A number of squish Republican Senators. Orin Hatch, Olympia Snowe etc are busy trying to mend their ties to their state political base due to the defeat of Mike Castle. They will inevitably be forced to move to the right politically in the new Congress.
The defeat of Castle is ringing alarm bells through out the GOP Establishment and forcing RINOS to move right. So the O'Donnell campaign is all ready paying dividends for the Conservative movement.
“The defeat of Castle is ringing alarm bells through out the GOP Establishment and forcing RINOS to move right.”
I wonder about that. They let Murky keep her perch on the Energy Committee via secret ballot when the day before they were going to oust her. She was one of McConnell’s sidekicks, but it tells me the elites want her to win. DeMint exposed what went down and was disgusted.
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.