Posted on 09/15/2010 7:04:36 AM PDT by La Lydia
Byron York at the Examiner: Christine O'Donnell gives GOP establishment a thumpin'. It's not every day you win the Republican Party's nomination for a seat in the U.S. Senate and the Republican Party tells you to get lost. But that's exactly what happened to Christine O'Donnell here Tuesday evening. Sore losers, perhaps? Oh, you bet. But I'll focus below on the media angle. Last night, along with Christine O'Donnell and Mike Castle, there were winners and losers in media, as well. If blogs and other new media outlets were winners, I'd argue that our established beltway media were the big losers here.
Many of us, including me, probably didn't really believe Christine O'Donnell could pull it off. But what have we mostly been reading and discussing, if not fighting against, for two weeks? NRO, The Weekly Standard (TWS) and others published every negative bit of information on Christine O'Donnell they could get their hands on. That in turn told us O'Donnell was bound to lose. Only, a funny thing happened on the way to Delaware's election booths. Evidently, no one outside of the Beltway was reading our largest beltway-based, Right-side publications. Stacy McCain has a new item up at the American Spectator - This Changes Everything.
DOVER, Delaware -- Christine O'Donnell did not merely defeat Mike Castle in Tuesday's Senate primary. She beat the Republican establishment, both nationally and in Delaware, and she beat a veritable army of naysayers who said she couldn't do it.
O'Donnell also beat a vicious negative attack campaign into which her Republican opponents dumped every bit of trash they could find. Yet this had no apparent effect on the Tea Party-backed, Sarah Palin-endorsed candidate, who won with 53 percent of the vote to Castle's 47 percent.
As workers cleaned up late Tuesday night at the Elks Lodge here that hosted O'Donnell's victory celebration, longtime state GOP activist Vance Phillips said: "This changes everything."
I spoke to another high-level GOP source myself last night. He said, "I thought it would at least be close. Conventional wisdom is out the door." Until recently, much of our political conventional wisdom was formed within the beltway, was it not? However, with so much new media today, that may no longer the case.
Man, it must really suck to be in the DC-based media today, as they wake up to face their limitations in reaching the men and women of Delaware - and in essence, of America - the very people who make the difference by showing up at election booths....
"We conservatives"...
Karl, your holier than thou attitude is what We the People disdain. There but for the grace of God go all of us, Karl.
You're no conservative, Karl, so don't try and jump on our platform.
Winning this race now would destroy the Liberal GOP’s PR machine inside the party forever. They have all crawled way out on the “She cannot win” limb, now is the time to saw it off behind them. Do that and you destroy the RINOS credibility so baldly they will not be able to resurrect it for 2012
If any of these things are true, they would serve well to endear Christine with your typical Lib voter. She could win DE in a landslide.
The "moderates" in the GOP have all crawled way out on the She cannot win limb. Now is the time to saw it off behind them. Do that and we destroy the RINOS credibility so baldly they will not be able to resurrect it for 2012.
Delaware is a small state. Enough money in O'Donnells coffers can do a whole lot of good there. Much more good then the millions being spent elsewhere like CA.
This is starting to look more and more like the late 1970s when Reagan's wingnuts took back the party from the Rockefeller Republicans.
I gave once, and got this nifty little “honorary chairman of the Small Business Advisory Council” gavel. Then I couldn’t get them to stop calling. It turned for me when right after the trouncing in Nov ‘08, I started getting the “get those Washington insiders out!” emails from the Washington insiders.
Colonel, USAFR
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Which is what happened in Delaware. Third party candidates are NOT viable in out current political system. What needs to happen is we need to take over full control of an existing party (Republican) and force the selection of real conservative candidates over machine selections.
No way. Rush was pounding on Castle yesterday hard. Rush will be honest about Rove. Rush is not and never has been an establishment Republican
BINGO! “professional politicians” are the PROBLEM...not the SOLUTION!.....When they perceive their position as a “career”...IT'S TIME TO GO!! (LOL...good word..."parasitize"...Sarah should use it...followed by a lil wink!)
wow, I dont know what world you live on.
I was a life long Republican. However, with the antics of our party leaders, I denounce the GOP . I do not want to become an “independent” and need a party to work within and would never ever even associate with the Democrats. I guess this is a new definition of the word RINO, for I am a Republican In Name Only from this day forward.Today I became a RINO.
Please respond with facts or examples. Rush has always gone against Republicans who do not have conservative principals or who are get along guys.
well i have problem with rush sitting it out and not endorcing a candidate in 08, I knew he hated mccain, he shouldve put out his peference. of course once the primaries are over he has to back the guy. I dont know if operation chaos really had an effect on hillary’s number but I think we wouldve been better off with hillary over obama
i didnt think mccain wouldve lost either, so i thought I was safe by voting for chuck baldwin, btw my state still voted for mccain so i didnt make a difference lol, and about obama also being good for us, 3 dem reps in my state retired.
***Whatever will Charles K. do to enrage us tonight, maybe he will have to good sense to not show up tonight.***
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I wonder if he holds his breath and averts his gaze if he comes across Glenn Beck in a Fox studio?
PS: Krauthammer doesn’t support Sarah Palin either.
He may be ‘conservative’ but it is east coast elite conservative.
Operation Chaos was meant to keep the dem primaries alive so that Obama couldn’t begin his general election campaign as soon as Super Tuesday was over. It was hoped by Rush that the Clinton campaign would actually start to criticize Obama for his ties to Ayres, Wright, Jarrett, etc.
That didn’t happen, but the DNC and BHO campaigns did have to spend time and effort in fighting Hillary for more months than they would have without Operation Chaos.
Rush is hammering Rove right off the bat..”I wish Rove would’ve treated Democrats like he did this woman”
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