Posted on 09/08/2010 11:30:38 AM PDT by Superstu321
Over the past week, several political-insider wizards of smart have deemed Republican senatorial hopeful Christine O’Donnell unelectable – almost taking it to the point of vitriolic screeds you’d expect to hear from left-wing commentators, which would probably appear as a guest on MSNBC in their prime time lineup.
Their issue: In an interview, O’Donnell had claimed she could be the potential target of political opponents and that she had to be extra careful when she would go home at night.
“They’re following me,” she told The Weekly Standard. “They follow me home at night. I make sure that I come back to the townhouse and then we have our team come out and check all the bushes and check all the cars to make sure that—they follow me.”
Now suddenly this has raised the ire of some conservative pundits – suggesting that she isn’t fit for office because of her caution. But actually, she does have cause for concern. According to a video from her campaign – it has been documented that operatives from her opponent’s campaign, Rep. Mike Castle, have in fact attended events she hosted with video cameras. So how would you feel if you were being followed with a video camera?
That being said – who are these detractors, as conservative males, to call into question the safety self-concerns of a 41-year-old female in what could be a highly charged political contest? Is it really the smartest thing to do to be so obsessed with the race for a Delaware Republican senatorial nomination that one would make these judgment calls about someone’s character, especially coming from the political right? It’s a bizarre phenomenon to say the least.
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Yes, I'm a wimp because I think a lunatic and/or liar isn't a good candidate. Face it, if it was a Democrat making these kinds of allegations without ever having once contacted the police, everyone on here including yourself would be whooping and hollering about what a nut they are--justifiably. But since it's a conservative, well we give her a pass on character and sanity issues. What's she going to do in the general election? Allege the Democrat is intercepting her brainwaves? If she's the candidate the Dems will chew her up and spit her out in short order.
Sorry, I don't check my brain at the Tea Party door, even if you chose to. A bad candidate is a bad candidate no matter their supposed ideological credentials. And trust me when I say you're wasting keystrokes attacking Mike Castle. I'm hardly a fan of the man. It is indeed a bad choice of candidates despite what you want to believe--a liberal versus a liar. Good luck with that. Glad I don't have to vote in that race. By the way, next time stick to making substantive remarks. When you get personal, esp. at the end of your post, it removes the credibility of what came before.
And those are worse than Castle’s offenses, if in fact they are offenses? NOT EVEN CLOSE.
We are discussing the following questions:
Is candidate X electable in this jurisdiction?
Would candidate X accomplish anything in office?
The ISI situation casts doubts on O'Donnell with regard to the second question.
Thanks very much.
Castle voted against TARP2 in 2009, get your facts straight.
Yes, you have been discussing Christine's alleged offenses, both in the above referenced post and most of the rest of your replies.
No one understands the importance of a candidates ability to win more than I. It was a great consideration in the endorsements of Independence Hall Tea Party PAC Independence Hall Tea Party PAC and one we all took seriously (only one candidate listed was not endorsed by us in the primary - Dee Adcock). In several cases we endorsed candidates who were less conservative than the most conservative candidate in the race. And BTW, as one of the key founders of that organization, I and one other received the lion's share of complaints from some conservatives and fellow Tea Partiers for those endorsements. Our board voted the way we thought was right despite the criticism we knew we would receive.
However, in the DE Republican Primary Senate race, it is not a choice between a greater and lessor conservative. It's not even a choice between a conservative and a moderate. It's a choice between a socialist (Castle) and a conservative, O'Donnell, both of whom have questions about whether they can win in the general. And yes, there are also doubts about whether or not Castle can win in the general. Additionally, while he may garner the vote of most Republicans should Castle win the primary, few will work hard to get him elected, a problem Christine won't have.
There isn't a whole lot we get with Castle over Coons even if Castle does prevail. Castle has voted with the Obama administration 60% of the time.
If everyone donates and works hard to elect Christine, and most Republicans will should she win in the primary, (as I stated previously unlike with Castle), she can also win in the general.
It would be nice if a conservative were running in that race who has a more stable financial history than O'Donnell, if only because the left and O'Donnell's enemies in the Republican Party, have chosen to make such an issue of it. There isn't.
How is Mike Castle more honest than Christine?
SARAH PALIN JUST ENDORSED CHRISTINE O’DONNELL!!!!!!!!!!!
Christine was just on Bill Colley’s show to let him be the first to know!!!!
Did he vote for TARP1?
Did he vote for the auto bailouts?
Did he just vote for the union bailout for $ 26 billion?
Gee, that’s plural for bailouts, isn’t it?
Get your head out of your dupa.
You call O’Donnell a liar and or a lunatic—on what basis—your personal opinion, that’s what.
Go to Christine2010.com and see the answers to the lies on Mike Castle’s radio ads, instead of making personal attacks on a conservative candidate.
I live here in DE, and I have met and discussed items with both Mike Castle and Christine O’Donnell.
I’ll take Christine any day, warts and all, over the Democrat that Castle is.
As for your parting shot—it still stands, and takes nothing away from my previous post.
You say “Stay angry until November”—well, what the heck is the point of that when you would throw out the one conservative candidate we have here in a year when she is electable due to economic issues. The “lunatic/liar” got 35% of the vote against Joe Biden in 2008 here—the highest any opponent got against Bite Me since 1972.
Hope you aren’t this down on conservative candidates in California.
Yep
WOW, well done! : ) FANTASTIC post!
Go Christine!!!!! : )
You mean the Bush/Paulson bailout?
A lot of Republicans voted for that, including a bunch of conservatives. Do you want a list of their names?
Did he vote for the auto bailouts?
You seem stuck in 2008, or was there more than one bailout of the auto industry?
You also seem unaware that GM was a major employer in Delaware from 1947-2009 and that Fisk Automotive is presently retooling the old Wilmington Assembly plant with plans to reopen in 2012.
I can't say I blame Castle for voting in his constituents interest, especially when the future looked so bleak in late 2008. Can you?
What about 2009 when Castle voted for Cap and Trade or 2010 when he voted for the Disclose Act? Is that going back too far also?
The Bush Administration, the media and the left had lots of people panicked enough to support TARP. However Castle, with his vote FOR Cap and Trade, took it much further, proving not only is he left on social issues, he's left on fiscal issues as well.
Unlike Christine, he's proven he'll screw the voters time and again.
Amazingly, Castle didn't decide to vote against Obamacare until four days before the vote in March. Or was it three? : ) And then probably only because he realized voting FOR Obamacare even in Delaware, would KILL his political career. Gosh, darn, just think, he might've missed out on these petty squabbles with Ms. O'Donnell and an opportunity to destroy a decent person's reputation and career.
Unlike Christine, Castle has undeniably proven, he'll screw the voters time and again, particularly when he thinks he can get away with it. I say to the voters of Delaware, STOP THE INSANITY, VOTE CHRISTINE!!! : )
No, that's not opinion--that's face. She makes phony charges and refuses to back them up with even so much as a phone call to the police. People following you home? People stalking you in the bushes outside your home? Your home and office vandalized? Would YOU after all that never once go to the police? She made all these allegations and has notified the police. This makes sense to you? But yeah, go on believing her. You're no different than any Obama or Clinton supporter justifying their candidate's lack of veracity and character all because they happen to agree with you. Sad.
No, that's not opinion--that's fact. She makes phony charges and refuses to back them up with even so much as a phone call to the police. People following you home? People stalking you in the bushes outside your home? Your home and office vandalized? Would YOU after all that never once go to the police? She made all these allegations and has notified the police. This makes sense to you? But yeah, go on believing her. You're no different than any Obama or Clinton supporter justifying their candidate's lack of veracity and character all because they happen to agree with you. Sad.
I never said he was or wasn't. You must be mistaking me for someone who supports Castle. I'm not. I think both these candidates are losers, but esp. the one who constantly pretends to be the victim of crimes yet never goes to the police to report them (O'Donnell). Frankly if I was voting in this race I'd write in Donald Duck.
The issue was bailouts, was it not? The topic was not WHEN.
So, I answered your question. And no, the GOP did not have to cvote for the pork barrel TARPS or stimulus.
They did not stop nor stem the economic problems, did they?
More money down the rathole. Soemone has to take responsibility. How about those who voted for them taking responsibility for their votes?
Secondly, I am quite aware of the GM and Chrysler plants in Boxwood and Newark, DE that were shuttered. Even our economic moron of a Vice President could not stop that from happening. But Barney Frank was able to keep a lowly GM parts plant in HIS district open for an extra six months-imagine that!! Yeah, I fought to keep those plants open—those were three thousand good paying jobs that will not return—and Castle,Carper, Kaufmann and Biden—didn;t do squat.
But yeah, let’s have some more of them small business roundtables, Mike Castle!!
The bailouts were bullcrap, and anyone who voted for them was pandering politically, and not acting in the interests of their constituents. Your grandkids will be paying the bill for that stupidity.
And as far as Fisker, we—you and I—the American taxpayer—have GIVEN him $ 500 million for his new tech foreign company, of which he used $ 18 million to buy the GM plant—in order to build the $ 80,000 plus four door hybrid luxury sports car.
So we let GM, a company WE own, lose the plant, fire 1800 people, and then give $500 million of OUR money to a FOREIGN manufacturer, who then BUYS the plant with OUR money in order to build an expensive hybrid sportscar—MAYBE—in 2012.
See any tiny thing wrong with that picture, sport?
Now, go back to Mike Castle’s HQ and stop bothering us with your nonsense.
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