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In a sign that does not bode well for the GOP Establishment in the aftermath of the election — and possibly before it — the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (NRSC) is said to be deliberately undercutting the Senate campaign of Christine O’Donnell in Delaware.
When Sean Hannity asked O’Donnell herself about this on his Thursday radio show she was frank, saying the NRSC was not being a player in her campaign. She specifically cited support from the Republican National Committee and Senators Jim DeMint (SC) and Lamar Alexander (TN) as a contrast.
It sure sounds like deliberate NRSC sabotage of a Tea Party favorite.
One source says the NRSC is sitting on $6 million in reserves for Marco Rubio — whose campaign is far out in front of the Bobby Kennedy Jr.-endorsed Charlie Crist — when the money could easily be used for Delaware independent expenditures defining O’Donnell opponent Chris Coons. Coons, of course, is the high-tax liberal profiled here for his addiction to liberation theology, the interestingly exotic values of Yale Divinity School and the fact that 12 major groups endorsing him also signed on to co-sponsor a Washington rally with the Communist Party USA and ANSWER, a left-wing radical group that supports the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
O’Donnell’s blunt spoken acknowledgement on-air to Hannity that the NRSC — which had whispered anti-O’Donnell sentiments to Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron within minutes of her convincing win over GOP Establishment favorite Congressman Mike Castle — is stunning for its frankness. And symbolic of the problems that lie ahead for the GOP when the election is over.
Anyone familiar with the operation of the GOP’s Senate and House campaign committees understands that one of the ways the Establishment expresses its displeasure with candidates it doesn’t like is to cut the money and resource supply to a trickle. This is, according to several sources, precisely what is being done to O’Donnell.
Also targeted for displeasure by several sources is American Crossroads, the group associated with Karl Rove. Rove memorably appeared on Hannity’s TV show election night and dredged up some of the seamier gossip about O’Donnell. “They’re saying Obama’s attacks on Rove just raised them an extra $14 million,” said one irate source close to O’Donnell. “OK fine. Where are the IE [independent expenditure] commercials here?” The same source wondered aloud about “pride and jealousy” being displayed over the fact that O’Donnell was given no chance to win the primary — and then promptly thrashed Castle and the Delaware GOP establishment behind him.
Also the focus of O’Donnell critics is Michael Toner, an outside counsel to NRSC chair Senator John Cornyn of Texas. The theory is that Toner, also a Rove associate, is using his clout with Cornyn to strangle the NRSC help for O’Donnell on Rove’s behalf.
No matter the results on election day, the defiant unwillingness of the GOP Establishment to help O’Donnell — and accompanying behind-the-scenes attacks on South Carolina Jim DeMint — will be seen as examples of a GOP Establishment intensely devoted to promoting a Big Government-lite agenda and losing the 2012 campaign to Obama with yet another losing moderate nominee in the mold of Ford, Bush Sr., Dole, and McCain — or an unnecessarily close winning campaign as in 2000 and 2004.
There is infinitely more going on in the Delaware race here than meets the eye. This is but a whisper of the behind-the-scenes struggle looming between the Republican Establishment and the Reagan wing of the party.
Stay tuned.
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Stevie D| 10.14.10 @ 7:24PM
Cornyn is an unqualified disaster. He's up in 2014, and must be beaten in a primary. Listen, if Sharron Angle can raise 14 million in a quarter without Cornyn's fancy NRSC apparatus, what is the need for the Cornyn's of the world? To prop up Lisa Murkowski? Recruit Mike Castle and Charlie Crist? Lose the recount to Al Franken? Honestly, what is one substantive thing this guy has done for the conservative cause?
Aside from where you come down on the argument, there is a case for holding your nose and supporting a Snowe or Collins in certain states. But in Texas? This guy is a clown. He is up on the must be replaced list for 2014.
thirteen28| 10.14.10 @ 7:26PM
Ditto, Stevie D. I cannot wait until the 2014 primary, hopefully Texas conservatives will put up a decent candidate that can defeat Cornyn's useless ass.
Jim S| 10.15.10 @ 12:36PM
I'm a Texan and I believe we will put up a real conservative who is tired of the spending policies that were endorsed by both parties. I know there will be several key conservative candidates to choose from and John can come back and be an attorney again perhaps with Bill White who probably will need a partner also. Sad but true. He has shown his true colors and this is just another example that he's bluer then red! I know many in Texas cannot wait to make it happen. In the meantime I have sent money to Christine O'Donnell and many other real conservative candidates who I hope can get this economy turned around. I do send my money directly instead of funneling it through these set up committees. It should be a great November and they have alot of work to do to get this turned around quickly.
David W| 10.14.10 @ 9:30PM
Any one but Cornyn. I also refuse to give money to the National Republican Committee or whatever it is called. Maybe they could get rid of Steele and start over.
Dollface| 10.15.10 @ 3:39PM
The NRSC is a joke. Just ask Lincoln Chaffee, Jimmy Jeffords or Arlen Specter.
JK HANLON| 10.17.10 @ 2:20AM
Don't worry Steve D, I'm going to give my best to get this Jackass out of the office. I'm a Texan!!
JASmius | 10.14.10 @ 7:40PM
You've got to be kidding, Jeff. This is rank paranoia, as well as getting a head start on rolling out the lame-ass, finger-pointing excuses for the utter debacle that the TPE has made of what was a gimmie Senate seat pickup.
Let's, once again, establish the context for this Senate race: Christine O'Donnell has been double-digits down to Chris Coons since early August. She never had a chance in the general election, and she never was going to have a chance no matter how much money was poured down the rathole that is her ill-gotten campaign.
She raised several million dollars since the GOP primary and what's she done with it? Make those maudlin "I'm not a witch" ads that made the colossal blunder of acknowledging the devastating, gravitas-laden political judgment of....Bill Maher??? Why didn't she ignore this witch nonsense and stay on Coon's throat like a rabid wolverine? She wasted a good two weeks at least.
As if it mattered. What we're seeing in this general campaign is exactly what Rove and Krauthammer and those [ahem] less well-known C'OD critics said from the beginning: She's an awful candidate in a state so "blue" that even Ronald Reagan would be hard-pressed to win. And now, confronted with the looming "We told you so", her - and your - rigor mortic retort is to accuse the NRSC of "sabotage"? What part of "down double-digits for the past two months" isn't getting through here? Why would the "establishment" need to sabotage a campaign that was never afloat to begin with? And why should they pour good money after bad to prove their innocence like Barack Obama is demanding of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce when there are other, *actually winnable* Senate contests where that dough can do some bona fide good?
Mark my words, Jeff: Christine O'Donnell is doing more to discredit the Tea Party movement, and damage the Republican re-ascendancy, than any Democrat could have dreamed. Tighty-righties would be well-advised to jump off her doomed crazy train before it plunges, like the locomotive at the end of "Back To The Future III," to its fiery end at the bottom of Eastwood Ravine.
Stevie D| 10.14.10 @ 8:00PM
From a micro sense I agree with you. O'Donnell is unlikely to win. But you miss the larger sense. It is easy to lay blame at Christine O'Donnell's feet, personally I think she is a walking mess, however the majority of Delaware Republicans felt she was the better choice than the NRSC's guy, Mike Castle. So the more important question for the Republican party leadership is why couldn't they find a better candidate in these times than a guy who co-sponsored DISCLOSE and voted for Cap and Tax?
Did John Cornyn find Ron Johnson? Rand Paul? Marco Rubio? Pat Toomey? Of all the new Republicans who will be in the Senate next year, who besides Kelly Ayotte can he take credit for? What might the number have been if the NRSC didn't have a moron at the top? Or a bunch of morons throughout the conference more concerned with making nice with people like Murkowski than supporting the duly selected nominee?
Maybe O'Donnell is totally helpless, but she is part of the team, and being a team player means sending a couple bucks there, no?
It will take a few more years, but this is a fight Cornyn and his type are gonna lose.
JASmius | 10.14.10 @ 9:34PM
O'Donnell is sitting on four million bucks already, and is only this week making good use of it. But she's also ***twenty points behind***.
As Allahpundit points out:
"The NRSC (and, by extension, conservative outside groups) are looking at tight but winnable races in Nevada, Alaska, Washington, Illinois, and West Virginia; they’ve got healthy but not prohibitive leads in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Missouri; and they’ve got long shots with a prayer in California and Connecticut, neither of whom needs outside money to pay for ads but who’d certainly benefit from any kind of boost. Given all that, would you guys seriously advise Cornyn et al. to pour money into Delaware — at least before you see some movement for O’Donnell in the polls?"
That's a long way of answering your question with a "no". No, CO'D is not entitled to a "couple bucks there" because she's "part of the team". Resources are not infinite, and the national party organizations have to invest that cash where it can make a difference, not pay de facto blackmail money to what will shortly be a divisive, three-times-in four years perennial loser who's exploiting the TPE's ideological fervor for her own aggrandizement.
Incidentally, I think you misidentify the losers in this "fight" you seem so eager to have. It's the entire party that will lose when one wing tries to drive the other wing out of it (in either direction). No party can build, much less maintain, and majority governing coalition with 100% ideological purity.
Nancy Pelosi didn't back in '06; she built her majority on self-proclaimed centrist "blue dogs" and it lasted right up until she forced them to vote with her on the stimulus, cap & trade, ObamaCare, etc.; now Donks are looking at losing a baseline of fifty-plus seats, which also happens to be the number of current members in the "Blue Dog" Coalition. Coincidence? I don't think so.
You do the best you can, primary RINOs in "red" and "purple" states (Why isn't anybody griping about not having gotten rid of John McCain? How does Lindsey Graham keep getting cut a pass?), but Republicans can't get the gavels without a Scott Brown or the Maine Wonder Twins, moderates from "blue" states where DeMint-class conservatives simply cannot win.
Perhaps with all the Dem seats up in '12 the GOP might build a sufficient majority cushion to rationalize a purge of the few RINOs left in its midst. But suppose we ended up two or three votes short of sixty because Snowe and/or Collins and/or Brown bolted before they could get "O'Donnelled"? And have we forgotten the past two cycles so quickly? *Fifteen seats* Republicans lost in the upper chamber. I would argue that we need to gain and keep every seat we can, not short-sheet our future prospects with short-sighted fratricidal crusades that accomplish nothing except to forfeit winnable seats to the other side.
I could invoke "Buckley's Law," but how about Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment? Was Reagan a "Ruling Class RINO sellout" because he took Bush41 as his veep instead of Paul Laxalt? Or did he understand that the party is stronger united than divided?
In short, don't give RINOs like Lisa Murkowski alibis for their treacheries. If they're going to screw the GOP, let it be on THEIR heads. Only then can it unequivocally be said, "They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us".
Stevie D| 10.14.10 @ 10:23PM
Your point on the money issue is fair.
I disagree on the rest of your point. I do not want to have this fight. It is the establishment types who are looking for it. With the exception of Didier in Washington, every tea party/conservative primary candidate who lost got behind the winner. The establishment includes such profiles in courage as Murkowski, Crist, and Specter, all supported by the NRSC. Bob Bennett, BTW, should be given credit for respecting the system his state has in place for selecting the name on the ballot.
Moreover, look at the fifteen who lost over the last two cycles. What did Lincoln Chafee stand for? Gordon Smith? Norm Coleman? Ted Stevens stood for bringing money to Alaska. Jim Talent? Conrad Burns? George Allen? Mike DeWine? Rick Santorum? Sunnunu? I could go on, but I think you get the point. We miss the votes, no doubt, but at this point they are gone. Do we miss what these men stood for? Can we say what these guys stood for? Are there better people who represent what we want to stand for? If so, let's put them up for election.
Until 6 months ago I agreed with your point about running the agenda, committee gavels and the like. I am firmly with the DeMint camp now. We went along to get along earlier in the decade, and it got us no place. We need to stand for something, and it is clearer with each passing moment that too many of our current Republican Senators want to stand for power and prestige and not enough else. For being electable and likable and all the rest, there must be a reason for the losses, no? And the NRSC's response is to bring in guys who fit the old losing model while a significant chunk of the Republican electorate is running to a new model.
Go back to that Delaware primary. That morning the educated guess was 30K votes total in the primary. O'Donnell got 30K herself, Castle over 25K. That shows an engaged, passionate, Republican electorate. These people understood that O'Donnell was a poorer general candidate. But they voted for her anyway. The problem that the NRSC/establishment needs to figure out is how to find and support a better version of O'Donnell. That takes more effort than latching on to the most electable guy, anyone can do that, find someone who won the last election for AG, Governor, at large rep, or some other statewide office and you are set. 30K in Delaware and plenty of others in other states said that default crap sucks. Of course, it takes more work to develop candidates, work that the NRSC seems woefully inadequate to handle.
Look at Wisconsin, another blue state. Why should Ron Johnson have a shot? Progressive state, Feingold is likable as a person, yadda ya. Yet Johnson is gonna win, in a rout. I understand it is a counterfactual, but would Tommy Thompson be up 7 points today? Would the NRSC have bothered taking Ron Johnson's call 6 months ago?
That's my issue with these guys. It isn't about picking a fight or having a fight, it is about standing for a set of principles and not making the last guy with an R next to his name the de facto candidate because he or she won a race before when they do not fit your principles.
Willey| 10.14.10 @ 10:30PM
Reagan made a mistake here and there, and one of his biggest mistakes was choosing RINO Bush the elder as his Vice President.
Mark in LA| 10.15.10 @ 1:29AM
Reagan was one big mistake. He was too stupid to even be the White House ball monitor. His stupid amnesty is what is going to make what would have been a long time Republican majority, as Kevin Phillips wrote, into a party that has permanently lost California and is always pandering to people who will never vote for them.
His stupid economics is what tranfomed this government into a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street. He expanded affirmative action to Hasidic Jews and Indians and Pakistanis. He accelerated Carter's Social Security tax increases to hide the failure of his stupid economic policies so that the rich could still keep their tax breaks at the expense of working people.
Yeah he made a "few" mistakes.
TennesseeVolunteer| 10.15.10 @ 6:49AM
He brought down the Iron Curtain, turned around an economy that Jimmy Carter had decimated, got the Iran hostages back without even having to fire up a helicopter, presided over one of the most prosperous economic times in our history.
Get a "few" facts right!
Mark in LA| 10.15.10 @ 10:33AM
Another old fool who listened to too many Reagan speeches and Rush boradcasts and didn't pay attention to what really happened.
Do you really think Carter's 4 years caused the economy to be decimated? All the prosperity of 1940-1976 was wiped out in 4 years. It all started with the Vietnam War and Johnson's social programs.
If you actually knew anything you would also know it was Carter who installed Paul Volker as FED chief. It was Volker who STOPPED the inflation plaguing the country. Go read Murray Rothbard about Carter and Reagan. Carter suffered the most from the recession, Reagan got the far weaker double dip which made the recovery look so much better.
You also think Reagan brought down the Iron curtain all by himself. However, if that is the case your timeline is wrong since Reagan was long gone when the Berlin wall fell down.
The US spent trillions in todays dollars on defense budgets and over 100,000 men died in wars fighting communism and Reagan gets all the credit.
Reagan let the corporations use illegal aliens to break unions. Once the political power of the white working class was gone, the economy has been in the slow motion decay that only becomes noticible after the damage is done. You just can't (or won't) see Reagan's fingerprints on the mess.
Deborah from TeXas| 10.15.10 @ 8:58PM
MarkinLA stay in LA!
Appalachian-American | 10.15.10 @ 10:15AM
I wholeheartedly agree, Stevie D, but help from the NRSC might not be what she needs. In WV the ham-handed TV campaign has done serious and perhaps permanent damage to Raese's senate bid by producing a dubious ad and then having the casting call played over national media:
"We are going for a 'Hicky' Blue Collar look. These characters are from West virginia so think coal miner/trucker looks."
The resulting uproar has contributed to muting Raese's anti-Washington message and cost him a lead in the polls that he may well never recover from a popular incumbent Governor.
Looking at this and the Delaware and Alaska debacles, one has to ask,
'With friends like these...'
RJ Olson| 10.15.10 @ 12:31AM
She won the primary and Rove and Krauthammer took the hatchet to her immediately because THEY did not like it! If she loses a close race, THEY are as much responsible for her loss as anything else. What kind of moronic strategy is it to shoot your horse before the race has been run? It is clear to me that thy not only do not think she can win but want her to lose. I do not care what the wizards-of-smart
say. The race has to be much tighter than it seems
because the Democrats are wasting lots of resouces on it and sending the President himself down there to shore upmsupport for Coons. That seems very unlikely to be something they would do if this race were in the bag. Like football, it ain't over until the fat lady sings! Coons is a big spending lib! We should be able to run a household appliance against this guy and win! Instead, our side goes on and on and on about nonsense and undermines our own candidate! Do Not tell me that the establishment is above dirty tricks and does not want to neutralize candidates that are supported by the Tea Party! That is all they have been doing!
Eddie Tom L| 10.15.10 @ 10:39AM
Your venom spewed out toward a fellow republican is exactly what has been wrong with the party and why we have husein, reid, and pelosi. Guys like you that shoot out negatives against our own selections and can't band together behind the one the state's select, are as much to blame for the lose if it happens than any left wing lib eral Democrat. When this party decides get get behind a district or state's legislator or senator candidate that has won, we will always be sucking the hind tit while the Democrats will always be up front with the good stuff. Please stop being so moderate and join the party for whatever candidate it provides. Your cutdowns against any of our candidates can only do harm and give the Dems an opening in the knife stab to exploit.
Stacy Arena | 10.15.10 @ 4:24PM
"Mark my words, Jeff: Christine O'Donnell is doing more to discredit the Tea Party movement, and damage the Republican re-ascendancy, than any Democrat could have dreamed. Tighty-righties would be well-advised to jump off her doomed crazy train before it plunges, like the locomotive at the end of "Back To The Future III," to its fiery end at the bottom of Eastwood Ravine."
Add Nikki 'The Palin Factor' Haley to that list...
Reaganaut| 10.14.10 @ 7:41PM
As a conservative in DE and donor to the NRSC, I applaud the decison not to put good money after bad in the DE race. O'Donnell is set to lose by 15-20%. What rational funding organization would put $ into this race and betray its supporters?
Troll Hunter| 10.14.10 @ 8:16PM
TROLL!
Spouting Beltway-speak. You dishonor the Gipper by using his name: Reagan would NEVER, EVER trash a GOP'er the way you and the establishment are, especially a conservative.
REGARDLESS how allegedly bad (which I don't buy) they might be.
TROLL!
Daryl Curtis| 10.14.10 @ 7:48PM
It's obvious that there are so-called conservatives who think they know what is right for this country - but they are extremely out of touch with reality and the majority of the people in this country - as exemplified by JASmius and Reaganaut. Then there are the ones that truly speak for the majority and make sense - Christine O'Donnell is absolutely one of those. These elitists need to go back to school and re-educate themselves, or maybe find another country to go live in.
Glennwhi | 10.14.10 @ 8:09PM
The issue isn't whether O'Donnell can win, it's whether or not the establishment element of the GOP is listening to the people and it's obvious, they're not. They're planning to ride the Tea Party to majority wins and then go back to business as usual. Their treatment of Jim Demint is proof of their dismissive attitude toward true conservatism. I'm in Texas and I voted for Cornyn but it's time for him to go. The GOP leadership is a disaster and changes need to be made now. @ Reaganaut, if you're really a conservative, don't waste any more money on the NRSC.
Deborah| 10.15.10 @ 8:45PM
I have written to Cornyn to step aside , I hope with the new group of Patriots who have this same opinion will limit the time in Washington to 3 terms and then GO BACK Home and be a regular folk and then they will less likely ruin the means to make a business successful with taxes and regulations, that's a way to stop the stupidquest the old guard is on now. Hey! and lets unleash our natural resources, oil, coal, etc, its ridiculous what evil is binding us, abolish the Energy, Education and other dept's and only have the Federal Gov manage the borders and security of the nation, everything else hands off!
J Kelley| 10.14.10 @ 8:18PM
Whatever happened to the people voting for whom they want. Did not the Republicans in Delaware elect O'Donnell and not Castle? If she does not win in November at least we will not have another RINO in the Senate.We are susposed to back the winner of the primary election. The old guard of the Party does not think the people are wise enough to make their own choice. We must change this mind set.
Mark in LA| 10.15.10 @ 1:33AM
If you haven't figured out by now that unless you are on Wall Street, hire illegal aliens, or in an old money family that the Republican Party doesn't represent you, then you probably never will.
Terry| 10.14.10 @ 8:23PM
As I repeatedly say, it's not a two-way street for those Dem-Lite Repubs. If they win, we're supposed to just suck it up, and we usually do.
If our conservatives win, they prove time and time again that they'd rather have a Democrat than have to deal with a conservative.
It's kind of like a hard-working new hire showing up to work with a bunch of slackers. The slackers bully the new guy because the contrast of the new guy shows them to be the slackers they are.
This is our NRSC crew---conservatives like DeMint show them to be the spineless, self-serving do-nothings that they are.
If you listen to their talking points, for the most part they are not really opposed to the policies of Obama-Pelosi-Reid-Frank et al. No, they're just opposed to the speed at which these policies are being foisted on the American public.
That's not good enough.
Tim*| 10.14.10 @ 8:30PM
We Tea Party Rebels support Christine O'Donnell and Our Kingmaker Jim DeMint .
If The RINO-CINO Republican Party wants War with The Tea Party , let it be here & now .
The GOP needs The Tea Party more than We need The GOP .
We purged the likes of RINO-CINO Arlen Specter & RINO-CINO Mike Castle and We'll Purge more RINO-CINO Scum in The 2012 Election Republican Primaries .
The Tea Party Rebellion Will Escalate Beyond November .
Rise Up !
janie| 10.15.10 @ 7:06PM
The sad part is these folks have forgotten how the game is played. You lose, you don't get to play. Take your ball and bat and go home. Such unexcusable behavior from Castle, Crist and Murkowski....(I know the people want me, they told me so), oh, really, then why didn't they vote for you??? Be gone and start feeling ashamed of your behavior. Old Crybabies.........
seestraight| 10.14.10 @ 8:52PM
Yeah Tim, and don't forget the chumps Crist and McCollum from FL. Time to teach the establishment that we the people no longer give them our consent to govern. Get into the blogs and forums in Deleware papers and back her. For that matter, do it in every state where real conservatives are fighting for the chance to take back our country and reinstitute the Constitution!
albert constantine jr.| 10.14.10 @ 9:43PM
In a better world, the national and state Republican parties would be reinforcing the O'Donnell campaign against the highly flawed and vulnerable Coons candidacy. Nevertheless, help does not seem to be on the way from this direction as the Dems move their big guns in from the White House and out of state races. Though the race is far from over, the polls aren't looking good, and some outside help could improve the outlook in the First State. If the O'Donnell campaign ends unsuccessfully as predicted by many, it remains to be seen if the outcome of this battle will become a strategic defeat like Dienbienphu, or a tactical defeat like the Alamo, leading to eventual victory. I did see both Castle and Coons at the same function earlier this week, though, and as far as my primary vote for O'Donnell goes, as they would say in the FFL post-Dienbienphu (and Algiers) "Je ne Regrette Rien".
Siegfried X| 10.14.10 @ 9:48PM
This column is totally false. The NRSC _IS_ helping O'Donnell. They've had a consultant on site with her almost since the beginning.
As far as funding goes, they are treating her the same as any other candidate. She is capable of self-funding (generating $2.5 M so far), and is far behind in the race, so she doesn't get additional NRSC money.
I've Been "Horned" By A RINO!| 10.14.10 @ 9:54PM
Just more proof you can't fix stupid. The RINO establishment will never get it & if The GOP become the majority Party again the first thing they need to do is clean house at the top. Cornyn must go, even more so than Michael Steele. Until The GOP has conservatives in leadership positions the left will continue running amuck over the U.S. Constitution. If Mike Castle was such a great candidate, why didn't Delaware Republicans vote for him? Voting for RINOs out of political expediency is pure cowardice & will not change anything. Those who vote for RINOs after everything this current administration have done to this country are part of the problem just like the Democrats. A vote for RINOs is a vote for the status quo, period!
Senoran Lady| 10.14.10 @ 10:04PM
Looking to send some money to Christine O'Donnell, since, I'm from out of state. Any thoughts where I can send some money to Christine O' Donnell. It's so sad what they are doing to distroy her especially the NRSC as well, if they can do this to her, what can they tell and do to the average voters as well. She won the nomination and they are refusing to help her. I don't trust the NRSC.
One of the phone number on her website is not working and I don't dare send money to the NRSC as it will disappear into a deep hole and or probably go to McCain or other candidates who are a waste I will not vote for him this Nov. election.
Any ideas, would the tea party in Delaware know the info. I need. My search engines like Yahoo and Google are worthless. All I get is info. about how she is not a viable candidate, which tells me they are afraid of her. I don't trust any of the media including the search engine which are any better. We know what it means to be maligned by the media being resident of Arizona.
Sincerely a supporter of Christine O'Donnell
Rj Olson | 10.15.10 @ 12:02AM
You should be able to donate on her website. If you cannot find it, you might go to Mark Levin's website because I believe he links to it.
TheVoiceOfSanity| 10.14.10 @ 10:11PM
What a silly, hysterical website this often is (and Jeffrey Lord leads to pack). Christine is sitting on four million, how much does she need?
She's twenty points behind. There are races in Nevada, Washington, West Virginia, Illinois, that could go either way, races in California and Connecticut that are better shots than the one in Delaware, and races like Colorado that are by no means locked up. Even if the Florida money is needed for Rubio (Meek still could drop out), there are better places it could go.
Face the music. O'Donnell is a bad candidate in a liberal state. Maybe she could have squeaked it out if she were running in Idaho, but she's not. Stop whining and focus on winnable races.
Willey| 10.14.10 @ 10:27PM
Sour grapes, Castle. You lost.
Tim*| 10.14.10 @ 10:50PM
TheVoiceOfSanity is a RINO-CINO Parrot practically Parroting verbatim HotAir's ALLAHPUNDIT .
http://hotair.com/archives/201.....to-help-me
Get an Original thought RINO-CINO ParrotBoy .
We Tea Party Rebels are dropping more Moneybombs for Christine and urging Tea Party Kingmakers Sarah Palin & Jim DeMint to come to Delaware .
This is War between The Tea Party & The RINO-CINO GOP .
We Tea Party Rebels will Remember this Beyond November 2nd.
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates
Screw The GOP !
RJ Olson| 10.14.10 @ 11:14PM
Right on brother! We are Elephants and we will never forget the treason of the RINOs and the damage they did to both the country and the party, how they undermined good candidates to preserve their power, and the way they screw us when we need them most!
If O Donnel loses by a slim margin, it will be the fault of idiots like Rove,Krauthammer, and this moron!
You bastards are done! Viva Ronaldus Magnus and the Reagan resistance!
Troll Hunter| 10.14.10 @ 10:58PM
So, Mr IN-Sanity:
If she's so far behind, why are the Dems sending the heavy artillery in to help Coons?
If she's so far behind, why is Coons risking a nationally-televised debate? With his alleged huge cushion, he could've just cancelled.
No 11th Commandment for you, eh RINO? Oh, right--that only applies to conservatives and RINO candidates.
For a minute there, I actually thought it would be OK to hold you RINOs to the same standards you hold us conservatives to; sorry about that!
TheVoiceOfSanity| 10.14.10 @ 10:39PM
Grow up. Mike Castle is totally irrelevant now. The question now is whether the party should throw money away on a disreputable candidate losing a race by 15-20 points, when there are winnable races out there. Unless you are an O'Donnell monomaniac, the answer is clear.
Delaware Republicans primary voters had every right to vote nominate her, but now that she's made clear she can't win, the party is not obligated to send her big checks. Leave that for her more naive supporters.
Tim*| 10.14.10 @ 10:55PM
That's exactly what You RINO-CINO ParrotBoys said before We Tea Party Rebels handed Castle & You His RINO-CINO Ass .
This Is War Between The Tea Party and The RINO-CINO's of The GOP .
We Remember Beyond November .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .
Let's Get It On , Here & Now .
Rise Up In Rebellion !
RJ Olson| 10.14.10 @ 11:39PM
How did she become disreputable? It seems to me that our side was doing all the hatchet workmfor the Democrats! The Democrat party is loaded with scalawags of all stripes, nothing, I REPEAT, NOTHING, that O Donnel is alleged to have done sinks to the level of underhadedness and dishonesty that infests the opposition party! Do you see them eating their own the way our side does? No! Even if you believed that she couldn't win, why on earth would you say so openly before the race had bben run? Answer: The establishment wants to play their political games as usual and we did not yield to their "superior intellect". They are interested in power and committee chairmanships while our country is on life support and everything I believe in hangs in the balance. You are nuts and soon you will be irrelevant because we no longer take orders from party headquarters. We are going to run things now by going around you jerks!
DarylCurtis| 10.14.10 @ 11:45PM
The party is US, you dummy! You speak as if "the party" is a group of untouchables that know more than the average American. You're wrong, and you're an idiot!
DarylCurtis| 10.14.10 @ 11:45PM
The party is US, you dummy! You speak as if "the party" is a group of untouchables that know more than the average American. You're wrong, and you're an idiot!
Cris Worth| 10.14.10 @ 10:48PM
Any pro-life candidate running for office especially in the Senate is a threat to the Roe v. Wade preservation society. Remember US senators vote on the approval of federal judges and any pro-life senate candidate must be stamped out to prevent the disapproval of pro-abortion judges and the approval of pro-life judges. The GOP establishment gave us five Supreme Court justices who voted for Roe v. Wade...case in point.
R J Olson| 10.14.10 @ 10:57PM
The ruling class that inhabits Washington is on full display and they are in both parties. I will not ever, under any circumstances, give the RNC ANY money. Instead I will donate to individual campaigns that I believe deserve support. We must excise this malignancy from our party and take it away from those who want to abuse us as we take our country back from those who want to destroy it.
Chuck| 10.14.10 @ 11:05PM
The trashing of Jim Demint by the GOP establishment puts him behind the eight ball in terms of a presidential run. Kudos to Nixon and Reagan who soldiered on for Goldwater knowing he was going to lose but did it out of party loyalty unlike cowards Nelson Rockefeller and today's version Karl Rove and John Cornyn.
Tim*| 10.14.10 @ 11:29PM
Tea Party Kingmaker Jim DeMint will have a number of His Endorsed Tea Party Candidates shifting the dynamics of The Senate and challenging Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell's power in The Senate and with leverage in The 2012 Senatorial Election Republican Primaries.
There is No Sitting Federal Governing Republican with Greater Credentials and Respect From The Tea Party than Our Kingmaker Jim DeMint .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates Beyond November .
We Can See 2012 From Jim's House .
R J Olson| 10.14.10 @ 11:05PM
Is she really that far behind or are they lying?
Why is the president wasting his time there then?
I do not believe these polls that show her behind that far. Nothing that comes from establishment media sources can be trusted as far as I'm concerned, as it is infested with leftists!
Charles| 10.14.10 @ 11:12PM
If the NRSC is truly undercutting one of our own, when they need bold and new conservative voices, this is an outrage!!! We may need to get rid of more RINOS!
R J Olson| 10.14.10 @ 11:46PM
It's time to load up and go on safari! These RINOs are not protected by endangered species acts and we intend to hunt them to extinction!
RJ Olson| 10.14.10 @ 11:58PM
When I said hunt, I meant that metaphorically.
I an not actually suggesting we shoot RINOs with anything other than ballots.
TheVoiceofSanity| 10.15.10 @ 12:45AM
You delusional cranks are going to have a lot of egg on your faces on election day in Delaware. Fortunately, the GOP (and conservatives) will do well in a lot of other states.
Of course I know all you care about is Delaware. Why don't you all move there so you can get Christine O'Donnell elected in two years, when she runs yet again (it's her gig). Hopefully, they have a lot of loony bins in the state to accommodate you all.
And, no, the party is not you. It's a bunch of professionals who have to make the best judgments what to do with they money they are given. sometimes they are right, sometimes they screw up. On O'Donnell they are dead right not to throw money down that whole just to mollify some unreasonable crybabies..
Daryl Curtis| 10.15.10 @ 12:48AM
Figured you were an Elitist.
Roger Cotton| 10.15.10 @ 3:08AM
That's about as douchebaggy a rationale for maintaining the elitist status quo as I've heard.
Things are different, Sparky.
The RINOs are on their way out. They cannot run jackshite if we do not contribute to their org. And, we will no longer let them rule over us the way the Dems like to.
Tim*| 10.15.10 @ 10:21AM
Get Bent RINO-CINO ParrotBoy , Voice Of Ass
Stosh| 10.15.10 @ 8:54AM
There's no need for groups like this any more. With the Internet, we can give directly to campaigns that we each think should/will win. As long as we have a free press to inform us, groups like this are utterly and completely obsolete.
Bill Grant| 10.15.10 @ 10:36AM
Stosh,
I agree completely. The RNC and the NRSC have gotten none of my money, which has gone directly to the candidates, and to certain effective groups like the Republican Governors and Jim DeMint.
Ken (Old Texican)| 10.15.10 @ 10:42AM
Question:
What if we wake up after election day, and Christine comes up with a 3% shortfall of winning?
randall| 10.15.10 @ 11:42AM
Maybe the NRSC and NRC sees something in O'Donnell. That she won't be maleable.
Kyle Smith| 10.15.10 @ 11:48AM
Allow to me give a bit of historical background on these close races that the NRSC now needs to spend money on:
IL Senate: Mark Kirk was endorsed by the GOP Establishment and John McCain way back in the Summer of 2009. Kirk is pro-choice and had just voted YES on cap and trade in the House, but he had a lot of money, so the GOP touted him. Today, he is neck and neck in the polls to a 34 year old shady banker and state treasurer, and the NRSC now has to spend money to save his hide. Why? because he is so freakin' liberal that he has no conservatives in his base. Kirk is so detested that conservatives are willing to throw this seat away. No money for O'Donnell.
FL Senate: The NRSC recruits Crist early, voters overwhelmingly support Rubio, Crist runs as independent. GOP has to save money for Rubio in case Meeks drops out. No money for O'Donnell.
AK Senate: Joe Miller Wins! Murkowski decides to run as write-in. KB Hutchinson and other weak kneed Senate GOPers keep Murkowski on the energy committee stating that she is going to lose and it is a matter of good taste to let her stay on the committee. Today, Lisa is neck and neck with Joe, and the NRSC has to pour in money to AK. No money for O'Donnell.
There are more examples, but AK and FL would be a cakewalk if it wasn't for the destructive RINOs. Murkowski and Crist are all on the Senate GOP. After election day, the GOP is gonna get an earful like never before.
Trinity31| 10.15.10 @ 6:08PM
Kyle Smith's take above is spot on: if the GOP -- true to their "respectable" country club souls -- can't or won't get it done after they win 70 seats in the House, there's somebody already waiting to take their place.
Ever heard of the Federalists or Whigs? The Republicans are vying for a place on that list. This election is their last chance for relevancy and existence beyond 2012.