Posted on 09/10/2010 9:27:14 AM PDT by This Just In
The Ruling Class Hits Christine O'Donnell
By Jeffrey Lord on 9.10.10 @ 6:09AM
Breathes there a soul who doesn't love the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal?
Who has not been delighted by National Review and its National Review Online?
Well, yes, actually. Lots of souls, undoubtedly the finest of liberals and left-wingers in America.
So to disagree with our friends at the WSJ or NRO is something we do in this space with some care.
The Journal has lifted the editorial lamp to shine it on Delaware's Republican Congressman Mike Castle, engaged in what was once thought to be a sure-thing walk-in-the-park primary win in preparation for a sure-thing walk-in-the-park win of Vice President Joe Biden's old Senate seat. Mr. Castle is a career GOP politician, a liberal Republican as they say in the trade, who has also served as Delaware's governor, among other political sinecures.
Castle's problem, much discussed here and lots of places these days, is conservative activist Christine O'Donnell. Willing to nominate her for the Senate when Castle didn't have the nerve to take on Biden directly (losing is never a winner with some), now that the seat is open she is being given the bum's rush. In the words of the Journal editorial, O'Donnell is a "two-time loser statewide" and "an itinerant conservative commentator and activist."
Over at NRO the treatment has been more polite but still the same old, same old.. Estimable conservatives all, NRO'ers Jim Geraghty, Jonah Goldberg, Dan Foster, and Andrew Stuttaford jumped on the Castle bandwagon, taking swings at O'Donnell.
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"And whatever else Christine O'Donnell has done in her life, being part of that "in crowd" has never been high on her list. If she's elected, she may well be one wrecking ball of a senator -- totally willing to not be part of the Ruling Class club. The prospect of a "Senator O'Donnell" utterly terrifies the Delaware Ruling Class. Not to mention some Ruling Class members who've never set foot in the state."
It's time to hand these rulers their pink slips.
In Delaware, people refer to this battle using a different terminology. Here in Delaware it’s described as between the New Castle County, blue-blood Republicans in the north versus the “slower-lower” Republicans of Kent & Sussex County, in the south.
“Slower-lower” is the un-flattering term given to the so-called conservative hicks, hayseeds & rednecks living below the C & D Canal.
I despise elitist, both Democrats AND Republicans.
LSD
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside ragin’.
It’ll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’
For Immediate Release: DE GOP Sues Former Marine Now they have gone so far as to SUE a private citizen and name the 9-12 Patriots in their lawsuit too!
Contact: queitschea@yahoo.com for details
No matter how you slice and dice it, it is all the same; you have the ruling elites.
Says Codevilla: “… in fact Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class.”
This sums it up nicely:
“A class that Codevilla dubs “The Ruling Class” — as opposed to its opposite — “The Country Class,” a decidedly heterogeneous class, in fact the bulk of America, that “defines itself practically in terms of reflexive reaction against the rulers’ defining ideas and proclivities — e.g., ever higher taxes and expanding government, subsidizing political favorites, social engineering, approval of abortion, etc.” There’s much, much more in this new book, but you get the point.”
I’ll bet a nickle Mr Jeffry Lord has never set foot in Delaware.
These Ruling Class Republicans are none other than Democrats with an R after their name.
“LSD”
+ 1
from a hayseed
Go Christine
“..It’s time to hand these rulers their pink slips...”
Pink slips, Hell...hand them their asses on a platter, and throw them out face down in the gutter.
Can you gives us an idea as to how well O’Donnell is doing?
Judging from actions of the DE GOP suing everyone, I think Christine must be up in the polls by double digits!
Well, that’s another way of putting it.
So, in keeping with Bill Buckley's nostrum about supporting the most conservative guy most likely to win, the editors made their choice. Let's face it: the field sucked and we'd do well to see none of these guys again in 2012 (with the possible exception of Hunter who is a decent guy but likely won't be running again).
Unfortunately for us, the Mittster is most certainly running, and if NR endorses him before the convention, I may cancel my subscription. The GOP needs new blood: non-Elitist, non-RINO blood.
Love the line about the "in" crowd. In my book, they're to be avoided at ALL costs. The price for membership in such a crowd is the stifling, repression of one's self and one's independence.
Not surprised about Jonah Goldberg. During the several times I met him in the late 90's, he struck me as a deplorable, elitist snob...and he wasn't THERE yet! : )
Time to teach the DE GOP a lesson: DO NOT vote for their anointed candidates in the primary, who are: Mike Castle, Michele Rollins, Tom Wagner and Colin Bonini.
As the Depression deepens, she'll have a Republican House and lots of Republican Senators to blame for it. Romney could lose to her in a heartbeat.
We need Petraeus. Bolton as VP.
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