Posted on 09/02/2010 9:36:58 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
Christine O'Donnell must really have Mike Castle and the GOP Establishment on the run, because yesterday they wheeled out one of the major elephants in the Establishment, N.J. Governor Christopher Christie to endorse Castle. Christie praised Castle as an "extraordinary representative for Delaware and our Republican Party" and that "New Jersey was trying to do the things that Castle has been doing for a long time like controlling spending and getting government out of the peoples' way" Christie urged all Delaware voters who believe in "smaller, smarter Government to support Mike Castle". Smaller government as in Cap and Tax? Smaller Government as in TARP? Smaller government as in federal funding for abortion? Smarter government as in "Cash for Clunkers? Smaller government as in the 182 Billion dollar Obama stimulus? Smarter government as in the Auto Bailouts? "Getting government out of our way" as in the anti-First Amendment Disclose Act? All of which (and more) Castle voted for. Is Christie ignorant of all this? Or does he think we are? He insults the intelligence of every conservative in America by such blatant falsehoods.
The video takes 1:09 to watch. I advise that you not watch it on a full stomach. Whoever managed to retain a modicum of respect for Christie after he attacked the opponents of the Ground Zero Mosque for "playing politics" will lose it after they see this, one of the most toadying lickspittle performance in the annals of forensic sycophancy. Even Castle appeared to be embarassed by the sheer hyperbole of the lies.
If Christine has better poll numbers against the democrat, than Castle, then I must say I am befuddled by Christie’s endorsing Castle. I will still concede to Christie’s knowledge of local politics over any one here.
If Christine has better poll numbers against the democrat, than Castle, then I must say I am befuddled by Christie’s endorsing Castle. I will still concede to Christie’s knowledge of local politics over any one here.
Castle voted against the Obama Stimulus Act. Where do you get your information?
Not in real life. I am getting killed by Obama’s tax hikes.
As much as I disliked McCain, he would certainly be better for
my pocket book.
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We tried it with hyphenated-not-quite-conservatives and here we are.
I will never campaign for another Dole. I will never donate to another McCain.
Ever.
You may not, but I am in high income bracket, and I will
always lookout for my pocket book issues.
“Castle voted against the Obama Stimulus Act. Where do you get your information?”
It was the Second Obama Stimulus in July 2009. It is easy to get the information if you know how to use Google. Do you?
“Voted YES on $192B additional anti-recession stimulus spending. (Jul 2009)”
http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Michael_Castle.htm
Castle would be acceptable to the Dems, acceptable to the media.
The Dems would spend their money elsewhere, perhaps in Nevada, Alaska, Kentucky, Florida, somewhere where there is a more conservative candidate.
The national media would not be attacking Castle either.
They’d be training their guns on strong conservatives elsewhere.
The media and the Dems know that these conservatives are potential national stars, and with Christine, you have a 41 year old.
You want stars in there.
Let’s say Christine gets the nomination. The media knows that she’d be a star, maybe not the biggest (that’s Palin), if she wins. 41 year old pretty woman. A conservative. The media does not want that.
So the media will train their guns on O’Donnell. Yes, this might make it more difficult for her to win.
But it would make it easier for Angle, Miller, Paul and the rest to win. Because every second they’re talking about how O’Donnell is extreme, they’re not talking about how Angle, Miller, Paul and the rest are extreme. The media has a fixed amount of ammunition. If they spend it shooting at O’Donnell, they’re not shooting elsewhere.
That’s relevant, I think, when people are making electability calculations. We learned, discovered, decided in 2010 to go conservative all the way, and not to play around with RINOs this time around. We’re on solid footing with the voters, due to their hatred of Obamas policies. And, we recognize that each additional conservative we nominate takes hits from the media that would go elsewhere.
That is a very solid analysis. Crash the MSM Servers by giving them an overload of conservatives they have to destroy. It is just possible that in trying to destroy them all, they may not succeed in destroying any. If there was ever a year, this is it....we could sweep ‘em. Run the table and establish a conservative majority that would grow larger in 2012 and 2014 and would last a generation.
Or we could just go with Mike Castle.
Looks like an easy call to me.
Well, no. Actually at this point, Castle has better numbers against Coons than O’Donnell does. But the point I’m trying to make is that when people state with certainty that Delaware is too liberal and O’Donnell is too conservative to win, I can point to a Rasmussen poll and say “this legitimate poll had O’Donnell winning in July. If it was possible then, it is possible now.”
You may not, but I am in high income bracket, and I will
always lookout for my pocket book issues.
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Keep doing what you have been. It is working so well.
I must confess I know very little about political situation in Delaware. If O”Donnell has reasonable chance to win in general she has my vote. From what I am reading now about her, she is young, attractive and more important, articulate. If I was voting in Delaware I would certainly keep her on my list. I am just tired of more Hoffman like situations. Losing is just the pitts. There is zero upside when a candidate loses.
I think that we’ve known this full court press, or some military analogy, was our strategy all along, but it really hasn’t been explicitly articulated.
The media does not respond to changed circumstances very well.
They probably had a meeting where they decided what to do about Angle, Paul, etc. That was based on Murkowski and Castle. With Miller and O’Donnell, they have to spend time thinking about the implications of a Miller victory and a O’Donnell victory, weigh that with Angle and Paul, etc etc. Very time consuming. They could shoot wildly, effecting nothing. Even in Delaware, there are more conservatives than liberals. Moderates often get their opinions from TV.
Who will Jon Stewart be mocking every night? Maybe O’Donnell. Maybe Miller. Could be Angle or Paul. Or all of em, and nothing could stick to any of em. Just a confusing mish mash.
The media knows that Paul, Miller and O’Donnell can be conservative stars. They all could be on a Presidential watch list at some point in time. And they’re all conservatives. The media would like there to be as few conservative stars as possible. They want conservatives to have to think really hard to find a plausible candidate. They want to sell us RINOs like Mitt, Huck and Newt as conservatives. They don’t want us to have a young war hero, the son of a politician they really don’t like, or a young pretty Catholic female, all conservatives, for us to choose from.
And the RINOs have been playing along with the media, saying don’t pick on me, I’m certainly not the most conservative.
George Allen was the front runner 4 years ago. Acceptable to conservatives. Knocked out by saying “macaca”. If there were 5-10 other potential stars running would they have spend so much time trying to persuade people that Allen was racist for saying a word no one ever before in the history of the world has ever used as a racial insult? Would they have said “we’ll let these 4 candidates slide by and win, even though the conservatives will love them and might want them to be President, because Allen is the likely Republican Nominee in 2008?”
The Hoffman situation should’ve been worthwhile to send the GOP a message. If your candidate is too liberal, a 3rd party conservative candidate could embarrass the GOP.
I don’t think they got the message, or aren’t responding in a reasonable way.
That was one seat. In November, every seat will be up.
I can see November from my house!
Given what he’s done, especially WRT unions, in New Jersey, I don’t think he’s jumped the shark.
Christie is a half consersative, and apparently that’s what NJ likes.
That being said, I wish he had not endorsed Castle.
You ever watch O’Donnell on Fox ? She seems rather dumb to me; about as deep as a puddle.
Christie is a New Jersey Republican who in the face of the financial disaster there has had to take a hard line that I wish other RINO’s would take with teacher unions.
The RNC needs to save face after the bloodbath by the Tea Party. Castle is pretty much a sure thing and they can take credit for something.
All this means to me is hopefully Castle’s vote will not be necessary and in 2012 we get rid of the remainder of the RINO’s and fully take back the country.
Governor Palin is probably doing the right thing by staying away. Delaware is polluted with RINOs. Governor Palin’s endorsement might actually backfire here.
In Delaware, the GOP elephant has morphed into a rhinoceros. The motto of the party is “Don’t make waves”. There is not a single PUB in this state with a set of cojones. Imagine a state where daddy bought his son the AG job. This absentee AG (he spent a year in Iraq with JAG!), who takes his orders from daddy, is running unopposed!
Castle is worse than a RINO; he is a coward. He refuses to even acknowledge O’Donnell; yet he has been running a negative campaign since Day 1. What’s more, he refuses to go before the people from whom he is demanding votes.
This was a mistake by Christie. But if it’s the worst thing he does, that wouldn’t be bad. Also, O’Donnell has been making a hash of her campaign lately, and you gotta doubt that she could hold DE in Nov if she were to get the nod.
Now alaska’s looking good...
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