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And There It Is Folks: GOP Refuses to Support O’Donnell in General Election

By: AceInTX (Diary)  |  September 15th, 2010 at 12:57 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Just a year and a half after brow beating conservatives about the head that you are to back the nominee of the party no matter what…..

What’s the phrase? Vote Conservative in the Primaries…vote Republican in the general?

Now there’s this:


Bombshell: GOP Refuses to Support O’Donnell in General Election

Before Christine O‘Donnell even had a chance to deliver her remarks to accept the Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) announced that the party’s fundraising organization would not be supporting the Delaware tea party favorite in the Nov. 2 election.

According to Fox News, Republican aides have confirmed that “O’Donnell would not be getting national fundraising support.”

Can you believe the tin ears and the thick headed arrogance of these clowns?

As was said in a thread I have read all evening here, no doubt, after leaving O’Donnell high and dry during the general election….we will be treated by the cacophonous howls from our betters at the RNC and the NRSC…”SEE”…”SEE”…”we told you she can’t win! Conservatives can’t win in DE and this proves it.”

Never mind the nasty and bitter way our Overlords trashed and smeared her….never mind the double dealings behind the scenes from the RMSP and their ilk to undermine and destroy the Republican nominee….Never mind the inevitable self fulfilling nature of the whole exercise…it will all be conservatives fault because we didn’t shut up and get in line.

All I can say is…thank GOD for Jim Dimint:

In the meantime, Sen. Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund PAC is vowing to step up its efforts on O‘Donnell’s behalf:

The party’s coordinated spending limit for a Senate nominee in Delaware is $87,000. The RNC and the NRSC each have that limit so it is double that amount. $174,000 total. Since the party is saying they will cut her off, this will be SCF’s initial goal. We will likely raise her this money from grassroots by next week.

and with that, I’m out….have at the comments and don’t take offense…it’s off to bed…and work in the morning…I’ll be on to comment when I’m off.

Cheers!

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  • bk
    • Flagstaff

      as$emptyspace comes to mind.

      • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

        they get THEIR WAY. This is the latest proof that it is the David Brooks types that flee the party, and not social conservatives.

        • eburke
        • bk

          As a general matter it seems like there are all these Republicans who’ve been in Washington so long that they feel like if they can’t win, then one of their friends they yuck it up with at all the cocktail parties should, in order to keep things in the “family”.

          You get the feeling they’re all a bunch of inbreds: “Why should you marry outside the family when you have a cousin you could have lots of babies with?” The GOP version is: “Why should you support some outsider when some fellow insider could get it instead?”

        • cordpt

          makes one not loyal to the party…

          …is Christine O’Donnell loyal to the party?

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
        • Flagstaff

          But it’s pretty clear what Delaware Republicans think.

          See y’all in Austin.

  • Sirithil

    But in fairness, it’s fully in keeping with Erick’s advice not to devote resources to Delaware.

    That said, I was about 50.1% for Castle due to the reasons Dan McLaughlin cited but I wish O’Donnell all the best, and DeMint et al all the best in fundraising for her. Nobody will be happier than me if we can still turn Delaware around and get tha t seat.

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

      is worth it even if we lose the general.

  • http://Blackberrybear.etsy.com knitwit

    Arizona’s senatorial race is a given, but I can help out in another state who might be able to counter the damage of La McCain’s vote in the Senate. GO girl!

  • fpete13527

    For the current NRSC, NRCC, and RNC it has never been about Conservatives in the Primaries and R’s in the General. Their motto has simply been “conservatives NEVER.”

    I say under the current GOP leadership, my motto is to send money directly to conservative candidates/SCF only and to NRSC, NRCC, RNC…….NEVER.

  • SirGladiator

    I was definitely shocked to hear the NRSC’s announcement of not supporting O’Donnell, I don’t know if anything like that has ever happened before. But then again I was shocked by a lot of the really extreme personal attacks against her during the campaign. I’ve seen her on TV from time to time, read articles about what a good Conservative she is, etc. and everything was always quite impresive, I didn’t understand why so many people seemed to simply ‘hate’ her the way they clearly seemed to. Is it simply because she’s challenging a RINO? Thats happened before after all. We beat a fair number of them this year :) .

    Then I happened to stumble across a YouTube clip from 1998, it was a ‘Politically Incorrect’ episode and one of the guests on the show was “Christian Activist Christine O’Donnell” representing a group she had helped found called ‘Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth’ (SALT). Thats when it all made sense. The reason they hate her isn’t just because she beat the King RINO, its because their King RINO was defeated by a servant of the True King, whom they hate. Thats why they would clearly rather a democrat win than Christine, they won’t endorse her, they wont support her, they hope she loses and is embarassed in the process, because if there’s anybody these people hate worse than democrats, its Christians.

    Well standing up for whats right, and serving God, are never things to be embarassed about. Whether she wins in a landslide, loses in a landslide, or anything else in between, she can be proud of what she’s done to stand up for the Conservative movement, and giving the People of Delaware a clear choice in November, and I’ll be proud of what she’s done, and proud of what I and everybody else here has done to help, regardless of what happens in November. She’s already accomplished a great deal, and I don’t even mean beating a RINO. I mean exposing the Establishment, and the NRSC specifically, to the entire nation, for their corrupt and evil ways. They demand loyalty when Conservatives lose, go out of their way to make sure they do lose, and if they don’t, well then maybe they’ll provide a little help, maybe they won’t. I just wish that somehow we could vote those NRSC people out of office like we did Castle. It sure would be nice to have great Americans like Jim DeMint running the organization instead of whoever is running it now.

    In the meantime, its great that JIm is raising money for her, she really needs to get on the air soon to avoid the ‘Angle Effect’, being broke while your opponent spends huge amounts of money on negative attack ads against you. We’re gonna win this race, and we’re going to take back the Senate, and hopefully when we do we’ll find a way to replace those NRSC folks too!

    • cordpt

      You’re right. Anybody who didn’t support O’Donnell is a communist and an atheist.

      • eburke

        out of his way to emphasize that he was referring to establishment Republican types, especially in the NRSC.

        If you’ve reached the point that your anger and emotions are making it difficult for you to make distinctions in people’s posts, it may be time to step away from the computer and unplug for a few days.

        • cordpt

          of being an atheist that is using the NRSC as a tool to destroy people of faith?

          That’s tremendous.

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

      financial problems that regular people struggling to make ends meet have. She is too average for them.. Yet, she will vote right, and that’s what we hire them to do, i.e. vote right. We don’t care about their personal lives and problems or lack thereof. We hire them to vote against cap and trade etc. O’Donnell will.

  • cordpt

    The NRSC only funds candidates who have showed an ability to make their races competitive.

    Will Len Britton in Vermont or Wargotz in Maryland won’t see any money from them either,

    If O’Donnell has some fund-raising+polling to show, they’ll start supporting her.

    • AceInTX

      • cordpt

        I’m fairly sure the NRSC isnt’ financing those guys.

        • AceInTX
          • cordpt

            They recruited him. That’s their job – they protect incumbents and recruit candidates when they don’t’ have incumbents.

            But, as far as I know, they didn’t finance him. Do you have any link?

            In fact, they’re financially supporting Marc Rubio. As they’ve always done with

            —

            In any case, that’s a moot point now. I don’t get why are people whinnign about the NRSC. I mean, you cant’ have it both ways: if you want to be the anti-establishment candidate, you’ll probably need to run versus the candidate supported by the establishment. Trying to pump up the anti-establishment credentials and at the same time whining about not having the establishment support strikes me as deep hypocrisy.

            So, I’m surprised by all this whining from O’Donnell supporters because of the NRSC not giving her money. I don’t see it from the supporters of Wargotz, Britton, Roco et all. What’s up with this? Politics isn’t for whiners. Man up already and follow the example of the supporters of those guys.

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
          • Scope

            Sorry that America has been so terrible, but, don’t worry, I Won. Problem with those apologizing for the Establishment R’s is that they haven’t had many opportunities to say that in this election season. It’s like saying – It’s my power/party, and I’ll cry if I want to.

          • cordpt

            … will send money to viable republican candidates regardless of their ideology. The viability is proved via polls that show a somewhat competitive race. And they’ll support incumbents – because that’s the NRSC job and incumbent senators are the guys raising the money.

            It’s always been that way – as it should. I’m surprised by this. Hundreds of candidates haven’t been financed by the republican committees for this very same reasons.

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
          • cordpt

            Anyway, the NRSC spent money supporting Brown… once the polls started showing he was viable.

            Anyway, here’s a challenge for you. How should the NRSC – an organization with the stated goal of electing republicans for the Senate – allocate their resources? You want them to spend money with O’Donnell… so what would your criteria be like? What would you do if you were Cornyn?

            Maybe they should just divide the amount of money they have available for every candidate? Is that it? Are you defending that they should take money that is being used to get Paul, Rubio and Angle elected and spend it on races like Maryland, Vermont, Hawai and Delaware? Would that strategy the one that would maximize their gains in November?

            We need some sort of explanation, we need more than childish rants. Where do you stand after all? What would you do?

          • AceInTX

            Anyway, here?s a challenge for you. How should the NRSC – an organization with the stated goal of electing republicans for the Senate – allocate their resources?

            they need to recruit candidates to run for seats where there is no Republican nominee. They should not get involved in supporting one Republican candidate over another in contested primaries and they should certainly not make decisions on who is electable or not and they shouldn’t always side with the most liberal nominee in the race.

            Once a candidate has been selected by the Republican voters of a certain State…they should support that nominee…and do everything possible to see that nominee elected….

            FINALLY, They damned sure shouldn’t announce a race for any Senate seat is a lost cause and that they will be withholding support for that candidate because their favorite didn’t win!

            How’s that?

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
          • AceInTX

          • gekster
          • cordpt

            Let’s see:

            they need to recruit candidates to run for seats where there is no Republican nominee. They should not get involved in supporting one Republican candidate over another in contested primaries and they should certainly not make decisions on who is electable or not and they shouldn?t always side with the most liberal nominee in the race.

            The problem with this is that it’d make recruitment impossible. I mean, how are you recruiting candidates and then you say “oh, byt the way, don’t count on our support”. That’s just nonsensical.

            Once a candidate has been selected by the Republican voters of a certain State?they should support that nominee?and do everything possible to see that nominee elected?.

            FINALLY, They damned sure shouldn?t announce a race for any Senate seat is a lost cause and that they will be withholding support for that candidate because their favorite didn?t win!

            How?s that?

            You misunderstood my question.

            The NRSC raises a certain amount of money.

            What I’m asking you is how should that money be allocated through the different races. It’s really simple. Why aren’t you answering this?

            As far as I know, they support every candidate who wins the nomination. They just dont’ spend money on every race equally.

            Are you going to man up and answer the question or not? How would you allocate the money? Would you spend the same money in Nevada and Hawaii because both candidates deserve to be supported?

          • Jack_Savage

            And how did McCain’s decision to blow off Michigan go over?

          • AceInTX

          • cordpt

            The “Fifty State Strategy” wasn’t about allocating the same amount of money to every candidate. Most candidates didn’t see a penny from

            It was about competing everywhere and nominating candidates palatable to the local tendencies – bluedogs and conservadems in the South, for example. More or less the opposite of the “take out every moderate from the blue states” strategy.

          • Jack_Savage

            With one problem. The conservadems ran as conservatives, but voted along Democrat party lines. Our moderates run as conservatives, then run as fast as they can to the other side of the aisle.

            Big, big difference. Dems were elected where they never would have had a chance, and provided a majority so solid in Congress that we are basically a European Socialist government.

            It was bold, it caught us by surprise, and it worked. As I have said before, you don’t have to believe me – look down both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to see proof.

          • IJB

            …And most Dem political professionals now denigrate Dean’s effort on that front.

            There was an article on, I think Politico, just the other day, with Dem professionals *slamming* the 50-state strategy as a total waste of time of money that’s actually hurting Dems to this day.

          • Jack_Savage

            House.
            Senate.
            White House.

            And a deep, deep bench.

          • IJB

            …And are now lacking resources to fight back. (Their words, not mine.)

            The point is that it is totally UNSUSTAINABLE.

            You see this kind of thing in the world of sports often – a formerly crummy team gets a new owner or something, and they go on a spending spree, buying up every free agent, and making every trade, they can. And, yeah, sure – it gets them to the World Series (or whatever). But you know what happens the next year? Nothin’! Because you can only pull something like that over the short term.

            The “50 State Strategy” is a *pipedream* – neither party is going to be able to challenge all corners of the board in every election. And people are kidding themselves if they think otherwise.

            The proof is in the pudding – if the current Dem professionals are death on the subject of Dean’s “50 State Strategy”, that tells you all you need to know about its long-term viability as a strategy.

          • Jack_Savage

            The reason that the fifty state strategy is not working is that the President, and Nancy Pelosi, have steered the Dem majority so far left so quickly that no one can save them. If Obama were truly post-racial and centrist, and governed incrementally, the GOP would be dead ducks and the blue dogs would be holding their seats for as long as they wanted to.

            Obama killed the 50 state strategy.

          • AceInTX

            and again…the issue for me is…all the money they wasted in contested primaries trying to force moderates on an unwilling base…when they could have been recruiting good candidates to run in open races with no Republican running…

            make the Dems defend everywhere….if they spend too mush saving incumbent A…incumbent B might become vulnerable as his resources dry up…

            the short sightedness of the Mike Murphy’s and the Carl Roves is astounding to me…I and many like me said this would happen just like it did in 1978 the last time Dems controlled every thing….the backlash against the Dem out reach was inevitable…had the party worked on recruiting more good candidates in what is normally safe blue states….the pressure on the Dems right now would be multiplied and they would be spread that much thinner…instead we wasted resources backing losers in AK, UT, CO, DE, FL, etc against conservatives ticking off the base and drying up funding because of the “Not One Red Cent” campaign and others like it.

          • cordpt

            the short sightedness of the Mike Murphy?s and the Carl Roves is astounding to me?I and many like me said this would happen just like it did in 1978 the last time Dems controlled every thing?.the backlash against the Dem out reach was inevitable?had the party worked on recruiting more good candidates in what is normally safe blue states?.the pressure on the Dems right now would be multiplied and they would be spread that much thinner?instead we wasted resources backing losers in AK, UT, CO, DE, FL, etc against conservatives ticking off the base and drying up funding because of the ?Not One Red Cent? campaign and others like it.

            How much money have they spent on those campaigns? Plus, once again, they have to support the candidates they recruit, with fund-raisings and stuff. It’s either that or no recruitment. What’s going to be?

            Besides, Rove is being instrumental in keeping Angle alive in Nevada. He’s banking her campaign and organizing the GOTV. Same in Colorado. Some groups seem exclusively worried about the primaries and then let the candidates they supported out there to dry…

            So you should be thankful for guys like Rove who’re more focused about beating Dems and not in the primaries jungle – he’s the one coming to rescue those same candidates you claim are anti-establishment when they really need help to beat a Dem, not a fellow Rep. Somebody has to act as the grown up, I guess.

          • AceInTX

            yes

          • cordpt

            This isn’t middle school basketball where everybody gets a chance to shoot the ball because it’s fair.

            Their job is to elect GOP candidates, nothing else. The need to follow strategies that help them to maximize their chances of electing GOP candidates.

            Spending $1 million in Hawaii or Vermont won’t get you another republican in the Senate; but it can make the difference between beating Reid and electing Angle or allowing Reid to keep his seat.

            Very simple choice.

            I’d suggest you to embrace it. No leadership will ever behave differently.

          • AceInTX

            and they said through back channels that they wouldn’t be supporting her….

            They were forced to back peddle by the outrage…but the tipped their hand…

            The simple fact is…the right play would have been to keep their mouth shut….give lip service if necessary but don’t announce she’s unelectable before she’s even accepted the nomination…and announce “No soup for you”

          • Locked and Loaded

            Do you suppose they at least had the decency to call Christine before they went public with this news?

          • cordpt

            I think it was well-known they weren’t allocating any money to Delaware well before the primary result was known. It’s not like they’d be spending even a cent had Castle won it.

          • Locked and Loaded

            Their conventional wisdom was that they would not have needed to help Castle.

            Now back to my post. Did the NRSC contact Christine to let her know? I doubt it. They went straight to the public to undermine her nomination and chance at general election victory.

            Well, cordpt, at least they didn’t do the same thing to Wargotz, Britton, Roco et al. Right?

          • cordpt

            Do you have any links to support your claims? What “news” they went public with? I mean, is that a surprise? I think candidates in long-shot or hopeless races already know they can’t count with the financial backing of the republican committees. There isn’t enough money to everybody and they need to prioritize races. I doubt they “communicate” this to particular candidates. Why would they do it with O’Donnell? Why is this suddenly a problem?

            I think the NRSC will do with O’Donnell what they’ve done with everybody else: they’ll cut her the $40K donation, They’ll lend her their formal support as they do with every GOP candidate. They won’t spend their money in the race unless polls start showing a close race and she shows the ability to raise money because that’s what they do in every other race.

          • AceInTX

            NRSC endorses Crist

            “While I believe Marco Rubio has a very bright future within the Republican Party, Charlie Crist is the best candidate in 2010 to ensure that we maintain the checks and balances that Floridians deserve in the United States Senate,” Cornyn said in a statement.

            “Governor Crist is a dedicated public servant and a dynamic leader, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee will provide our full support to ensure that he is elected the next United States Senator from Florida.?l

            Here’s some more for you

            Cornyn: Yeah, I?m stuck with Crist

            The NRSC provided web space for Crist to raise money and if my memory serves they held a couple fundraisers for him.

            Any more stupid questions?

            as for financially supporting Rubio…he’s the nominee of the Republican party…

            Doh!

          • cordpt

            I’m fully aware the NRSC endorsed Crist. Their job is to protect incumbents and recruit candidates for open seats. Obviously, they’ll then endorse their recruits.

            In the post you’re answering to, I wrote:

            Of course they endorsed him [Crist]. They recruited him. That?s their job – they protect incumbents and recruit candidates when they don?t? have incumbents.

            I think the discussion is more about what should the NRSC do when it comes to supporting nominees (post-primary).

          • AceInTX

            How about not announcing the nominee has no chance and we’re not going to support her for starters…that’s the issue….you can try to muddy the waters by adding in side issues all you want…the issue is as I stated it….and they’ve stepped in it up to their knees once again.

  • Scope

    Congratulations Christine.

    Ace, it is no surprise that the NRSC has their noses out of joint. I just read many of the comments from last night, and, hearing that Rove and Perino trashed O’Donnell on TV last night, it seems pretty obvious that they are still very much still sitting at the table with those that run the NRSC. I ignore whatever Rove has to say, just as much as I ignore what Ron Paul has to say. He’s a washed up has been, just like Newt. They still want to play on the stage, even though their costumes have gone out of style.

    Thank God for Jim DeMint. He has done a great job in helping to get good conservative candidates elected in the primaries. He won’t turn his back on those candidates for the General.

    The thing that busts my chops is the people who preach that a candidate can’t win, and they keep spreading that message to anyone who will listen, hoping that their words alone will defeat that candidate. If the conservatives get behind the most conservative candidate early and often, from the primary to the General, they can and do win. Thinking about some of our conservative candidates that won their primaries, and so many had the same attitude that they can’t win in the General, they are beginning to see the error in that thinking, at least by the polls.

    I’m sure that DeMint already has some current Senators in his camp, and if we can get his picks across the finish line in November, we are looking at a great upset in the way the Republicans in the Senate do their jobs. Now we just have to get Mitchey back into the gallery, and away from any leadership positions. DeMint can do it.

    • SirGladiator

      Its one thing when they say somebody ‘cant win’ in the Primary, even if its obviously not true, at least theres a chance they mean well. But when somebody like Rove goes on TV ‘after’ the Primary is over, and says O’Donnell ‘cant win’ its obviously not because he means well, he clearly simply means ‘i hope’ she cant win. I lost all respect for the man last night, his comments were simply unbelievable and completely inexcusable.

      I agree completely about DeMint, he really is awesome, he’s done such a great job, a job the NRSC should be doing but isn’t. I just heard Christine on Fox and Friends, and she made an excellent point about how she was ahead of the Democrat before the ‘Republican cannibalism’ the Castle folks used against her, and that if they can get away from that she can get the lead back quickly. With the help of great Americans like Jim DeMint I definitely agree that she can do that. It’s going to be an exciting sprint to Election Day!

      • LisaDe

        At one point wasn’t she up by some 20+ points? Brown overcame it with an overwhelming grassroots effort. It can happen.

      • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

        another book filled with his own apologies for all the mistakes he made getting Bush to suck up to the establishment types and libs like Ted Kennedy. The naive little nerd…

  • proudmarinemom

    The NRSC has now removed any doubt about who they are and what they stand for. Average non-political Americans (like me) have been asleep for decades, trusting Architect Rove and the Republican establishment to do our thinking for us.

    No more.

    And if ever a candidate was given a chance to reveal his true colors, it was Mike Castle last night in his little “take-my-ball-and-go-home tantrum.” How can anyone who supported this man be disappointed that he will no longer have control over our wallets and our freedom?

    Get behind O’Donnell or do NOT come near p*ssed off former Republicans like me.

  • chbroussard

    What amazes me is that the establishment Republicans don’t understand that we don’t want them telling us who to vote for anymore than we want Democrats telling us who to vote for. Then they get on TV and send us to time out. Their arrogance is beyond belief.

    I’ve sent emails to my senator John Cornyn and Karl Rove this morning expressing my “displeasure” with them, in addition to an email to Jim DeMint offering thanks and support. Will be contributing to the Senate Conservatives Fund also.

  • chbroussard

    What amazes me is that the establishment Republicans don’t understand that we don’t want them telling us who to vote for anymore than we want Democrats telling us who to vote for. Then they get on TV and send us to time out. Their arrogance is beyond belief.

    I’ve sent emails to my senator John Cornyn and Karl Rove this morning expressing my “displeasure” with them, in addition to an email to Jim DeMint offering thanks and support. Will be contributing to the Senate Conservatives Fund also.

    • bk

      His voting is great and what he says about judicial nominations is right on, but the whole NRSC thing is just one freaking disaster after another. They’ve pissed money down more toilets than you’d find at an outdoor rock concert.

      • Scope

        When I was seeing people here posting that Castle has an 87% conservative rating, I looked at his voting record. What gave him that rating was when he voted conservatively on many things that were not critical or dangerous to the country. That’s very easy to do. It is on the most important votes where he let everyone down, like Cap and Trade, or the so-called jobs bill etc. There should be a different rating system. When you vote for or against major legislation that is anti-conservative, those votes should lose you more points than voting to name a post office after Ted Kennedy. Likewise, you should gain points when you vote for the people on major legislation.

        As you have pointed out with Cornyn, it’s not just someone’s voting record, it’s what they do and say outside of voting. He’s a perfect example.

  • MojoMan

    Either the NRSC had better have a very thorough explanation for this decision beyond “we don’t think she will win,” or this has to be interpreted as a selfish temper-tantrum being thrown by the Republican party establishment in the Senate.

    It may be that the NRSC has specific, extremely scandalous information about Christine O’Donnell that somehow justifies this decision. But if they do, so far I have not seen it. And I am not about to take their word for it either. Not the Republicans, or the Democrats, or the MSM. None of them. The NRSC is going to have to prove any controversial allegations that it puts forward in no uncertain terms. If they fail to do so, these Republicans should expect to be punished for its misdeeds, just as Mike Castle was by the Republican voters of Delaware in this Senate race.

    In fact, why should true conservatives feel morally bound to support moderate Republican establishment candidates such as Mike Castle if the Republican establishment is not going to support conservative candidates that it does not like? Is it possible that John Cornyn and the Republican establishment leaders in the Senate are not aware of this moral quandry?

    If they are aware – and I believe they have to be – then are they intentionally trying to run off the Tea Party Republicans, even at the risk of splitting the Republican party? This is really a very dangerous decision that the NRSC has made here, barring some tremendously scandalous revelation about Christine O’Donnell.

    • BA Cyclone

      For them to publicly announce their non-funding decision before she even takes the podium to accept the nomination is ridiculously….childish. At best.

      Maybe if they hadn’t spent so many precious resources supporting dyed-in-the-wool liberals like Crist a year before the primary (“to save the NRSC money”) they’d have a few resources left to throw the way of O’Donnell.

      Instead they look like a bunch of elementary school kids, pouting as they declare they are going home and taking the ball with them.

    • Scope

      There is definately a break between the conservatives and the moderates. The O’Donnell race has widened the crack. The NRSC hissy fit, in literally saying “she can’t win” seems to be the last gasp of a dying dinosaur, that has all but destroyed the Republican party. They seem to have forgotten why the Republicans were sent home in 06 and 08, and want to continue on the same path to further destruction. I am literally questioning if these people even want to win back majorities. God forbid they would have to figure out how to lead.

  • RedBeard

    At least for now, they are saying they support her, and have sent a check.

    Golly gee whiz, that was a quick turnaround. Could an e-mail inbox and a phone system clogged with messages from angry conservatives be the explanation? [insert rolling eyes here]

    • cordpt

      Just paranoia.

      They do that with every GOP senatorial candidate. I had already said that’s what they’d do with O’Donnell.

      What they won’t do is to spend money on this race as they’re doing with Paul, Rubio or Angle (unless polls start showing a somewhat competitive race). People just misinterpreted the significance of this. They weren’t/aren’t treating O’Donnell differently than they were/are treating many other candidates – the guys in Vermont, Hawai or Maryland, for example.

      But in the current climate, some people may have thought this was some sort of diss at O’Donnell. It’s not.

      • RedBeard

        If not for the NRSC statement last night, this might not have been a big issue.

        • cordpt

          Can you give me a link for that statement?

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