Posted on 11/06/2010 1:49:30 PM PDT by nhwingut
The National Republican Senatorial Committee spent $3 million in the week before the election on the ill-fated campaign of Carly Fiorina, despite polling that showed her trailing by 9 points to the tiny Marxist Barbara Boxer (Fiorina ended up losing by... 9.8%).
In the mean time, Ken Buck lost by a tiny margin in Colorado; Nevada's Sharron Angle lost by a similar narrow vote total, Dino Rossi was edged by Patty Murray in Washington, 27,000 votes swung the election against Christine O'Donnell in Delaware and and Joe Miller is hanging by a thread in Alaska.
In Alaska, the final results may not be known for some time, but the NRSC's final ads actually ended up helping Lisa Murkowski in her write-in campaign against GOP nominee Joe Miller. Instead of attacking Murkowski -- the candidate who most threatened the party's nominee -- the NRSC instead took aim at Democrat Scott McAdams, who had no chance of winning. Any support they drove from McAdams was far more likely to go to Murkowski than to Miller -- meaning the NRSC effort probably did more harm than good for Miller's campaign.
In other words, the NRSC's idiocy -- combined with outrageous remarks by Karl Rove on national television -- likely doomed four or five true conservative candidates to extinction.
In the post-election debrief, the Nixonian RINO contingent of Whimsy Graham, John Cornyn and the rest of the NRSC's ludicrous cadre of losers blamed... staunch conservative Jim DeMint, who had funded a handful of Tea Party-backed Senatorial winners like Pat Toomey (PA), Marco Rubio (FL), Rand Paul (KY), Mike Lee (UT) and Ron Johnson (WI).
Oh, but that $8 million spent on Fiorina's campaign didn't hurt at all -- right, boys?
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Very good analysis indeed. Imagine what Rossi could have done with some of that eight million.
“In other words, the NRSC’s idiocy...”
It wasn’t idiocy ... it was the ruling class in action. The Grand Old Potty needs to be reminded they work for us.
Delaware is a tiny state. 27,000 votes is a huge margin in Delaware.
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When NRSC calls asking for donations, tell them you want your name removed from their phone and mail list.
If this was the result of a misinformation campaign by the RATS, I give them kudos.
John Kasich (very possible future president), Toomey, and many others who won across the states should thank Fiorina for taking on Boxer until the last days of the campaign!
A friend in Reno told me that in her neighborhood there were ONLY Angle signs until the dsy AFTER thre election, at which time Reid signs showed up.
A friend in Reno told me that in her neighborhood there were ONLY Angle signs until the dsy AFTER thre election, at which time Reid signs showed up.
Barbara Boxer was a tempting target due to her high negative ratings. Conservatives (myself included) didn’t think that Californians who disliked Boxer would vote for her, but some of them clearly did.
Christine O’Donnell was not ready for prime time. She was a strong conservative running in an urban liberal state where Obama remains popular. In fact, she was so inept, she could be described as Katherine Harris on steroids. I don’t like Mike Castle’s record, but he would have waltzed into the Senate. I predicted disaster in Delaware if O’Donnell was the nominee and I take no joy in being right.
As for Alaksa, the NRSC’s decision made sense in a way. Perhaps they hoped that liberals would react against the negative ads and swing from Murkowski to McAdams, handing Miller the election.
It’s quite possible that some of the money spent for Carly Fiorina would have been a boon to Ken Buck and Dino Rossi. In retrospect, the NRSC was too hopeful about the prospects in California, but I can’t condemm them for that because I was too.
As Rush so rightly pointed out, Graham & Lott, along with Cornyn, told us we needed to support RINOS: Fiorina, Crist, Castle, Bennet (Utah), Lowden (Nevada). Proving these guys know zilch. And I have had it with Rove. He’s nothing but a Progressive Republican. His 15 Minutes is long since over. He needs to get the hell off the stage.
1 - A pathetic and disgusting Harry Reid will still be the face of the democrats in Congress.
2 – If the pubbies took the Senate, Obama – fully supported by his mediawhores - would run against a do-nothing-Congress.
3 – Pubbies might have defacto control. Manchin can’t support Obama, otherwise he’s toast in 2 years. there’s a dozen demholes in red or purple states up for re-election in ’12. They won’t be marching in lockstep with dear leader anymore. I’ll bet now that the Repubs pick up another 6 seats in 2012.
4 – the most important plus is this: Having 51 R seats would put too much power in the hands of RINO fools like Graham, McCain, Snowe, Collins, etc…Obama could easily pick-off any two of these losers on any given issue.
It was a great day. However, the Tea Party are the WINNERS. The RINOs got the boot along with the ‘Rats. The NRSC screwed the pooch. The blame goes to the RINOs, not the Tea Party candidates.
Rove continues to gloat over being right about O’Donnell losing. Instead of helping her he did what he could to sabotage her and then taking credit for saying she would lose.
I think we should tell them every time why we are not supporting them via our $$$ anymore! Say it loud, clear and often. It’s fun and it just might finally get through to them.
I’m pretty much as pissed at the Republican party as I am with the Democrats. The party as a whole sucks. I don’t even tell people that I am a Republican anymore, I say I’m a conservative. Rove, Lott, Graham are a disgrace and even Steele and other high up leaders who are not quite as bad are still needed to be removed from their positions. From now on, anyone who even uses the term “compromise” is out as far as I’m concerned. We don’t need the President to “work with us” we need to remove him from office.
That is the truth.
...and I’m saving this on my bookmarks and every time I see Palin cost us the Senate I’m putting this up....and the O’Donnell seat would not have cost us anyway with only 6 seats won.
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