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No I didn’t think it was funny. It was a cheap shot and very poor taste. People went after Palin’s son and called him a “retard baby”. That was also very poor taste. Such things are terrible and I don’t like it whenever it is done no matter who the target is (Obama with the african witch doctor photo).

On the other hand.

That story did not cost her the race. Bristol’s shenanigans or slurs on Trig did not cost the McCain/Palin ticket the race. I’m not cheering that tactic at all but it was totally irrelevant. Now I’m assuming that it was irrelevant someone in Delaware may have read that story and said “my god she doesn’t shave! I must vote for Coons!” I have no idea how people in Delaware decide how to vote. I can just look at numbers.

The fact remains we lost that race. We lost because of a poor campaign (poorly run not poor for $) by a women with no bona fide fiscal conservative experience but plenty of bona fide personal baggage. Me? Personally I couldn’t care less what a Senator does with their love life. I care how they vote and how they enable my ideological allies to vote. COD would have been a better vote than Castle? Probably. But Castle would have been a better vote than Coons.

COD’s personal baggage (she had to spend more time talking about not being a witch than Obamacare for example) has cost us one seat already I don’t want her to cost us more. The Democrats are going to try to use her like we used Pelosi to get the vote out. This isn’t the time to play nice and coddle people because we like their campaign ads. If someone becomes a burden to our goal of staving of fiscal Armageddon they got to go.

Eyes Unclouded:The fact remains we lost that race. We lost because of a poor campaign (poorly run not poor for $) by a women with no bona fide fiscal conservative experience but plenty of bona fide personal baggage."

No. The GOP lost because of Romney/Rove/Team Romney.
The very same Team that attacked O'Donnell.

Fact: The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney and
Parker and the rest of TeamROMNEY decided
…… to attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008.

"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

Poor sport spoiler Romney doing what he does best:

Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"

Said Novak: "The rumors were traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson."

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]