Yeah, this whole “Bush was a commie” crap is tiring.
I have to admit to being of two minds about this win. Castle is a RINO to the tenth power, but this would be a pick-up of a Democrat seat. Just as in Massachusetts, you’re not going to get a Reagan Republican win instantly. You have to understand the reality of the situation—yes, the Republicans in the state like O’Donnell, but Castle would have guaranteed that seat for another vote in at least SOME situations, and another R towards taking the senate.
O’Donnell has my positions, but if a Dem had some of her history, we’d be mocking her daily, and everyone reading this knows it.
I’d have voted for O’Donnell, and I hope she’s as good as I hope she is, but while in 99 times out of 100 you have to go against the RINOs, sometimes you have to look at the truth of the situation and admit it’s not how you’d like it to be, and take what you can get. Yes, compromise. In most of the races, that would be suicidal, but I think some people are getting carried away with emotion and not looking at long-term strategy—transition from Biden to Castle to someone more conservative next time, while building a Republican majority in the senate.
It would feel great to have nothing but Tea Party candidates taking the senate this year, but how are we gonna feel if we fall one shy, and it’s in this race, which would have been an easy win?
We don't have time, nor will it work.
And she stands for conservative values, and no one who has lived in the real world is going to be laughing at her.
If Castle had won we would STILL be one shy. Castle is a RINO and could NEVER be counted on to come through in the clutch. With O’Donnell we at least have a shot, and the way the tide seems to be running, it appears to be a very GOOD shot!
“O’Donnell has my positions, but if a Dem had some of her history, we’d be mocking her daily, and everyone reading this knows it.”
Wrong. Please do not speak for everybody. You are choosing to believe the RINO power brokers who SAY she has problems. She has answered them adequately ALREADY. You and the other rinos are choosing not to hear her. They are desperately trying to protect their power base and proved last night they will do and say anything to accomplish that goal. They are for themselves and not the country they say they love. It is despicable and you have succumb to their lies. It is never right to vote party over principal. That is exactly what got us into this spiraling decline. Learn something from it. In any case their corrupt weepublican party may have just done her a favor: she will not have been groped by their dirty hands.
Maybe the idea that every incumbent Republican at every level of government now has to be afraid of a conservative base and vote accordingly should be factored into the political equation. It’s not all about numbers with an (R) next to their name.
I must be too sick with this stupid cold to think straight because I don’t get this thread at all.
I watched the interview on Hannity and I didn’t see a spiteful, spitting, emotional Rove. I saw an interesting conversation between two fellows who were generally in agreement. Castle had a crappy voting record and was for Cap and Trade. (agree)
Rove brought up some problematic issues with O’Donnell and that was all. If there’s any truth to the statement that she slandered Castle by spreading the rumor that he had a homosexual affair without having any evidence, then she *is* a wildcard candidate and may be problematic. With so much of America in financial trouble lately, I think that she can get out of the financial issues by explaining herself in a way that the average Joe can relate to. He brought up that she had “character problems”, but didn’t get deeply into it. It sounded to me like he’s a little disturbed by her past statements. Hardly a firestorm.
I don’t see the “bitter, angry, cutting, demeaning, mean-spirited” Rove that everyone is talking about. He and Sean were civil. If anything, Rove simply looked tired, but then most everyone did at the end of such a busy election day. At the beginning of the interview he said that he didn’t understand O’Donnell’s victory, then he said that it was probably because of Castle’s voting record.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfH-maWAKI
What am I missing?