Election Alert
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Sep 14, 2010 at 10:16pm
O'Donnell 53% - Castle 47%.
Kevin Williamson over at the Corner has an interesting take.
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Jun '10
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If the Republican establishment really wanted to sabotage her, in a big way, they could just endorse her.
Aug '10
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The Dems have tried to sell the line that the GOP is nominating wackos and cranks. Hasn't gotten any traction so far...will it now?
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Congratulations to Christine O'Donnell. I had my doubts about her qualifications, but she fought a determined, ebullient campaign and won, fair and square. Now I have my doubts about her ability to win--frankly, even to post a reasonable showing--in the general election. I may be wrong. I hope I'm wrong. But I wish her luck, will be watching to see whether the Tea Party Express can provide her with the funds she'll need, and wish above all to see her advance the conservative argument. Even if she does indeed lose, she can do a lot of good, helping conservatives in Delaware to find each other and establish the organizational predicates for victories in coming years.
At the very minimum--and this represents an achievement of a kind in itself--O'Donnell has seen to it that on election day Delaware voters will have a vivid choice.
Sep '10
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From Holly Bailey at "The Upshot" (a Y!News blog):
"On Tuesday night, the National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a tepid statement of congratulations to O'Donnell, but a GOP official told FOX News the party has no plans of putting money into the race."
Wonderful. Talk about sheer, self-defeating spite...
If that's their honest reaction, than I'm delighted Mike Castle lost. In any case, the election results beg the question: If Castle was such a great, shoo-in candidate, why did he lose so decisively?
Here's Christine O'Donnell's reaction to the "no-funding" statement:
"They [the NRSC] have a losing track record...If they're too lazy to put in the effort that we need to win, so be it."
That was a good shot. She doesn't sound like a "whackjob" to me.
And finally, the MSM is already painting O'Donnell's victory as an unqualified disaster for the GOP. What a surprise. My best advice to everyone on Ricochet is: Never take gambling tips from a political pundit.
Edited on Sep 15, 2010 at 12:06amJul '10
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David Parsons: And finally, the MSM is already painting O'Donnell's victory as an unqualified disaster for the GOP. What a surprise. My best advice to everyone on Ricochet is: Never take gambling tips from a political pundit. · Sep 14 at 11:57pm
Edited on Sep 15 at 12:06 am
I'm still trying to figure out what the pro-Democrat media spin on this will be. It seems that Democrat policies are so unpopular, that even Republicans who are insufficiently hostile to them aren't safe.
And this is good for the Democrats because...?
Sep '10
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Tea Party favorite Carl Paladino has defeated Rick Lazio, and is now the GOP candidate for Governor of New York. The beat goes on...
It's worth noting that the Democratic candidate, Andrew Cuomo, is the ultimate "play-it-safe" politician. That just might kill him in November.
May '10
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It's not the GOP's job to nominate Democrats. Sadly it doesn't sound as though the Republican leadership understands what is happening out there. They want to blame this on Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin. I mean how little respect do they have for their own voters to think that a mere political endorsement determines the outcome of an election? I'm beginning to think the best thing that could happen to the party would be NOT to win the Senate in 2010 and then re-tool in earnest for 2012.
Edited on Sep 15, 2010 at 5:09amJun '10
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A conservative movement to re-take the Republican Party was always part of the plan in my book. And, yes, it's going to take more than one election cycle. Be prepared for more blood in the water. It's necessary.
Jul '10
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A choice not an echo.
Who said that?
If you truly hope she does well, then donate to her campaign.
Sep '10
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Over the last decades, Democrats have been moving left, abandoning territory in the middle. The GOP has tried to capitalize on this taking the abandoned territory as their own and claiming victory.
But in today's media culture, the MSM calls this abandoned middle the "right" (because it is now inhabited almost exclusively by Republicans) and then calls anyone further right "extreme", a convenient shorthand that advances their agenda.
Republican statists get rewarded by the media for providing examples of "reasonable Republicans" . Furthermore, they give cover when they lend their votes for Democrat bills allowing Democrats to claim their bills passage "bipartisan", and avoiding the real debate.
But notice what happened when not one Republican voted for Obamacare. The media couldn't pretend that it was just the fringe who were against it. And the voters who were against the bill had only one party to blame.
Keeping pols like Castle from doing that kind of damage constitutes a victory, and I consider it a positive even if a Democrat wins the seat. It is really up to the establishment GOP to get the message. If they keep trying to push this type of candidate, they are the fools.
May '10
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And that, my friends, is how a true wordsmith takes a lemon and makes lemonade!
I'm all for remaking the Republican Party, but let's remember that the point is to make it better than what it was. Joe Miller - improvement. Ken Buck - improvement. Mike Lee - improvement. Marco Rubio - there are not words. Jim DeMint leading the charge in the Senate - Hallelujah. Christine O'Donnell - well ... I'll be charitable and concede the jury's out. These are people we're electing (with all their personal debits and credits) and we have to honestly assess whether they are worthy standard-bearers. Read your Shakespeare.
Edited on Sep 15, 2010 at 6:07amMay '10
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Boy I hope you're right, Peter. I fear, though, that she will have precisely the opposite effect:
To win the long war we must re-brand the conservative movement as the home of the adults--articulate problem-solvers like Daniels, Ryan, Christie. We've been making progress in that regard, but this O'Donnell development--and the next 50 days of focus on her--will reinforce that which we must work so hard to undo and the biggest obstacle to conservatism in the Northeast: the perception that conservatives are simpletons, even kinda sorta nuts.
So in our effort to re-brand conservatism, this is a setback, an own-goal. Better to have no champion for the time-being than one who harms the brand well into the future.
Edited on Sep 15, 2010 at 6:28amAug '10
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Gracefully done, Peter.
Aug '10
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Right. And if these people prove themselves flawed beyond repair, they will go in the next election. We were lectured about how concerned we were supposed to be about procedural matters (and I am concerned about those matters). But do you notice now how little the stingy GOP seems to care about these procedural matters? Will the GOP fail to make the right choices in it time for transformation?
Sep '10
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Castle just revealed more of himself by refusing to endorse O'Donnell. Hmmm. Murkowski, Crist, Specter, Hegal, Jeffords..all fine examples of the type of candidate the establishment GOP is advocating. They all have in common a propensity to bolt at the first sign they might lose power.
Sorry GOP, you can't win the general if you can't win the primary, and bribing (or being blackmailed by) this type of politician with GOP support is a deeply flawed strategy.
Jul '10
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Sure, we can all delight in RINOs going down but is no one on Ricochet troubled by McDonnell's $6.9 million gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, the "discrepancy" of her resume, claiming she was pursuing MA at Princeton while she did not even had a BA, her spurious claim that Castle voted to impeach Bush, etc., etc? Or is the Weekly Standard wrong in its bill of particulars against her?
May '10
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Establishment Republicans are just as much a problem as the Democrats. Too many times GOP politicians tell us that (A) they love their home state, its people and want to serve them in DC and (B) want to reduce the scope and breadth of the Feds.
But if they lose re-election, the first thing they do is thumb their noses to the home folks, take up permanent residence in the Northern Virginia suburbs and start "consulting" on helping others latch on to the government teat.
As for the pundits, are these the same people who said if the GOP would only nominate a middle-of-the-road, reach-the-hand-across-the-aisle type like John McCain, we'd cruise to victory?
Edited on Sep 15, 2010 at 7:11amJul '10
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Matthew Gilley
And that, my friends, is how a true wordsmith takes a lemon and makes lemonade!
These are people we're electing (with all their personal debits and credits) and we have to honestly assess whether they are worthy standard-bearers. Read your Shakespeare. · Sep 15 at 6:06am
Edited on Sep 15 at 06:07 am
I wonder if you would have voted for Gouverneur Morris?
Read your Shakespeare? Read your DeTocqueville.
Edited on Sep 15, 2010 at 7:33amJul '10
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Scott Reusser
To win the long war we must re-brand the conservative movement as the home of the adults--articulate problem-solvers like Daniels, Ryan, Christie. We've been making progress in that regard, but this O'Donnell development--and the next 50 days of focus on her--will reinforce that which we must work so hard to undo and the biggest obstacle to conservatism in the Northeast: the perception that conservatives are simpletons, even kinda sorta nuts.
So in our effort to re-brand conservatism, this is a setback, an own-goal. Better to have no champion for the time-being than one who harms the brand well into the future. · Sep 15 at 6:10am
Buckley said, "I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University."
Politicians are not philosopher kings.
Calvin Coolidge said: If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you."
Politicians should not be problem solvers.
May '10
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For the record, I concur w the view that getting to 51 is paramount, I've voted for Mark Kirk, and would have voted for Castle.
The prediction I've been making is O'Donnell's biggest problem will be the Delaware GOP establishment will flip into passive-aggressive mode and quietly undercut her at every turn.
Probably a major factor in Castle's defeat was over time he made himself so odious that when conservatives had a chance to give him a comeuppance, they did. I've concluded that Castle got too comfortable as an "Emir of Incumbistan," as Mark Steyn puts, it and simply "had it coming."
Voters this year are a lot angrier and impatient to "throw the bums out" than was hitherto thought by party higher-ups on both sides of the aisle. For example, John Boehner's equivocation on earmarks, hemming and hawing around about tax cuts last Sunday, and stumbling, bumbling, fumbling around generally does nothing but convince the voters that the GOP beltway types still "don't get it" and that if returned to power will return to business as usual ante-2004.