I got a thought been blooming in my mind all week about your comment so got to stop and comment before moving on to anecdote of liberal Mother-in-Law and her meltdown over voting on Obama. I oughta charge you guys for this it’s so amusing.
But yes, all through this campaign it was musing over O’Donnell, the folly of the silly voters, the statesmanship of Mike Castle, his devotion and service to the public.
We had pundits like Karl Rove and Charles Krauthammer, there’s two big rays of sunshine on a cloudy day, all lambasting Christine for daring to run against the darling Castle. Mighty, mighty Castle, whose only crime was being in public service for over 45 years and now the stupid peons, with tar and pitchforks, are all busy falling for a wannabe witch who has evidently cast a nasty spell across the Delaware populace.
Same with the Weekly Standard, Bill Buckley’s periodical, John Fund....the Wall Street Journal...all wringing their written hands and moaning about voters messing it all up for their complete failure to understand the issues.
Not once, not once in all the sunshiney Rove rants or the Krauthammer monotoned chastisements, not once in the Weekly Standard’s bevy of columinists all assigned to beat on the silly voters...Mary Katherine Hamm ought to be ashamed of herself...NOT ONCE....
...did one pundit or one sentence ever take just a millisecond and think....GEE I WONDER WHAT MIKE CASTLE DID THAT GOT THE VOTERS ALL UPSET LIKE THAT?
Just a moment, since we’re thinking out loud on the air or in print, since it’s what we’re doing here, since we’re offering our learned and experienced suggestions as to what went wrong here....you think just one mighty pundit/commentator could have whispered, if need be, that maybe Mike Castle pushed his base just a bit too far? That since 2004 his base has been begging him to stop voting like a Democrat, that the Delaware GOP was working overtime browbeating the party bearers into line, exhorting them to vote...JUST ONE MORE TIME...for Mike Castle...you think a so-called pundit with bright smiles like Krauthammer, with all those years of political experience....might have given this just a little mention?
Silly me.
Yeah, you’re right MN....those RINOS are a bit scared of late. Thank Delaware voters very much but go with me here, while we’re more intelligent than most states based on mine own inscientific survey and tongue in cheek, voters in any other state, given a closed primary and many years of being peed upon our feet while warned it’s just yellow rain, would have did what the Delaware primary Republicn voters finally up and did.
And now the fine, fine Republican Senators decided, with their polished nails, perfect tans, head hairs that do not move from their appointed places, refuse to remove Murkowski from her senate chair even though she flips Alaskan Republican voters the bird and announces intent to run on write in, never mind any negative impact on the candidate choses by the VOTERS!
See...they say GET RID OF THE BUMS!
Damn, you can’t get rid of the bums....they’re like roaches, you step on them, they stop for a moment, then antennae move and they’re scurrying around anew to do their damage.
Last week a Delaware caller to a Baltimore radio station said that when he went to an RNC ‘headquarters’ to get some signs and bumper stickers, after the Primary was over, they still had all the Mike Castle posters and propaganda prominently displayed. He challenged the folks in the office about this, and they gave him a hard time.
I don’t remember if he mentioned the town where this office was located. Have you heard anything about this?
And actually we understand the main issue perfectly...we're sick to death of the RINOs, blue-blood country-clubbers and "neocons" obliterating, misrepresenting and thwarting the GOP's conservative nature, and we're taking the party back.
Of course they don't like that position one little bit.
So I warn husband....let’s not talk politics during your mother’s visit. He and I talk about such without pause, as you can understand, during the week as, well it’s just us, the cats and the dogs. The dog is Belgian and a bit on the liberal side but the cats are all solid conservative.
For the whole time as I drive home from Baltimore airport during Limbaugh air time, I do not turn on the radio. Not once during her visit in our home do I turn on Fox news. I did mention the O’Donnell race, just once, quickly showing her pic of Christine and granddaughter. O’Donnell is a Delaware race and I figured safe if I did it quickly, although COD WAS endorsed by Palin and mother-in-law, in that most reasonable and thought-fill manner of all liberals....HATES Sarah Palin.
Yeah, I asked her once, this back in 2008 during the election times...asked what on earth about Sarah Palin disturbed her so.
“She carries that baby around on her hips,” MIL said with a very obvious sneer.
Well hell, I don’t know what it means, it’s what she said. You figger it out.
MIL also adored Obama back then, thought he was a soft-spoken black man and said health care would NEVER pass and thought it time a half-white black man who spoke with no ghetto tones finally get a chance, she hated George W in that thoughtful and reasonable manner of liberals....and on and on and on.
It was HUSBAND, heh, who mentioned Barack Obama to his mother during the visit. I was shocked. I shouted at him that he wasn’t suppose to talk politics...then I asked what he’d say about Obama.
“I made some nasty comment,” he shrugged....I wasn’t there but folks, serious, I made a vow to my God and had to get down on my knees and ask His help to keep my promise, NOT to cluck, cluck, smirk, smirk over how awful Obama turned out to be as well as, ahem, that health care bill DID pass....no, yon ladies and gems...I WAS THE GOOD GUY.
“What did she say?” I ask husband.
“Oh, she said something about always finding the good in people,” husband summarized.
Heh.
Further, during a short discussion on Sunday, when I also did NOT watch the Sunday talk shows such was the guidance of my Lord for my vow....Mother-in-law herself launches into a lament about how she never wants to vote again, how she only voted in the recent primary because the big retirement village she lives in got a special voting place just for them and she felt guilty, she does not like DeVal Patrick, she likes Scott Brown....but it’s stressful for her and she’d like to never vote for anyone ever again because....
....well folks...my Lord kept me quiet and my guffaws quelled.
It’s just an anecdote and might mean nothing. I suspect that MIL is an example of many former Obama voters and further, seriously here, the woman really WAS a bit of a wreck over how she voted and her fear of voting in the future.
A bit sad, really.