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UPDATE: Kudos to Sen. John Cornyn for his announcement, released within the last hour, that contradicts and overrides whichever staffer put out the word that the RNSC would not aid O’Donnell’s general election battle. HE says the NRSC will doante to O’Donnell after all. I still leave up my post below because it shows just how intense the reaction is and should be against the party committees getting involved in intra-party fights. And whichever staffer put out the word that O’Donnell would not get committee support should be fired — but, what is worse, the attitude expressed by that staffer seems pervasive at an organization that at one point or another openly supported Specter, Crist, Castle, Murkowski, Norton, Bennett, and others against fellow Republicans rather than preserving resources for the general election…..
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ORIGINAL POST:
Okay, okay, so Christine O’Donnell has clay feet. Okay, okay, she just beat the establishment choice and bruised some egos in the official party apparatus. Okay, okay, even a host of conservatives (including yours truly) expressed sincere and well-grounded doubts about her. Well, all that is past. She won. She is the Republican nominee. It is therefore beyond appalling that the imbeciles and losers who populate the National Republican Senatorial Committee won’t put any money into Delaware to help O’Donnell win this fall. And “imbeciles and losers” is actually far too kind a designation for the gang that has wasted money and effort again and again and again in intra-party fights, trying to beat other Republicans (and failing) rather than waiting to see who the local GOP voters choose on their own and then using the committee’s money to beat Democrats. The only reason I used the phrase “imbeciles and losers” is because this is a classy publication. The words that really ought to be used are unpublishable.
Delaware is a tiny state. Money well-spent can go a long, long way there. Sure, the Philly TV market is expensive, but there are all sorts of other ways (aside from Philly TV) that the committee could get a huge bang for its buck in favor of actually moving votes for their nominee. In short, for what amounts to a comparative pittance, the NRSC could take a shot at winning one of just 100 incredibly coveted seats in the U.S. Senate. But no … The sore losers, know-it-alls who actually know nothing, arrogant, Beltway-infused, lickspittle moderates who keep wanting to dictate to Republican voters from their high-and-mighty perch near the Capitol, are so dismissive of the conservatives who dare defeat them, and of all the voters who actually went to the polls, that they have decided to take their puny little balls and go home rather than actually let the party’s own nominee run with them. This is inexcusable. This is the sort of thing that merits a few punches in the face, except that we are too civilized to do so (and I am NOT advocating doing so, only saying that such punches would be well deserved). Even I, as a confirmed skeptic about Ms. O’Donnell, am flabbergasted and outraged that the NRSC would choose not to support her.
When these elections are over, there should be a serious, emotionally brutal, show-no-mercy purge of the NRSC and of most of the national Republican Party apparatus. The party bosses are not only NOT helpful; they are in many, many cases counterproductive. They should be banished to the outer political darkness.
Yes, Christine O’Donnell should be gracious and make some amends, privately, to fellow conservatives and former staffers whom she has misled or semi-slandered (or sued) on various occasions. She should do this because doing so is both good politics and because it is objectively the right thing to do. But she is the party’s nominee, and she is conservative, and she has a right to expect Republicans and conservatives to rally around her. This is our country at stake, and the country needs every right-of-center vote it can get in office. If the high-and-mighty RNSC can’t understand that, then shame on them. And more than shame.
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Booger| 9.15.10 @ 11:59AM
Apparently the NRSC does NOT believe in democracy. The voters spoke in the R primary. The voters chose the candidate they wanted to represent them in this race. And now our would-be LORDS and MASTERS tell we the people they will not deign to respect the results of the polling booth. Might I suggest that the Rs at the NRSC have shown they have no more respect for the citizenry of this nation and their votes than do the federal judges who tyrannically throw out votes and impose their own laws. The tyrrany of the judiciary is now joined by the tyranny of the NRSC.
Tim Williams| 9.15.10 @ 12:02PM
Via Twitter: RT @NRSC: Cornyn: today we have sent a check for $42,000 the maximum allowable donation to Christine O'Donnell: http://ow.ly/2EEUi
Booger| 9.15.10 @ 12:06PM
John Cornyn is chairman of the NRSC. NRSC phone # 202-675-6000. E-mail: info@nrsc.org
Light 'em up. NOW!
Booger| 9.15.10 @ 12:13PM
John Cornyn is chairman of the NRSC. This is HIS RESPONSIBILITY!
Phone #s for Cornyn's offices:
DC: 202-224-2934
SE TX: 713-572-3337
S TX: 956-423-0162
W TX: 806-472-7533
SC TX: 210-224-7485
C TX: 512-469-6034
E TX: 903-593-0902
N TX: 972-239-1310
If Cornyn wants to spit in the faces of Republican primary voters then he needs to hear about it by TWENTY MINUTES AGO. If Cornyn thinks his personal preference of a RINO candidate is more important than the ballot box, then he needs to be reminded about Murkowski, Bennet, Crist and advised that he'll be next. DO NOT LET THIS STAND!
Siegfried X| 9.15.10 @ 12:17PM
I disagree with some of the language here, like the mention of violence.
However the basic idea is true, that the system is broken. The Republican committees spend much of their energy and money attempting to move the Republican party to the left, rather than spending it defeating Democrats. They should be fighting a political war with the Democrats instead of targeting their own party members.
Booger| 9.15.10 @ 12:34PM
Relax? Seriously? No phone calls? What action is being taken against the staffer(s) who made the announcement? Were they authorized to make the announcement? If so, who gave the authorization? If not, why are they still employed? KEEP THE CALLS COMING AND HOLD THEIR FEET TO THE FIRE! We can relax when we're dead. Until then we have a sacred obligation to fight every day to deliver a free nation to our children. Relax indeed.
Oldefarte| 9.15.10 @ 12:21PM
The POINT is/should be that [as your linked video beautifully proclaimed, WE'VE HAD IT WITH THE HISTORICAL POLITICS AS USUAL [DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN] AND WE'RE COMING AFTER YOU 11/2/10. If the Roves [who all should recall was a political operative of Bush, who, although winnable was no doubt a RINO in political financial respects] or other political operatives out there that make their living formulating political philosophy/procedure/game plans don't GET IT, then TO HADES WITH THEM!!!!
tonypal| 9.15.10 @ 12:27PM
This is all so simple, even Rinos and ruling class republicans ought to grasp it. Any establishment republican that gives anything less than 0 support to all nominees will have their careers ended. Nothing else needs to be said.
tonypal| 9.15.10 @ 12:29PM
Apparently you have to write one hundred percent, or it comes up as 0. So reiterate, we demand one hundred percent support from establishment republicans or else their careers are over.
Earl Bohn| 9.15.10 @ 1:45PM
MUSTANGS OVER BERLIN -- When I think of Michael Steele and John Cornyn watching the Tea Party, Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint escorting insurgent conservatives all the way to election victory in state after state, I can't help recalling the words of Reichmarshal Hermann Goering when he saw P-51 fighters escorting American bombers all the way to their targets deep inside Germany in 1944: "When I saw the Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the gig was up."
Ladies and gentlemen, your target on this mission is RINOs. Your Mustangs are ready on the flight line. Good hunting!
matthew s harrison| 9.15.10 @ 1:49PM
Could it be because we true conservatives raided the facebook page of these guys last night, demanding their heads, or their help to elect Odonnell? I think so-take a look at their facebook page for the details of how the masses let them know that they, the old establishment would not get a pass this time!
Rich Fisher| 9.15.10 @ 2:22PM
That's exactly right. And I can tell you that ODonnell probably raised a record amount this morning. I personally donated double my original intent just due to Karl Rove running his mouth on Hannity last night. Doing right when someone is standing over you with a ball bat means nothing. Cornyn needs to go next along with Michael Steele. We aren't done yet, the battle continues.
Mad Hatter| 9.15.10 @ 3:20PM
A Repub bubbles in a cohort's spa,
"Cash for O'Donnell?" he snorts. "Ha!
You know what's best?
I'll make a clean breast!
If support she wants, a sports bra!"
Mad Hatter| 9.15.10 @ 3:56PM
The Committee, on Christine's night, set to mournin',
"No bucks will her barrelhead be adornin'!"
But when the voters of D.E.
Said she fit to a Tea,
Switched, "We'll be left holdin' husks! Quick, get Cornyn!"
WOW Repug vs.Repug| 9.15.10 @ 5:03PM
Many thanks to the TeaBaggers here. You make for a good laugh, and we know the Readers Digest agrees, "laughter is the best medicine.
Repugs win against othr scum Repugs, but the Democrats who have true virtue, will clean the low life RepugliKLAN NAZI's sick clocks.
Nolann Ryann| 9.15.10 @ 5:53PM
Oxymoron of the century: Democrats of true virtue. Plus you threw in the Hitler card. HuffPo is slow today head on over there and voice your support of the virtuous Charlie Rangel, Pelosi et al you dunce.
Quartermaster| 9.15.10 @ 8:14PM
Hey, just another Dimocrat troll looking in the mirror while and thinking he's someone else. Just don't feed them and they go away.
Oldefarte| 9.16.10 @ 10:28AM
Yea, those sophisticated Democrats like Obama, Pilosi, Reid, Waters, Rangel, Conyers, McKinney, Lee; right? WHAT A FRIGGIN' MORON YOU MUST BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 9.16.10 @ 10:31AM
PS, your reference to 'teabaggers' inadvertently brought you screaming and kickicking OUT OF YOUR CLOSET [since you learned this verbage from Maddow, Matthews, Olbermann etc on MSNBC]. We now know what side of bed you get up from !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!