Posted on 09/14/2010 8:55:52 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
The path to a Republican Senate takeover narrowed to the point of vanishing Tuesday night, as marketing consultant Christine O’Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware’s Senate primary and likely dashed the GOP’s hopes of capturing the seat in the process.
Though six other states and the District of Columbia voted in primary elections Tuesday night, the outcome in Delaware had by far the most profound implications for the fall campaign. While Castle was comfortably on track to capture Vice President Joe Biden’s former Senate seat, O’Donnell will enter the general election at a wide disadvantage to the presumptive Democratic nominee, New Castle County Executive Chris Coons.
Other leading Republicans openly lamented O’Donnell’s win. Karl Rove, appearing on Fox News, immediately declared: “We were looking at eight to nine seats in the Senate. We’re now looking at seven to eight. This is not a race we’re going to be able to win.”
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AWESOME!
“RINO nightmare: O’Donnell topples Castle in Delaware primary”
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Say Hello to your new Senate Majority Leader, Dick Durbin.
It’s a big win, but let’s be honest. If 2 of Angle, O’Donnell, or Miller lose, the TP’s stock will drop like a rock, Romney will win the nomination and lose to 0bama.
Mike Castle wasn’t the only loser tonight. You can add Carl Rove and Dana Perino to the loser category.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Rove on the lib morning shows trashing O’Donnell tomorrow. I used to respect this man and can’t believe I’ve been so duped. My eyes have been opened big time tonight.
I don’t want people to have a knee jerk reaction and abandon the Grand Old Party - I WANT TO TAKE THE GOP BACK FROM THESE B@ST@RDS!!!
>>> The path to a Republican Senate takeover narrowed to the point of vanishing Tuesday night
One of the most remarkable dumbass moments of modern politics. A wonder to behold.
Tonight I’m already seeing coverage of O’Donnell lying about carrying districts against Biden that she didn’t carry. They’ll eat her alive and spit out the bones.
I call BS. If the GOP was concerned about that seat they wouldn't have stated that the republican candidate is incapable of winning and refusing to support or endorse the republican candidate...they came just shy of endorsing the democrat. So I don't believe the GOP wanted to win a majority, they just wanted to reelect their RINO buddies.
It will be interesting to see how many Castle supporting “republicans” support her in the general election.
She’ll probably lose, because it’s a liberal state, but sometimes I think I’d rather see a dem elected than a damn RINO.
If the pricks who consider themselves so above us common folk could realize what a winner a conservative message is, it would be a much bigger help to the GOP than trying to stay on the edge of the fence and lean toward the Dems.
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Huh?
There are many advantages to NOT taking control of the Senate this time around. With both the Senate and White House, the progressives will OWN the disaster that is coming.
Better to control the government FOR REAL with an O’Donnel than “for appearances ONLY” with a Castle. Best not have the appearance of responsibility when you don’t actually have it.
I can't wait. He'll help set up an Obama defeat and another big kill for conservative candidates in 2012.
Allowing RINOs to win not only undermines a conservative agenda when it matters, it would allow Republicans to take both chambers of Congress and, potentially, save Obama as the Republican victory in 1994 saved Bill Clinton.
Absolutely...they revealed their loyalty to the RINO elites over conservative America.
I suppose Christine O’Donnell is going to have a tough fight on her hands since anything she has in her closet the dems will go after. However, if the GOP is so stupid as to not support her and let the dems have this seat I would predict that we will see an awesome desertion of conservatives from the gop and a Conservative Party evolve.
“If the pricks who consider themselves so above us common folk could realize what a winner a conservative message is...”
The pricks who suck off the government teat want nothing to do with the small government conservative message!!!
What good is a “majority” with a Sen. Castle that betrays the GOP 9 times out of 10? Did we enjoy Lincoln Chafee so much we need another? I am just fine with us not winning the majority. We will still have enough conservatives to filibuster every Obama bill until 2013, radical nominees/judges, etc. But Obama can’t blame us for his failings since we won’t be in the majority.
Castle might’ve been 1/3 better than a dem. That 1/3 can be substantial.
The conservatives (which I support mostly) have gone all in, and may well lose the big prize in the end. That would be 1/3 vs 0 and would suck to lose it all.
We’ll see.
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