Posted on 02/08/2011 5:52:26 PM PST by Moseley
ABC News' Gregory Simmons reports: It looks like former Delaware Senate candidate Christine ODonnell is positioning herself to play a Palinesque role in the upcoming election cycle. In a letter to supporters today, ODonnell announced she is establishing ChristinePAC to investigate and counter attack leftwing groups and to help pay for her expenses as she travels around the country speaking.
This is a way that will help me counter attack our opponents and bring the battle to them, she wrote.
ODonnell, whose name has become synonymous with the Tea Party Movement, says she wont submit to the Left who attack her because she is a strong, Republican woman...a danger or the liberal-controlled GOP establishment.
Bottom line: Shes not going away any time soon.
For her full statement, see below:
Dear xxx ,
Your incredible contribution of time and money allowed us to send the establishment a powerful message last year. Our fight is not over as so many patriots like you have sacrificed over the years to keep America great!
You've probably heard about the latest smear on me. The establishment is going to keep attacking and keep trying to destroy those they think might be a threat.
They won't let up.
The Left keeps after me because they consider strong, Republican women a danger to their status quo. Larry Kudlow recently said "the hope of the Tea Party rests with you because this is going to be used to discredit the Tea Party in its entirety."
Bill O'Reilly recognizes the viciousness of the Lefts attacks on me. Recently on his program he said "...the press relished attacking you. They relished it. They loved it... they didn't go after Carly Fiorina the way they went after you. It was all personal... They just want to demean you... The old boys don't want to give up their power."
I'm determined not to let them destroy our movement. If I stand alone, though, I'm no match for the liberal media and the political establishment. But, with us standing together to fight, they don't have a chance!
That's why I'm starting ChristinePAC.
ChristinePAC can investigate and counter attack leftwing groups, many funded with one million dollars or more from billionaire leftist George Soros.
A strong ChristinePAC will enable me to counter the liberal-controlled GOP establishment in upcoming Congressional Primaries. Remember, for primary challengers to win, conservatives needs to start organizing now in 2011 - or else candidates who reflect our values won't be able to run an effective 2012 campaign.
Your donation also enables me to speak out in many venues from Coast to Coast, thereby helping support a nationwide effort. This is a way that will help me counter attack our opponents and bring the battle to them.
You have helped me come this far. You have been a true friend. Please help me again with your donation. These are battles that will be won or lost based on how much support and organization our side can put forward right now.
That is why I ask you most urgently to lend your financial support to ChristinePAC.
Make your donation right now.
You are the reason I made a stand for our cause in 2010.
You are the reason that President Obama came to Delaware in late 2010, diverting his attention from other states he could have campaigned in. You are the reason that a frantic White House dispatched Vice President Joe Biden, again and again, to campaign in Delaware to defeat me, who they regarded as their number one opponent.
You are the reason that the largest army - busload after busload - of SEIU labor union and ACORN "paid volunteers" came to campaign in Delaware.
My friend, what you helped me do at the six week long Battle of Delaware 2010, sent shock waves throughout the nation. We can build on what we have accomplished if you will help me again in supporting ChristinePAC.
Sincerely,
Christine O'Donnell
P.S. You stood with me and helped me rock the establishment as we defeated in the GOP primary the most liberal Republican in the entire U.S. House of Representatives. Then, you stayed with me as we worked overtime to expose my big-government Democrat opponent as a pawn of the liberal establishment and a puppet of Democrat Senator Harry Reid.
Now, keep up your commitment. I pray you will send your immediate and generous donation as you have done before. Your dollar will help us fight back and continue to get the message out. Click HERE to contribute securely.
How about her actions? Anyone can say anything. Her actions seem to say that she doesn't care about paying her bills or working hard. Her actions seem to say that she thrives on media attention.
How is pointing that out a "vicious" attack?
No pictures?
lol...THAT was funny!
I wasn’t referring to your answer when I was talking about vicious attacks? Yours were part of a whole picture.
But I get from your response that you agree that neocons aren’t Conservative, they do want to destroy Conservatives through personal attacks, but you don’t think their attacks would be called vicious, perhaps justified.
Yes, when you don’t like somebody, when you want to hurt them, you can attack them. I’m just pointing out the neocons don’t like conservatives and want to hurt them. And they don’t argue about policy, because they would reveal themselves as being unconservative. So they attack her personally.
The Conservative (Christine) was attacked by the enemy (the neocons fairly. I shouldn’t have said that the neocon enemy was vicious. But the behavior of the neocons toward the conservative was the behavior of one enemy to another.
To those of you who feel the need to dismiss, ridicule or otherwise demean Christine O’Donnell; why don’t you get the hell off your fat asses and do something? At least she is engaged in the battle. It’s so damned easy to sit on the internet and anonymously post criticisms but it solves nothing. You’re worse than liberals.
I am afraid she is our version of Al Sharpton. She is going to use politics as a way of supporting herself financially. Lets not kid ourselves, she was not a good candidate. She doesn’t kid herself, the last thing she expects is to actually win. This way she can support herself without having to actually work for a living, like Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
I gave a lot of money to her.
She means well but she is not surefooted enough.
>>Mostly because I have heard that she used the campaign funds she raised last cycle for personal bills.<<
What you have “heard” is what the media wants you to hear. She is being sued, by Biden operatives and the GOP RINOs, because she used campaign funds to pay rent on a townhouse she “claims” was a campaign headquarters.
I’ve been inside and a)it is not the lavish palace as portrayed and b) it was most definitely a campaign HQ. She didn’t use GOP facilities, because THEY REFUSED TO LET HER. When she opened two campaign offices after the primary, the RINOs rushed to support local candidates and plastered Castle for Senate signs all over the place.
Please be a little more selective in believing what you hear.
“Based on their reaction to her, I count her as an ally and someone worthy of my support, even if I don’t know anything else about her.”
I’m with you 100%.
That needed to be stated. Thanks.
I don't know if your comment was supposed to be funny or you are unintentionally a comic. I can only hear what is presented. I have not heard a commentator give a positive report on her situation, but would be open to hearing it. The only talk show that brought it up was M. Medved. He HATES her with a passion, and I hate him above all "conservative" talkers.(I listen because he is on at noon, the alternative is the comic). The gist of the argument is that she raised huge money, and spent like a pauper. She either banked the money, or spent it on herself instead of getting her message out. I could easily be persuaded if there was any other message out there. There is not one, not even a long thread about it on this forum.
How can I hear the truth of the situation, if O’Donnell does not present a defense. I have not heard Rush, Beck, Medved or Levin bring forth a defense at all. The MSM has really not covered her except to report any allegations. THERE IS NO IN DEPTH ANALYSIS. If you know of any, please point me to it.
O’Donnell has presented a defense. So what does that say about YOUR research skills, intelligence, and political awareness, that you don’t know what it is?
You can drag a fool to facts, but you can’t make him think.
I’m neither a comic nor particularly funny. My point is if you listen to those that blast her (Rove, Medved, Krauthammer, etc.), it will bias your opinion against her.
Much has been made of her fund raising and her campaign spending, much of it distorted (intentionally). She ran her primary against Castle on the cheap - no lit drops, volunteers doing the polling, etc. - and ran up some bills for HQ rent and phone bills.
After the primary, DE GOP Party fought against her, National Party gave her a pittance, and she was sued by a Biden operative in cohoots with Tom Ross. She didn’t start raising big money until two weeks before the general election. By then, all the TV and radio time was bought up. She had to rely on invites on radio and a local cable access channel (who “lost” the tape, twice!) The rest of her campaign funds remain in escrow for legal battles.
Now consider this, 18% of DE PUBs voted for the Marxist, Coons, rather than try to win.
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