Posted on 09/14/2010 10:48:18 PM PDT by grassboots.org
Christine O'Donnell staged a big comeback win in the Delaware Senate primary against GOP-party favorite Mike Castle, as the Republican rank and file have parted company with the candidate chosen in the backroom by the GOP leadeship. John Cornyn, head of the GOP Senatorial Committee wouldn't promise to lend support to the lady who has garned the support of Sarah Palin, and some, but not all, of the tea party movement.
Regardless of the whether the Tea Party supported O'Donnell, the Republicans of Delaware did back her, and the GOP should get behind her 100%. It is amazing how dense, tone deaf, and bull-headed the self-serving leadership of the National Republican Party can be.
In recent months they came out in favor of Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio, they ignored the pro-life alternative to Bob Ehrlich (Brian Murphy), in the Maryland Governor's race, and pushed Dede Scozzafava over Doug Hoffman in New York's 23rd House District. This is the same party (led by George Bush and Rick Santorum) that backed Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey years ago, pro-abortion US House Representative Greg Ganske over Marine and strong pro-family candidate Bill Salier in Iowa, and Governor Arnold Swartzeneggar over several conservative candidates when that governorship was open after Gray Davis was recalled.
If conservatives ever expect to make progress in this country they better speak loud and clear while working hard against their number one enemies, the leadership of the GOP: Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, and Michale Steele. Enough is enough.
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GOP elites are just as much the enemy as the CommieCrates - out with them all say I.
Agree.
The Bush corporate welfare-ism sold out the Republican party. Vote true Conservative or go home.
Give people a REAL choice: Free market vs. socialism.
Take your pick, voter.
Now is the best year ever to go with REAL Republicans. Demmunists have been exposed as anti-American, anti-Capitalism, pro-Victory Mosque at Ground Zero, anti-Free Speech, anti-family kooks.
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What does the GOP have against allowing the voters to choose their candidate? What we are seeing is that both parties are more concerned about institutional power than democratic principles. They are scared to death that someone is going to cut off their pork supply.
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Hey, FreeRepublic has all this figured out - why can the rest of America see the answer?
Much of the rest of the country has begun to figure it out, which is why the lifetime GOP leadership is running scared.
Actually, I think that you are right...but darn it is taking way too long and the Country is in peril. Just hope that they wake up before it is too late.
Another win for the TEA PARTY is in NY. Carl Paladino vs. the GOP candidate RINO Rick Lazio. Amazing landslide victory for the conservative in the race - Carl Paladino.
Eat crow GOP
Cornyn is pure slime...he and his toetapping consultants need to be run out of the GOP
It’s a shame the GOP (and the likes of Mitt Romney) supported RINO Bob Ehrlich in Maryland instead of Brian Murphy. Palin’s endorsement was not enough.
Sclerotic, senile, dog in the manger and increasingly irrelevant.
As a Delawarian, I have watched the O’Donnell race with some interest of late. Honestly, I dropped my Republican Party registration some years ago BECAUSE of candidates like Castle.
Since I’m an Independent, it wasn’t until I started hearing attack ads by Castle that I really tuned in to the race.
As I heard the litany of ‘charges’ levelled by Castle including ‘forfeiting on her mortgage’ I couldn’t help but think how out of touch with main stream America Castle is to think that not being able to keep up with a mortgage will alienate people in this day and age.
The clincher for me was the “I’m Mike Castle and I approve this ad” tagline.
Okay- if you approve of it then pay the price for it.
We’re told that O’Donnell can’t win the general election. That may or may not prove to be true. But, here’s a little tidbit of information for establishment RINO’s to consider; and it’s not speculation: Your candidate can’t win the primary. Last time I checked, that was a prerequisite for even getting into the General.
Main Street America is tired of the ‘boys club’ mentality that has given us the smoke filled room choices of “Who’s turn is it to be elected now?”
So, Mike and Karl, and the rest of you elites; take the next few months (like the last many years) to carry on the great tradition of “crossing the aisle”- I’m sure you have a lot of friends you need to say ‘goodbye’ to.
From our point of view, we said it to you last night. My guess is we enjoyed it more than you will.
Will Wallace
Nice post, Will - you’re good at this.
We should have learned that lesson in 1996 when the Republicans offered up the sacrificial Bob Dole for no other reason than it was his turn. The political consultants and the career politicians are an incestuous group. That caused us to get Ford in 1976 instead of a sure winner in RWR, Dole in 1996 and John McCain in 2008.
How right you are. I forgot about Dole - he was void of any fire in the belly as mc cain was. It was obvious they were the prop and it was the ‘other side’s turn to win’. It’s been all a game - and now with grass roots Patriots, Tea Party in control and exposing the game - we can see the past more clearly.
Yet we witnessed the fire in Mr$50LettuceHead’s belly AGAINST the conservative. $20million it was worth to him - to come against a conservative. I still hope AZ votes him out come Nov.
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