Posted on 09/05/2010 5:28:15 AM PDT by IbJensen
Washington (AP) - Delaware Republicans call Senate hopeful Christine O'Donnell a liar who "could not be elected dog catcher" in a fierce attack that underscores GOP fears of the tea party-backed candidate knocking off top recruit Rep. Mike Castle and winning the nomination.
Stunned by tea partier Joe Miller's upset of Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Republicans are taking no chances in Delaware, which holds its primary Sept. 14. The party sees Castle, the state's lone congressman since 1993, as the best candidate for the seat long held by Vice President Joe Biden.
Republicans circulated audio of a testy, 22-minute interview that O'Donnell had with radio station WGMD on Thursday. Party officials also have said she inflated her resume and made flat-out untrue statements while being dogged by questions about tax liens and foreclosures. Castle says she has misrepresented his record.
"She's not a viable candidate for any office in the state of Delaware," state Republicann Party Chairman Tom Ross, who is backing Castle, said in a telephone interview. "She could not be elected dog catcher."
Castle's campaign began running radio ads on Thursday and prepared negative television ads against O'Donnell. The radio ads cite a News Journal of Wilmington, Del., report on O'Donnell's finances and declares her "a financial nightmare."
"According to the News Journal, O'Donnell has become a professional candidate, living off contributions from her two failed campaigns," ...
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Scott Brown comes to mind, although there is really no such thing as a "purely" moderate candidate (just as there is no such thing as a "purely" conservative candidate).
I assume it takes a certain amount of political courage for a candidate in DE to even call themselves a Republican. In this case, we are talking about a seat held by Joe Biden for 36 years.
The Republican Party has become almost as exasperating as The DemocRAT.
These liberal pansies posture around the floors of Congress like they belong to an exclusive club where fraternizing and crawling into bed with the opposition is just fine.
If Republicans are truly conservative and love their country they would have stood on their desks in demonstration against the latest additions to the SC. Instead we have to read the inane comments of people like Hatch extolling the virtues of these lousy candidates.
Dear Race, please do not take this as a personal attack against you.....
You’re a Flippin’ knee pad loving Rino.
Phew... I hope that wasn’t misunderstood...
Oh brother! Go ahead keep on electing “moderates” and see what happens. There’s just no getting through to some of you rino coddlers. Watch what happens with Scott Brown, of course he’s going to be replaced by a dem because why elect a rino when you can elect a full fledged liberal? If Repubs win this November I’ll venture to state Scott Brown will turn on more major issues with the dems than with the repubs. Which hurts repubs. Why don’t you get that??
A Democrat will vote against Repubs and conservatives EVERY SINGLE TIME. That hurts worse! If Repubs don't get a numerical majority, it doesn't matter anyway!
How frickin hard is that to understand???
Better a RINO coddler than an Obama enabler IMHO!!!!
>>Look, this other Senator they had out there was the least noticed member of the Senate in the history of the Republic.<<
You must be be referreing to the Marcel Marceau clone, Tommy “I Don’t Read No Bills” Carper. Of course, when you are the junior Senator to Old Joe Biden, when DO you get a chance to talk?
Delaware is the poster state for limiting voting rights.
99% of the stuff in that bill was designed to transfer operating costs from the merchants to the current debtors.
After all, if customers aren't buying then there are no new purchases from merchants to generate those 4.5% charges.
Biden saved the credit card companies. Delaware's second industry is composed of nothing but credit card fulfillment operations. They employ tens of thousands of people.
Harry Reid decides. If you don't like that you have to take control of the Senate. You do that by getting your guys elected. Unless you do that you'll have nothing but Harry Reid's issues to vote on.
A properly controlled legislative agenda will give even Democrats a good ACA rating!
He was a NE Republican (remembering that he ran from New York, not California at the time, and all his buddies were there).
Again, the Republican party is a coalition. Not everybody can be from Texas (nor would they want be ~ gaaack, hairball).
Politicians do what they can to get elected everywhere.
I understand why DE voted for Biden...SC kept Fritz Hollings in the Senate for decades...for the same reason.
He delivered jobs.
THat doesn’t change the fact that with the correct Repub candidate, we can take that seat out of the Dem’s column, helping the conservative cause.
If it means getting a moderate Republican in exchange, so be it. The OP points out that the State Repub chairman is claiming O’Donnell couldn’t get elected to dog catcher and gives reasons why.
Many of the posters here don’t care, and prefer the seat to stay in Dem hands because Castle isn’t conservative enough.
I consider it idiocy. They also can’t make up their minds whether national Repubs should intervene or not in local and state politics. Apparently its ok if the candidate is tea party approved, but not ok if they aren’t.
That is entirely too much common sense to be posted on a thread like this. ;)
If a RINO gives us legislative control he's useful. If Moderate gives us legislative control, he'll jump out of his skin every time you give him a chance to take it away ~ think of the Gang of 7 who voted with the Democrats for so long. They were all Moderates. The former Democrat Senators who jumped to the Republican party when Gingrich and company took over the House never abandoned the caucus, but the Moderates did.
I think a good number of people on this (and other threads) misrepresent the RINO as a "moderate" ~ which simply isn't true. A RINO is primarily a party label jumper. A Moderate is, of course, a traitor to the Republic.
McCain got involved in too much of that "reacharound" stuff, and so did Bush. We didn't elect any of those guys to "reacharound".
Now, let’s go jump on that new thread that just went up advising us that “Plouffe” has something to say about Republicans ~ what a puke that guy is.
Nope...nearly everyone in the Republican party has been labeled a RINO here for moderate views that guide their votes.
BTW, Jefford by definition isn't a RINO...he went Independent. He's more of just a POS liberal.
PS..I've got a RINO guideline if you want to see it.
A Moderate is, of course, a traitor to the Republic.
Not hardly, especially compared to the far left traitors we have in control now.
No argument here...
To 5 - Your assessment is 100pc accurate.
Moderate views, if there can be such things, don't make you a RINO. All moderates are traitors, as are the traitors ~ they are also traitors.
The Republican party has used RINOs for over a century. These people have traditionally been Democrats who couldn't beat the leading Democrat in a primary (due to machine politics, vote fraud, relative popularity, etc.) Republicans would not usually win in those districts but if they made that #2 Democrat an offer to run as a Republican (and agree to caucus with the Republicans), the Republican vote, plus part of the Democrat vote would frequently put the guy in office and give the Republicans legislative control!
The term has always had to do with partisan politics, not ideology. Conservative, Liberal, etc. are ideological terms with clearly understood meanings.
This is more of a spiritual battle these days than a political one.
Winning for the sake of winning doesn't mean shinola unless principles are upheld.
That might have been true at one time, but the term RINO is applied daily to Repubs that have never left the Repub ranch, that simply hold beliefs that aren't "conservative".
Mitch McConnell is an example, widely reviled as a RINO, but staunchly Republican. There are many others...
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