Yes, Sean, Rush, and Levin are defending Christine O’Donnell. But they are also demonizing Castle supporters – even conservative ones. I’m a Castle supporter, but I don’t think that O’Donnell supporters are beholden to a certain “ruling class” of people.

Levin opened a dangerous door – and Rush and Sean strolled right through it.

with ME

Harry Reid he could count on his vote for Cap & Trade. That alone would keep me from ever voting for Castle.

Harry Reid he could count on his vote for Cap & Trade. That alone would keep me from ever voting for Castle.

No one is entitled to a victory. Elections are not a technical formality. Arlen Specter, Lisa Murkowski, Bob Bennett are examples of candidates underestimating the peasants. Each one of them showed their true feelings for the voters, their subjects.

Castle is not entitled to win. He has to earn the privilege to represent the GOP, otherwise he should had run as an independent. Attacking O’Donnell, minus her policies, for merely challenging him shows his arrogance, aloofness, and his vulnerabilities.

Levin especially has maligned many conservatives who were “conservative enough” before raising legitimate concerns over the O’Donnell candidacy. Apparently there is no room for dissent within conservatism anymore–or even challenging the character of our potential nominees.

He may have originally been merely mistaken about the impeachment story, but he cannot but know by now that he got the story wrong. Instead of correcting it, he has instead decided to be nasty to everyone who objected.

This is not praiseworthy behavior.

as I’ve listened to Rush today.

A good friend of mine moved to Delaware four years ago for a job transfer. She is a Dem. She is currently working on Christine’s campaign, she states the conventional wisdom on her losing this November is wrong. My friend cannot vote today, neither can the Independents and other Dem’s that are working for her campaign. They can however vote in November. She has the support to pull this off.

Has anyone else noticed that Al Gore is absent from all media in the day leading up to a primary? He’s nowhere to be seen, nowhere possible for voters to subconciously associate him with the Dem candidate.

I don’t have a dog in this race, but understand that our goal in the general election must be to take the seats back (or hold them) from Democrats. We must NOT let primaries derail what the goal should be. I will take someone who votes with us even a small percentage of the time over a Democrat who would not. Our goal must be to elect those who are aligned with us the most, but are also electable. If you elect someone in the primary who can’t be elected in the general election, why even vote?

The moral ground of voting for the best conservative is a lofty goal but one that doesn’t always get the best results. I am a results person. Give me someone that can win. I’ll worry about my perference for a more conservative later.

On second thought perhaps I do have a dog in this fight. The Congress needs as many R’s as we can get to stop the Obama agenda. That might be placing a vote next to someone’s name that doesn’t meet my idea of a conservative.

Rush has attracted a very large, very conservative audience who he’s told that conservatism, properly articulated, wins every time it’s tried and Republicans only lose when they go squishy. That meme is now deeply rooted with his audience and so he’s got to protect it. He has no choice but to go all in for O’Donnell to protect his business. Really, he’s got nothing to lose by supporting her but would tick off a large, excitable portion of his audience by not doing what he’s doing so this should be no surprise.

The Delaware race has divided conservative pragmatists from conservative zealots, Rush caters to the later so that’s what you’re hearing.

As has been said repeatedly by multiple people across more posts than I can count, no one is entitled to your vote. And some Republicans really aren’t fit for higher office: Mike Castle demonstrated such when he, at its most charitable, demonstrated he does not get what is arguably the most important issue of our time and became a reliable vote for cap-and-trade. But the same applies to O’Donnell: Her primary attribute this election cycle has been the ability to claim that she is not Mike Castle, and to do so while going through the motions of saying things the Right likes to hear. She is an empty suit, with no political accomplishments to her name, serious personal baggage, and a positive agenda that, where it exists, is made up gruel that is far too thin.

So, on this primary day, I throw my hands up and then wash them of this whole sordid affair. I’m tired of Castle’s offended sense of entitlement, tired of O’Donnell’s spinning conspiracy theories and shrill defensiveness, and tired of this primary being turned into a proxy war for the soul of the Republican Party when neither candidate is remotely worthy of the support and energy that’ve been expended on them. So I’ll pass on voting today: Someone’s hands have to stay clean for the fight in the general.

Wake in me November: And may we have the good sense to bury the hatchets this fight has produced into Chris Coons’s proverbial skull.

In Delaware, that’s the problem. Had O’Donnell been a Rubio, a Miller, a Lee, an Angle, or even a Carly, conservatives of all stripes would have lined up behind her and played the principles card, letting voters decide between a true and able conservative and a Marxist. That doesn’t seem to be the choice they have.

From all I’ve seen and read, conservatives don’t have a quality choice. They have to pick between an admitted moderate, who will vote with them a little over half the time, and a candidate, who proclaims to be a conservative, that has a bizarre and troubling past.

I’m all for taking the conservative plunge, but only for a candidate worthy of the dive. O’Donnell’s doesn’t seem to be worthy of that trust. She seems to be a Maes in the making.

I cannot wait until this primary is over with tonight. The Right-O-Sphere is about to divorce each other over this stupid race. I want to spit the whole state of Delaware out of my mouth right now.

On that note, go Christine.

…really want to wake up on November 3rd and tell yourselves, “It’s too bad that Coons stomped Christine and that kept Democrats in control of the Senate, but at least we showed those Republican establishment types a thing or two!”?

Think hard about what you are doing. The country needs a Republican majority in the senate more than conservatives need to teach the elites a lesson.

You want to see some senate investigations into the Obama Administration? Unless Republicans have a majority, you can forget it. Want to see Sessions chairing the Judiciary Committee? No gonna happen unless Rs have a majority. And after seeing the Dems pass Obamacare via reconciliation, which only requires a majority, it is unfathomable that anyone would support an unstable sure loser over an almost sure winner who be with us more than not.

I could see taking a chance on Christine O’Donnell if she was a good candidate, but she’s a nightmare – an embarrassment actually. If conservatives throw away senate control because of Delaware, the euphoria of O’Donnell supporters may feel tomorrow should turn to embarassment and then shame.

I think Rush and the other fire breathers are doing more harm than good. I say that because I don’t think they’ve done a good job of researching O’Donnell at all. The more we learn about her, the more apparent it becomes she is a gadfly with credibility issues.

I’m certainly not going to say Mike Castle is great. In fact, he’s far from it and we all know that. Still, this is the wrong time to have this fight, and, more importantly, O’Donnell is the wrong person to use to further the conservative cause. After all, this is Delaware and not Alaska, Kentucky, or Pennsylvannia. Until now, we’ve chosen wisely.

One of the reasons I have a problem with Rush on this issue is his past performance. If he feels so strongly, where was he with Mark Kirk? Where was he with Bob Bennett? Where was he with Lisa Murkowski? The answer is he was nowhere to be found. Only now, with just weeks to go is he swoopingin and trying to claim this as his own doing.

My personal belief is Rush is trying to mark his territory and show his power. Should Castle lose, he’s going to claim it was thanks, in large part, to him. But just as important, by his own rules, why did Rush so strongly support Bush? Bush is no liberal, but he was certainly no conservative thanks to NCLB, Medicare Part D, and spending in general.

With just eight weeks to go, we need to worry about winning the majority. A fight this late the process could linger into the general and cause unneeded friction when we should be celebrating. We don’t need to give the media anything they can use to drive a wedge or gin up fear. Now is the time for winning and we can’t do that without Delaware.

Defeating Castle might make many feel warm and fuzzy, but it serves no purpose but to promote the Obama agenda. Is that what we want?

wait for the talk of an Independent run, a write-in attempt or Castle supporting the Democrat if O’Donnell wins! The establishment GOP only wants their power, power and chairmanships in Washington. They could never, never come out in full support of the conservative amongst them. That would be lowering themselves from their snobby lofts on high! RUSH IS RIGHT!

The TEA Parties didn’t start because WE intended to keep sending RINO’s to Congress, they started to make the GOP PAY just as much as to make the Democrats PAY for their spending and this race just like the races in AK, CO, AZ, hell even MA were about STOPPING the insanity that has raged within the Political Class who btw over 70% still do NOT see that what they have been doing to this Country in the name of “progressivism” is literally been tyrannical!

Are Levin, Hannity and Rush over the top? well considering they are NOT in the military and have nothing but their voices and their MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of listeners to engage in the BIGGEST battle of OUR lifetimes I would say HELL NO!

Levin is a LIAR. Straight up, bald-faced. He has no more credibility, and if you continue on this nutbar jihad, neither will you.

The crazed Buchananites have taken over.

O’Donnell is one of them.

I don’t understand the fascination with the GOP. Castle doesn’t pretend to be a conservative, I don’t care for him.

What worries me is: elect better conservatives, elect true conservatives, don’t elect politicians who claim to be conservatives for their own gain and will end up embarrassing the conservative cause and giving the MFM ammo to hurt the electoral chances of true conservative candidates.

1) Obama + Castle
2) Obama + Coons
3) Obama + O’Donnell

Is #2 really all that much better than #1, all things considered? Is it really any better?

I’m sure it has been said but I would imagine that enabling Obama to keep the Senate would be preferable to having a semi-useful, sometimes-dependable “RINO” in the Senate (thereby enabling Republican control) during the final two years of Obama’s one and only term. (This assume the KnownFact that O’Donnell is unelectable in the general.)

And of course I would imagine O’Donnell in the seat would be best of all (even an O’Donnell of questionable accomplishments, integrity, and background.)

-Is having one house of Congress enough to keep Obama from doing further damage?
-How much damage could really be undone in Obama’s final 2 years, even with the House AND a [weakly] controlled Senate?
-Will not maintaining Senate control to some degree keep Obama more accountable in November 2012 than he otherwise would have been?

At any rate, I hope Levin keeps things above board.

1) Obama + Castle
2) Obama + Coons
3) Obama + O’Donnell

Is #2 really all that much better than #1, all things considered? Is it really any better?

I’m sure it has been said but I would imagine that enabling Obama to keep the Senate would be preferable to having a semi-useful, sometimes-dependable “RINO” in the Senate (thereby enabling Republican control) during the final two years of Obama’s one and only term. (This assume the KnownFact that O’Donnell is unelectable in the general.)

And of course I would imagine O’Donnell in the seat would be best of all (even an O’Donnell of questionable accomplishments, integrity, and background.)

-Is having one house of Congress enough to keep Obama from doing further damage?
-How much damage could really be undone in Obama’s final 2 years, even with the House AND a [weakly] controlled Senate?
-Will not maintaining Senate control to some degree keep Obama more accountable in November 2012 than he otherwise would have been?

At any rate, I hope Levin keeps things above board.

I don’t really care what the outcome of this race is, but they are a friggen’ disgrace.

The ones who are slamming O’Donnell as not being electable need to realize that if she beats Castle, they are doing serious damage to her in the general election. The Democrats will use it as ammunition to show that the right doesn’treally want her.

It seems the whole argument for voting for Castle is we need to get an “R” in that seat. OK, control of the Senate is important but if you are ready to throw out your conservative principles just to get a win, where do you stop compromising?

People who argue that she isn’t good enough at expressing conservative principles need to remember the polished presentation made by Obama. We see where a smooth talker got us. Give me a rough delivery anyday, as long as she puts forth conservative ideals.

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“Never say sorry – it’s a sign of weakness”
John Wayne

Castle, the Repulican party elites and those here on RS that have been outright slandering and smearing O’Donnell for weeks now all have “hurt”feelings because there is “push-back”.

They feel they should be able to say ANYTHING about her and her supporters, while at the same time she and her supporters are suppose to be “Respectful” to Sir Castle and the RINO republican party establishment. (Ha)

Another amusing thing is this same old tired line of how __________________ is to “crazy”, “unlectable”, “The democrats are praying for _____________to win”, and how ___________________ will be USED to hurt other real conseravative candidates”. ( Just fill in the blank because they have said it about every tea party candidate).

The same thing they are saying now was said about Angle, Miller and the rest.

Now the same people are saying that O’Donnell will be USED to hurt good candidates like Angle and Miller. (Ha Ha Ha). It is getting really OLD. Please just come up with a new line of reasoning to justify your wanting to elect LIBERAL Repulicans, I’m getting bored with all this same old stuff.

O’Donnell will with the Primary and the General. And the Delaware Republican officials should resign in SHAME.

thier principles just to have a 51 majority in the Senate?

I’m tired of being told WHO to vote for by party elites who only have their best interest in mind.

We need to kick out all the Liberal Republican Rino’s. It does not matter if we win control of the Senate this time around because:

(1) We Will have control of the house so it does not matter what the Senate passes because the house will not be a Pelosi rubber stamp like it has been.

(2) We WILL make gains in the Senate with CONSERVATIVE candidates and it only takes 51 to stop legislation. If we have 58 or 59 (Conservative) Senators we can stop anything we want to stop.

(3) Even if we control both houses and pass all kinds of great legislation (Or repeal the bad stuff), Obama is still the President and we do not have enough to override his VETO. So it really does not matter. We are stuck with a socialist for two more years.

(4) Would it make you FEEL better to have a Republican Senate confirm another LIBERAL justice with the votes of McCain, Castle, Collins, Graham, Brown, Snowe ….

(5) Having a Repulican (RINO) Senate would just give legitimacy to Obama’s agenda when the Rino’s and Liberals band together to pass his socialist agenda.

(6) I think Obama would welcome the chance play the ‘Blame the Republicans game during the 2012 election.

If we can take control of the Senate with CONSERVATIVE candidates then fine, if not then I say vote your principles and elect as many Conservative Senators as possible. Hopefully enough to replace McConnell with Demint as our leader. Then in 2012 we take control of the Senate with even more Conservative Senators and then we actually get some things done with a Conservative President.

While some are suggesting that it would be better to vote for a conservative even if it might mean not having the Senate are possibly forgetting that we have a President Obama in the White House. Even if they are right under normal circumstances right now it is a different world. In this world we need as many R,s as possible to hold on to what is left of our children’s future.

Having said that, whatever the outcome we need to come together to get our Country back on track. We can not do this divided.