Posted on 09/15/2010 2:59:53 PM PDT by STARWISE
Rush on Karl Rove's O'Donnell Comments
"Where was this anger directed at a Democrat ever?"
Can you Ruling Classers hear us now!!!????
**Ping!
The ruling class is getting angry. They must be obeyed.
I knew he’d rip Rove. Awesome.
After dinner viewing. (I only heard bits and pieces of Rush today, most of them talking about locker rooms and 'packages' or something like that.... ;*)
I think this goes beyond “chastizing”...it was a trip to the woodshed.
Hey Starwise....Rush was great wasn’t he?
Although I think Rove had Rush stumped as well.
I think Castle might have hired Rove to run his campaign, I dunno.
Cause Rove’s reaction makes no sense at all.
It seems to me that Ruling Class vitriol is most often, if not always directed at conservative women who are upsetting the good ol boys' apple cart.
Your thoughts?
Mark Levin is on my XM in 7 minutes. I can’t wait!
McRove showed his tru colors.
One of the best clips ever!
God bless Rush!
Great post. Thanks!!
GOP moans about losing chance to take control of Senate with Castle defeat’
Ed Morrissey
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Last week, when trying to keep irrational exuberance in check about the likelihood of taking control of the House, Republicans warned that they might fall short of winning 39 seats in a 435-seat election.
Suddenly, in the wake of the rejection of Mike Castle by Delaware Republicans, party officials now want to say that Christine O’Donnell has ruined their chances of netting nine seats in a 35-seat election. Politico’s Jonathan Martin reports on the supposed sad wreck of the grand design:
(snip)
Oh, please.
Politics relies in part on setting expectations. That’s what Republicans tried doing last week when tamping down predictions of a wave of 60, 70, or even more House seats switching.
Now suddenly they’re distraught over the prospects of picking up nine seats in the Senate — when three months ago, a pickup of five or six seats would have been welcomed as a major gain and a way to ensure a Republican presence large enough to force Democrats to come to the table.
My advice to the GOP would be to quit whining about losing a long-shot bid to win control of the Senate and focus on actually winning the races.
In fact, the odds of winning control of the upper chamber didn’t actually decline all that much, because they were small to begin with. Just a few days ago, John Cornyn told a reporter that Democrats would keep control of the Senate through 2012, when Democrats have to defend a lot more seats than the GOP.
The better question on which to focus is in Martin’s second paragraph.
What does Mike Castle’s crash and burn among Delaware Republicans say about their party organization? After all, we have heard oodles of commentary about how Delaware Republicans are moderates who might get energized by the Tea Party but supposedly aren’t looking for conservative candidates.
Instead, they convinced Castle to leave a relatively safe House seat instead of looking for someone who hadn’t backed a government takeover of the energy sector in cap-and-trade (in a coal-dependent region!) and co-sponsored the DISCLOSE Act.
Perhaps had the GOP establishment listened a little more carefully to Delaware Republicans, who turned out relatively heavily in this election, they wouldn’t find themselves crying in their lattes this morning.
They stuck with a liberal, establishment candidate in a cycle where liberals and establishment figures are uniquely unpopular.
Had the Republican leadership been in touch with Delaware Republican voters, they might have found a more suitable candidate for the popular mood, and would not have had to deal with Christine O’Donnell and her outsider bid. They have no one to blame but themselves.
Instead of pouting, Republican leaders in Delaware and around the country need to unite around the nominee, who was chosen by the Republicans in Delaware. Had Castle won the nomination, they would have demanded unity themselves, and rightly so.
If they want to continue to issue snarky, anonymous asides and in essence take their ball and go home, don’t expect the electorate to follow them into battle in the future.
Rarely have I seen such childishness from the supposed leaders of a political establishment, who set the very rules and customs they now want to ignore because they just got embarrassed on a national stage.
Grow up, shut up, and get to work.
Here, here !
Hahahaha .. gotcha.
I knew that we had some questionable Republicans in the ranks, but Castle is a freaking Homosexual Democrat. How can he go undetected for so long? Oh well, thanks Obama, for pissing us all off and giving us the energy we needed.
That’s the underworld speculation ... ;)
If so, makes his outburst even slimier.
I know .. he’s smart . . which makes it all
the more confounding, because he’s calculating.
So if you look at it through that comparison, it makes sense they'd be sniping back. They are clearly threatened. Their power is about to be taken from them.
And if you think the left has gone after Sarah, just wait until you see the right. Debbie Schutupsul is a perfect example. She called Palin a sexist, echoing, ironically, the sentiments as of late of a few freepers. Hmmm...
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