Posted on 11/02/2010 7:20:39 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
FUKR
Yeah, let's cast him in bronze and use him for a door stop, or maybe an ashtray for the smokers. (Please note that in a gesture of generosity, I didn't suggest making a urinal out of him.)
In a few minutes, the polls on the west coast will close and we'll have a much better idea how things really went tonight.
I reckon he would be smug. He got rid of O’Donnell.
re-check your Kirk results
(and remember the Buckley rule)
Tokyo Rove. LOL.
Karl rove put the knife in O’Donnell and then blames her for the bloody mess on the carpet.
If he’d kept his elitist trap shut or offered words of support, he’d be in great shape to humbly offer a better path to victory, but as it stands he not only didn’t help, he actively, using the tools of his trade, the words of a pundit, to help a hard leftist defeat her.
I don’t care if he’s brilliant, or if he was right about her being doomed from the start, he’s a petulant turncoat corrupt bastard, and he needs to pay for it.
When Rove comes out for Romney, we’ll know that he has officially declared war against constitutional conservatism. Rove be damned!!
Vote the corrupt bastards OUT and keep them OUT!!
Remember in 2012!!
We have not yet begun to fight!!
Seems like, in both cases (McMahon and Kirk), like Delaware, voters had no good choice.
Kirk, in particular, is not a good candidate (RINO and closeted gay), and he ran against a mob collaborator and con man. But what else can you expect from Chicago?
Lots of good news tonight, so let’s not dwell on the few down spots.
Since every time I post about Rove, I get more pissed off and uglier in tone, I think I should probably just say, “Yep, you’re right about what Rove did; it was inexcusable.” :)
The Buckley rule is a crock. The reasoning goes that since centrists are in the middle, they can draw votes from both sides. The Buckley rule is almost always used AGAINST more conservative candidates. In other words, the centrists rate electability higher. Secondly, no one can prove electability until the actual election. We can generally conclude that one candidate is more electable than another in extreme cases, but it’s not a given.
I have my own rules: vote conservative in the primary. Electability is just one of many factors, not the predominate one. In the general, vote to beat the most liberal.
BTW, thanks for the polite response. It appears the worm has turned in the Kirk race.
I expect his job at FOX is to analyze and report. Wish he had not gone so far, but I expect he has to put his bias on hold. Or, maybe he did put his bias out and just did not like her. There is always that possibility. We don't know.
AMEN! The war is on. Be smart, be on topic, be constitutional.
The Tea Party is not going away. It is the voice of patriotic middle America.
The Deleware senate campaign had two major problems:
The campaign sucked.
The candidate sucked.
Seriously, just consider her attempts to buy a 30-minute slot for her tape. Her campaign is told that the station needs payment in advance, and the tape by 5:30 PM Friday. The campaign misses the tape deadline and doesn’t pay the money until Monday morning. Then when the station doesn’t play her ad, instead of (1) knowing what happened or (2) finding out what happened, she makes wild accusations that she has to backpedal on.
However, I agree that Rove was very crass. Don’t diss the nominee on the night of the Primary victory. And as flaky as she was, she would have been better than Coons.
HA! We fight like hell. I’ve got your back
He helped GW. He’s a great political mind. So what?
I’m pretty sure that John Wilkes Booth was a fine actor before he shot Lincoln.
What Rove did was inexcusable. His past performance makes it worse, if anything. He should know better, it’s no rookie mistake.
Krauthammer is a talking head, and his opinion, while harmful to a conservative candidate, is excusable. He does not aspire to hold the levers of power.
Rove is welcome to be a talking head if he can’t keep his damn mouth shut, but he can’t pretend to be a player on the conservative side of the game while he sticks the knife in conservative candidates.
I will grant you that there are a number of races where the more conservative, Tea Partyish candidate won the primary, and now is going on to win the election, putting the Buckley rule in a new light (i.e. sometimes the most conservative candidate who can win really is the Conservative!). Paul and Rubio both good examples. But sometimes it just goes too far, as in Del.
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