If we attack President Obama for putting people who can’t pay their taxes into his Administration, how can we defend a Republican candidate who doesn’t pay her taxes, her college bills, or her mortgage; has had no visible means of support; and sued a reputable conservative organization claiming she was the victim of sex discrimination? She didn’t win the lawsuit: her employer said she was fired for trying to run her own pr consulting firm out of their offices while on their clock. We conservatives want conservative candidates, but we do our cause little good by nominating people with serious questions about their fitness and character.
I think this is worth consideration, at least if true. I'm not trying to play the part of a "RINO elite", but if we are to all be on the same "side", the same "page", exactly how are Mr. Rove's allegations to be addressed? Specifically:
Has she dodged her taxes? Is this proven?
Has she not payed her college bills or mortgage? Is this proven?
What is the latest news about her alleged lawsuit for sex discrimination? Is it true that she was fired for trying to run her own PR consulting firm while on the clock for another employer?
I'm asking these questions to find answers. I read each of your replies to TexasM1A's post, and none seem to address these issues.
We can all take swipes at Rove (and really, perhaps he deserves it, I'm not defending him here) on FR, but these issues won't go away, I'm sure, during the general election.
Does the GOP of Delaware deserve some if not all of the blame for bringing these to light? Sure. But that doesn't change anything now. We can all (rightly) criticize the elite for trashing the very candidate they supported in 2008, but that doesn't change anything.
It's situations like this that, quite frankly, have soured me to politics as of late. It never seems to end, the list of faults any candidate (whether RINO or not) offered, will eventually have.
So whether or not Rove is being an elitist bloviator is irrelevant to the far more important goal, which is winning the seat. I think O'Donnell has a shot at winning, I do, but only if the points that Rove bring up are either false, overblown, or answered in a rational way. Otherwise, and this simply must be accepted no matter how much we may resent Rove for his actions, he has a point!
How do we support a candidate that can, in some ways, resemble Timothy "the tax cheat" Gietner, among other disgraceful Obama administration members, if not members of the DNC? Isn't that truly hypocrisy, from an objective standpoint?
Again, what are the answers to these objections? Let's focus on the desired objective, instead of letting our (righteous) contempt for the RINO elites blind us to the reality of the political scene.
Get over it. Support O’Donnell. Or support the DemoRat. But you have to get over it.
Hey, who in this world is perfect?
In the past decades we have had a BJ artist in the oval office, a prez who covered up an office robbery, a pubbie prez who wanted to “forgive” illegals, and at present, a prez who sat in a church for 20 years then said he didn’t pay attention...
We need to “man up”, ignore the chatter and distraction and go on the offense!
If we let them define the arguement, we are LOST as a nation!