The remarks about Christine O’Donnell hit close to home.
She really was a great candidate—smart, pleasant,had strong, conservative positions, smart, likeable. I saw her talk to farmers and to college students—with equal ease.She knew the issues and she was articulate.
When she clinched the nomination from Mike Castle,who was the favored GOP candidate for the Senate seat—in fact, he was all but assured of it-— the Karl Rove machine really kicked in to destroy her. We had far more opposition from the GOP-E here in DE than from the Dems.
And Chris Coons, who beat O’Donnell, is a moron—who became Harry Reid’s little pet. He touted his abilities as New Castle County executive, until just after the election, it was revealed that the County was in debt—whoops—thanks to his stewardship.
The media, the GOP-E, the dems were all arrayed against her.
And she fought hard. But we only had seven weeks from the nomination to the election to fight back, and it was uphill all the way.
We lost in 2010 by 25,000 votes.That margin was much less than the number of Republicans who did not vote in New Castle County. Had the New Castle County Republicans up north voted for their party’s candidate, we would have won. But they stayed home and gave the seat to Coons.
After all, we couldn’t have a non liberal Republican upstart win in Democrat Delaware!
The media attacks came and came, often without time or resources to fend them off.
In my mind, she is still a far better candidate than most in the GOP today.
The attacks will come against Trump, but I have a feeling he is ready for them.
He has already torn the pressholes a couple of new ones.
Pass the popcorn.
Yep, not only was she denied national money, they actually worked for her defeat and spent million toward that end.
Plus, especially, called in ever media favor they had.