Having seen the campaign and the candidate up close and personal during that amazing few moths in 2010, I heartily agree with this author.
Tokyo Rove met with conservatives in DE early in 2010 to get them on board behind Castle, who was a big proponent of cap and trade.
Rove was told to get lost and the war was on.
O’Donnell ran against Castle and it was a slugfest. But Christine won on Sept. 15th.
She only had seven weeks to the general. The GOP in DE came out AGAINST her, they were so ticked that Castle lost. O’Donnell put a monkey wrench in their plans.
They worked against her, Rove worked against her, the media chewed her up. She won her debate with Chris Coons,but you would have never known that from the DE media.
Tokyo Rove trashed her.Bill Maher trashed her to do the bidding of the libs, even though she had been on his show about 20 times.
In spite of all that she only lost by 25,000 votes in a deep blue state. And that margin of loss was less than the number of missing GOP votes in New Castle County.
Chris Coons was the executive of NewCasle County. AFTER the election, about a week later, the media lets loose that Coons overspent by a million dollars and more taxes were needed. That would have sunk him.
He went on that fall to vote for the repeal of don’t ask, don;t tell, which was never an issue he campaigned on.
Mike Castle showed what an ass he really was—he was another Sore Loserman.
After this debacle, the folks in the DE GOP turned out the entire leadership of the GOP here and replaced them. Longtime, patrician, wealthy party bigwigs were shown the door by the people.
Christine O’Donnell is not stupid. She is very conservative. I attended campaign events where she talked with all strata of people, and was wonderful to each person, even those who mocked her. She never would have done the damage that Chris Coons did.
She had no money when she started, no family name, just the drive to do the right thing and to serve her country and state.
She was preyed upon by so many, including Fred Davis, that media hack that released the “I am not a witch” spot, which Christine hated and told him EXPLICITLY not to release.
I have never witnessed the assassination of character in such a short time, from all sides, including those that should have lined up to support her.
She took the arrow meant for a lot of conservatives that season.
Talk about a war on women!
Bump!
Get rid of perpetual loser Karl Rove.
Replace him with 10 more like Christine O’Donnell. Or vote for the Tea Party.
Or both. Now.
Given the caricature that the media were putting up for O’Donnell, I found myself thoroughly astounded by how well she did in the debate that I watched on TV. She gave a truly excellent performance. I really knew nothing about her, and she really impressed me by being totally in command of the facts and laying out her arguments flawlessly.
Then, she appeared in that spot telling us, “I am not a witch”! I can conclude only that she was sandbagged by her own team. Disgusting.
Excellent summation bump!
...for undermining conservatives and The Tea Party!!
Well said, FRiend, well said.
Completely correct.
I recall driving around Christiana Mall and seeing the O’Donnell signs defaced with black witch hats.
I recall what the DEGOP did. Eff them.