Posted on 11/04/2010 4:30:30 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
There is a singular event that shoved the Republican Senate car over the cliff.
That event was the primary victory of Christine O'Donnell. This morning she used a phrase that is right on the money. That description is "Republican Cannibalism."
I personally hold Karl Rove to blame, followed closely by Senator John Cornyn. Rove is an establishment Progressive Republican of the first order.
Following O'Donnell's message of values victory in Delaware, Rove started slinging mud in her direction because he realized she was a woman that couldn't be bought & sold on a D.C. street corner.
It was Rove who almost exclusively undermined an untested Republican. When challenged, he became entrenched, making it a media story.
Coming out of a surprise primary victory, everyone would obviously be questioning O’Donnell’s candidacy.
It's the "Man Bites Dog" story. Rove turned an opportunity to help create an up-and-coming political star into much less.
The bottom feeder Rove chose for his personal aggrandizement to put blood in the water. The sharks had a feeding frenzy.
The result was that yet another "Traditional Values Candidate" was beaten by her own political party, & the momentum of several other races was slowed.
It gave Reid & others the chance to further paint traditional values candidates as kooks. The Republican cannibalism resulted in the Senate leadership failure to get behind Republican nominees.
The cannibalism by a self-professed REPUBLICAN strategist, wrapped up is his own glory led to lost momentum by MIller, Fiorina (albeit her real defeat was the unfortunate infection), Buck, Angle & Rossi.
His poor choices contributed to a decay of no less than 15 percent-point in Delaware. Had Delaware been advocated by Rove, rather than diminished, today we would be looking at a three-seat Senate majority, & a Republican Governor in CA.
(Excerpt) Read more at stgnews.com ...
Rove is truly a bottom feeder; and, now, he is saying it’s time for the Republicans to produce. Well, IMHO, the architect of “compassionate conservatism” can go to hell. He and GW had eight years to produce and they wound up giving us the 1st TARP, etc.
Just another example of GOP institutional predation on conservatives.
2012 will make the betrayal of Christine O’Donnell look kind and loving.
“I dabbled into witchcraft — I never joined a coven. But I did, I did... I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do... One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn’t know it. I mean, there’s little blood there and stuff like that. We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.”
“American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.”
“It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone.”
“They’re following me. They follow me home at night. I make sure that I come back to the townhouse and then we have our team come out and check all the bushes and check all the cars to make sure that — they follow me.” — Weekly Standard interview, Sept. 2, 2010
“You see Tolkien’s wisdom applied to just about everything: Tolkien and communism, Tolkien and industrialization. In researching this topic I even found a book on Tolkien and sexual fetishes.”
‘’I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously. I believe that!’’
—Christine O’Donnell, insisting that she is so fervently pro-truth that she wouldn’t lie to Nazis asking if she were hiding Jews in her home, ‘’Politically Incorrect,’’ Aug. 1998
‘’I was dabbling into every other kind of religion before I became a Christian. I was dabbling in witchcraft, I’ve dabbled in Buddhism. I would have become a Hare Krishna but I didn’t want to become a vegetarian. And that is honestly the reason why — because I’m Italian, I love meatballs!’’
‘’What I believe is irrelevant.’’
—Christine O’Donnell, after being asked during a debate if she believes evolution is a ‘’myth,’’ Oct. 13, 2010
‘Everything that he is saying is un-factual.’’
—Christine O’Donnell, responding to an attack by Karl Rove on her record, in which he said, ‘’Why did she mislead voters about her college education? How come it took nearly two decades to pay her college bills so she could get her college degree? How did she make a living? Why did she sue a well-known conservative think tank?’’ (ABC News interview, Sept. 15, 2010)
‘’Oh gosh. Give me a specific one ... I’m very sorry right off the top of my head, I know that there are a lot but, uh, I’ll put it up on my website I promise you.’’
—Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, unable to name a Supreme Court case she disagrees with during her debate with her opponent, Democrat Chris Coons, Oct. 13, 2010
[China has a] ‘’carefully thought out and strategic plan to take over America ... There’s much I want to say. I wish I wasn’t privy to some of the classified information that I am privy to ...
“I’m not a witch...I’m you.”
Christine O’Donnell got a million dollars from TEA partiers over night. There were other lower profile candidates where that kinda money would’ve made the difference.
She had the most high-profile opportunity to knock one out of the park for us.
Ronald Reagan lost, internalized it, learned from it, and grew into greatness.
If she blames others, and allows her supporters to blame others, then she’s telling us all we need to know about her.
But she lost because Karl Rove repeated facts about her that were common knowledge.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...
Karl Rove had nothing to do with it. O’Donnell was a dingbat who wasn’t remotely qualified for a Senate seat. She claimed to be a “Constitutional Conservative” but needed the 14th, 16th and 17th amendments explained to her in a debate.
...During his first year there, he was accused of having plagiarized 5 of 15 pages of a law review article....
I’m not here to praise Ceasar but to bury him. Vice President Biden’s bulb is of very low wattage, but as you note above, he did attend law school, completed his degree and presumably passed the bar. I also believe he attended an Ivy League undergraduate school. He’s a slimy politician but his academic bone fides aren’t insignificant. Not so Miss O’Donnell. She only claimed to be enrolled at Princeton (perjuriously in a filed law suit) and Claremont (they disavow any knowledge of her). Rove merely pointed out that she had baggage that would make it very difficult for her to win the general. He was spot on. Mr. Rove is a political consultant. He gets paid for making shrewd political judgments and developing winning strategies for candidates. He’s a pro and he saw the Delaware Republican Party making an enormous unforced error and he expressed that opinion. Folks, don’t shoot the messenger. He forwarded sound advice. The Tea Party will do well in the future to listen to sound advice rather than developing teenage crushes on the next attractive woman who whispers sweet promises in our ears. Wake up and get serious or no one will remember that you existed two years from now. Please don’t voluntarily become irrelevant fringe elements. That’s where you’re headed with the likes of “I am You,” whatever that means.
If this is true, then it tells us that COD did not convince republican voters that she was a good candidate. She had a failure to launch. I would assume they stayed home rather than vote for Coons.
Great post.
Where are the conservative principles in a person who sues for $6.9 million because she didn’t get a promotion—because of gender discrimination—who misuses campaign money, who...
It’s pointless. Her superfans are melded to her because of emotion.
Leave Christine aloooone!
He totally slimed that woman.
I guess the Republicans in Delaware were brainwashed by Karl Rove.
If the guy had that kind of power, I guess he’s responsible for all the wins of the candidates he actively, vocally supported—and gave money to, as opposed to O’Donnell, who can’t pay her staff or bills, and wasted Tea Party money that could have helped win races with candidates who didn’t lose by double digits.
Your point was that she was a particularly bad candidate, yet she did no differently than the rest of the ticket.
Of course both Rove and Cornyn are very culpable, but I would also throw in Mike Castle. We've all been told how extremely popular he is in DE and how he would have danced to victory as the candidate.
Well, if he's truly that influential (which I doubt), he should have graciously conceded the primary loss, endorsed O'Donnell and dare I say, campaigned for her.
That he didn't do these things is indicative that he is:
1. A sore loser
2. A cad
3. Not as popular or influential as the media and rino establishments have told us.
If, in your opinion, she was so bad,why didn’t you run in her place then? Back when they [Republicans] could not get anyone to run ahainst Biden she stepped up. She was good enough then.Other than her aging, what else changed? She was good enough to run against Biden, but, not against their RINO. In other words, the Establishment Republicans thought that she was good enough to screw but not to marry.
My take on it is that she took out their RINO, a/k/a Democrat butt boy and that is what ticked off the Establishment Republicans. They put out the talking points and their peanut gallery began parroting them.
There you go again, claiming O’Donnell was a particularly bad candidate, while she fared just as well as all Republicans in her state.
This is what we need to understand about this last cycle of elections. At this time 2 years ago no one in the republican party establishment wanted to run for senate in any of these states. The establishment candidates were kissing the boots of the ONE and wetting their fingers and sticking it in the air. Many of these nominees for the tea party were running and getting a head start on winning. Then the ONE starts tanking and all of the sudden everyone wants to run and people like Rove wanted to help pick the candidates. What Rove did is wrong. What we learned is to never trust him again.
Now we need to move on and find great young men and woman with tested backgrounds like Mike Rogers in Michigan to start running against the next group of Dem's like Debbie Stabenuw. We need to find the next Marco Rubio to run in 12 for the Fl seat. What we can not do is wait for Carl Rove to bring us the next Rino candidate like Candice Miller here in Mi.
I will start the process today in recruiting Mike and I would ask all of you to do the same in your states.
How conveniently everybody forgets Rove suing Dick Thornburgh in a trial presided over by a GHWB appointed judge.
You just have to look at Alvin Greene in South Carolina.
A bad candidate that the democrats just ignored. Don't advertise the weakness, take the loss and concentrate on your strong candidates.
F.U.K.R.
The point is that Rove’s attacks would seem to have an effect. You took the position that they didn’t. Post 42.
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