Posted on 11/08/2010 11:27:52 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) cost the GOP control of the Senate, a powerful House Republican said.
Rep. Spencer Bachus (Ala.) said that Tea Party-backed candidates whom Palin endorsed underperformed against their Democratic rivals, costing the GOP key pickup opportunities.
"The Senate would be Republican today except for states [in which Palin endorsed candidates] like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware," Bachus said at a local Chamber of Commerce event last week, the Shelby County Reporter wrote Sunday. "Sarah Palin cost us control of the Senate."
Bachus' is one of the most visible Republicans to criticize Palin for her political activity during this election season. Some Republicans have privately groused that Tea Party-backed candidates who were not electable prevented the GOP from taking control of the upper chamber.
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Well, I take the radical position that the voters might have had something to do with it. It’s one thing if a popular national figure endorses your opponent. If the voters on the spot agree with her, you’ve got bigger problems than just her.
He probably has something going with Princess Lisa.
Romney endorsed Bachus.
The liberal media will play up any RINO talking like this
But we are catching on (at least SOME OF US are)
Palin never endorsed Angle in the primary, and never endorsed Buck at all.
He’s next.
Thanks for coming out of the closet Bauchus! We’ll have to add YOUR NAME to the To Do List when it’s time to take out the trash again!
When is the esteemed senator up for reelection again? His removal should be Priority One!
Exactly. I have my 2012 Senate spreadsheet ready and am working on the house for when the final counts are in. Each shows the person, their party affiliation and challengers.
Um, he’s not a Senator. He’s a U.S. Congressman.
Ping and double ping. This guy is just another greedy sour grapes Republican who’s desperately afraid he’ll be losing his place at the trough. I’d love to know how many pings his twitter and/or Facebook site gets.
The good thing is that both the RINOs and leftists have identified themselves and and revealed their Marxist agenda for America.
The key to a contnuing constitutional and traditional America resurgence is a vigorous attack on the Onada agenda. This attack by the newly elected Tea Party and other conservative candidates myst be launched on day oneof the new session. The Onada agenda must be repealed and/or defunded—which ever can accomplished first and soonest.
We won this last round, but there are still 8 rounds to go. We must be prepared to march and take the fight right into their Congressioinal offices. They cannot be allowed to lose the momentum that the Tea Party movement has generated. Gridlock is not what we want. We want the Usurping Onada’s programs to be killed outright or neutered. That means action not inaction.
Because a General Election is different than a Primary Election.
You see in a PRIMARY ELECTION only party members can vote in them (except in certain states with “open primaries”)
Apparently most Rs in the primary were mad at Castle (and rightly so) for various votes he took and therefore lost said primary
The General Election however is made up of more than REPUBLICANS. Castle has also proven to win STATEWIDE in GENERAL ELECTIONS before being a former Governor and House Member and all
Any other questions i am right here
Whenever these good ole boys in the Republican elite step up to point a finger at Palin, they point three at themselves. They should all be on the RINO shortlist as entrenched countryclub Rockefeller Republicans that need to be replaced with folks more in touch with everyday man.
My congresscritter. Look up “empty suit” in the dictionary and you’ll see his picture.
This entire anti-Palin Senate issue seems to be based entirely on her endorsing Christine O’Donnell in the primary, because the only other primary endorsement that they find fault with is Alaska, and in that race, either her GOP nominee Miller wins, or Murkowski retains the seat and all of her GOP power and perks.
So all of this anti-Palin effort is solely about Christine O’Donnell, while ignoring all of our historical, massive, gains.
How the NRSC, Cornyn, Graham and Rove lost the GOP as many as five Senate seats
Doug Ross @ Journal ^ | 11/6/2010 | Doug Ross
Posted on Saturday, November 06, 2010 4:49:30 PM by nhwingut
The National Republican Senatorial Committee spent $3 million in the week before the election on the ill-fated campaign of Carly Fiorina, despite polling that showed her trailing by 9 points to the tiny Marxist Barbara Boxer (Fiorina ended up losing by... 9.8%).
In the mean time, Ken Buck lost by a tiny margin in Colorado; Nevada’s Sharron Angle lost by a similar narrow vote total, Dino Rossi was edged by Patty Murray in Washington, 27,000 votes swung the election against Christine O’Donnell in Delaware and and Joe Miller is hanging by a thread in Alaska.
In Alaska, the final results may not be known for some time, but the NRSC’s final ads actually ended up helping Lisa Murkowski in her write-in campaign against GOP nominee Joe Miller. Instead of attacking Murkowski — the candidate who most threatened the party’s nominee — the NRSC instead took aim at Democrat Scott McAdams, who had no chance of winning. Any support they drove from McAdams was far more likely to go to Murkowski than to Miller — meaning the NRSC effort probably did more harm than good for Miller’s campaign.
In other words, the NRSC’s idiocy — combined with outrageous remarks by Karl Rove on national television — likely doomed four or five true conservative candidates to extinction.
In the post-election debrief, the Nixonian RINO contingent of Whimsy Graham, John Cornyn and the rest of the NRSC’s ludicrous cadre of losers blamed... staunch conservative Jim DeMint, who had funded a handful of Tea Party-backed Senatorial winners like Pat Toomey (PA), Marco Rubio (FL), Rand Paul (KY), Mike Lee (UT) and Ron Johnson (WI).
Oh, but that $8 million spent on Fiorina’s campaign didn’t hurt at all — right, boys?
(Excerpt) Read more at directorblue.blogspot.com ...
They seem to think all those who voted GOP are registered Republicans. Way to split the coalition. That’s why conservatives have to rebuild a coalition for each and every election. They can’t win without one.
I support the moves that that Palin and DeMint made, but I find it interesting that Bachus singled out Palin rather than DeMint because Palin avoided making any endorsements in the Nevada or Colorado primaries.
Don’t look now but there’s a rebellion going on. We won BIG!! Landslide!! Unprecedented historical landslide!! Tea Party America completely changed the political landscape!! A great tsunami wave rushed over the land in biblical proportions leaving the landscape bright red, sea to shining sea!!
Well, except the liberally infested left coast. That rebellion will happen after Brown and his homosexual dominated assembly completely burns California to the ground. Then up from the ashes we will rise and run the corrupt bastards out on a rail as we rebuild the Golden State from the conservative ground up!!
There’s no crying in rebellion!!
You fight!! Never retreat!! Never backdown!! Never surrender!!
Never cry about what coulda, shoulda, woulda been!!
Just rise up, regroup, build steam and fight on!!
We won BIG TIME, and yet we have not even begun to fight!! We’ve tasted first blood and we’re coming in a rage for more!!
America!! Constitution!! Freedom!! Liberty!! We’ve talked about it for decades and now we’re finally taking ACTION to TAKE her back and Sarah Palin is one of the few who stepped forward to lead the charge!!
Eff the GOP establishment and the doddering old RINO fools standing in our way!! They’re not the solution to our problems, they ARE the problem!!
Rebellion is HERE!! Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way!!
No bag limit on corrupt bastards and turncoat RINOS!!
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