Posted on 09/14/2010 10:03:49 PM PDT by rightistight
In a year where the average citizen is pushing for conservative candidates, this past Tuesday's Republican primary results show just how strong that sentiment is. Established "favorites" Mike Castle in Delaware's Senate race and Rick Lazio in New York's gubernatorial race were trounced by more conservative candidates. The same was true in Wisconsin and the race in New Hampshire.
In Delaware, conservative Republican Christine O'Donnell came from a large pre-election cycle deficit to defeat Castle by over 6%. Polls just before the election had here receiving 47% of the vote. When all was said and done, she had gotten 53.1% of the vote to Castle's 46.9%.
In New York, pre-election polls had Rick Lazio with a slight lead over the more conservative Carl Paladino. When the election came, the results were much different. With 86.1% of the precincts voting, Paladino has garnered over 60% of the vote to Lazio's 37.1%. This is an utter landslide.
With a media that has stated several times that there is "no trend" in this year's election cycle, one is (as has been) showing: conservatives are getting the nod in the Republican party.
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Bye bye RINO’s. Don’t let the door hit .......
We are no longer afraid.
We are starting to believe.
The GOP under Steal, Cornhole, Boner, and McConnell has been such a disaster, that we have lost everything until there is nothing left to lose. We’ve hit rock bottom.
We are now liberated. Liberated from fear of losing.
Liberated from the lies that RINOs “have the best chance of winning” even though those RINOs never beat the Democrats in the end anyways.
No longer will we squander our chance at Real Change on status quo Rockefeller RINOs. Come what may in November, we have already won, finally, and there is no place left to go but up. The RINOs are an endangered species. We’ve had the best hunting season ever.
It sounds like the republican party would rather become inconsequential rather than have conservative candidates. If they insist on becoming the Whig party it’s going to be hard to stop them.
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