another TAS article, " The Architect" has failed in applying the first principle of construction; if you don't build on a firm foundation, the entire structure will collapse.
What gets me about the entire R establishment and especially Rove-a Dope, is how close these fools love to put their faces to the fire.
Does Rove not remember how his fate, unlike that of poor Mr. Libby, was hanging by a RINOs hair, when the Ds were pushing Fitzgerald hard to indict him, and the RINOs were AWOL?
Does Rove actually believe RINOs will do the right thing as opposed to what's expedient??
Hell, even a blind man would rather have Sarah Palin or Ms. O'Donnell in the same fox hole with him than a RINO, I know I would!!
Hey Karl, get your butt back to Texas, you've got Potomic fever real bad, you need some fresh air, boy.
Jonah| 9.15.10 @ 11:58AM
The "Architect" got us Obama. I hope Fox fires him for his duplicity.
GW| 9.16.10 @ 2:03AM
After this whole situation blows over, Rove will be back yacking it up with Hannity and guest hosting for Rush. FoxNews/Rush are in bed with the GOP. True conservatives be wary.
GW| 9.16.10 @ 2:02AM
The better question is this. Why did Rush have Rove guest host his show a few weeks back? For much of the criticism Rush receives from the right for being to aligned with the Republican Party, I don't know why Rush made that bone headed move.
Rove is one thing...a political opportunist. Although Bush was reelected, Rove essentially tore down the Republican Party by pushing for moderates (remember Bush's endorsement of Specter?) in order to retain power. Once the war and economy went south, down went Bush and Republicans of all stripes.
Now he's back, saying some right stuff about Obama, and many feel he still has credibility. Well, he don't. I'd rather have a conservative have a decent chance at winning but still lose than a moderate that won't vote to appeal Obamacare or cut taxes win easier.
hardcard| 9.15.10 @ 8:34AM
Keep up the fight, some battles are won, now the war is to be won. Don't be complacent, be diligent.
The socialists, progressives, and the professional politicians are going into high gear. Be on your guard.
Sal| 9.15.10 @ 10:09AM
Stand in the fire of truth and the fire will only consume the untruths around it.
ProudMarineMom| 9.15.10 @ 8:43AM
Go over to the Washington Post article gloating about the O'Donnell win as a sure win for Democrats and read the comments. These people still do not get it. I was a lifelong Republican and have now left the party to join the Conservative Revolution. I have a husband, 4 siblings and a son who are coming with me. And I am one of millions of Americans who have HAD IT with the good ole boy, country club Republicans running the economy into the ground.
Maxwell| 9.15.10 @ 8:53AM
ProudMarineMom
I'm at work and do not want to wash both my screen and mouse. I'll take your word on the Washington Post. As for your second point, I totally agree.
Anthony| 9.15.10 @ 11:53AM
Yeah well, since Newsweek was worth only $1.00, I'll buy the WaPo for $2.00, an all cash deal. That's about all the WaPo's editorial clout is worth. I know I'd be overpaying for this piece of crap, but what the hell, sometimes you've got to splurge!!!
Richard| 9.15.10 @ 11:56AM
Yes, and if you vote third party you are a de facto democrat!
J.C.Eaton| 9.15.10 @ 8:50AM
Karl Rove has a waaaaay inflated opinion of his political value,acumen, and influence. He wanted us to go-along with the whole series of washed-up, tired-out, milktoast tweezers that the Party put forth because"they were electable" or some other bromide,ass-hat reason. Well Karl baby, you were energetic preaching loyalty....now show some.
canuckistani| 9.15.10 @ 9:40AM
What if he is right?
The Scott Brown mini-insurrection is turning out to be another hoodwinking of the wacko right, and he's moderating his platform to improve his electability. I applaud his pragmatism.
There's a reason the TP crowd has been marginalized over the years....because they deserved to be with their laundry list of demands that are untenable in fickle centrist America. Anger is the weakest emotion and when rationality returns to the equation, they will have morning-after-election regret for their folly.
The number one shot against BHO was "experience matters"....what happened to that old axiom of the GOP?
Kishego| 9.15.10 @ 10:17AM
Because, the "experience" that matters to the establishment, right or left, is the kind of experience we do not want. Our elected representatives were not meant to "retire" from Washington. They are supposed to serve the country and then GO HOME. Look at Rangel, Lugar, McCain et al.. Why are these guys still "working" when they are in there mid to late seventies and eighties. GO HOME !! Let new ideas and fresh energy take control, and then the must GO HOME, when it is their time to return to private life. I know one way to end these life long incumbants would be to get rid of the gerrmandering laws and go back to commen sense districting. Have you ever looked at the way district lines are drawn, it's pathetic.
canuckistani| 9.15.10 @ 10:36AM
Both parties use districting as a weapon. The inanity of Bachmann et al's anti-census campaign was moronic and will prove fateful when the next round is completed.
I have no issue with long-term incumbents - if they win their elections fair and square. I truly believe the people get the government they deserve, not what they want. To suggest a term limit is in the people's interest is unAmerican.
Want to level the playing field? End near-impossible-to-surmount party status rules nationally and narrow campaign contributions to individuals only at $10,000 per head max.
3rd and 4th national parties on the ballot will force more cooperation and coalition building in the house and senate. I'm also in favor of reducing small state senator quotas to one per versus the two they have now. The strangling gridlock in the senate is framed by an impablance in the representation of states with relatively declining populations. Alaska 1 per 400k people, Cali 1 per 16M.....dumb.
Kishego| 9.15.10 @ 11:15AM
I don't advocate for term limits. Elections are the term limits, I agree. Also, I don't care if G Soros or pick your name rich guy gives a million dollars to any cadidate he/she wants, as long as we have FULL DISCLOSURE. My point is the people we pick should have the mindset that, you are a citizen legislator, not a MP in the house of lords. Our government was not intended for career politicians.
Patriot| 9.15.10 @ 12:00PM
Why should we care what some clown from Canada thinks about us? I don't.
falling| 9.15.10 @ 7:10PM
Kishego, I would agree with you but to many of today's politicians have become nothing more than dynasty's. They gerrymander their districts down the side of the street their supporters live on and pass their seat from father to son/daughter. Voting them out is not an option. Look at Rangel as the perfect example...he has been there so long he has bought the district and even though an openly corrupt politician voters will NEVER get him out! Term limits will attract a very different kind of politician and that is what our country needs right now!
falling| 9.15.10 @ 7:10PM
Kishego, I would agree with you but to many of today's politicians have become nothing more than dynasty's. They gerrymander their districts down the side of the street their supporters live on and pass their seat from father to son/daughter. Voting them out is not an option. Look at Rangel as the perfect example...he has been there so long he has bought the district and even though an openly corrupt politician voters will NEVER get him out! Term limits will attract a very different kind of politician and that is what our country needs right now!
Richard| 9.15.10 @ 11:59AM
Nonsense, you sound like a democrat. If they can do the job at age 100 then let them.
Kishego| 9.15.10 @ 6:56PM
O.K., you're right, age shouldn't have anything to do with it. My point (poorly expressed) is the 25, 30,40 or more years they spend in Washington. I don't think it is a good thing for the country to have these career politicians. Their decisions become more about their own gratification, power over people, or money, these just seem to become their motivation instead of doing the right thing for the right reason. Also, I am not a democrat, I am a conservative. Always have been, always will be.
GregLBS| 9.15.10 @ 8:38PM
Exactly right. You can see this in their behavior when they loose a primary. It is all about themselves being returned to power.
They either insult the very electorate they were courting for votes or change parties. Anything so they can keep "working for the people"
Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 9.15.10 @ 10:31AM
RINO voters are slaves who willingly put the chains of modern liberalism on themselves. Electing Democrat-lite liberal RINOs for the sake of "pragmatism" & "electability" is an act of surrender and an act of cowardice. You don't defeat modern liberalisn with more modern liberalism which is exactly what the GOP "leadership" is offering with candidates like Mike Castle. If Castle is the best they could do they deserve the defeat they received yesterday.
GW| 9.16.10 @ 2:09AM
Your point is moot. He said this stuff *after* the election, not before. If he truly wants to see the GOP do well, he should support all Republican candidates as a highly notable member of the Party. Now he's caused a riff among moderates and conservatives that will linger after the primary and carry over to the general election.
If the right (I use the term loosely, to describe those right of center) wants to regain seats, it needs more unity. Examples of Rove, Crist, and other establishment repubs aren't helping the defeat of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid agenda.
Furthermore, whenever a tea party candidate loses, those who support that candidate should not go on publically bad mouthing the GOP candidate (such as McCain). Although McCain is not my favorite, he won the primary. If you don't like him, that's fine. But there would be no need for a conservative leader to use his/her bully pulpit to rail against moderates weeks before the election when the moderate is running against a socialist.
My point: Rove's decision to speak against Delaware's primary results shows stupidity of a supposedly "brilliant" strategist.
Bob in Western NY| 9.15.10 @ 9:00AM
I have no problem with Rove being against O'Donnell on issues. Unfortunately, Rove kept talking about rumors. That's just wrong!
I know little about O'Donnell. But, it appears that she is a candidate of "We the People." And, that says a lot. In a 70 - 30 country where the 70% knows that our prosperity and our liberty are linked, I doubt this is the year to say "let them eat cake."
BackToBasics| 9.15.10 @ 5:47PM
The sooner Republicans stop llistening to Rove the better off we will be.
He's WAY overrated. He's a strategic player rather than having a core ideology and this causes him to support RINO's and he gave Bush a lot of bad advice especially on illegal immigration.
Tim| 9.15.10 @ 9:00AM
I *love* how the GOP reaction so far has been so petulant. She really sank their battleship.
MacDaddy| 9.15.10 @ 9:10AM
If the RNC won't contribute to O'Donnell's campaign, then I guess ONCE SHE IS ELECTED, she won't be beholden to them....the Republican Party is not taking back the Senate and the House...WE THE PEOPLE are...here's an IM for the Republican Party....there is a train coming down the tracks to D.C....and there are three choices....you can get on board, you can get out of the way, or like the Libs and Dems, you can stand on the tracks and get run over.....we hope you'll buy the ticket and get on board, but the cost is LOYALTY TO CONSERVATIVE IDEALS AND LOYALTY TO THE US CONSTITUTION.
Mimi| 9.15.10 @ 9:42AM
GREAT POST it says it all!! I think their gonna turn it around and support Christine...Mitch Mc Connell just came out and will do just that. I also believe the DEMS "party over Country" stuff is dead on the vine!!!
Jeremiah| 9.15.10 @ 9:16AM
This is the most important election so far this year. It sends the clear message to Republicans in the ruling class that they, too, are in the targeting hairs. The fools have figured that the Tea Party was something to be 'managed.' Use it for electoral gain this cycle and then explain to them why only the smallest changes can be made to the status quo after election.
Before the French Revolution the various estates and centers of interest appealed to and thought to manage the increasingly restive people. They celebrated each of their petty victories over competing interest centers, never quite understanding the revolutionary fervor that was afoot, which eventually swept them all away. It was a profoundly ugly and destructive revolution, but my point is none of the fools in power leading up to it (except principal minister Jacques Necker) had a clue what was going on. They kept trying to fall back on business as usual until they were swept away - precisely because they could envision nothing but business as usual.
The Democrats have been in denial - believing the tea party to be merely an unruly rabble. Republican leaders have been in denial, too, also believing it to be an unruly, but useful, rabble. In too many state primaries the RINO Republican has prevailed. This sends a profound warning that even when you get Republicans to savage a tea party candidate, the rabble might not allow itself to be managed, but instead topple the leadership.
And trust me, even though Democrats are gloating that this makes Delaware an easy win for them (and some idiot Republicans agreeing with them) behind closed doors they are thinking, "My God, how deep does this run.
Keep seeping out the trash!
MacDaddy| 9.15.10 @ 9:17AM
All across the USA, Republican Party finks defending the status quo of RINO's are saying we must return the experienced Republican leadership in order to stand up to the Liberals.
Einstein said it best...continuing to do the same thing while expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. Extending the metaphor to Congress....keep sending the same people there while expecting a different result is the definition of insanity....vote all the RINO's out...the new people will figure it out. Those that remain, will get the message. Work together, for the good of the American people, for the strength of the country, and you can stay....otherwise, there's always trains leaving D.C....
coal carrier| 9.15.10 @ 9:33AM
Another Country Club Republican goes down. I sense some movement in the alimentary canal of the republic.
canuckistani| 9.15.10 @ 9:50AM
Another senate seat goes down the colon of the GOP (grand ole protest party).
Patriot| 9.15.10 @ 12:02PM
We have enough Marxist morons in our own country, we don't need foreign loons like you butting into our business. Buzz off, clown.
bill capron | 9.15.10 @ 9:44AM
Congratulations to us, the conservatives. If this doesn't scare Snow and Collins for their next elections, they are not watching. What it proves is that committed conservatives in a primary can bring down any candidate ... so maybe they'll get with the program ... we can hope.
dac| 9.15.10 @ 9:57AM
Bill you can hope, but Maine is Canada, and for the attitudes up there you can refer to the politically tone-deaf posts of "canuckistani," above. He/she/it is probably an Il Duce Negro-funded union stooge being paid with federal taxpayer money, somewhere in the bowels of an agency outpost, to try to rile up the conservative blogosphere--but the point is that the ruling class is even more entrenched in Maine that it is in Delaware, and will be much harder to dislodge. One step at a time, though.
Also agree with the commenter above that if this (real) change can't be accomplished at the ballot box (due to a reconstituted ACORN, DOJ-funded Black Panthers, or whatever group of Praetorian Guards Il Duce sends to rig the votes), then it will be accomplished with guns and violence. In that war I like the true conservatives' odds for victory even more, as the other side's cadre of thugs ultimately are not a match for a very well-armed citizenry.
Kelly Staples| 9.15.10 @ 10:18AM
The Reid-Pelose-Soetoro healthcare monstrosity would have died on the vine if Snowe hadn't voted it out of committee. Step up to the plate Maine!
Ken in People's Republic of MD| 9.15.10 @ 9:56AM
Being right next door to the great state of Delaware, I was curious if the Tea Party phenomenon would carry over to the Free State. Alas, it did not.
Former governor Republican Bob Ehrlich soundly defeated his challenger, the Palin endorsed Brian Murphy.
Lucious mentioned that O'Donnell was not a worthy candidate ten years ago, but he failed to say why he's so down on the new GOP nominee. Would be nice to know what he has against her, did he ask her out and she turned him down and now he's filled with bitterness and resentment? Could it be that simple? Until he says why, we'll never know.
But with Murphy here in Maryland, there were some quantitative evidence as to why Ehrlich was the better candidate. Murphy is a former Democrat, up until a few years ago, and generally went with the Democratic tide, even to the point of supporting Martin O'Malley, the current gov who defeated Ehrlich four years ago. Murphy ran as a super conservative, touting his business acumen and his love of small government and lower taxes. His history says otherwise. He was an intriguing possibility, but in the end, Ehrlich, who while is not nearly conservative enough for full tea party liking, is nonetheless far more to the right than O'Malley and is hardly a true RINO.
Ehrlich has already been governor, which gives him a leg up, and when he lost, he had a 60 percent approval rating in a state that is 2-1 Democrat. Only in Maryland would they throw out a governor with a 60% approval rating.
Certain parts of this state are fertile tea party areas, indeed, Maryland was instrumental in the fight against British rule. Only in Baltimore City, Prince Georges County and Montgomery County, which is filled with government employees, do the Democrats have a strong foothold. Unfortunately, those jurisdictions are also the most populous in the state and they often dictate what happens here. The Eastern shore and Western Maryland are overwhelmingly conservative but don't have the population to overcome the center of the state. The ultra liberal Barbara Mikulski will keep her senate seat as if she was running un-opposed. No Republican could defeat her. But Ehrlich stands a real chance of beating O'Malley in two months.
stmichrick| 9.15.10 @ 10:58AM
Ken;
That was the best analysis of yesterday's local results that I've seen or heard today. As a Tea Party sympathizer myself, I saw Murphy as too little, too late and we shall see if he perserveres as a constitutional conservative and pitches in to defeat O'Malley.
Bob Ehrlich is not a pure conservative by any means, but his term was a breath of non-politically correct fresh air for this haven of statists we call Maryland.
Places like Maryland and Massachusetts show progress by electing people like Ehrlich and Scott Brown and notions of failed but pure campaigns do not, in fact, move the ball down the field. Delaware, Alaska and Pennsylvania are not in the same communist bloc.
CopyKatnj| 9.15.10 @ 10:13AM
"An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself... A murderer is less to fear." --Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peter McGrath - First Salvo| 9.15.10 @ 10:13AM
Sweeping the fossilized remains of Mike Castle under the rug was going to be a walk in the park during this election cycle. The guy was for gun control, cap & tax, abortion on demand, and opposed the surge in Iraq. He'd been amassing wealth ($8 million) while sitting in one public office or the other for the past 40 years. This guy was a rotten, over-ripe plumb, waiting to be plucked. Easy pickings.
Rove really showed his slip on this one. He's got a lot of work to do recovering any shred of credibility with conservatives.
The big, open question - for self-proclaimed conservatives like O'Donnell - is whether they have the stomach to take on the entrenched Left once in office. That's when the brass knuckles come out.
I'm talking about the public employee unions (SEIU), private sector unions, government school unions, the entrenched Federal bureaucracy, the welfare establishment. Is O'Donnell ready for open and guerilla warfare with the sociopaths who lead these movements? Does she have brass of her own to bring to the fight?
That's the real question. Forget about RINOS (like Rove), they're already irrelevant. Forget about Democrats, they're discredited. The real battle has only, barely, just begun.
Kelly Staples| 9.15.10 @ 10:25AM
Solid. Well put, Mr. McGrath.
stmichrick| 9.15.10 @ 11:06AM
Rove is not a RINO; just a political strategist. I'm sure he hopes he is wrong about O'Donnell. I do.
We don't want a conservative medicine show like Alan Keyes. That is not progress.
Patriot| 9.15.10 @ 12:04PM
You kidding me? Rove is the ultimate RINO, and he showed himself to be a bottom-feeder on Hannity's show.
falling| 9.15.10 @ 7:26PM
stmichrick, until last night I would have agreed with you. I actually gasped in horror when I heard him on Hannity! He truly sounded just like a petulant child! After saying he would support the Republican, he immediately trashed O'Donnell in an attempt to make sure everyone with a television knew she COULD NOT WIN!!!! He gave as much ammunition to her opponent that he could given his two minute time constraint!
darcy| 9.16.10 @ 7:50AM
Not only that, but MSNBC's Maddow showed almost the entire clip, and drove home the point that Rove thinks the DE winner an absolute rube!
Rove made us look bad to our opponents; that's not very smart, is it?
I think that Rove got his clock cleaned with Castle's defeat and just may have a chip on his shoulder. The defeat seems to have weakened his credibility as a mover and shaker; maybe he's losing his mojo. Whatever the cause of his petulance, he's certainly confirmed to us the utter disdain establishment types have for the will of the people, when those people go against the 'wisdom' of the ruling class.
Charity in Truth| 9.15.10 @ 10:14AM
Yea, for Christine O'Donnell and the Tea Party People in Delaware!!! Let us have a Big Tea Party again in November in Delaware and all over the United States!!!
In the meantime, we have to keep pressure on Washington. I just received this action alert from FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform): "Senator Reid declares he will push DREAM Act. Call your Senators and tell them to vote NO!
Thanks be to God for the TRUTH that is surfacing through American Spectator and the Internet!!!
Fed Up in Colorado| 9.15.10 @ 10:32AM
I have always sent donations to the NRCC in the past, that practice ends today! I just logged onto christine2010.com and sent my donation straight to Christine!!! Rove was my inspiration.
BobinPA| 9.15.10 @ 10:36AM
Having lived in Delaware previously for a number of years, I can tell you that because of the very small size of the state, that Ms. O'Donnell will be able to personally reach out to many voters. Also, I hope that people will now focus on the issues, and the great difference there between O’Donnell and Coons. Lastly, the primary in Del was a closed one. In the general election Independents will be able to vote, and more and more we are seeing that Independents are making the difference.
A Real Republican| 9.15.10 @ 11:11AM
Congratulations to Ms. O'Donnell. She swam against the conventional stream and handily swatted aside the stubborn, last vestiges of the Rockefeller Wing of the Republican Party. Come November, perhaps she will drive a stake even deeper into that Wing and send a sharp shot across the bow of RINOs: you're not wanted, you're not needed, you're not us.
Mark Jeffery Koch| 9.15.10 @ 11:17AM
Mike Castle would have been a very good senator, instead, we have a total fruitcake who cannot pay her bills and doesn't believe the law applies to her. She won't win but if she does she will feel comfortable in Congress. Charlie Rangel, a crook who doesn't pay his taxes but writes laws that make you pay yours, will be re-elected in a landslide, and there are dozens of congressmen and senators who have liens against them, criminal records, are in arrears in debt, don't pay child support, etc. etc.
If we stupidly and blindly keep electing people to Congress that pass laws they continually break and have no intention of following themselves, then this says just one thing and that is that the American voter is an idiot. Voting for people like Sarah Palin, Sharon Angle, O'Donnell, and a variety of other nitwits, crooks, felons, and unqualified individuals doesn't say very much about the electorate that is at all positive.
Winston Churchill once said that the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. He was, unfortunately, 100% correct.
George S| 9.15.10 @ 11:26AM
If we are limited in choice to those who do not break the law, what will we do next year? Where will we find people who don't have a hidden stash of incandescent light bulbs? Or those who'll pay in cash for paper supplies because they don't feel like (or can't afford) filling out those 1099's? Or those who will stubbornly refuse to buy health insurance?
Once upon a time, breaking the law meant stealing or cheating. Now it means you didn't separate polyurethane from polyethylene plastic into the appropriately colored microchip infested garbage can.
Gimme more of those lawbreakers over those idle rich lords who have nothing better to do than stick their nose in our business.
dac| 9.15.10 @ 11:35AM
So, Mark, you'd prefer that conservatives vote for ration-and-tax, anti-2d Amendment, never met a fiscal "compromise" they didn't roll over for, "can't we all just get along" milquetoast statists like Castle, Specter, Snowe, Collins, Hagel, Lugar, etc. etc.?
And exactly what qualifications did Il Duce Negro have for being Commander-in-Chief? Please compare his executive experience to Palin's. You whine about corruption, but we have a cadre of overtly fascist crooks in this administration who would like nothing better than to see dead-eyed, rubber-stamp "Republicans" elected, so they can provide "bipartisan" cover for the ruling class' continued rape of the American people. No thanks--take your own advice and move to Canada, or maybe France, or maybe North Korea. Your dearest principles come to their logical ends in those places.
Is there any dark recess of the statist mind that ever contemplates the question: why can't you leave freedom-loving people alone? Are you so much wiser and better than we are, that we ought to blindly and against all empirical evidence entrust you with our and our children's well-being?
You'll either win, and become one of the most-valued guards at the Socialist States of America's re-education camps, or you'll lose incrementally by elections, or violently in a civil war, and your government teat-sucking ilk will dry up like a piece of dogshit on a hot summer day, and blow away in the wind. Or just be shot dead by an American defending his home and family. Good luck.
DRed| 9.15.10 @ 2:11PM
Well, so far Obama has managed to go two years as an executive without quitting, so that's one up on Sarah.
What qualifications does Ms. O'Donnell have, besides what she says are her beliefs? I'm all for throwing the bums out of Congress, but not if you're just replacing them with a new set of bums.
Bo Darville| 9.15.10 @ 3:25PM
Well, Obama claimed to be "qualified" for president by running a campaign. O'Donnell's run about 4 or 5 unsuccessful ones, so... I guess that makes her just as or more qualified as him?
couchgrouch| 9.15.10 @ 10:33PM
Giv' em hell, dac...
And Mark, who was your shining candidate in the DE Rep Senate race? Someone else with as sterling a record as Castle? Another member of "Famous Moderates" fame? Just who the hell else was as conservative as O'Donnell?
"You can lead a whore to water, but you can't make her think". Wake up!
Doug| 9.15.10 @ 11:45PM
Mark,
As a reminder, we're a republic.
With respect to democracies Winston Churchill also is quoted as saying, "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 - 1965)
Given the Judeo-Christian (generally accepted) worldview of the time a republic has a great chance of succeeding (we have - to date). Given that we're attempting to scrub all vestiges of that moral code from our public and private live I think we've diminished our future chances - sadly so.
Oldefarte| 9.15.10 @ 11:17AM
Great article, Robert, and THANK YOU [and also those individuals your editorial mentioned]. My special thanks to those tea partiers-patriots who are winning back this country..... I admire you and your efforts! Hey, Robert, ROLL TIDE [hope you're not an Auburn man and that I not insulting you]!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Al Adab| 9.15.10 @ 11:25AM
Many of these results from yesterday represent nothing less than an ongoing purge of the GOP by Conservatives tired of being both taken for granted and betrayed by the Republicans. Win or lose in November we, like Cato, at least stand for Liberty against an impending tyranny. That is not a bad legacy to leave for future generations. Perhaps, should darkness fall, or posterity will rediscover "the blessings of Liberty." At least they will have a chance.
PolishKnight| 9.15.10 @ 11:44AM
Sadly, CATO sold out to the amnesty/illegal immigrant bloc. I stopped sending them money.
Al Adab| 9.15.10 @ 1:46PM
Not CATO institute, but the Roman statesman who committed suicide rather than live under the tyranny of Caesar
PolishKnight| 9.17.10 @ 11:58AM
I didn't know that. Hmmm, kind of ironic that this seems to be the same path that many modern day CATO's are following...
Margie| 9.15.10 @ 1:38PM
Yes AlAdab,
The country class voters have finally woken up and have realized that in order to win they have to vote in the primaries. With this happening I say that the days of having to hold thy nose and vote for "best" Republican may be ending. If we keep remembering that it's up to us to partake and that we truly do get the government we deserve and that our votes really DO count ~ and we are seeing the proof now, and this is ONLY THE BEGINNING ~ then there's plenty of hope for the future!
And thanks Obama I must give credit where it's due~ thanks for waking us up to the truth that is YOU! We don't want your Socialist Islamic sympathizing form of government. Buh bye dude!
Barry O| 9.15.10 @ 11:40AM
I'd like to thank the Tea Party for giving me the Senate to reconcile in a few new Supreme Court justices.
Siegfried X| 9.15.10 @ 1:51PM
Are you talking about Obama's two Supreme Court justices, the ones which all the RINOs voted to confirm?
Steve A| 9.15.10 @ 11:57AM
Hey Barry, Come November I bet you are @ 2 packs of smokes a day. The novelty has worn off your lame arse pal. The American public has muttered a collective "Ooops" to pulling the lever for your hoax & change smokescreen.
Barry O| 9.15.10 @ 3:27PM
Hey, Steve, I'm switching to smokeless tobacco. Gonna spit in a cup. Then I can sell the spit on my website as atheist holy water.
Lucius Cornelius| 9.15.10 @ 11:59AM
Congratulations and good luck to Christine. I made negative statements about O'Donnell above. However, I understand (and share) the anger that conservatives feel towards the GOP leadership. I think it is an outrage that the NRSC is not immediately offering assistance to O'Donnell's campaign.
One other thing. I read in the news that a former campaign worker for O'Donnell said that Christine was an opportunist and not truly conservative. I beg to differ. I found Christine O'Donnell to be thoroughly conservative...a real true believer.
Oh, lucius's neighbor...you are confusing me with Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
Dave Allen| 9.15.10 @ 12:00PM
I used to think Rove was a true conservative. Silly me! Lately, from his initial bad mouthing of the Arizona SB1070 immigration bill (before he even bothered to read it), right through his recent put down of O'Donnell in Delaware, I have come to realize that he is just one more "good ol' boy" who wants to maintain status quo in the Republican establishment. He and other party leaders have apparently misread the uprising that is sweeping the country. They think it's all about the Democrats! The Democrats think it's all about the encumbents! Apparently none of the Washington D.C. (District of Corruption) establishment in either party has a clue what this is all about! They don't get it!
It's about freedom to live our lives, our way! It's about "We the people" ! It's about the legacy that was passed on to us by Washington, Jefferson and Madison! It's about the constitution and the progressive law makers who have ignored it, bypassed it and abused it for the last 100+ years!
Remember that "great silent majority" that President "Ronnie" used to constantly refer to? Well, guess what guys! You have awaken that sleeping giant! We are mad as hell and we're not goint to take it anymore.
It's too bad that Mr. Rove isn't running for office. Nothing would please me more than to have the chance to vote against his ass along with a vote against Obama, Ried, Pelosi, Dodd, Barney Frank McCain, Graham and Snow from the State of Maine, just to name a few! November 2010 & 2012; it's comming!
To use a phrase that our esteem President Obama dearly loves, "Let me be clear", it's about you if you are an elected official, regardless of what State or party you come from. It's time for a major Housecleaning (including the Senate, as well). The crew that is doing the cleaning is bipartisan and doesn't care what what party you belong to! In less than 2 months the cleanup begins. You can be a part of the cleanup or you can be part of the trash! It's about the choices you make ladies and gentlemen. Take some advice from the "arizona old fart" and choose wisely!
Oldefarte| 9.15.10 @ 1:51PM
Well said and true. Just remember that Rove was Bush's political operative, and that Bush should be considered a moderate Republican [but a good and decent one at that]. Also remember the pre-Reagan words of Barry Goldwater: EXTREMISM IN THE DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE!!!
PolishKnight| 9.17.10 @ 12:05PM
Bush not only walked into the trap that liberals set for him, but actually seemed to throw a party beforehand before jumping in.
Bush I openly regarded Reagan with contempt and was a Massachusette Rockefeller Republican. His presidency, in effect, was little different than Bill Clinton who easily knocked him out.
Bush II on a personal level is a likable person, but he held a deaf ear to his constituents when their guns were confiscated by Federal marshalls in New Orleans and racist preferences. On the other hand, he bent over backwards to serve illegal immigrants and the president of Mexico whose corrupt regime is little better than that of Cuba. If he was a likable person, it's only because he was a naive fool, at best.
I voted for the jerk, sadly. Looking back, I'm happy Bush II won the first election (it would have set a terrible precedent for liberals to "win" close elections simply by rewriting laws to get "all" the votes for themselves counted) but his second term, perhaps we would be better off with Kerry than with Obama. But... Obama is serving a useful purpose to vent off decades of White Guilt so perhaps it's working out for the best after all.
DRed| 9.15.10 @ 2:01PM
You're not a silent majority. You're an extremely vocal minority. I wish you were right about being bipartisan, but as far as I can tell the tea party is just (largely) the hardcore of the republican party.
Mark| 9.15.10 @ 12:02PM
Why isn't she married? If she's true to her principles, she's the real '40 year old virgin'.
Interloper| 9.15.10 @ 12:05PM
Leave sex out of it, pervert.
Mark| 9.15.10 @ 12:10PM
Sounds like she has, unless she lies. That's a shame with her looks.
geekmom | 9.15.10 @ 12:39PM
who cares if she's married. lol wow. isn't that getting a little personal? and so what if she sticks to her own principals. as long as she doesn't spend money and she remains the kind of person she tries to be and doesn't stop our constitutional rights then you have nothing to worry about.
uiop67| 9.15.10 @ 7:51PM
She has lived with a Christian Rock musician (a male) for years.
Whadda ya think uv that?
Dave Allen (arizonaoldfart)| 9.15.10 @ 12:17PM
It's none of your business Mark!
Mark| 9.15.10 @ 12:27PM
It's a legitimate question. She speaks about family values but has no experience with marriage or kids, or even sex if she telling the truth. Strange situation.
Dave Allen (arizonaoldfart)| 9.15.10 @ 12:34PM
DUH!! She came from a family didn't she? Maybe that's where her family values came from. Just because she has chosen not to start a new family yet is her business and like I said before, it's none of yours!
Steve A| 9.15.10 @ 12:45PM
Mark, Come on dude. Like you really give a freakin rip about her family value platform. Is that the best shot you can take? If so, you need to reevaluate, pal. Barney F can run a gay bordello out of his basement & it's no problem but this gal needs to get married or else she is damaged goods, right?? Whatever, get over yourself.
Steve A| 9.15.10 @ 1:07PM
Hey Mark, Another ? to apply to your deep philosophical take on this one. Barak was never in the military, correct? How can he justify sending more troops to Afghanistan if he has no military experience according to your brilliant theory?? Amateur hour here at the Spectator.
RCV| 9.16.10 @ 5:21PM
It was a pretty dumb argument, to be sure.
Geekmom | 9.15.10 @ 12:36PM
As long as she stays away from my freedom of speech and keeps her religious opinions away from my constitutional right to free speech and do what I want for a living then she's fine because she sounds like a fiscal conservative who is against abortion. I looked at Castle's voting record on opencongress.org. Frightening. Spend happy man.
Mark| 9.15.10 @ 2:34PM
Fiscal conservative? She didn't pay the college fees she owed until 10 years later. She sounds like just another religous fundamentalist wingnut. The GOP won't get anywhere running this kind of candidate.
Al Adab| 9.15.10 @ 3:11PM
Mark, one last time: It's not about the GOP getting anything. It is about eliminating the guilty from the party and returning it to the Conservative Movement. Win or lose in Nov. is secondary. Henry Clay once said, "I'd rather be right than be President." Comprende esta usted?
Mark| 9.15.10 @ 3:52PM
OK Al, but your new Republican Party will never win any seat with 30% of the general election vote. That's the max who will vote for a fundamentalist.
Hey, I figured out why Christine looks 20 at 41-- no men or kids.
Margie| 9.15.10 @ 4:31PM
Really? Reagan was a Christian. Hmm. Guess you're just wrong.
Al Adab| 9.15.10 @ 5:58PM
New Republican Party? We are trying to deconstruct the RINO majority to reestablish the Conservative Movement. We chose the GOP as the vehicle for that movement (back in the 50's BTW) since neither the Democrat Left nor a third party is a viable option.
falling| 9.15.10 @ 7:38PM
Mark, she has had financial difficulties in the past, so have a great number of people in America, especially in the last four years since Democrats took back control of Congress. And if taking 10 years to pay off college loans is enough to keep someone out of office, why is Obama our president? Didn't he tell us he had just finished paying off his and Michelle's students loans when he became a Senator? And THEY had millions in the bank! I do not care what her religious beliefs are, I only care that her vote is solidly against abortion and for fiscally conservatism.
REB| 9.16.10 @ 11:49PM
Ones personal opinions about morality are just that,personal,BUT those Judeo/Christian /ect principles that were used to establish this republic are not, they are what made it work and the fact that the republic they founded allows those who have no personal code except if it feels good do it' to live here in peace says volumes about those principles,islam didnt give men freedom,neither did communism/marxism/socialism or any other religion or "isms" there has to be a standard by which a society hold itself and others accountable ,men have to have something to live by...I prefer those liberty inspiring principles our founders espoused,regardless of their personal moral code!
albert constantine, jr.| 9.15.10 @ 1:11PM
Castle's unbroken string of election victories were a direct result of never having been subjected to a primary, or for that matter, a serious general election opponent. When Castle became governor, the Delaware republican party held the Governor and Lt. Governor's office, one U.S. Senate seat, the State Treasurer's Office, and was regularly competive for the Auditor and Attorney General's office. While Castle won re-election to Governor in 1988 with only token Democrat opposition (environment "activist" Jake Kreshtool received less than 30% of the vote), the state party took his victory in this fixed fight as a sign he was unbeatable. Among the reasons the state Democrats rarely ran opposition to him since that election was that he frequently voted in ways that pleased them. In discussions with the lefties and "moderate" independents here in Delaware, they almost always talk how Castle was the kind of Republican they liked. If I knew nothing else about him (and I know way too much), what I observed about the politics of those who liked him would be clue enough that he did not merit my support.
Lori| 9.15.10 @ 1:41PM
O'Donnel doesn't have to win in the general.
The shot has been fired over the GOP bow and that is what is important here.
trace5| 9.17.10 @ 12:25AM
In other words it is more important for the Tea Party to send a message then for the GOP to win the house /senate. WOW! Obama will have 2 more years to turn America into a socialist nation. Wake up LORI> You don't realize how important winning the house and senate is do you. This is very sad and I hope their are not to many more like you in the party.
Margie| 9.15.10 @ 1:41PM
Dear AmSpec: It would be really nice if you set up a registration process here. That way lowlifes couldn't slander and lie. Including the above sicko calling themselves "Moderator."
Thanks.
Barry O| 9.15.10 @ 3:30PM
Then I couldn't pretend to be the president, anymore.
Steve A| 9.15.10 @ 3:50PM
That was funny. Excellent point.
Margie| 9.15.10 @ 4:29PM
LOL.
Al Adab| 9.15.10 @ 3:47PM
Margie,
What was it the Lord said about spewing the tepid or lukewarm out of His mouth? So go the RINO GOP.
Margie| 9.15.10 @ 4:26PM
Yes, thanks to the voters getting mad enough. I really pray we never become complacent again. Now that we see how thrilling it is that conservatives are winning and that We the People really ARE the government~ we'll never quit, or become lukewarm again!
Heh, all it takes for evil to lose it a few good people voting!!
bernardo| 9.15.10 @ 1:58PM
We need to get down to brass tacks. The coming election matters because the policies of the last couple of years are disastrous and must be reversed. Things are bad enough that we need to support any Republican this time, no matter how distasteful or bizarre. I favored Castle in Delaware, even though I knew he was a career pol and a RINO's RINO, because I thought he would win. Now I will support and give money to O'Donnell despite her peculiarities. So should everyone who takes this fight seriously.
Bob Grant| 9.15.10 @ 4:02PM
Well put. Agreed 100%. After all, she will ONLY VOTE ON LEGISLATION. That's it folks. This "is-she-too-nutty-to-be-senator" argument is meaningless.
What should keep people up at night is the thought of Nancy Pelosi being TWO HEARTBEATS away from the presidency and she's a friggin loon.
O'Donnell is a guaranteed conservative vote in the Senate and anyone who call themselves a conservative should support her.
bernardo| 9.15.10 @ 2:00PM
We need to get down to brass tacks. The coming election matters because the policies of the last couple of years are disastrous and must be reversed. Things are bad enough that we need to support any Republican this time, no matter how distasteful or bizarre. I favored Castle in Delaware, even though I knew he was a career pol and a RINO's RINO, because I thought he would win. Now I will support and give money to O'Donnell despite her peculiarities. So should everyone who takes this fight seriously.
Wally| 9.15.10 @ 2:07PM
As one of your transient progressive trolls (I still don't know how that word went from 'uncivil person making personal attacks' to 'one that dissents with the board consensus'), I like this thread. Of course, there are the usual wingnuts and sexists and racists here but I like many of these comments about purging the D.C. insider establishment and eliminating the entitlement mindset of all those Senators for life.
Problem is, you picked a lousy horse to ride in Delaware. She is going to lose big time. And Angle and Paul are also fringe candidates who may lose easy races. They are not fringe as in outsider/"of the people," but fringe as in having a paranoid, conspiracy mindset, which makes them unlikely candidates to keep office and very unlikely to get anything done in Congress. For instance, I don't like DeMint - I think he is an arrongant man willing to shed blood overseas for political reasons. But he is a guy who reflects his constituents. He plays the race card as he is from the deep south but does not ascribe to this birther/evil muslim/Pelosi witch nonsense. Same with Russ Feingold. Straight shooter and represents a lot of people without being a truther.
So the question is do we elect a bunch of Feingolds and DeMints and Ryans and Sam Farrs and have gridlock or do we elect a bunch of bought off, insider, lobbyist connected people like McConnell and Nelson, Pelosi and Boehner, who result in watered down laws. Or will electing the former - so far apart ideologically - actually result in "people's oriented" solutions.
Martin Treptow| 9.15.10 @ 3:07PM
Sharron Angle is in a battle, I'll admit, but have you seen any polls on Rand Paul's race? He's beating Conway like he stole something. And Ms. O'Donnell was beating Coons in pre-primary polling before the RNC and Karl Rove and the rest of the power-mad Washington crowd started sh**ting on her. And you might want to send a farewell present to your beloved Russ Feingold, he should be running double-digits ahead right now. He's not. He's toast.
Cheers!
DRed| 9.15.10 @ 3:57PM
It's not like Rand Paul is some outsider. If anything, he seems a lot more establishment than his Daddy.
Redstateboy| 9.15.10 @ 3:13PM
and Hussien? and Harry-the War is lost-Reid and Nazi Pelosi are not "fringe"?
Kishego| 9.15.10 @ 3:48PM
Grid lock in Washington D.C. is a good thing. When nothing gets done there, we keep more of our freedom and our money.
Wally| 9.15.10 @ 7:52PM
Wow, what weak responses. "We hate you, you r gonna lose," just is not very elevated dialogue.
Except Kishego, who I think is wrong but at least the reply had some sore of logic. Less regulations means a freer market. But it is wrong because ignoring the nation's telecommunications and transportation infrastructure and education is a route to third worldism with the rich getting richer and the other 90% getting poorer. Oh, wait, we are already doing that.
Oh and Redstateboy - the war was lost. A long time ago when there was no reconciliation after the surge and Iranians massively increased their regional power because of the war. Not being demagogic or nationalistic is not fringe, it is intelligent.
Redstateboy| 9.15.10 @ 3:10PM
YOU HYPOCRITES!! All you who slam O'Donnell for her, in your lofty opinions, falibility as a human being.. "Let those among you who are without Sin cast the first stone."
Oh!?! and is it lost on anyone that Castle would support Cap and Trade?!! Hello?!!!
Doug R| 9.15.10 @ 3:11PM
O'Donnell will vote to repeal ObamaCare, will vote against cap and tax and to lower government spending. Enough said.
Redstateboy| 9.15.10 @ 3:14PM
Thank you and Amen
Seek| 9.15.10 @ 3:33PM
Christine O'Donnell is a babe/looker, all right, but I've yet to see any evidence that she takes positions on actual issues. One hopes the next couple months will yield something more than vapid slogans from her.
Bob Grant| 9.15.10 @ 3:44PM
Granted, she's a little rough around the edges. A little green. I've watched several of her interviews that last few days and the cringe worthy moments were excessive.
However, if I lived in Delaware I would vote for her at the first opportunity presented to me. After all, the only thing she will do as Senator is VOTE ON LEGISLATION. She will not command troops, set the country's agenda, negotiate with other countries, or have in her possession the nuclear warhead codes.
Why is it that the left can have quirky, off-center, crazy, or radical seat holders but the right cannot?
I want the tea party to take over the House, Sentate, and Governorships.
The presidency is another matter!!
Nick| 9.15.10 @ 3:47PM
Seek,
Do you not know how to get to Miss O'Donnell's campaign site?
Bob Grant| 9.15.10 @ 3:53PM
In addition. The cute little mannerisms, they way she moves her eyes when speaking almost makes you forget about Sarah Palin. Hey now!!
RCV| 9.15.10 @ 10:25PM
I thought we were going to leave Palin out of this, Bob.
Steve A| 9.15.10 @ 3:39PM
First things first. Delaware was Biden anyway so if she pulls it off it is huge, if not, oh well. Castle is not what we need so good riddance. Second. There has OBVIOUSLY been a major fundamental anti: spending, government control, excessive taxation awakening amongst previously dormant American middle ground average Joes & this does not bode well for tax & spend Progressive futures. You all had better move fast as the days are numbered & the jig is up. I work as an Insurance Agent & speak to people from all political persuasions on a daily basis. I am telling you that I have had 4 people in the last month tell me, unsolicited, that they regret voting for Obama. This conversation usually stems from a "billing challenge" & morphs into a conversation on the economy. If I was keeping score it would be about 52-0 in the last year or so & I am not taking a poll here. (0 being the # who tell me they were McCain & now they love Barak) You guys are toast in November & beyond, just watch.
Servilia| 9.15.10 @ 3:45PM
Hey Booger, Toto will never want a real live girl. He's too hot for the blowup doll that he keeps chained up in his basement because he knows she'll cheat on him if he lets her out.
shukov| 9.15.10 @ 4:02PM
It is refreshing to hear the like minded conservative comments on here. I heard a fellow say this the other day " The only time I want my Senator or Congressman reaching across the aisle to the other party is to grab them by their throat " . I think he speaks for a lot of us nowadays.
Rudie Can't Fail!| 9.15.10 @ 4:06PM
Many liberals are made crazy by candidates like this, and by Palin and Angle and so on.
They don't seem to get that people are voting for these whackier candidates BECAUSE they're whacky.
In rough economic times, people don't trust institutions.
They rightly believe it's institutions who are behind their growing economic insecurity, and so they don't trust them and they don't trust the way the establishment speaks. Hence the love of the nutty, the extremist, and the absurd.
The fact that they've been persuaded that "the government" is the only institution that has failed them is a failure of media and of schools.
In truth, it is a corporate octopus of capitalism that is failing them.
But until they catch on, we have such great entertainment from the Tea Party!
Thank you Tea Party! Thank you Glenn Beck! Thank you Sharon Angle! Thank you Newt!
The fun never stops!
God bless America! Liberty, Equality! Fraternity!
Keep the aspidistra flying!
Vic| 9.15.10 @ 6:29PM
O yes indeed. We would all be so much better off if we adopted the economic brilliance of Cuba and North Korea...snark snark
Rudie Can't Fail!| 9.15.10 @ 6:56PM
Well if things didn't work out you always have second amendment remedies.
Bruce from AP| 9.15.10 @ 4:19PM
I've never trused that liberal RINO Rove. First he helps loose the 2008 election by not warning us about AKRON, and now he's stadning up and disrespeting Rush, Joe the Plumber, and Governer Palin plus soon to be Senator ODonnel.
Speaking of the Governer, when will she announce her candidancy? 2012 is right around the corner.
Palin Limbaugh 2012!!!!
Bob Grant| 9.15.10 @ 4:29PM
Come on. Let's not get too unhinged. I love O'Donnell as Senator and Sarah as, well, Sarah the kingmaker and thorn in the Democrats side but, please, can we dispense with the Palin 2012 B.S.
Bruce from AP| 9.16.10 @ 1:03PM
Why is Palin 2012 BS? She is the leader of the party now, so she should run. I bet she'd get 90% of the vote - only elite liberal filters and terorists would be against her.
Maybe Senator ODonnell could be the veep, but I dont know if two women would be able to handle the job of runing the country - we need a solid man in there, like Pat Robertson or Newt (although he's said some disrespectful things about Sarah)
Nick| 9.15.10 @ 4:38PM
According to Miss O'Donnell's campaign site, she has raised $500,000 today!
So much for not having a chance in November, RINO's.
Rudie Can't Fail!| 9.15.10 @ 6:58PM
That's right RINO's.
And remember.... masturbation is WRONG!
Nick| 9.15.10 @ 7:10PM
She's now over $600,000!
So, you're pro-selfgratification, Rudie the pervert?
PACoug| 9.15.10 @ 9:32PM
Make it $760,ooo at 9:30 p.m. and counting. It's not out of the question they could raise 3 million in the first week after the primary.
It's an electrifying development that should really help swing the independents and a lot of wavering Republicans her way in DE.
Tim*| 9.15.10 @ 4:43PM
Think about Tea Party Kingmaker South Carolina's Senator Jim DeMint .
shukov| 9.15.10 @ 4:47PM
@ Bob Grant, The fight has just begun, we need Palin excactly where she is for the next ten years or so. Jim Demint 2012
Bob Grant| 9.15.10 @ 4:58PM
I love DeMint but would prefer him to run as VP due to Senators not possessing the skill set necessary to be effective presidents. He may be, however, the exception to the rule.
The more I look into Haley Barbour, the more he appeals to me. Granted, he has his own issues - namely being a tobacco lobbyist - but I see him as a very effective president from day one. Watch his interview on National Review's Uncommon Knowledge and tell me he isn't presidential material.
Barbour/DeMint, Barbour/Daniels would be very acceptable to me.
Siegfried X| 9.15.10 @ 6:29PM
Barbour is an establishment / "moderate" Republican who is pro-amnesty, wants to take social issues off the table, etc.
It's true that Barbour is very very sharp at the mechanics of politics, like running the RNC.
Bob Grant| 9.15.10 @ 7:13PM
I'm not ready to write off every "establishment republican". I believe he has that rare combination skills that few can match.
Yes, his previous stance on immigration is weak but it was based on its effect on Mississippi. As a candidate for president, there is no question in my mind he would re-position to the right.
I cannot think of any other candidate with this combination of talents to be an EFFECTIVE president.
Sure, I might be more ideologically aligned with the more hard-core teapartiers or Rush, but how EFFECTIVE presidents would they be?
Tea Partiers need to cut their teeth in Washington occupying Senate and House seats. At home, they need to win Gubernatorial and local seats.
The next president to lead the new conservatives should be one with the necessary experience, leadership, and - I hate to say this - lobbying skills to be a change driver.
Haley Barbour could be that one!
BackToBasics| 9.15.10 @ 6:00PM
I do not remember for sure but I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said, "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan."
O'Donnell's success may bring in even more supporters not only for her but also for other true conservative and Tea Party candidates.
The pollsters and political pronosticators forget that such momentum, once started can grow faster than anyone would expect.
Her win is great news for sure and it has already shown some of the cockroaches in the Republican party and it will also show them as well in the Democrat Party.
So, it is good that she won against a RINODEM even if we do not get the Senate in case she does not win in November. But I would not count her out and I expectt Rtepublicans to ge tthe Senate in 2012 anyway, so all we have lost is a RINODEM named Castle. It's a win for conservatives even if she loses in November.
Tony Raskoon| 9.15.10 @ 6:21PM
Agree, B2B, it's RINO season, and we hunt them in season. RINO's are always there when you don't need them. Folks complained about the two parties being too much alike. Now they complain that a Dem-clone didn't win the Republican primary. The voters now have a real choice. Also, shame on the national R-Party for picking winners during the primaries.
Tony Raskoon| 9.15.10 @ 6:26PM
If she wins, O'Donnell will be that rare elected official that has no political debts. Even the R-Party has no hold over her if she gets elected. Talk about independent! Fitting for her state. I wish her well. Her species was thought extinct.
Oldbull| 9.15.10 @ 7:47PM
JFS wrote, "Idiots, theocrats, uneducated, lying, delusional, simpletons. We'll be nuked and conquered before we can blink. Be afraid; be very afraid." Sounds like he's describing the Obama administration!
335blues| 9.15.10 @ 8:08PM
I hope Christine wins and wins big. And I hope she is EVERYTHING the democrat party and the republican establishment is afraid she'll be.
Greycoat | 9.15.10 @ 8:49PM
I'm so sick and tired of radical Marxist Democrats and RINO's. There should be a "hunting season" declared to thin out their herds.
Figuratively speaking...yea that's it I'm figuratively speaking....
Lee| 9.15.10 @ 8:50PM
So far I have heard a lot about Christine O'Donnel's failings. Unfortunately, I have actually witnessed Mike Castle's. I followed his votes in the House.
I think I'll continue to support O'Donnell until she shows me some of these alleged drawbacks. If I find I can't stand them, I'll support a challenger at her next re-election campaign. In the meantime, I sincerely hope she is the worst nightmare of every establishment politician in Washington who has been feathering his own nest at my expense.
By the by, Coons is a self-proclaimed Marxist, as well as Harry Reid's "pet". Reid said so. O'Donnell is going to have to be pretty bad to beat that.
Greycoat | 9.15.10 @ 8:54PM
JFS wrote, "Idiots, theocrats, uneducated, lying, delusional, simpletons. We'll be nuked and conquered before we can blink. Be afraid; be very afraid."
Well it was the "intelligent", "elites", "educated", "truthful", "undelusional", and "sophisticated" that has really F'd UP this country, so "Idiots, theocrats, uneducated, lying, delusional, simpletons" would be a WELCOME CHANGE. They can't do any worse than the destructive fools we already have in D.C.
PACoug| 9.15.10 @ 9:27PM
JFS' slanders are whistling past the graveyard. My wife and I both hold advanced degrees--mine a lowly M.A. of E.E., while she holds a Ph.D.
We were in the crowd on 8/28, and there were an awful lot of highly educated folks among the attendees. The slander we continue to take from these punks on the Left is heartening to me.
As WWII GHWB said, "if you're not taking flak, you're not over the target."
Likewise, lefties, it is unwise to sass your executioner. Don't say you weren't warned.
Bonsage| 9.15.10 @ 9:05PM
If Rove is such a political genius, why do have Obama in the White House and Democrats in control of the House and Senate? Rove's trash talk about O/Donnell was unwarranted, despicable and extraordinarily stupid.
PACoug| 9.15.10 @ 9:21PM
Rove was a paid consultant to the Castle campaign. That was a stupid gig to accept in the first place. But we can take heart: if even "genius" Karl Rove underestimated the power of this wave, then you better believe the geniuses on the other side have NO idea what's about to hit them.
Belltower| 9.15.10 @ 10:47PM
I am in favor of throwing the bums out and replacing them with ordinary citizens not elite pols. Imagine what flawed individuals with first hand knowledge of hard knocks would add to the national debate. Who among you feels inclined to cast the first stone? With 1 in 4 upside down on their mortgages some of you out there may be dealing with the banks...let me know how that's working out for you. How many of you and your neighbors are going to foreclosure or short sale? Anybody think you're bad people that can not serve? We bailed out all the fat cats who robbed us blind when we decided they were to big to fail. These geniuses just about took down our country and we are all paying the bill. I'm willing to send my hair dresser, bus driver, insurance broker, teacher, dentist, builder, Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, friend, factory worker, small business owner, used car salesman, new car salesman, corporate CEO - and just about anybody with good will. Dumb people may surprise you. Smart people aren't always right.
spyder308| 9.16.10 @ 9:52AM
I am also in favor of throwing the bums out. We should have term limits.
But I am not in favor of replacing them with con artists with no qualifications. I want smart educated people representing me even if I would not be comfortable having a beer with them.
REB| 9.17.10 @ 12:06AM
And I would add a few farmers to that mix of really smart people...especially over at USDA,these harvard programed retards running the country are why we are where we are,we need some people who understand life and hard work who may have some crap on their boots but possess alot of common sense between their ears as well as the ability to smell a rat,we need that in DC!!
Yosemeti Sam| 9.16.10 @ 2:50AM
Um, Rove - compare notes with your incompetent political soul-mate Fitzgerald!
LOL.
Viator| 9.16.10 @ 4:44AM
Don't those destructive trolls stand out, attempting to portray themselves as reasonable as they wield their hidden daggers to try to destroy Christine and the Tea Party movement. Hey, Christine raised +$750,000K YESTERDAY. Wake up.
Spyder308| 9.16.10 @ 9:48AM
This woman is a con artist. All she has ever done is run for office. I give her credit, she goes big from the start, the Senate 5 times.
Smart people want a knowledgeable experienced professional for their lawyers, doctors and accountants, but most people seem to want people they would be comfortable having a beer with, that is stupider than they are, to represent them in Congress. I don't get it.
Bruce from AP| 9.16.10 @ 1:08PM
Hey, speak for yourself. I dont trust educated people - they often are elite and liberal filters. Good luck finding a doctor that believes in the good book - all they seem to focus on is 'science'
I want a commonman (or even a woman if she's not too loud) to stand up for me in congress. Even better if they drink american beer!
REB| 9.17.10 @ 12:16AM
So,you know her personally eh? No? then quit flappin' your jaws...these idiots running this country have proven how stupid they think we are. Time to give someone else a chance she cant much do any worse than where we are now and if she does we throw her out too,all this badmouthing by people who have nothing to go on except their ego,remember rove was wrong about her(and alot of other stuff)lets see what she can do,cant be worse than what we have now!
RCV| 9.16.10 @ 12:48PM
Just off the wire:
"Democrat Chris Coons holds a double-digit lead over Republican hopeful Christine O’Donnell in the first Rasmussen Reports post-primary survey of the U.S. Senate race in Delaware.
Coons earns 53% of the vote to O’Donnell’s 42%, with leaners included. One percent (1%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.
The Delaware race is now viewed as Solid Democrat in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Senate Balance of Power rankings."
Thank you, Delaware tea-baggers!
Nick| 9.16.10 @ 7:44PM
You are welcome, RCV!
You are aware that Miss O'Donnell cut the "bearded marxist" Coons' lead in half, just by winning the primary, aren't cha'?
You keep thinking that you guys have got Deleware in the bag, now, ya' here!
RCV| 9.17.10 @ 3:09AM
Coons was way behind Castle in the polls, Nick. I don't think the Democrats have it locked up at all. Coons is a weak candidate. Beau Biden -- who would have been a strong one -- stayed out of the race because he though Castle would be the candidate in a GOP off-year election. But O'Donnell will have money and lots of eager volunteer workers. Obama showed what you can do with that combination. Still , her victory has given Democrats hope of retaining this seat, which was once a sure loss.
Take care, Nick.
somnolence| 9.16.10 @ 3:23PM
You're going to have to come up with better excuses than "she paid rent money out of the funds, etc.", when you have both Clintons who were never working in the private sector, and the current occupant himself, a "community organizer." Those arguments by the libtards are pathetically futile these days. As far as her losing her job, that my friends can be a vital part of her appeal, and it is.
somnolence| 9.16.10 @ 3:29PM
Barbour and Daniels couldn't whip their way out of a paper bag in 2012. I'll call you on it, Palin by popular demand draft.
Michael Suede | 9.16.10 @ 5:19PM
O’Donnell strikes me as Bush lite.
I fail to see where her major differences are.
What specific programs will she be cutting?
What specific bureaucracies will she be attacking?
Is she against increased war spending?
Is she going to help shut down the federal reserve?
Is she going to lobby against the income tax?
Is she going to eliminate government interventions in the healthcare market or simply work to put in her own brand of fascism?
She's no conservative.
RCV| 9.16.10 @ 5:46PM
Not sure what to make of Ms. O'Donnell politically. Revelations today about her sister, with whom she is very close and who has been active in her campaign. Her sister is an open and active lesbian, involved in the movement for gay marriage in California, who scoffs at the notion that O'Donnell is anti-homosexual. I'm not sure the right really knows O'Donnell and could be in for another Scott Brown surprise in the unlikely event she were to win.
somnolence| 9.16.10 @ 5:50PM
Just what platform with a straight face is Coons going to run on in Delaware?
Speedypete| 9.16.10 @ 9:05PM
Wow! There sure is scorn for someone that has absolutely zero to do with the mess we are heading in to. Kinda like Palin, the more the people that think the government had nothing to do worsening economy, the more I like Palin and Ms. O'Donnell. Who care if she is a creationist or a Darwinist. But that is what the people that think they are intelligent scream about. Hope you live in a big city when your buddies on both sides of the aisle collapse the economy.
Trace5| 9.17.10 @ 12:15AM
How are we going to stop Obama if we do not win the House/Senate in Nov. 2010? I think the Tea Party should be a little more careful with their nominations in the future. O'Donnell does seem a little nutty and frankly I am surprised the Tea Party nominated someone who can't manage their own money, pay taxes or debts. Hmmm.
The goal should be to stop Obama. We can demand more from our republican reps. but for now we need to get them to Wash. As of Tuesday, it looks like the Tea Party just gave a seat away. OUCH!
Tucci78| 9.17.10 @ 8:55AM
Trace, has it escaped your attention that there are literally millions of Americans in the current economy "who can't manage their own money, pay taxes or debts"?
Most of these are people who, five or ten years ago, were scraping along adequately, if not comfortably. Now they can't even claim to be living from the proverbial paycheck to paycheck because millions of paychecks have utterly disappeared.
Under what rock have you been keeping your head for the last decade or so?
Trace5| 9.17.10 @ 12:39PM
I am well aware that many can't manage their money and I am well aware that the economy is BAD and JOBS are scarce. Hence, we need to get Obama out of the WH in 2012. In the meantime, we need to gain control of the house and senate so we can stop our DECLINE INTO SOCIALISM.
Miss O'Donnell has been living off of campaign funds. She hasn't held a real job. Sued a former employer and refused to pay back college loans and lost her house. If we are serious about BRINGING AMERICA BACK we need to send politicians to Washington that have their ACT TOGETHER. O'Donnell is a con artist at best and the Tea Party got conned.
Spyder308| 9.18.10 @ 7:39AM
It is not a question of bad money management for 1/7 of our population. Those people don't have money to manage. No amount of good money management can pay $1000 worth of bills with $500. The top 10% or our nation has been getting wealthier over the last 10 years, everyone else has been loosing ground. I will bet there is stuff you were able to do in the past that you can't afford to do now.
REB| 9.17.10 @ 12:27AM
Remember it was alot of the so called republicans who greased the skids for bammy to get into office,they set it up to happen when they sold out the republic they named themselves after,hence RINOS ,rove helped create this mess,now he has a way to fix it? We cant afford as liberty minded conservatives to listen to him or alot of others who confuse republicanism with liberty,many are not worthy to represent the peoples freedoms any more than the devils who occupy our federal capital!
Trace5| 9.17.10 @ 12:46PM
Anti Obama / Anti Republican
What camp are you in? Are you keeping a foot in both camps? How do you expect to wage war on Obama if you wage war on republicans? We need them if we want to win the house/senate and if we want to stop Obama. Send a message? What will you accomplish? The longer we have Obama, the more Socialized our nation becomes. If you take the republican party over a cliff , you take our nation with it!
Spyder308| 9.18.10 @ 7:32AM
We don't wage war against the other party in this country when the majority doesn't vote our way. You must be from a banana republic, or maybe you are Taliban.
Mark| 9.17.10 @ 2:22PM
O'Donnell might be able to win office..............................in the hills of Appalachia.
Spyder308| 9.18.10 @ 7:27AM
I wouldn't want someone with her level of education or experience to be my doctor of lawyer or accountant. Why would I pick her to be my Senator? Beliefs aren't worth shit without knowledge and experience to support them.
Sir Winston| 9.18.10 @ 7:16PM
Would Spyder308 pick someone as inexperienced for President? He did!, his middle name is Hussein!
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