Sometime you can have a Pyrrhic victory. Sometime the devastating result after that “victory” is devastating but not catastrophic.
In these times, with Obama in the White House, any win for him is catastrophic for the rest of us.
Krauthammer is exactly right. Castle might have been a thorn to prick the Republican majority, but it would be a Republican majority, with Republicans controlling the agenda.
If this seat is the determining seat, and it falls to the Democrats because of this victory you are celebrating, these shouts of joy may turn to tears very quickly.
I hope O’Donnell can win. And if she does, I will be happy and humbled. What will you be if she loses and Obama gets more chances to destroy the Nation?
HearMe: “I hope O’Donnell can win. And if she does, I will be happy and humbled. What will you be if she loses and Obama gets more chances to destroy the Nation?”
We only require 41 conservative senators to filibuster Obama’s agenda. There aren’t enough seats up for election this cycle to gain a clear conservative majority. Let’s say we achieved a Republican majority with Mike Castle being the 51st vote. Do you honestly believe he would have backed us up? Haven’t you grown tired of Jeffords, Specter, and Gang of 14 Republican majorities? That’s hardly winning, my FRiend.
Given there will be NO difference between Coon’s and Castle’s vote (the marxist Coons might even be more conservative), exactly how would Castle stymie Obama’s plans?
He wasn’t going to vote to repeal Obamacare. He wasn’t going to pick Obamacare apart, replace it, or fail to fund it.
The ONLY thing we’d get with Castle, is a Republican majority blamed for supporting Obamacare and a blurring of the lines between the parties.
Look at 1994. The House passed every one of the measures in the Contract with America. ...and the Republican controlled Senate fumbled just about all of them. Result: everybody said there was no difference between the parties.
With people like Castle, they are right.
You are sooooooo pro-RINO (from Castle to Spector)
Welcome to FR.
What you’re missing is that O’Donnell’s win on Tuesday have so energized the conservative base, raise the national profile of the Tea Party, and continued the snowball rolling momentum of the movement, that it will translate nationally to greater participation, greater fund raising, and more volunteers.
Grassroot movements like this needs constant momentum pushing event or it risks burning itself out before election day. That’s why the establishment were so invested in her defeat, they were desperate to douse the flames of the Tea Party movement.
Her victory, regardless of whether she wins in Delaware, will help a tilt many of the close congressional and senatorial elections all over the country toward our side. That’s alone is worth risking one seat in Delaware, and she may just pull it out in Delaware too.
We need to do this right, not fast. The dems have more senate seats up in 2012. If we don’t get to 51 the right way we still have enough votes to stop cap and trade, amnesty, and the esrt of Obama’s agenda.