(Vanity) A Closer Look at the Tea Party Losses

grey_whiskers ^ | 11-03-2010 | grey_whiskers

[Darkwolf377]

One person and only one person is responsible for the overall management of a campaign and that is the candidate. Who they hire and place in charge of various functions within the campaign will be a major determinate in how successful the candidate is. Win or lose the buck stops at the top.

BULLSEYE

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks grey_whiskers!

[Eagle Eye]

How do you feel about McCain and did you ever support him?

Or is it different and ok for the GOP to support the man who undermined the Republican POTUS while there was a Republican majority in both houses?

GOP didn’t have a problem twisting arms to vote for that guy, but someone the people actually chose isn’t good enough.

[grey_whiskers]

Rove invented nothing, uncovered nothing, merely repeated.

Which is EXACTLY what I said.

But if your own side is trashing you the very night you win an upset, what message does that send to the undecideds, who might not even have heard of you until that moment?

And on FOX News of all places?

Cheers!

[reasonisfaith]

“Rove’s imprimatur by bashing her *on FOX NEWS* and *ON THE NIGHT SHE WON THE NOMINATION* (the more so as “The Architect”) gave a social signal that she wasn’t going to be defended, so piling on would be OK.”

This is the correct explanation.

[truthfreedom]

you missed the sarcasm tag </s> </sarcasm> etc

[Tuxedo]

First off: wasn't appropriate for Rove to pile on to COD, regardless - if you are a GOP Operative, you support the winning GOP candidate. Failure to do so helps bring on losses. Secondly: It's frickin' Delaware - a state so full of jackmunches that they actually kept sending back Plugs Biden cycle after cycle. When Mike Castle is the reddest you can get, then it just wasn't going to happen - even if Rubio had run there. Some noteworthy gains were made in the NE, but some areas (Massholes, New York, Conn, DE) are just hopelessly lost. COD had significant skeletons in the closet, and in a very Blue state - they were too much to overcome. As to California: what can one say? I guess the majority of people there are praying for the San Andreas fault to finally give way and force the Feds to dump more money into that Socialist Paradise. Truly sad, as it is a beautiful state. Their exports have also ruined several Western states (NV, CO, OR, WA). The election of Brown may be what starts secessions especially if the haves (TX, FL, GA, Carolinas, etc) have to be taxed to prop up California's excesses.

Overall, a good night though even though the country's divisions are even more stark. We're heading for a showdown.

[Darkwolf377]

First off: wasn't appropriate for Rove to pile on to COD, regardless

I have said that over and over again.

[Darkwolf377]

"Rove’s imprimatur by bashing her *on FOX NEWS* and *ON THE NIGHT SHE WON THE NOMINATION* (the more so as “The Architect”) gave a social signal that she wasn’t going to be defended, so piling on would be OK.” This is the correct explanation.

If Rove said nothing, not one thing about that election would have changed.

He is merely the convenient excuse for the worst candidate we had this cycle.

Not taking responsibility for one's own flaws is not a conservative quality. O'Donnell was a loser, and she lost.

Had Rove said NOTHING (as he should have), the democrats would have, what--not brought up everything they did against her?

I see some of us are still disconnected from reality.

[Darkwolf377]

LOL!

That’s awesome.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[LucyT]

(Vanity) A Closer Look at the Tea Party Losses

Thanks again, grey_whiskers.

[truth_seeker]

“Look at the most contentious races: Delaware, Alaska, Colorado, Arizona.”

Don’t you mean Nevada, not Arizona?

[Candor7]

Really Great article! You framed the issue pefectly.

Thats why we need to have anither speaker besides the presuned John Boehner.He’s with that establishment and willl ride herd to supress the new conservative house members.

[truth_seeker]

What I think:

I think once the primary is finished, the party’s candidate decided, then EVERY GOPer should either support them, or shut up.

Having said that, O’Donnell should run for lower offices, get her own creds.

It is politically lame to expect somebody like her to make it in a Senate race.

[grey_whiskers]

Yes, sorry. I'd been fighting a bad head cold all day.

Thanks for catching that.

Cheers!

[Leisler]

Mass GOP governor candidate, Charlie Baker's team was run by .......Muffy Healy’s north shore, lock jaw, financialist, Romney, elitist losers.

Mitt couldn't, didn't, probably hurt, every single GOP candidate. His brand of bland, wishy washy, limp pseudo conservatism, paralyzed with a big dose of liberal Republican angst, just doesn't play well.How did his Muffy Redux, Meg Whitman do? Mitt really likes the Harvard blondes.

[george76]

Well said

[Cicero]

Well, what you call nationalizing could be called other things. Certainly there was much to be said for attacking Obama and his epic destructiveness to our economy. And O’Donnell should have asked whether the people of Delaware could afford to elect a self-confessed Communist to support Obama’s job-destroying Communist programs. But no need to appear on national TV shows; she could have done that within Delaware.

No question in my mind that Karl Rove destroyed O’Donnell’s chances of winning. Not just Republicans, but independents and undecided voters would have said to themselves, “Well, there must be something really wrong with Christine if even the REPUBLICAN WISE MEN are attacking her!”

The Driveby Media tried to use Meaghan McCain for the same purpose, but she has no real weight or substance. Same with Mr. Playgirl Centerfold. But Karl Rove does have the required weight and substance, at least for those who haven’t been paying close attention to what he really represents—RINO stupidity that undermined the Bush presidency repeatedly with bad advice and brought about the election disasters of 2006 and 2008.