Christine O'Donnell, Chris Coons "bury hatchet"

Politico ^ | 11-5-10 | Natasha Lennard

[TitansAFC]

Christine O'Donnell and her victorious opponent in the Delaware senate race, Democrat Chris Coons, campaigned fiercely against each other during the midterms. But now they've buried the hatchet, quite literally.

The Tea Party darling and the senator-elect buried a hatchet — actually, they put a small ax in a box of sand — in the southern Delaware hamlet of Georgetown on Thursday, the AP reported (via The Huffington Post) in line with a time-honored state tradition.

As policies of Delaware state politics dictate, the senate race contenders took part in a ceremonial horse-drawn carriage and classic car parade, which preceded the hatchet burying.

The expression "to bury the hatchet" evolved from a Native American expression for peacemaking and, ceremonially at least, Coons and O'Donnell were cordial. "Coons gave a thumbs-up signal when asked how he and O'Donnell were getting along," the AP noted.

[hosepipe]

The T-P Caucus has its OWN hatchets, axes, and meat cleavers....
AND a flaming known communist(COONS) is begging to become Traitor-burger or Sedition-Sausage..

[LiberConservative]

" ... terrible candidate ..."

Just a FRiendly warning. Someone got banned yesterday for speaking evil of Christine O'Donnell.

[DWC]

They have to be conservative, tea party type republicans. No compromising and remember there are more rat seats than this year to be defeated in 2012. Stay the course a correction has to continue.

[Brett66]

Why can’t she run for a house seat? I think she would have a good chance at winning, depending on the district.

[deport]

Why can’t she run for a house seat? I think she would have a good chance at winning, depending on the district.

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What state you want her to run in? Delaware has only one Congressman which is a statewide district.

[Old Badger]

Karl Rove is the one who was instrumental in her defeat with his vile and vicious remarks the evening she won, thereby giving MSM all the more talking points to disparage her. Couple that with the RNC refusing to help it's no wonder she lost in the general. I can't express the extent of my dislike for Rove and those elitist bastards.

The TEA Party is building it's infrastructure and the RNC is going to be relegated to a small worthless third party ............ wait and see. :O)

[tlb]

>>> One of the few little reported exit polls from nov 5 is that Castle would have LOST too.

That’s grasping at straws you know. Exit polls can only reasonably measure an election that ACTUALLY was held that day. Not a theoretical one that wasn’t held at all. The buildup to election day would have been under a totally different dynamic. The exit polls of the one race could not speak for the other.

Castle was an established credible Delaware political leader. The dems against Castle would not have been so energized as they were against the actual nominee.

In fact the only figures we have on the race that didn’t occur was the polling showing Castle winning handily. These are the same polls that so accurately predicted O’Donnell’s defeat.

If this was little reported, it’s because it’s of no particular relevancy or validity.

[FreeAtlanta]

It is time we stop with silly traditions of getting along. We are dealing with enemies of our Constitution and liberty.

I am disappointed in her.

[FreeAtlanta]

I thought he already was a frog.

[katana]

I could very well be mistaken, but my understanding of the DRINO Alliance's plan for Delaware was that Castle would win and then Biden's son would be able to run against an R when the rest of the two years remaining on this "fill the vacant seat" term is completed. It was supposed to be a wink, wink, nudge, nudge between the D's and the R's, i.e. "Hold this for us, we'll be right back".

Now the Son of VP (Veritable Pinhead) will have to knock out a fellow D in a primary (or trust Coons can be "persuaded" to step aside) before taking his rightful place in the slow learner section of the US Senate. Probably a foregone conclusion that Junior would defeat O'Donnell in two years anyway, but in the meantime we can at least take some pleasure in seeing this plan blown up by a primary endorsement from none other than Grandma (no disrespect intended, I think Sarah would like the name) Grizzly.

[Mouton]

“In fact the only figures we have on the race that didn’t occur was the polling showing Castle winning handily. These are the same polls that so accurately predicted O’Donnell’s defeat.”

So let me get this straight...polls said Castle would win...Castle gets beat in his party primary; so those who would have voted for him are so turned off by her win they vote for the dem? Or did they stay home? Or perhaps, the inds were so turned off by O Donnell they voted the the marxist?

Regardless, none of this minimizes the simple fact that Castle was a sore loser and did not support the winner and that his buddy Rove did all he could to undermine any possibility she had to win. As she said last night, she could not overcome the personal attacks which were taken because they could not beat her on the issues.

All this is water over the dam, who will beat Coons in 2012? That is all I care about at this juncture. We can pretty much bet that the country club RINOs will not run a conservative, so which squish are they going to put up?

[GourmetDan]

"In fact the only figures we have on the race that didn’t occur was the polling showing Castle winning handily. These are the same polls that so accurately predicted O’Donnell’s defeat."

OTOH, the polls may have been accurate both times and O'Donnell only 'won' the primary so that Coons could be elected in the general election.

Vote fraud is likely rampant. Sometimes you just have to think outside the box a little bit.

[Skylab]

Sometimes you just have to think outside the box a little bit. Trouble is, once you start thinking outside the box, it's hard to get back into the box. People who believe one conspiracy theory usually believe all of them.

[jern]

She got beat 56-40. No one can say she was a great candidate. She got beat by 16 POINTS in a year where the GOP had a serious advantage.

[GourmetDan]

Then stay in the box and believe that everything is as you are told...

[kevao]

I wonder if the race would have been any closer had the GOP actually supported O’Donnell.

[CrosscutSaw]

Of course it would have been closer. I saw an exit poll on FOX the night of the election that showed O’Donnell ran fairly well among independents but while Coons got well over 90% of the Democrat vote, she only got in the low 80%s among Republican voters.

Also on O’Reilly last night O’Donnell said that the Delaware GOP machine did not help her and so she had to build her own GOTV apparatus from scratch.

BTW, exit polls also showed Castle would have lost to Coons as well. We’ll never know for sure who would have won, but it’s certain that O’Donnell would have done much better had the Delaware GOP supported her and had RINO eletes like Rove not trashed her after she won the primary.

[jern]

52-44?

[LiberConservative]

"She got beat 56-40. No one can say she was a great candidate. She got beat by 16 POINTS in a year where the GOP had a serious advantage."

I know. I know. But there are moderators here who think that a room-temperature IQ bimbo tea party candidate is better than a RINO. Maybe a room-temperature IQ bimbo tea party candidate IS better than a RINO. But a room-temperature IQ bimbo tea party candidate CANNOT get elected. Not in this America.

I was banned for speaking the truth against the Bush/RINO/"Republican" party in W's second term. Look where W's 2nd term led us. It gave us a Democrat majority and President Obama.

[bigdaddy45]

It’s a symbolic tradition. They ran. She lost. It signifies the end of the campaign. What would you prefer she do? Stomp her feet, cross her arms and stick out her lower lip?