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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Codevilla nails it:
“But here’s the key Codevilla point that is relevant to the WJS and NRO in terms of the Castle-O’Donnell race:
Like a fraternity, this class requires above all comity — being in with the right people, giving the required signs that one is on the right side, and joining in and despising the Outs.”
Not really, if anyone has good polling data,they are keeping it a secret.
Primary turnout will probably be less than 60,000 (Delaware is a small state) so if 20,000 tea partiers show up to vote in their first primary... she could win.
if I were a betting man, my money would be on Castle.
Tar, feathers and a rail used to work.
When can we get rid of Olympia Snowe?
Sarah Palin just endorsed her and now the DE GOP is running scared.
I would love Bolton to run just for the opportunity to see Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann’s heads simultaneously combust on television.
"Like a fraternity, this class requires above all comity — being in with the right people, giving the required signs that one is on the right side, and joining in and despising the Outs.”
Wonder if they realize behind the scenes, people like us despise the INS. Some of my greatest FUN and JOY in life is MOCKING people in the IN crowd...wherever the IN crowd may be. They are usually the LEAST NORMAL among us. : )
From the article:
“WSJ: “A two-time loser statewide, Ms. O’Donnell has a history of financial troubles and recently told the Weekly Standard her home and office were vandalized, though she hadn’t reported it to police. She recently accused a conservative local talk radio host that he had been “paid off” by Mr. Castle’s supporters after he asked her tough questions.”
NRO (Geraghty): “With Christine O’Donnell, all we have are promises. We can’t evaluate her on her record in elected office because she has no record. O’Donnell seems determined to begin her political career by winning a U.S. Senate seat; she has never served in a local board of education, town or city council, state legislature, etc. Her next general-election victory will be her first.”
NRO (Goldberg): “I don’t know that much about Delaware, but people I trust say that Castle may well be the best we can hope for there.” And: “Also, it’s worth pointing out that we want more liberal Republicans, we just want them to replace Democrats. If Northeast Republicans have to be more liberal than Southwest ones to win, that’s okay.”
NRO (Foster): “Forty Jim DeMints or 60 Lindsey Grahams? Forty Christine O’Donnell’s or 60 Mike Castles?” and “So, again: would conservatives in Delaware rather win, or send a message?”
NRO (Stuttaford): “As for the idea that reducing the GOP to a rump of true believers (whatever that might actually mean: there are plenty on the right who interpret the terms “limited government” and “free people” in very different ways) is the essential first step in a Republican restoration, it is, I am afraid, a bad mistake. Wildernesses are, almost always, for losers.”
pray4liberty, did you catch the, “O’Donnell seems determined to begin her political career by winning a U.S. Senate seat; she has never served in a local board of education, town or city council, state legislature, etc. Her next general-election victory will be her first.”?
Well, gentlemen, that is the idea. Did Geraghty, Goldberg, Foster, and Stuttaford’s brains just fall out of their heads? We’ve had “experienced” in office for decades and all they could come up with was a friggin’ “stimulus” package, a “healthcare” bill, and a national dept that we may never recover from.
Do you have a link for that breaking news?
As soon as voters buy a clue.
I live in Sussex and we do, with a bemused smile on our faces, often call our own selves lower and slower.
But let elaborate a bit for those non-Delawarians.
Sussex county is the largest county in any state west of the Mississippi. We have an extensive shore line on the Atlantic and were it not for us and our tourist revenue, Delaware would be in a heap of trouble.
We are well-behaved, law-abiding, farmers a lot of us, transplants for surrounding and high property taxed states looking to escape the fiscal oppression. Our county council CUTs expenses if need be and always has a balanced budget.
We have a temperate climate, breezy, mild winters, a couple of weeks of heat in the summer but this only attracts more to our shores.
It's paradise on earth here in Sussex county Delaware. Don't believe that nonsense about Delaware being a very blue state.
Kent county is home to Dover Air Force base and spend a couple of hours hanging around here and you'll see some of the most amazing airplanes in the air. Kent county is a bit more urbane than Sussex county, but still very conservative, home to a lot of gambling places that attracts the tourists up from the Sussex Beaches.
And lest anyone think we are all provincial rubes, Sussex county has one of the largest homosexual areas on the east coast.
We get along just fine, just fine, thank you. We get along better than they'd ever get along in Wilmington. We hire the residents of Rehoboth Beach, they belong to our churches, they live next door.
We live happily together and I daresy a Sussex countian would take up arms to protect our homosexual neighbors.
It's the Wilmington area that's blue and this is because there's a slew of NJ and Philly transplants all living on welfare and willing to vote Democrat for a pack of smokes.
Delaware's population is most conservative I daresy, or there's way more Conservatives than the Blue Blood Ruling Class Delaware GOP would have you believe.
Thanks for the info.
I’ve lived in Sussex a couple times in my life, as well.
“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.”
That pretty well sums things up. By the way Jonah Goldberg needs find some Conservative friends.
But when a freeper like Doughty One is elected President-for-life by write-in, with Red Badger as VP, you people, and the equally benighted denizens of that other rump state Rhode Island, will all be represented in the House by one Representative and in the Senate by one Senator. That's more than fair. 2 rump states. 2 reps.
Neither of these individuals will be elected. They will be appointed by myself, G. Gordon Liddy, and a grouchy conservative utility curmudgeon yet to be named. After coming up with Claiborne Pell, Joe Biden, Mike Castle, and Buddy Cianci, it is obvious that the people of the rump states, Delaware and Rhode Island, can no longer trusted to handle their own affairs.
Olympia Snowe is up for reelection in 2012.
Too bad the Constitution doesn’t have a “Kicking out of the Union” proviso...............
It is time We the People depose the “ruling class”
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