Senators represent states.
*PING*
Because if Karl Rove didn't say anything, the Democrats would have supported O'Donnell.
Good God...
It is totally hypocritical of the GOP party officials and party faithful to expect everyone to vote R out of duty and for every unsuccessful candidate to support the primary winner EXCEPT when the people pick the winner and that winner doesn’t have the party stamp of approval.
The GOP cut everyone’s throat, not just the candidates in these states and not just the people in these states.
The GOP said BOHICA to America.
thankfully, in two out of four cases, the idiot pub dissenter was shot down....
I think if COD nationalized her race, it would have been even worse for her......
The attacks was one directional.
Every single week, Gov. Palin took on Obama and the corrupt DNC.
The other RINOs (led by Rove, Cornyn, the NRSC) attacked
select GOP-election-chosen candidates thought to eventually be a threat
to .... Mitt Romney.
Meanwhile, Romney’s poodles in California and Massachusetts
lost because citizens hate Romney,
his surrogates and his RomneyCARE.
“Look at the most contentious races: Delaware, Alaska, Colorado, Arizona.”
Don’t you mean Nevada, not Arizona?
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.
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.
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.