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Krauthammer to DeMint and Palin: Go down to Delaware and prove that O’Donnell is electable
Hotair ^ | 09/17/2010 | Allahpundit

Posted on 09/17/2010 8:38:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

No sense in letting Rove take all the abuse today among traitorous Beltway RINOs who’ve allegedly never done a thing for “true conservative.” Let’s get Krauthammer into the game. This is actually a useful follow-up to the last post insofar as it’s yet another opportunity to show how Palin implicitly (and wisely) questions the dogma that right-wing candidates can win anywhere, any time, in any circumstances. Krauthammer dares her to go to Delaware to spearhead the O’Donnell campaign. Doubtless many Sarahcuda fans will say “great idea!” but Palin herself knows better:

Palin’s comments came after the last major primary night before the November midterm elections. Palin-endorsed candidate Christine O’Donnell stole the spotlight by defeating nine-term Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware GOP Senate primary.

But the 2008 vice presidential nominee said that her involvement in races might not always benefit the candidates she endorses.

“I’ll do whatever I can. I want to help, though, and not hurt,” she told Fox News. “And, you know, sometimes it’s a double-edged sword there if my name is connected to anybody.”

Translation: Knowing how much Democrats hate Palin, it’d be silly to hand them a club in a state as blue as Delaware by appearing there frequently. If anything, it’d probably do more to alienate pro-Castle fencesitters, who likely blame her for Castle’s defeat, than to fire up Christine supporters who are already fired up. Krauthammer knows that, of course, but he’s making a point here about true belief in “true conservative.” If demographics don’t matter and it’s just a matter of preaching the right-wing gospel to convert the liberal heathens, let’s send our best preachers down there and let it rip. What could go wrong?



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: christineodonnell; jimdemint; krauthammer; krauthammer4obama; krauthammermisogyny; krauthammervsgop; sarahpalin
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To: EyeGuy
That’s why it is a (near) hopelessly Blue state, that in your opinion, has to rely on tiptoeing around the conservative message, and hiding its most dynamic spokesperson.

Goldwater was conservatism's most dynamic spokesperson in 1964, and he lost in a far more conservative time.

The sad fact is that nearly half of America STILL APPROVES or STRONGLY APPROVES of the destruction of America that Obama is carrying out....or....some even disapprove because he's not destroying it fast enough!

None of these people want to hear a "conservative message." And a majority of the voters in Delaware have registered that way.

Sometimes a frontal assault is not brave, it's just suicide.

101 posted on 09/17/2010 11:29:07 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine

“Sometimes a frontal assault is not brave, it’s just suicide.”

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Let us hope that subterfuge, irresponsible apathy and abject ignorance carry the day in Delaware then.

This may work in that tiny, pathologically blue state, but the conservatism message for better or worse, is eventually going to have to be proclaimed, loudly, out front, and in the large font.


102 posted on 09/17/2010 11:36:18 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: sam_paine

Hey Sam, how did I get on your ping list? Was it my sterling pedigree, my outgoing personality, or my chiseled granite handsomeness? I honestly can’t remember! :o)


103 posted on 09/17/2010 11:45:58 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: EyeGuy
This may work in that tiny, pathologically blue state

If I were probing the country from outer space, I'd conclude form the following data that Delaware was a "pathologically blue state!"

R - 182,796
D - 292,738
I - 146,212

the conservatism message for better or worse, is eventually going to have to be proclaimed, loudly, out front, and in the large font.

Yes. That is true. But by the time that finally happens, elections won't matter anymore and for "D's" and "I's" it will be too late! =)

104 posted on 09/17/2010 11:52:21 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: smoothsailing
Hey Sam, how did I get on your ping list?

LOL. I have a super-raygun "All" button that REALLY WORKS.

105 posted on 09/17/2010 11:54:59 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: sam_paine
I have a super-raygun

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106 posted on 09/17/2010 12:40:55 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: SeekAndFind
From the look of the numbers at Christine's donation website, many more people than just Palin and DeMitt have taken Charles up on his challenge.

She just broke her 6th revised goal of $1.5M ($1,601,305.00). Her original goal that first day was $200k.

107 posted on 09/17/2010 12:53:34 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: Mr. K

We think Charlies was a genius last night — he took the angry ball that Rove pitched and hit it right out of the park — just look at the number of responses/comments here alone, he purposefully further motivated millions of us, in every state, and we think he did it on purpose. A game winning strategic move? We think so!


108 posted on 09/17/2010 1:06:27 PM PDT by GizzyGirl
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To: sam_paine
Just party affiliation on a voter registration is not enough. How many of the "I" population are: There are sometimes more circumstances than appear on the surface. I do not know of any specific instances in DE, but know of people who have done these very things.
109 posted on 09/17/2010 1:12:05 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: smoothsailing; Diogenesis

110 posted on 09/17/2010 1:17:03 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: PhilDragoo; potlatch

111 posted on 09/17/2010 1:42:26 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing; PhilDragoo; All
Lol, good one SS!
Budda-Bing?


112 posted on 09/17/2010 2:11:08 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: super7man

SO TRUE!!! Cudgel Coons with his record and his Marxism. At the end of the day, the voters of DE will decide.


113 posted on 09/18/2010 4:25:06 AM PDT by tgusa (Investment plan: blued steel, brass, lead, copper)
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To: sam_paine

It’s going to be a test for the people will they vote with logic or hope?.


114 posted on 09/18/2010 6:56:54 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo

:o)

115 posted on 09/18/2010 9:32:58 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Lol, thanks SS!


116 posted on 09/18/2010 7:25:51 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: SeekAndFind

...In 1978, Krauthammer quit medical practice to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Jimmy Carter administration, and began contributing to The New Republic magazine. During the presidential campaign of 1980, Krauthammer served as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale.

In January 1981, Krauthammer began his journalistic career, joining The New Republic as a writer and editor. His New Republic writings won the 1984 “National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism.” In 1983, he began writing essays for Time magazine. In 1985, he began a weekly column for the Washington Post for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for commentary...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer


117 posted on 09/19/2010 3:43:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I don't need a newspaper to know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, it looks like he was a liberal back then... how did he get to be known as a conservative columnist ?


118 posted on 09/19/2010 3:56:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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