Great quote: ““We stood in the streets, and looked around, and realized — there are more of us than there are of them.”

And for those who think conservative candidates cannot win in certain states, such as northeastern states, they are relying on outdated maps. The Tea Party is not Republican or Democrat. Come the General Election, many Democrats and Independents will vote with the Tea-Party backed conservative candidate because they too are fed up with the big-government, big-pension, politics-as-usual types. The fact that the GOP establishment is opposing their own candidates is evidence enough for many people that these candidates represent something different than the establishment.

clearly in defeat. Certainly, in this case.

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Hannity even took issue with him several times.

I don’t think we will see Rove back for awhile. At least on Hannitys show. Karl will probably be running over to the Today show.
He might even show up on the Ed Schultz show to pitch his book.

Rove and others in the g.o.p. hierarchy are making the same mistakes Marie-Therese made when she flippantly dismissed and disregarded what was happening to the “common” folk. Just as when and who made the “let them eat cake” statement affected the French’s future, disdain of the grassroots by word and deed in the present by the g.o.p, will affect it’s future and ours.

I have never understood why such brilliance is accorded the guy who refused to, or couldn’t, see the complete rejection of Pres Bush and the Republications in the 2006 mid-terms.

Why do we care what he has to say any more? He’s a curiousity, that’s all.

The Fox suck-ups call him ‘The Architect”… yeah, as in “The Architect… of disaster!”

Go back to Texas, Karl. Your fifteen minutes are up.

…and men make mistakes. I remember how he famously predicted on the eve of the 2006 midterms that the GOP might even gain a seat or two. I don’t know how much of this was sporting bravado, and how much was good-faith research.

Sadly, though, it looks like a good deal of men in the Delaware case are on the verge of making a bunch of mistakes. If the GOP loses the Delaware general election, it will be ENTIRELY the fault of the GOP Senatorial Campaign Committee by not robustly, full-throatedly supporting O’Donnell. Right now, O’Donnell is supported, according to Rasmussen, by only 66% of the Republicans in Delaware against the democrat. BUT, in an earlier poll, 40 percent of self-described independents were definitely NOT going to support Castle.

So, it looks like O’Donnell COULD win, because she will likely pick up good deal of the independents, but will loose the old, moss-back antique Republicans of the Castle ilk.

Sad, especially when men like rove could make a real, empirical difference in the race.

As is the case with any group that has developed a sense of entitlement, these people can’t quite grasp the fact that the unwashed masses can think for themselves, and refuse to be herded.

The nerve of the grassroots, not following along behind the “leaders.” I mean, those same “leaders” had Florida all figured out, and Charlie Crist was their golden boy (fake tan reference intended). Please.

The Republican Party no longer belongs to the elite within the NRSC, the RNC, or to self-anointed gurus like Karl Rove.

On to November, with the goal of electing each and every Republican running, even those not blessed with support from the elitists on Mount RNC Olympus.

They say that Christine O’Donnell MAY have character flaws, but the total history of Castle is a character flaw. If you change your PRINCIPLES every day YOU HAVE NO CHARACTER !!!!

Perfect analysis. I can’t add anymore so I’ll let the article do the talking.

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/09/15/crossing-the-delaware

By W. James Antle, III on 9.15.10 @ 6:11AM
Win, lose or draw, Mike Castle was always heading into the Delaware Republican primary as a member of an endangered species. Conservative big game hunters like to call them “RINOs.”

The popular acronym for “Republican in Name Only” has emerged as one of the Tea Party movement’s leading epithets of choice, alongside “liberal” and “progressive.” The upshot is that big-government establishment Republicans are no safer from conservative wrath than the Democrats whose legislation they so often support.

At some point, millions of grassroots conservatives across the country decided there was something wrong, almost abusive, about the right’s relationship with the Republican Party.

Maybe it was buyer’s remorse over the Bush years, when a “compassionate conservative” president and an earmarks-addicted GOP Congress began a deficit spending binge. Maybe it was when they found themselves in the voting booth in 2008, having to hold their nose and think of Sarah Palin in order to vote for John McCain.

But conservatives have finally begun demanding that Republican candidates do more than agree to appear on the ballot with an “R” next to their names. They are looking beyond the party label.

In truth, this is a process many years ongoing: Robert Taft against the Eastern establishment; Barry Goldwater against Nelson Rockefeller; Jeff Bell against Clifford Case; Al D’Amato against Jacob Javits. This year, however, a record number of RINOs have been hunted down and taken to the taxidermist for stuffing.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski fell to an unknown conservative named Joe Miller. Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson was badly beaten in his Senate race by upstart constitutionalist Rand Paul. Former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton lost a similar race to Ken Buck. Sharron Angle toppled Sue Lowden in Nevada. Sen. Bob Bennett didn’t even make it out of the Utah Republican state convention. Florida’s Charlie Crist and perennial Pennsylvania weathervane Arlen Specter have fled Republican Party to try to extend their political careers beyond primaries they had no hope of winning.

What’s happening? Conservatives have gotten tired of electing Republicans only to get bigger government and massive deficit spending. They are tired of giving their votes and campaign contributions to GOP politicians who pursue conservative goals halfheartedly if at all. They are disgusted that liberal gains, from new government programs to crazed federal court decisions, are seldom reversed but conservative policies like the Bush tax cuts come with an expiration date.

Conservatives are now demanding that their candidates do more than vote for John Boehner for speaker and Mitch McConnell for Senate majority leader. And when asked to vote for liberal Republicans, they lack confidence they’ll even get that much.

Conservatives lack this confidence for good reason. They watched Specter leave the GOP and hand the Democrats a filibuster-proof Senate majority. They watched “Jumpin’” Jim Jeffords of Vermont hand the Senate over to the Democrats in 2001. They let Rhode Island Rockefeller Republican Lincoln Chafee cling to the GOP label only to watch him leave the party and endorse Barack Obama.

For many, Dede Scozzafava in New York’s 23rd congressional district was the turning point. She was a liberal Republican, picked by party bosses despite her unreliability on the handful of issues on which conservatives had some chance of prevailing this year. When the polls showed she couldn’t win, she threw her support to the Democratic candidate.

Rather than vote for Scozzafava, Tea Party activists pulled for the Conservative Party candidate, Doug Hoffman. They were not bothered by the party establishment’s threats that this would cause them to lose the election. Better to an elect an honest liberal, they reasoned, than a liberal in Republican’s clothing.

For how is it a victory to elect a liberal with an “R” next to her name rather than a “D?” What does it profit a movement to win an election but lose its soul? Conservatives are saying to the Republican Party: for years you have taken us for granted. Now you can either win with us or lose without us. And if a conservative candidate loses anyway, so be it.

Rank-and-file conservatives no longer trust the Republican establishment. They don’t trust big-spending incumbents. They don’t even trust conservative magazines, websites, and commentators who in their view run down conservative candidates.

Are there drawbacks to this approach? As one Mama Grizzly might say, “You betcha.” Ideology and values are vital, but qualifications matter too. So do local conditions and regional differences, where one size doesn’t fit all.

Finally, few RINOs are as brazen as Castle or Scozzafava. They now have learned to talk like conservatives and check the right boxes on conservative litmus tests even as they expand government once in power. The George Romneys have become Mitt Romneys, the George Bushes George Ws. Will conservatives be as demanding of them?

But for now, this much is clear: Grassroots conservatives picked Christine O’Donnell over Mike Castle, electoral consequences be damned. If it can happen in Delaware, it can happen anywhere.

So far there’s really no proof that any Democrats have to “watch out” because of the tea party, that didn’t have to already.

That’s what we have to work on. No taking any race for granted.

Looks like Ayotte (a supporter of the Sotomayor nomination) will narrowly defeat the viable conservative tea party candidate in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, the tea party seems to have helped the Democrats pick up Biden’s seat. Seems like the tea parties should have put some more effort into NH and less into Delaware. I suppose it’s nice to see the GOP nominating more women, but I would prefer actual conservative senators.

people like me who are sympathetic, have been saying FROM THE VERY BEGINNING that Republicans ought to beware, because it is not a Republican movement.

It is a small government movement, pure and simple. And it will burn any who stand as foes. That is what these tired, old beltway apparatchiks still do not seem to understand.

A geek with a keen eye and a very sharp mind. He was not so much ‘attacking’ O’Donnell than reciting the litany of charges that will be hurled at her between now and November 2. His strength is not in selling a candidate but in analyzing her chances of winning or losing on the issues or on character or whatever happens to be in play.

And he is captive, somewhat, to the Party leadership (I use that word in a strictly clinical sense) due to his tremendous success as The Architect of Dubya’s last campaign. But this is where he has the opportunity to shine through.

Dubya was facing enormous odds when he launched his campaign for re-election and applying whatever magic potions he has available to him, Rove was instrumental in getting Dubya re-elected. He can do it again if he is willing to free himself from his orbit around the RSCC.

I say good riddance.

I blame him even more than Bush for our losses in 2006 and 2008. As “The Architect” it was his responsibility to take the bad news to the big guy and impress upon him the importance of changing course so as to avert worse news. Instead of doing that he kept selling the feel-good kool-aid. It wasn’t entirely his fault, but I regard him as a major contributor to our losses in 2006 and 2008.

So far, he’s the guy raising and spending millions to elect conservatives in states like Colorado and Nevada by beating Dems.

That’s Rove’s goal: November. He’s focusing on the general election voters. We’ll see by then how the candidates he’s supporting do and how the candidates he’s bashed do.

I’m pretty sure Ben, as a man of character, will write a new diary about this issue at that point.

Hubris is a trait not only shared by liberals. Never, ever belittle an individual’s vote at the ballot box. I am tired of politician after politician regard Democracy as a nuisance. As long as free elections stand, there will be no secret shadow group dictating the outcome before the last ballot is cast.

It’s not just Rove’s prediction, but his passionate disbelief that the masses could upset Castle. How dare they ruin the plans of the elite! Rove’s questions about O’Donnell isn’t worthy of a big-D Democrat. “Why did it take her 20 years to pay for her college tuition?” Because, its freaking expensive! That’s why! That question alone shows the utter aloofness. Is the best you can do? Did Rove really believe that an O’Donnell supporter seconds before making a choice at the ballot box would think to themselves, “Gee, I want to vote for her but it took her 20 years to pay off a loan for education. Nope, gotta go with Castle.”

if this guys story is true-

http://www.therightscoop.com/karl-rove-secretly-tried-to-help-castle-win

They told him to get lost. Hannity needs to do the same, but, he won’t. He’s too nice a guy. Right now we don’t need “nice guys”, we need fighters for conservatism.

Liberals think there is a civil war in GOP and that will benefit them. Dream on.

Last I checked after the civil war, the union was saved and blacks were liberated. This so called civil war will provide stark contrast to Americans between candidates who is for the people and who is for themselves.

Conservative candidates are more important than republican candidates. At this time GOP cannot be trusted with our money. Instead donate to candidates directly who is willing to take a stand and propagate conservative philosophy is prudent.

Rove and his organization are doing a formidable work to get conservatives all around the country elected.

He’s replacing a non-existent party and non-existent grassroots organizations.

So, criticizing the guy for not being a fighter for conservatism is just pathetic. Time to shut up with the childish rants just because someone trashed somebody else you like. It’s politics.

is Obama’s latest shovel-ready project. He keeps digging that hole deeper and deeper.

but he’s right – dude o’donnell has a ton of baggage, she’s going to lose, i’d love for her to win knowing the alternative.

i guess castle was a really weak candidate and is more to blame than o’donnell or the tea partiers but its still going to suck to allow another liberal to be voted in

and voting for someone who clearly is NOT a conservative, no matter how much the leadership of the Republican Party claims we should to help them with numbers.

Don’t you remember last time we went down this road?

In 2004 the GOP increased their Senate majority to 55 seats and then proceeded to do… wait for it … N-O-T-H-I-N-G.

That’s right, the Republicans had control and did nothing with it except delay the fight over judges to vote for overly-priced goodies like The Highway Bill. I remember just how furious I was at the constant delaying and then came the ‘Gang of 14′ where the leadership abdicated it’s responsibility to the voters (nice job Bill Frist) and let some of their good ole boys sell us out.

That was the first time I uttered the phrase “never again,” and I’ve stood by that line repeatedly as the GOP leadership lectured, betrayed, shunned and mocked the conservative base. The last straw with me was the 2007 Amnesty attempt led by backstabber in chief, John McCain.

I’m praying for every one of the Tea Party candidates, not only to win and derail the Democrats but also to win and derail the RINOS who have sold us out over and over.

Payback is hell, Karl.

You can be mad all you want but we’ve had enough. Voting for a liberal Republican gets you a R-I-N-O who acts like a Democrat. Been there, done that and I’m done with it.

Go Christine O’Donnell and God Bless her!!!

He is on Greta bashing O’Donnell. Is it too late for Fitzgerald to reconvene the grand jury?

Bless her heart.