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Christine O’Donnell: Why isn’t the NRSC doing more to help me?
Hotair ^ | 10/15/2010 | Allahpundit

Posted on 10/15/2010 9:30:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Presumptive answer: Because she’s down by 20 points and resources aren’t infinite?

O’Donnell’s comments in her exclusive interview with Fox News followed an offhanded remark she had made in her ninety-minute exchange with Coons: “I’ve had to fight my party to be here on this stage to win the nomination, and to some extent I am still fighting my party.”…

But when this reporter asked O’Donnell herself how she is fighting her own party, the Republican nominee was ready to cite chapter and verse. Tthe Democratic senatorial committee is running ads against me. The Democratic Party is running ads against me,” she said. “The Republican Party on the state level, or on the national level, neither have come in to help me close the gap in the polls. And my opponent, there’s so much to attack him on, yet the NRSC refuses to play, and that, that baffles me. Because he’s a – he’s a sitting duck. There’s a lot to go after him [on].”

If Coons, who’s sitting on a giant lead and set to host Obama and Biden tomorrow, is a “sitting duck,” what does that make every other Democrat in the country? The NRSC (and, by extension, conservative outside groups) are looking at tight but winnable races in Nevada, Alaska, Washington, Illinois, and West Virginia; they’ve got healthy but not prohibitive leads in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Missouri; and they’ve got longshots with a prayer in California and Connecticut, neither of whom needs outside money to pay for ads but who’d certainly benefit from any kind of boost. Given all that, would you guys seriously advise Cornyn et al. to pour money into Delaware — at least before you see some movement for O’Donnell in the polls? At AmSpec, Jeffrey Lord cites sources who complain that the NRSC is sitting on $6 million reserved for Marco Rubio. Given that that race could change overnight if Meek dropped out and endorsed Crist, keeping money onhand for an emergency ad buy in an expensive market seems like … a prudent move, quite frankly. And don’t forget that not only does O’Donnell have $4 million in her own coffers, but bashing the NRSC and the Republican “establishment” the way she’s doing right here is bound to squeeze a few more bucks out of voters in the base. In fact, is that what this is about? Just playing good cop/bad cop with the NRSC to rile up conservatives into donating to her again? Or is it a case of setting up the establishment as a scapegoat if she loses? If only the NRSC and Karl Rove had bought her a few extra ads…

I can understand a new ad buy if next week’s polls suddenly show her within nine or 10 points, but until there are signs of life, how is more money at this point a smart expenditure for Cornyn?




TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: backstabbingagain; christineodonnell; cornyn; delaware; dirtytricks; karlrove; misogyny; nrsc; nsrc; romney; senate; tokyorove
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To: wideawake

True enough. And frankly, I don’t think she wants to win. She just wants to burnish her image enough to get a TeeVee gig on Fox. This campaign has turned into her opportunity to destupidify herself. Problem is, you can’t unring the bell - all the lies she has told are still lies.


41 posted on 10/15/2010 9:56:09 AM PDT by stormer
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To: McGruff

I think it was the witchcraft issue and also the I’m You ads.

When I saw the I’m You ads that she put out, I lost interest in her campaign. She is not a serious candidate.

I was furious with Karl Rove that night as well, turns out he was right.


42 posted on 10/15/2010 9:56:09 AM PDT by FloridaSunrise
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To: stormer
throw their money down a rat hole.

You apparently have difficulty recognizing the real rat hole. Look for the likes of Marxist Coons, Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Dodd and Barny Frank and you will find the real rat hole.

43 posted on 10/15/2010 9:56:33 AM PDT by True Grit
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To: jimbo123
Karl Rove and his RINOS are sending a message to Sarah Palin with their treatment of Christine O’Donnell...So this is a sign of things to come from the anti-Palin RINOS.

It's time to send a message to them...
& rem: to bring "the tools".


44 posted on 10/15/2010 9:56:54 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Imam Zer0: DeathCARE, Is my only Plan...So just die (quicky), please & save $$$$ :^)
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To: SeekAndFind
It seems to me that if the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity want to maintain their credibility as “independent conservatives” who doesn't really carry the water for the GOP, they better stick it to Rove-boy and the Republican establishment for putting what is a very important seat in jeopardy. This nation is hanging by a thread and they know it.

They've got the microphone and the audience, we don't. “To whom much is given, much is required” as the Good Book says.

So, which is it going to be, boys?

45 posted on 10/15/2010 9:57:12 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t trust anything with Allah in its name.


46 posted on 10/15/2010 9:58:10 AM PDT by manic4organic (Obama shot hoops, America lost troops.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Mitt Romney will use Scott Brown to attack Sarah Palin as his surrogate. The other RINO goons that do Mitt’s dirty work will be Steve Schmitt, Karl Rove, John McCain and Ann Coulter. Mitt Romney is a cowardly POS. Good luck to Sarah and let’s hope she’s prepared for the onslaught.


47 posted on 10/15/2010 9:58:43 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: SeekAndFind

Money, meet waste of.


48 posted on 10/15/2010 9:58:45 AM PDT by Grn_Lantern (Let's go to work....)
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To: SeekAndFind

This race in Delware is not over yet. The Left must love the way we throw our people over at any sign of trouble.

Today is 10/15...the election isn’t until 11/2. I still very good about this race. Something just stinks about these polls.


49 posted on 10/15/2010 10:00:18 AM PDT by Artcore
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To: Badeye

If she somehow manages to win - and Delaware’s polling data is notoriously inaccurate, especially this year - she’ll remember this non support.


And so will the tea party movement.

The GOP establishment is trying to make an example of her. Sending a signal to the tea party movement that they better “get in line or suffer the consequences.”

Of course, the GOP establishment is the one that has failed to learn the lesson from all this. The days of nominating candidates that are unacceptable to the GOP base are over. It was the GOP establishment that refused to work with the base to find a candidate that the base could support (without holding their noses and taking a bath to wash off the liberal stench) that was also “electable.”


50 posted on 10/15/2010 10:01:36 AM PDT by Brookhaven (The next step for the Tea Party--The Conservative Hand--is available at Amazon.com)
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To: jimbo123

Mitt Romney will use Scott Brown to attack Sarah Palin as his surrogate. The other RINO goons that do Mitt’s dirty work will be Steve Schmitt, Karl Rove, John McCain and Ann Coulter. Mitt Romney is a cowardly POS. Good luck to Sarah and let’s hope she’s prepared for the onslaught.
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Are you serious? After the non-stop attacks from the Left and she’s stronger than ever!

You seriously think some RINO’s can take her down? Whatever...


51 posted on 10/15/2010 10:02:21 AM PDT by Artcore
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To: stormer
"Short answer: they don’t want to throw their money down a rat hole."

Sure, they'd rather withhold it to make sure an establishment rat stays in power. ~ Michael Savage has been right for years in his assertion that both parties have rotted to the core.

52 posted on 10/15/2010 10:02:26 AM PDT by jiminycricket000
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To: MichaelCorleone

Limbaugh, Hannity and company must go on the attack against Mitt Romney, Scott Brown, Karl Rove and Steve Schmitt immediately after the RINOS launch their first attack on Sarah after the mid-terms.

Romney’s RINOs must be de-fanged immediately and as quickly as possible.


53 posted on 10/15/2010 10:02:33 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: FloridaSunrise

“I was furious with Karl Rove that night as well, turns out he was right.”

No, he was a stupid mole then, and he is a stupid mole now.

Stupid moles are an abundant species close to elections.


54 posted on 10/15/2010 10:03:00 AM PDT by Psalm 144
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To: jimbo123

Coulter’s latest claim is to back the pro-illegal immigrant Gov. Christie for president in 2012.


55 posted on 10/15/2010 10:03:12 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: wideawake

Their take would be that if she’s too wacko even for Rove...


56 posted on 10/15/2010 10:03:56 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: CharlesWayneCT
She took in almsot 4 million dollars according to her finance reports. Why isn’t SHE doing all this advertising against the citting duck?

Because she's been living off her campaign funds from her previous two runs for Senate for the past four years.

Now she's finally hit the jackpot by raising all this money and you're going to tell her to fritter it all away on ads?

57 posted on 10/15/2010 10:04:40 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Artcore
You seriously think some RINO’s can take her down? Whatever...

She will be fighting Romney's RINOS, the faux conservatives in the press, the liberal media, the democrats, etc. Romey's RINOS need to be neutered as soon as possible so she can continue to focus on the democrats, and not have to fight a battle on two fronts. Wake up and don't be complacent about Romney, Brown, Rove, Schmitt, Coulter and Company.
58 posted on 10/15/2010 10:07:00 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: wideawake

+1


59 posted on 10/15/2010 10:07:03 AM PDT by stormer
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To: SeekAndFind

Because they have as much invested in her defeat as the RATS do!


60 posted on 10/15/2010 10:07:12 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (RAT Hunting Season started the evening of March 21st, 2010!)
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