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Christine O’Donnell: Why I’m running for U.S. Senate

By: Christine O'Donnell (Diary)  |  June 8th, 2010 at 08:00 PM  | 

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Our nation’s founding principles of individual liberty and free enterprise are no longer viewed by our leaders as indispensable. We must stand up to the Washington elites and fight back against a Congress and White House intent on saddling us with their reckless spending, unbearable taxes and unfair policies that stifle our freedom and weigh down future generations with enormous debt.

Our country is going broke. Voters deserve candidates who believe deficits are wrong, and that deficits destroy nations just as surely as they do families. Spending money America does not have has become an appealing option for too many politicians and common sense men and women of America know this is not sustainable.

My opponent in the Delaware Senate primary is incumbent Congressman Mike Castle, who has served in Congress for the past 18 years and first won elected office in 1966.

* I will support common sense legislation that does not cost us jobs and raise family’s utility bills -my opponent voted for Cap and Trade.
* I will support the earmark ban, responsible entitlement reforms, and a balanced budget – my opponent voted against balanced budget legislation.
* I will support policies that provide economic growth not dependent on hand outs from the federal government – my opponent voted for TARP.


These are just some of the recent highlights of a career on Capitol Hill that has witnessed a regular helping hand as our nation’s debt went from $4.1 trillion to over $13 trillion during his tenure in Congress. Organizations such as the National Rifle Association, Family Research Council, and National Taxpayers Union have been raising concerns for years through their voting scorecards. As Republicans we should once again fight for less government, lower taxes, and reduced spending. Our Members of Congress should stand for the values of the party of Lincoln and Reagan beyond just having an “R” next to their name for 18 years.

Delaware voters deserve new representation from someone who understands government cannot spend our way to recovery and cannot tax us into prosperity. I hope to be their voice in Senate.

-Christine O’Donnell
Candidate for U.S. Senate

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  • SirGladiator

    You are the Conservative in this race, calling your opponent a RINO would be charitable to him, he is a very liberal Republican. His only chance of winning is if enough Republicans would rather have a guaranteed winner who is a liberal (Castle), instead of a likely winner who is a Conservative (yourself). If Castle wins this primary then we have two liberals on the ballot in November, that’s a lose-lose for Conservatives. We need you to bring this home for all of us! Please try to get Governor Palin to endorse you, Im quite confident that her endorsement would put you over the top the same way it did for Nikki Haley. Thank you for everything you’re doing for the Conservative movement, and for America!

  • hellome

    I know RedState has said it supports conservatives in primaries and Republicans in the general election, but I wonder when discretion is called for in the primaries. Castle is a guaranteed victory in November in a purple-ish state, while O’Donnell, despite her more desirable position on the spectrum, is a longer shot in November.

    • hellome

      The commenter above me, Sir Gladiator, mentions that it’s Lose-Lose if we have Castle on the ticket. I’m sorry to say that in an election year where every single seat is needed in order to have any chance at reaching 51 Senate seats, I can’t resolve myself to the opinion that it’s Lose-Lose when one of the supposed “Loses” potentially terminates the Democratic control of a House of Congress.

      • snowshooze

        This exemplifies the reason that we are in the situation we are in.
        The good ol’ RNC has been playing the numbers game at the expense of diluting conservatism. They still refuse to wake up and are more concerned with the Independents and swing votes than their conservative roots.
        When given the ultimatum of eat dirt or go blind…
        I say go blind. I realize that a safer game is hedging your bets,
        ( You point is completely understood, tried and proven as a failure.)but the cost in the long run is TARP, Obamacare, Cap and trade, Card Check…moratoriums on offshore drilling and nuclear power, debt beyond comprehension, a mosk at the twin tower sight…what more would you care to offer up to be a nice guy?
        So, if you want to just throw in the towel, I would think you may as well be honest about it and vote Democrat.
        Otherwise, you just insult the rest of those who are actually trying.
        PS… screw the Independents.

    • ffc99

      That’s being very kind to Ms. O’Donnell. A victory in the primary by Ms. O’Donnell would almost guarantee that the Delaware Senate seat stays in the Democrats hands. The fact of the matter is that conservative voters have to decide whether they want to make a statement (and lose in the general) or have a chance of winning the seat (and hold their nose to vote for a candidate they may have a number of disagreements with).

      • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

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        • ffc99

          but Ms. O’Donnell isn’t nearly as good of a potential candidate as either of those two gentlemen… She’s a perennial (losing) candidate.

          • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

            unless of course you’re already all-in with Castle. O’Donnell ran from nowhere against Biden with no money and no name recognition and still got 35% of the vote in ’08.

            There are 3 and change months before the primary. She’s a Conservative, Castle is not. In the year of anti-incumbency and a deep-seated resentment of the Dem agenda that Castle has helped perpetuate, you are far too quick to roll over and die on Castle’s hill when there is an opportunity to try, at least, to get a Conservative through the primary…come what may in November,

            Unless, again, you are already in for Castle…in which case you would then be wasting all of our time here.

          • ffc99

            I don’t live in Delaware and have no personal interest in the race, other than wanting to see a R win.

            With that being said, I’d suggest you read a little about Ms. O’Donnell. I think that doing so will show you that she is the type of candidate who has little chance of winning in a blue state like Delaware (in short, she’s a strong social conservative who’s made her name as a cable show talking head who opposes abortion, pornography and pre-marital sex…if you know much about Delaware, you know that this isn’t the kind of Republican they go for). More importantly, she’s already been overwhelmingly rejected by voters in both the 06 and 08 Senate races.

            As for that performance against Biden in ’08, it’s nothing to brag about. That’s actually the worst performance by any Republican who ever ran against Biden after his initial election to the Senate (that’s a total of 6 election cycles). What I’m saying is that any living, breathing non-felon Republican could have won 35% of the vote against Biden in ’08.

            Let me be clear that I don’t think much of Mike Castle, but I’m a realist, he’s the only Republican in the race who can win that seat (and admitting as much is not rolling over and dying…).

            Back to your attempted comparison of O’Donnell to Rubio, I actually supported Rubio against Crist. I did so because even though he was way behind Crist in the polls a year ago, I knew if he could find a way to win the nomination, he could actually WIN the general election. Florida is a state that conservatives can win (see, e.g., Bush, Jeb). Delaware, not so much… Conservatives need to choose their battles wisely.

          • Bryan McCarthy

            You mention that you do not live in Delaware. I do. 2008 was very different than 2010. Christine received 0$ from the GOP on the 2008 general election and it was a “hope & change” tidal wave. Many worthy candidates went down that year to the socialist tide. 2010 will be an anti-incumbent tidal wave. As a liberal incumbent, Castle will go down this year. If he does not do so in September, then he surely will in November. Also, since the 2008 election Mr. Castle VOTED FOR CAP AND TRADE. DE voters will sit home rather than vote for a socialist enabler such as Mike Castle

          • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

            Tea Party.

            That.Is.All.

          • rightwingdelaware

            Bryan I don’t know what “Delaware” you live in, but in the Delaware that I live in O’Donnell was endorsed by the state party in 2008.

            -The state party paid O’Donnell’s filing fee.
            -The state party let O’Donnell use their State Party Headquarters as her campaign headquarters until the last months of the 2008 election.
            -The state party made every other statewide candidate hold O’Donnell’s hand and help her with fundraising. They also had to invite her to every event.
            -Every time you see the names “DuPont” “Copeland” “Carpenter” on her campaign finance reports that’s money the State Party raised for O’Donnell.
            -The State Party provided O’Donnell with volunteers.
            -The State Party helped her raise money to pay off her debts after the campaign.

            The National Party gave exactly nothing to O’Donnell’s campaign because The Republican Party isn’t a welfare organization, if you’re not raising money on your own and firing up the campaign trail, they’re not going to give you money that could be going to candidates who were actually working hard.

            Meanwhile Mike Castle won in 2008 in a landslide victory during the Obama tidal wave.

            And Castle also voted against Obamacare, the Stimulus Package, the Jobs Bill and the repeal of DADT.

            Delaware voters will not “sit home” rather than vote for Castle. Delaware voters have come out and voted for Castle every time he’s run for office. That’s because Mike Castle was instrumental in bringing the banking industry to Delaware and growing the economy, and when other states were struggling, Delaware prospered with Castle at the helm.

            Delaware voters will, however, vote for a Democrat over a candidate who lied to them in 2006 and 2008 about being a college graduate, and whose campaign to date has consisted of attacks against Castle.

          • snowshooze

            Why would I consider winning with a sellout?
            Because it is wise? How?
            When I go down, I go down in flames.
            I retain my honor, and put on a great show.

          • rightwingdelaware

            Look at what your plan has gotten us to date:

            Obamacare
            A Trillion Dollar Stimulus Package
            Chicago like thuggery in DC politics
            An enormous national debt
            A Liberal activist Supreme Court Justice who will shape America for the next 30 years

            You won’t just be going down in flames, you’re taking the rest of us, and the entire nation with you.

          • rightwingdelaware

            the biggest victory of his entire political career. She was the Convention nominee in 2008 because of her name recognition, and the fact that she had “no money” was her own fault. She failed to show up at fundraisers, and almost everything on her FEC report was thanks to other candidates helping her out with their donors.

            And how quickly we forget Scott Brown. Scott Brown is a liberal Republican that will sit to the LEFT of Mike Castle in the Senate. Castle voted against the Jobs Bill, Brown voted for it.

            Delaware, unfortunately is a state with a much higher Democrat registration, and the majority of the Republicans in the state align politically more with a Castle than with an O’Donnell. Then there’s O’Donnell’s sordid past and failure to have any personal responsibility when it comes to her own finances. And how she lied to Delawareans in 2006 and 2008 about being a college graduate. And the way she sued the only employer she ever had in Delaware, a conservative think tank, for sexual discrimination then dropped the suit when the think tank chose to publicly fight her claims.

            The Republican Parties of each state need to run candidates that are viable for their states. O’Donnell has burned her bridges in Delaware with the voters and the party. If you like her so much, ask her to move to your state. It’s not like she’d have to leave a job or friends to relocate.

          • snowshooze

            Go ahead and lay it on us…I personally am interested in anything you might be able to enlighten us on, and as I am not in the district, it is not my immediate fight but as you may be, and have a bit more on the situation, I am interested in hearing what your take is.
            If Delaware is so freaked out that they feel they must trade out their elections in compromise, they are cowards and deserve it, but I am not thinking that is the truth.
            Better to have a quick clean death than suffer through an eternity of cancer.

          • Bryan McCarthy

            As was Ronald Reagan after 1976. Principle will win out. Mike Castle has none. He has spent forty years living off and spending tax payer money. He has used this time to vote for tax increases, bigger government and abortion. He voted for TARP as well as Cap & Trade. We don’t need “republican” like Arlen Specter, Charlie Crist and Mike Castle.

          • ffc99

            if you’d rather Coons be in the Senate than Castle, that’s your prerogative. I certainly understand why some folks don’t think a lot of him. Just don’t pretend that Ms. O’Donnell is candidate with a serious chance of winning.

            As for your comparison to Reagan, it’s laughable. Ronnie won his first ever race for elective office (CA gov…he also won reelection) and narrowly lost the nomination in 76, which actually was his only loss (I think you need to lose more than one race to be called a perennial loser, don’t you?). On the other hand, Ms. O’Donnell finished last in a 3 person Republican primary in ’06 before getting trounced by Hairplugs in ’08.

          • Bryan McCarthy

            Mike Castle voted for TARP and Cap & Trade and against the Iraq surge. Tell me again why we want him in the senate. Is it because he is a calls himself a republican? That was the argument in favor of Arlen Spector and Charlie Crist. Castle has voted with The Democrats more often than he has voted with The Republicans. We want our country back more than we want liberal fossils in office simply because the have a small “r” next to their name.

          • ffc99

            I’d rather him in the Senate than Coons because even if he only votes with the R’s 40-50% of the time that’s 40-50% more than Coons likely will (and on the specific issues you reference, there actually are a number of conservatives who think that TARP was absolutely necessary, you’ll even find some of them on Red State).

          • rightwingdelaware

            Obamacare, the Stimulus Package and DADT.

            Those are 3 things his Democrat opponent, Chris Coons would have voted for.

            Republicans need to stop cutting off their nose to spite their face. O’Donnell is no longer viable in Delaware, and Castle, despite his conservative failings, is literally beloved in the state.

            He was Pete Du Pont’s Lt. Governor and helped bring the banking industry to the state. When Castle was Governor Delaware had unmatched prosperity and low unemployment. Meanwhile O’Donnell runs from the press, lied about being a college graduate, and blames all of her problems on her opponent, even her problems that date back to 1994.

          • rightwingdelaware

            The banking industry is one of Delaware’s biggest employers. Why would Castle vote against over 30,000 jobs in his own state?

            And diss Specter all you want, but his leaving the GOP gave the dems a filibuster proof majority, and took any shread of influence away from the GOP. It wasn’t until liberal Scott Brown took Mass. that the GOP got to sit at the big kid’s table. And if it wasn’t for Specter, Clarence Thomas would not be on the USSC today.

            And make no mistake about it, Scott Brown will sit far off to the LEFT of Castle.

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      • Bryan McCarthy

        A victory by Mike Castle would give us a republican (sic) in the mold of Arlen Specter and Charlie Crist. This party has sold it’s soul for the last time. There are many conservative Delaware voters (like me) who will sit home in November rather than for vote for a liberal progressive like castle.

        • rightwingdelaware

          while “republicans” like you will run home and cry if your candidates lose in the primary and you’ll refuse to vote in November, the rest of us Republicans will go out and vote for your candidate if ours loses because we know that the important thing is getting Democrats out and Republicans in.

          You should probably just go and be an independent.

    • Bryan McCarthy

      First of all there is a huge anti-incumbent tide in the nation right now in case you have not noticed. Mike Castle is the ultimate incumbent. He is more liberal that most democrats. This man cannot ascend to the senate where he can rake over the people of Delaware in the same manner as he has done in The House. Believe me, in 2010 Christine O

      • snowshooze

        I know in my heart that true Delaware boys will not bend over on the promise that they will only put it half way in.
        Give an inch, and they will take a mile.
        We cannot afford any more RINO’s
        Give no quarter.

      • Richard Mullins

        and if she loses, don’t give up in by not voting in the General. Keep all the focus on the Nominee that wins the Primary and General. I hope she wins but the focus needs to be on winning the General, whether it O’Donnell or Castle. No time to give up now.

        • Bryan McCarthy

          If Christine loses and liberal Mike Castle wins the primary in September, those of us with energy in the state of Delaware will drive north and work for a real conservative like Pat Toomey. Mike (Cap & Trade) Castle can try to win with money, his paid “college boy” interns and his corrupt established machine. If he wins or loses nothing changes. If you want your country back, support Christine.

      • aravis

        I agree, Bryan. This is the time. Christine just needs republicans to come out with support for her. She can do it!

      • rightwingdelaware

        Castle wins by landslides every time he runs. That’s because he has a long track record of NOT “raking over the people of Delaware.”

    • JSobieski

      I am not making a comment regarding Delaware, because it is a race that I am unfamiliar with.

      • http://www.hickpolitics.com Dave Poff (haystack)

        Conservative in the primary, Republican in the General…there’s still time in this race to support the Conservative.

        • JSobieski

          but I don’t think Castle is bad for a blue state. I definitely grade on a sliding scale, which is why Lindsey Graham is infuriating.