Posted on 08/30/2011 8:50:20 AM PDT by Clyde5445
UPDATE: Former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell will not speak at a tea party event featuring former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in Indianola, Iowa, this weekend, an organizer told Washington Wire.
“I made a mistake,” said Ken Crow, president of Tea Party of America. “I assumed there was an open slot and there wasn’t.”
Monday night, Mr. Crow told Washington Wire that Ms. O’Donnell would appear.
Tea Party of America’s cofounder, Charlie Gruschow, said the group withdrew Ms. O’Donnell’s after receiving numerous “emails from a lot of tea party folks that were very disappointed that she would be speaking.”
“We decided not to have her speak,” Mr. Gruschow said. “We felt it was in the best interest of the movement.”
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Christine O’Donnell was an early Tea Party mistake. They did not vet her.
They probably did have her scheduled but changed their mind in light of recent events; no open slots is their excues. I was all for Christine O’Donnell in her Senate race but she was such a ditz for walking off the set of the Piers Morgan show. Such a frail, immature, temperment on display. I was disappointed and embarrassed by her. No Tea Party Rally needs her hurting the movement.
The nomination of Christine O'Donnell (and Sharron Angle and Joe Miller, etc.) gave tangible proof to the GOP that the tea party movement would not accept the same old useless RINO nominees the party has been foisting on us for decades.
This was an important message to send and we could never have sent it for free.
Good Call. We don’t need any bad Karma for a possible big event.
I really didn’t want her appearance to taint Sarah.
Angle had substantial real qualifications. O'Donnell was pretty and backed popular Conservative positions. That is it.
Now her persistence in trying to resurrect her political position has a chance of damaging the Tea Party movement. The media will give her a lot of publicity to help that along. The best thing O'Donnell can do for the Tea Party is to go away and do something else.
a message was sent, it was we’d rather lose with a flake than win with a rino. it needed to be said, whether the gop chooses to listen to it is another matter.
She most likely isn’t speaking, because Palin is speaking that day. I noticed Mark Levin didn’t have her on to promote her book.
Yep
Don't need any lead-in acts.
Yeah.
Well...if Saint Sarah agreed with you she could always go to bat for Chistine. I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that she won’t.
Agree. It also sent the message that as strong a candidate as him (i.e. his name recognition, fund-raising) could be taken down by as weak a candidate as her (i.e. virtually no money, endorsements, resume).
It meant anyone could be taken down by anyone, anywhere. It's an important lesson to teach blue staters like Snowe, and I believe it's had an effect.
Not only that, but by not endorsing her, and respecting the will of the people (after all they'd done for him), Mike Castle showed that in the Senate he just would have been John “they are hobbits” McCain x 10. I wouldn't do anything different.
Maybe she was called to be on “Dancing with the Stars”
If that was the “message” it was an idiotic one. There was no real message actually just a political blunder.
O'Donnell was a disaster but fortunately the Tea Party recognizes this and is moving on, acting thereby like a group with political savvy.
we don’t want any more rinos under any circumstances
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