Posted on 09/15/2010 7:30:24 AM PDT by Lexluthor69
Probably the surest sign that Christine O’Donnell was the right choice is the vitriol generated by her nomination. The Daily Beast’s Matthew Yglesias personifies that vitriol with his unveiled attack on the Tea Party, The GOP, Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint and O’donnel.
His post-mortem assessment of Mike Castles’s failed nomination bid and Delaware’s primary leaves little doubt as to his bias. What is unclear is why he is so concerned with the “destruction” of the GOP. One would assume that such a cataclysmic event would rank high on his “bucket list”. Alas Yglesias does protest a little too much and his faux concern for the health of the Grand Old Party leads one to believe he may have an ulterior motive.
Let’s indulge in a vivisection of the solicitous Matthew Yglesias’s hit piece and see if we and assuage his fears.
Excerpts from The Daily Beast :
The upset in Delaware is the latest sign of a conservative civil war between work horses and show horses. Matthew Yglesias on how Palin and DeMint are destroying GOP dreams of a Senate majority.
There’s a natural ebb and flow to American politics, whereby parties thrown out of power find themselves re-energized by opposition and poised for a comeback. Certainly the American right had done a fair amount of energizing itself since the inauguration of Barack Obama. It’s a trend conservatives have spent a fair amount of time celebrating over the past eighteen months, rather implausibly arguing that the rising chorus of Tea Party cranks would suddenly make possible the rollback of the welfare state they’ve spent the past 30 years failing to achieve.
(Excerpt) Read more at silentmajority09.com ...
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You write as if those are our only options, which is not the case. There are plenty of people who not only have the right positions but who have also done something of value with their lives.
We will see who are the show horses really after we fix our country! What a confused dope.
Wrong-o, he’s ticked because he knows the Republicans are either:
A) On the same team as the Democrats
or
B) To chicken sh#t and gutless to stop them even if they are in power
The truth is, his fear is of the people, and by that, I mean real people.
Every decent conservative legislator on the national level who has accomplished anything in office has had a solid record of accomplishment before entering public life.
Let's take Jim DeMint as an example. He's not an Ivy League graduate, but he graduated from a good school (University of Tennessee) and did it in less than 21 years. He also got an MBA from Clemson as he worked in the private sector. He started his own successful company which he ran for 15 years before running for Congress. He served three terms in the House before running for Senate. He's also a family man who's been married to the same woman for 37 years and he's raised 4 children.
That's an example of a solid record for a Senator to run on without having to be an Ivy Leaguer or a lobbyist.
I'd rather have a a High School drop out with morals, values and a love for America that a "perfect" candidate that cares only about himself!
Just because O'Donnell talks incessantly about morals and values and a love for America does not mean that she has them.
O'Donnell sued a conservative employer who fired her - for cause - using the liberal EEOC claim of "gender discrimination" and then was forced to drop her groundless lawsuit.
She talks the talk, certainly. There is little evidence that she walks the walk.
Yep. Plus he knows conservative books sell better
Know your enemies be they republican or democrat.....
You know that dog won't hunt here.
Personally, I'm glad Castle lost, but that doesn't mean I'm pleased O'Donnell won. Of course, that's a distinction very few will be able to appreciate. O'Donnell is a DEEPLY flawed candidate. And, Bugs Bunny has a better chance of winning that seat than she does. It's disappointing that the GOP in DE couldn't find a candidate that was better than Castle or O'Donnell.
If she manages to get to 40%, it will be a huge victory. That's also a very big "if".
Very pithily said.
The more I learn about O'Donnell's biography the less there seems to be.
Therein lies the crux of the problem: Castle's positions are not right. So exactly what good would it do to elect another Snowe or Spector? The only reasons that makes sense are Machiavellian. Does that make it worthwhile?
I do not put a lot of weight in the mud-slinging, and I find it far more credible that The GOP Brahmans are just supporting their boy.
Yeah well they didn’t have the courage to run against Castle because he was considered unbeatable. O’Donnell had the courage to take him on.
Courage is an important quality, wouldn’t you say?
I get your point... all i am trying to say is it is the experienced ones that scare me. They are the ones that put us where we are.
My point (O’Donnell aside)... we need (overall) people that care about this country, follow their oath and do what is right and moral. Enough of the BS PC politics. Freedom is at stake and we have run out of time. Message has been sent...
That's a fair argument to make. As I said elsewhere, the only good thing to come out of this is the likely end of Mike Castle's political career.
I do not put a lot of weight in the mud-slinging, and I find it far more credible that The GOP Brahmans are just supporting their boy.
There is criticism, and there is mudslinging.
Criticism is asking obvious questions like: why did it take you 21 years to graduate from college? Why do you seem unable to hold down a job for any length of time? why did you sue an employer with a lefty strategy like a "gender discrimination" lawsuit?
Then there is mudslinging, like her former campaign operative doing the robocall alleging mishandling of funds without offering documentation to substantiate her claims.
The biggest problem with O'Donnell (or her candidacy, more precisely) is that with the help of the media, the Democrats will nationalize this particular election, very much like they did with early on with Rand Paul. Paul got smart, and just shut-up. He could afford to do that because he enjoyed a healthy lead. O'Donnell won't be able to do that because she's so far behind.
Every time she says something boneheaded - and she'll clearly say some boneheaded things in the next 7-weeks - or every time some new peculiar fact about her past comes out, that will be the lead story on the morning news shows. O'Donnell - not John Boehner - will become the face of the GOP. That's bad, bad, bad.
I don't think anything will stem the tide - the wave - that's about to hit the Democrats, but O'Donnell certainly won't be an asset moving forward - at least not for conservatives or Republicans.
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Yeah, well, my comment was to the post that stated two only options. It was not about any particular politician.
And of course courage is an important quality but it is not enough on its own. Character, intelligence, integrity, experience, knowledge of the world are equally if not more important.
I haven't looked into Christine yet. I tried this morning but the only way to access her campaign website is to donate.
I hear you. It is important for our system to allow outsiders (i.e. people not usually involved in politics) to get involved in the legislative process.
The thing is that the ideal candidate is an outsider who has a strong record of accomplishment. Such an individual is not beholden to Washington, but has shown that they have the experience and smarts to get involved in complex situations without getting taken for a ride by insiders.
O'Donnell is an insider (her entire career has been spent going from lobbyist to think tank to guest spot on political talk show to political campaign) with no substantial record of accomplishments.
Her nomination sends a positive message, I agree.
I just wish the messenger was better.
I noticed that as well.
There is good money to be made by being a losing candidate. Ron Paul is set for life with the enormous war chest he raised.
Michael Medved is like Big Eddie ‘cept he hasn’t shot his own dog.
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