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On the Battle Between Midgets vs. Tigers

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 12th, 2010 at 05:00 AM  | 

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“When the book is written on Election 2010, the media will mock the O’Donnell candidacy, but whether she wins or loses she will be a hero in my book.”

In the battle between midgets versus tigers, the midgets can win. But a few of the midgets must sacrifice themselves to distract the tigers.

First of all, yes, yes I know it should be midgets versus lions, but that is an internet hoax, this is very real, and I’m an LSU fan.

This is precisely what is happening in the battle between the tea party and the establishment. The establishment controls the major party machines, the media, the fundraising tools, etc. The tea party is not in a fight against the Democrats or Republicans, but the establishment, which has grown out of touch with the people and is destroying the country. Democrat and Republican alike, the leadership of each is terrible and given voice by a media that is largely incapable of relating to the concerns of a group labeled fringe yet driving the election.

The tea partiers are the midgets. The establishment politicians and media are the tigers.

In Delaware, Christine O’Donnell is the midget sacrificing herself to the tiger of the mainstream media and establishment.

The odds are stacked against Christine O’Donnell. Thanks to the industriousness of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Senate GOP Leadership, the Delaware GOP Leadership, and the assorted pundits, journalists, and other talking heads on TV and in print, Christine O’Donnell is really taking one for the team and will likely not make it past the tigers.

But because of Christine O’Donnell’s willing sacrifice, the tigers are distracted. With only about twenty-two days left, the tigers are just now trying to refocus on Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, Mike Lee, Joe Miller, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Pat Toomey, and Ron Johnson. Meanwhile, for the past five weeks or so, these candidates have built up leads or drawn even with their opponents.

While the tigers have been taking out Christine O’Donnell, these candidates have surrounded the tigers and are preparing to slay the beasts.

There are many on the right who speak derisively of Christine O’Donnell. They lament her rise. They insult her. They spit when they say her name. Even here at RedState, many commenters pull out their hair over Christine O’Donnell.

Shame on all those who do that. When the book is written on Election 2010, the media will mock the O’Donnell candidacy, but whether she wins or loses she will be a hero in my book. But for her, neither Sharron Angle nor Ken Buck nor Mike Lee nor Joe Miller nor Marco Rubio nor Rand Paul nor Pat Toomey nor Ron Johnson would have had as strong a chance of winning in this last month before the general election.

Christine O’Donnell, willingly or not, has stood firm in the face of the media and establishment onslaught and distracted them all. And only now, with twenty-two days left, are the media and establishment turning, in terror, to realize how close the midgets are to slaying the tigers.

Do not insult or belittle Christine O’Donnell here at RedState. Because of her, even if she cannot win, she has distracted the tigers long enough so that others can win. She is owed our thanks.

One Editorial Note: Some of you are pounding your fists on the table and smacking your forehead wondering why on earth I’m pointing this out now instead of waiting. Well, I have a strong sense given the wires these past few days that the media is starting to realize they’ve been distracted so there is no harm in pointing it out now. And no, I’m not wrong.

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  • msbs05

    Whether ODonnell wins or loses she has performed another important function. Her primary victory lets the establishment know that none are safe if they sell out the people. No longer do we waste our vote on wishy-washy moderates just because they have better chance to win with liberals. If we elect a politician that has no belief in the Constitution and does not represent the people, then what have we gained. Those type Republicans are the ones that give the party a bad name because the have no principles. I would rather lose. I have seen ODonnell speak and she is inspiring. She is ridiculed for her conservative beliefs, but never faultered in them. We conservatives are tired of being silent, tired of being mocked when we speak. Christine is taking on the lefts abuse for us all and standing strong with chin up and a smile on her face. She does deserve our praise.

  • penguin2

    it will show that the midgets could drive “The Little Engine that Could.”
    Timeless classic children’s story of optimism and belief in succeeding against all odds. “I-think-I can, I-think-I-can.”

  • fbks

    The media is out to take Miller down, not sure if they are in for Lisa or the Dems. I was looking through a local left wing blog and the comments of an obvious battle axe’s comments were that “even if Miller wins, we are going to do to him what we did to Palin”.

  • fbks

    Working with the establishment to disenfranchise the conservative Republican voters and give Alaska a character less politician or a Dem.

  • JSobieski

    People weighed the message/messenger dichotomy different that you did, but the only people ridiculing her for her conservative beliefs are liberals.

  • JSobieski

    People weighed the message/messenger dichotomy different that you did, but the only people ridiculing her for her conservative beliefs are liberals.

  • JSobieski

    obviously the truth is something in between

  • JSobieski

    obviously the truth is something in between

  • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

    Midget Bowling…….

    ….and the tigers play the game from both sides of the alley where real heads start to really roll towards real pins….. what then ?

    Do the midgets actually have the you-know-what’s to jump up and punch the tigers in the naughty bits ?

    Crises too big to waste have started over less than that.

  • http://freedom-light.org solvoreor

    The people that say Christine O’Donnell can’t win are not from Delaware. People from around the country look at the odds and say that Newark is the biggest voting block and a traditionally democrat strong hold so the Republicans must offer a liberal candidate.

    I work less than 10 miles from where Vice President Biden calls home. Most of the people I work with live in Delaware and work in nearby states.

    They don’t agree with the nay sayers. They believe that Christine O’Donnell can win. Let me tell you in their own words.

    WE EXPECTED MORE!
    - Delaware voters helped put Pelosi and Reed in to power in 2006
    - Delaware vorers helped put President Obama in the Whitehouse in 2008
    - Delaware gave Obama their long time Senator as Vice President.
    DELAWARE VOTERS EXPECTED MORE!

    Saving GM. They expected the Obama administration to save GM. He did, They see him take his photo ops in the GM plants of the midewest, but he threw Delaware under the bus. Gone is the GM plant in Newark, along with all the thousands of good paying UNION jobs Obama claims to value.

    Saving Chrysler. The Obama administration took personal responsibility for the restructuing Chrysler, which included shutting down the Chrysler plant in Delaware.

    These two acts alone crushed the manufacturing in Delaware, and with it, the Democrats strong union support. The GM plant and the Chrysler plant were part of the Arsenal of Democracy of the last century and were a signficant industrial base on which the Democrat supporting unions could rely.

    This is just a couple examples of the decline in prosperity that Washington is inflicting on Newark Delaware. Refineries closing, power plants shutting down because of the administrations adverse attitude towards carbon fuels. Jobs in transportation, including solid union jobs in rail transport that depended on carrying coal to the generating plants, moving parts in to the autoplants and delivering finsihed automobiles to the country are all gone. Washington has decimated the industrial base of the Delaware Valley which provided the jobs and the opportunities that drew people to Northern Delaware.

    So, when the voters of Delaware voted for change, they had in mind that the administration in Washington would stop the decline and restore some vitality to the region. They expected MORE.

    Delaware is the home base for many companies because of it’s pro-business laws. What ever they expected didn’t include threatening the finance and insurance industries with so many regulations that instead of hiring people they are cutting services and sitting on their cash like a refuge looking for a way to escape.

    Clearly, the Obama administration doesn’t care about Delaware, even though the Vice President is from that state. What is one more democrat vote to Nancy and Harry either way? What message will it send? If sending Biden to Washington didn’t put Delaware on the radar, what will sending Chris “rubber stamp” Coons do to turn back the tide of dispair?

    At a time when Newark residents face some of the highest unemployment in the nation, Chris Coons voted with those that raised taxes on property 50% in the last few years. The rate is staggering to people struggling to pay their mortgages.

    So the choice is clear: a vote for Chris Coons means more taxes more factories closing, more jobs leaving and NO RESPECT from Washington.

    If the Democrats really want more, if they really expected more, if they really think Washington should pay more attention to the plight of Delaware and sending Biden to VP for them didn’t do it, then why NOT vote for Christine O’Donnell.

    The way Obama obsess on Bush and the Republicans, it might at least get noticed.

    WmCraig
    Solvo Reor

    Chrysler gone, GM gone, Valaro gone, Boeing going, Insurance going,
    Banking stagnet, Chemical plants, Coal, oil and refineries out of favor.
    WANT MORE OF THIS? Chirs Coons is your man!

  • GreyCloak

    … and may be closer than most lower-48 Redstaters. But he has actually WORKED for the opposition, so some tinge of pay-for-play might be reasonable in evaluating his opinions.

  • GreyCloak

    .., and Christine O’Donnell’s first commercial was a winner.

    The National GOP can’t get a grip on the Tea Party candidates that took their elections away. The best they can hope for is that some of the candidates will win, and fall under the sway of the “spend-some-more” incumbent Congress, be it Democratic or Republican.

    All this election-year spending must be good for the economy. I’m happy that the Democrats are so puzzled as to where to spend next. Midgets cost money, and that is a good thing, Maybe they can bring Gulliver down, as well.

  • momofthecastle

    hard for this election. Not just Delaware, but all the states.
    Who knows but that Christine O’Donnell (and all the rest) was raised up for just such a time as this?
    Let’s not forget Whose hands this election is in. Don’t be discouraged!

  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    Lisa has indeed become the lightning rod not only just of Liberals but of the Establishment, as EE points out. She may still win for a whole host of intagibles that only Delawarians understand. And such a victory will mean the slaying of one of the most pernicious rats, not tigers, in the GOP midsts…the RINO.

    But Lisa, that little Honey Pot, I take very personally. Just think. Toe to toe nuklar combat with the Chancians. More later

  • wethepeoplevstheprogressives

    You should make a Delaware commercial with all this!

  • Viator

    Karl Rove? Mike Castle? Tom Ross? Jim Geraghty? Jonah Goldberg? Dan Foster? Andrew Suttaford?

    NRO (Geraghty): “With Christine O’Donnell, all we have are promises. We can’t evaluate her on her record in elected office because she has no record. O’Donnell seems determined to begin her political career by winning a U.S. Senate seat; she has never served in a local board of education, town or city council, state legislature, etc. Her next general-election victory will be her first.”

    NRO (Goldberg): “I don’t know that much about Delaware, but people I trust say that Castle may well be the best we can hope for there.” And: “Also, it’s worth pointing out that we want more liberal Republicans, we just want them to replace Democrats. If Northeast Republicans have to be more liberal than Southwest ones to win, that’s okay.”

    NRO (Foster): “Forty Jim DeMints or 60 Lindsey Grahams? Forty Christine O’Donnell’s or 60 Mike Castles?” and “So, again: would conservatives in Delaware rather win, or send a message?”

    NRO (Stuttaford): “As for the idea that reducing the GOP to a rump of true believers (whatever that might actually mean: there are plenty on the right who interpret the terms “limited government” and “free people” in very different ways) is the essential first step in a Republican restoration, it is, I am afraid, a bad mistake. Wildernesses are, almost always, for losers.”

    http://spectator.org/archives/2010/09/10/the-ruling-class-hits-christin/

    I sent Christine money and I may send her some more for the finish It’s tough to decide where to send support with so many races vying for attention, with so many liberal races disintegrating before our eyes. I just sent Sean Bielat some money.

    “Challenger Bielat Holds His Own Against Master Debater Frank”

    http://www.wbur.org/2010/10/12/frank-bielat-debate

  • christinakfjeffrey

    Both Parties use disgusting means to stay in power and you cannot count on those who have been abused to not turn around and abuse in return, but at least we can thow the abusive out on their “A” double crooked letters.

    Now it is Paladino who is getting the shaft. Even Fox News is piling on, Frankly, I do not get it. Cuomo is virtuous because he takes his daughters to a Gay Pride Event? How exploitive! How far will he go to pander? Peladino is not smooth; but he says what almost everyone believes and even Democrats say: Real marriage beats the unreal marriage. He also says straights are happier (actually religious straight people have the best sex lives, or so the sociologists tell us), and children should not be exposed to homosexual (or any sexual) themes when they are young and innocent. I added the parenteticals, but I think Paladino would agree. I hope he wins!

  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    vb

  • smitch61

    penguin2… Now that is one fantastic comment. The post of the day. You have summed it up quite nicely.

  • ihateliberals

    Karl Rove, Mike Castle, Tom Ross, Jim Geraghty, Jonah Goldberg, Dan Foster, Andrew Suttaford, Micheal Steele, John McCain and Orin Hatch just to name a few are what?s wrong with the Republican Party, the GOP.

    If the GOP is to survive they are going to have to get in touch with us conservatives. We are the ones that gave the GOP it?s strength for many years. Starting with George Bush one the party has steadily moved to the left. They tried to throw us conservatives under the bus. Now they wonder why the Tea Party has gained such strength. If the GOP continues it trend after the elections Win or Lose they are going to be in big trouble. They have to realize that traditionally Republicans for the last century have been conservatives. If they don?t dump Steele and the likes of him there will be a third party in 2012. That will be a scary thing. Throughout the world wherever there is more than two parties it s very hard to get anything done. The democrats would love to see a Tea Party come out of this years elections. That would mean a shoe-in for them in 2012.

  • pamdale

    Mike Lee, US Senatorial candidate from Utah, should not be on this list. He has not drawn even during this last month, but has since the Utah Primary (wherein he did battle fiercely with his opponent), been way out in front. Other than that, I agree totally with what you are saying, Erick.

  • mustango

    …that the Dems and the liberal media establishment were bewitched by O’Donnell.

    Sorry, had to say it. But it is amazing how much time and effort those guys were coerced into expending to go against a candidate whose own party leadership was writing off the night of her own nomination. Come what may, no regrets over O’Donnell.

  • janis

    That what we see in oppo attacks on Miller may well be the work of Art Chance. It was a strange feeling. But so many of us have read his comments on what he would do if he were the opposition, and what I see fits perfectly in line with what I remember him writing.

    I wish Art well in general, but not in this endeavor.

  • azaeroprof

    But don’t count Christine out just yet. The Dems sending their campaign help from NH-1 to Delaware tells me that they, maybe unlike the pundits and many Republicans, feel that O’Donnell is not out of this race.

    As for me, win or lose, like I said on facebook when I shared her “I’m You” commercial, there’s just something about this woman that I really like.

  • IJB
  • dakotamel

    O’Donnell’s criticism by the Republican establishment is exactly the reason I consider myself a Republican, but not a Republican. Listening to the leaders of this party is like listening to nails on a chalkboard. I gave to Christine’s campaign and others who I believed in (Rubio, Angle and Miller included) but I won’t give a cent to the RNC.

  • mdd1956

    don’t seem to realize how big a win for O’Donnell will be.

    Primaries have consequences.

    This is loosing an at home game for the Ds.

    Delaware, Slovoreor makes great points above, shows how the Ds will kill their own young, bite the hand that feeds them, etc., destroy industries in their naive belief that this is somehow progress.

    It also points out how hypocritical the media are when they point out that Coon’s socialist papers are forgotten, irrelevant, youthful indiscretions.

    AND ROVE (the Architect whom I usually admire) is playing right along with our lefty opposition.

  • earlgrey

    when I read it to him I have to mix up the sexes, becasue all the good engines are shes and all the bad, unhelpful engines are hes. Now that he is learning to read, I have to read it correctly.

    Anyway, I think we have a good mixture of he and she good guys going into this election.

  • youngsterz

    Can you imagine, if O’Donnell squeaks this one out, how absolutely devastated the Dems would be? Their #1 target of derision, scorn, and mockery. . . actually wins? What does that tell them for the future? It tells them that NO ONE IS SAFE.

    Keeping Dems scared and focused on this one race, no matter what the outcome, most certainly takes their focus and their money from other races. Divide and conquer remains the best strategy in war, and make no mistake: this isn’t just politics, it is outright war, with our very freedom at risk.

  • esh77

    In a time when we are confronted by a slew of legislation and a radical president with veto power, shouldn’t ‘job one’ be to take back both Houses of Congress?
    We may still succeed here, but if we don’t, Christine will be a primary factor.
    There were many Tea Party discussions preceding the primaries and my
    impression was we had decided to stay out of the political side in terms of
    choosing candidates. The idea, I thought, was that we would win first and
    put the RINOs on notice that if they failed to shape up, we would soon see them
    shipped out as it were. While I agree that Castle is among the worst RINOs,
    I still think he would have (A) walked away with the elect\ion and (B) supported us in our attempts to ‘beat back’ Obamacare. I get it that he voted for the Stimulus but that really is water over the bridge and a fully Republican Congress would likely never bring up billion dollar expenditures. (I know Castle is not reliable, but I still say he would have been better than Coons).
    Now if we end up having Biden as tie-breaker, the rock we are trying to push uphill will be a lot heavier.

  • cpa2222

    Never forget that this country was founded by men who were looking for the free expression of their faith, not the exclusion of it. I thank God for the O’Donnell’s and Paladino’s and other conservatives who are willing to stand up and be counted. We are all mad as hell and won’t take it anymore, but they stand up to represent us. God bless them in their races, and if they lose, they know they had the courage to try!

  • skorrent1

    The tigers stopping a Republican in Utah, but they did their best to neuter him, and will continue when he takes office.

  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

    If he were involved, it would be at a different level. But I don’t know why we should care anyway.

    Alaska is a small state population-wise; like any family, it’s very hard to keep secrets for very long.

    Thus I would think it quite likely that this story has been brewing for a while and coming to light at a particularly bad time for Miller.

    I don’t have any connections to Alaska, so I could be completely off, but it’s not for certain that Lisa’s crew is behind this story – if a newspaper has been suing to get records, you’d have to look at their political affiliation.

    That is, the Democrats could just as likely be behind this – after all, even in Alaska, a write-in campaign is difficult to carry out; and if there’s an even enough split, the Democrats could win a three-way race.

    And remember that there are a fair number of Democrats around, especially in Anchorage and Juneau, if I recall Art’s past commentary.

    Or it could even be that neither Lisa or the Dems are “behind” this story but that the wound is self-inflicted due to mishandling. It would seem that Joe’s response seems to lack pre-planning.

    After all the same attraction of newcomers (if that is indeed the case regarding Joe) also may means a certain level of inexperience, which can lead to freeze-up at the wrong time.

    Just like post-season baseball playoffs.

    Surely things will become clearer in the next few days. So let’s see how this story develops.

  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

    This is getting tiresome. I wouldn’t be surprised to see you shownthe door very quickly.

  • miroco

    Not a lot of positives to decades of suffering liberal abuse, but one learns quickly that every thing they proclaim is a crafted prevarication with ulterior motives. A Pelosi is digusting, wrong and a thief but the real danger is a Snowe. Even my Texas own Kay Bailey sets us back decades. Give me Christine, she won’t sell out millions of my acres for some dumb ass wild horse scheme, some romantic inneficient rail preservation— Geez.

  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil_truth

    …hoping their distraction would continue right up to election day.

    One additional reason for this behavior is the media’s continuing obsessive misogyny against strong Republican conservative women.

  • skorrent1

    Participated in the Republican primaries they would have become merely an extension of the GOP Establishment. That is not their motvation. They cannot expect to win every primary, nor every general election. But, if they are to make an impression on the political environment, they must choose, and support, candidates who represent their principles. Let the voters do the winnowing, and gear up for 2012.

  • jenniferjmilleresq

    I have a feeling she will clean his clock David & Goliath style. Hopefully that will produce some good clips for ads. It’s ALL about turnout. Don’t count her out. Obviously the DNC isn’t or they would not spend precious resources on that race.

  • Locked and Loaded

    You need to pay particular attention to that first part, and quit crying over losers.

  • Locked and Loaded

    You need to pay particular attention to that first part, and quit crying over losers.

  • lineholder

    because it is really starting to come back and bite them on the backside.

    My “on the ground impression” from people I’ve talked to is that they are literally sick through and through of being told what to do, how to do it, what to believe, and what to think by people whose basic character is lower than pond scum.

    They’ve been told over and over how something is “good” for them and they’ve led it slide, a lot more than they should. But now they are experiencing this massive ad nauseum response. The words “projectile vomiting” come to mind.
    Every part of their heart, mind, spirit and soul is rejecting the empty promises as lies now. They aren’t interested in the smears. They’ve had enough!!!

    Yeah, midgets may be midgets, but these midgets have the right to vote!!

  • john_barry

    Christine O’Donnell has been viciously attacked in a manner similar to Sarah Palin. Now of course both are pro-life women. So this has contributed to the nastiness of the attacks by the Democrats and their allies in the liberal/secular media. In one of the attacks she was labelled a whore.
    Well sure what would you expect from them? They have form.
    However more disgraceful again has been the stream of attacks on her from people who call themselves Republicans. Shame on them.
    The reality is that O’Donnell is a true conservative who can be relied upon to vote against wasteful spending. Who wants RINOs in this hour of crisis? Electing a RINO is electing a crypto Democrat.
    Karl Rove’s attacks on her on Fox News were in bad taste and seriously damaging to her.
    Would Karl Rove attack a male RINO in the same manner?
    O’Donnell has guts, conviction and determination not like RINO wimps.
    Hopefully the people of Delaware will give her the chance to represent them.
    She should ignore the wolf packs attacking her and just concentrate on the issues of wasteful spending, the deficit, taxation and unemployment. She must NOT be deflected from this.

  • texasvet

    (well, at least me) was bring the big time RINOs into range. Rove, McCain, Cornyn et al, who will also get their chance to be voted OUT. Their time is coming.
    Thanks SOLVO REOR for educating us on Deleware. I’m from Texas and I watched the Delaware Primary because I wanted new blood in the Republican Party instead of old wrinkled meat. Same for Alaska, Murkowsky is such a hissy wussy geez.
    And let me say, John Cornyn has had more than one contact from me about the things he is doing that DO NOT help Texas, so as the chairman of the NRSC and their initial position on Delaware and O’Donnell, his time in the opera is coming to an end.
    Tha fat lady is warming up !

  • texasvet

    (well, at least me) was bring the big time RINOs into range. Rove, McCain, Cornyn et al, who will also get their chance to be voted OUT. Their time is coming.
    Thanks SOLVO REOR for educating us on Deleware. I’m from Texas and I watched the Delaware Primary because I wanted new blood in the Republican Party instead of old wrinkled meat. Same for Alaska, Murkowsky is such a hissy wussy geez.
    And let me say, John Cornyn has had more than one contact from me about the things he is doing that DO NOT help Texas, so as the chairman of the NRSC and their initial position on Delaware and O’Donnell, his time in the opera is coming to an end.
    Tha fat lady is warming up !

  • texasvet

    Must have more than one cookie running. lol

  • texasvet

    Must have more than one cookie running. lol

  • teresakoch

    Never underestimate the midgets…..

  • teresakoch

    Never underestimate the midgets…..

  • JSobieski

    NOT for conservative positions.

    The same people who quote support Rubio, Toomey, Paul, Angle, et al. So clearly they attack people for not being conservative? I wouldn’t say O’Donnell is more conservataive than those folks would you? Given your logic, all of those people should have been opposed for their conservative values. However, they weren’t, so you might want to recheck your logic.

    Put another way, they believed that she was another Maes. Look at the Colorado governor’s race and you see the danger in basing a candidate decision exclusively on what someone says rather than the record of what someone has done.

    Record and experience matter. Maes said all the right things, but his record has proven him to be a clown.

  • crusty

    Something here does not pass the smell test. If O’Donnell is behind by double digits and does not stand a chance then why are the D’s spending valuable resources? The Washington Post reports today that Obama is going to Deleware to campaign for Coons.

    It was reported yesterday that the DNC is pulling resources out of Shea-Porter’s campaign in New Hampshire to help Coons.

    Sorry folks you don’t do this if you are way ahead when you are getting hammered everywhere else. It does not pass the smell test

  • JSobieski

    You classify him as a RINO because he made one candidate assessment that was different than yours. Rove’s comments on O’Donnell were not helpful, but they don’t make him a RINO.

    Am I a RINO for thinking Maes was a bad candidate for CO governor?

    If I had attacked Maes when RS was still supporting him, you would call me a RINO. Now RS abandons Maes, so is the entire site a RINO? Or is it because a candidate is more than a bunch of policy positions and we have since learned that Maes is a bumb?

    Or maybe there are just disagreements about which candidates are viable?

    Nah, must be RINOs. Its clever how so many RINOs support Toomey, Paul, Angle, Miller, Rubio, et al as cover for their inner RINO. We are deep under-cover RINOs supporting tea party insurgent candidates all across the country just so we could act freely in one primary election in a dinky state. A true master plan . . . brilliantly carried out. It worked brilliantly!

    Yup, that must be it. Oh, and 9/11 must have been an inside job, and Johnson had the CIA kill Kennedy,

    There is a difference between being a RINO and making different candidate assessments. There is a difference between being a RINO, and being less willing to back less conventional candidates.

  • aesthete

    that she may be unserious or transient on her fiscal conservatism, given her past and rather abrupt switch from social issues to fiscal ones this election.

  • Dan McLaughlin

    shows that they haven’t learned a thing.

  • expatuae

    Dems are not worried about Coons, but think they can make a play in PA with Sestak against Toomey. Same media market.

    To do this, they need to keep O’Donnell live and in the news. She is a good villain to drive Dem base turnout in Philadelphia. By party association (and by the fact that she is a successful challenger to a locally popular incumbent), she can cost Toomey and others running in Phila/ South Jersey suburbs the socially liberal Republican/ independent votes that swing those seats. 4 house pickups also in play, so it’s a good market to invest in for the Dems.

    They are running uphill and are likely fail in PA Senate seat. Toomey is a strong, polished conservative candidate without strong negatives.

    But that is the answer to why they are devoting resources to DE. Same reason Obama is playing around in the Philly Deleware market.

    At this point, sending money to O’Donnell is basically taking money from Toomey.

  • brojohn2

    but the establishment won’t give her anything approaching that. It is a shame that guys with the bully pulpit like Karl Rove who could give her a better shot will instead tear her down because she is “not viable” as a candidate. She would have a lot more viability if these guys would support her.
    I still think she has a chance to win, else as others have already stated, why would the Dems send in the big guns?
    I too am Texas, and Kay Bailey will I hope realize she is toast and not try to run for another term. We already have two candidates running for the Senate in opposition to Kay Bailey. She has heard from me quite a bit, especially when she votes to spend money on bridges to no where and bicycle paths for Austin and Laredo. These are cities for crying out loud, why is the federal government spending my tax dollars for bicycle paths, that I can’t use any way?
    Not sure about Cornyn yet, but if he keeps up his unwillingness to support true conservatives, he will find himself in deed doo doo as well. I have a nephew running for the house in Virginia, and he has some really fine ideas, but the establishment didn’t want him. (Endorsed by “gasp” The Tea Party) so he ended up running as a Libertarian. His ideas though are for smaller government, less taxes, balanced budget, no federal funding for abortions or stem cell research. James Quigley is his name, a Veteran of Iraqi Freedom.
    I hope that after this election, we get some folks who have not only heard of Ronald Reagan, but actually believe in what he taught and did. Get government the heck out of my back yard.

    BroJohn

    “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Abigail Adams, 1787

  • tngal

    A hard, straight to the point, ad outlining what coons and his support of taxes. Chrisitne’s name is not mentioned out loud and only briefly shown at the end. You can find it at daily caller. It is like the “hide your kids, hide your wife, hide your husband” thing that ricocheted around the net for awhile.

    http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/12/o%e2%80%99donnell-makes-antoine-dodson-reference-in-new-ad/

  • rightwingmom52

    “I am not a Marxist. I am you.” That would have been a powerful ad, but I do like the new ad.

  • earlgrey

    and that includes the Dale Peterson ad.

  • tngal

    She’s having to play catch up to reach those that are still miffed because their candidate didn’t win. Or they have a fear of (non)- witches. Or maybe it is a money thang! She simply didn’t receive the financial support. I know she’s slipped on banana peels that she herslef dropped during this campaign but now it looks like her, or her handlers, are actually trying hard to fight Coons. At least with the tax man ad. Is it too late? 21 days and people are only now going to notice how scummy coons is .

  • tngal

    She’s having to play catch up to reach those that are still miffed because their candidate didn’t win. Or they have a fear of (non)- witches. Or maybe it is a money thang! She simply didn’t receive the financial support. I know she’s slipped on banana peels that she herslef dropped during this campaign but now it looks like her, or her handlers, are actually trying hard to fight Coons. At least with the tax man ad. Is it too late? 21 days and people are only now going to notice how scummy coons is .

  • michael_j_lambert

    Lee was just as much a traitor as Jackson or whatever misbegotten fool they made president. There isn’t really much space between the two extremes that have been proposed.

  • Tbone

    Wouldn’t you agree?

  • crusty

    Your argument makes sense on one level, however, they could campaign in Pa if they wanted to beef up Sestak. The evidence suggest they are getting nervous. They sense Coons is not a done deal and they are scared. It is pretty certain Sestak and his counterpart for Gov are going to lose. To spend the money in Delaware for a slam dunk as a ruse is too clever by half. No they are scared and they are not that smart to create this distraction. I would not give up on O’Donnell just yet. Those new adds of hers have a great hook in them and she came off real good with the Greta interview. The D’s are showing their fear.

  • Tbone

    Tough, VERY articulate and is standing in there fighting whoever shows up. Plus, she retired the RINO scum Castle.

  • JSobieski

    despite all that, and that is the spirit in which my comment was made.

  • earlgrey

    I am 300 pages into the 800 page “A Patriots Guide to US History”. So far I have learned a lot, but the mere thought of reading at 800 page book is exhausting.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    By ignorantly calling them traitors. You see things in a totally anachronistic way.

    Few people in that time considered the Federal government as their nation. Their state was their country. Lee turned down the leadership of the Union army because he was compelled to be patriotic to his country(his words), Virginia.

    Furthermore, it was the prevailing argument in nearly all legal circles that states had an absolute right to withdraw from the Union.

    But thanks for your shallow analysis.

  • fbks

    when the 1860 election overshadowed this. It was accepted a state could secede. Virginia and several states seceded later because the thought of federal troops crossing their “sovereign” territories was unacceptable.
    As far as I am concerned the traitors to the constitution and country as it stands NOW is what I need to worry about.

  • AceInTX

    actually I’m 6’2″ and weigh in the neighborhood of 360 lbs…

    so have at it

  • markvol

    Just get the Roves out of the way and support her. He didn’t need to go on Fox and trash her. That goes against the grain of “fall in behind the candidate”. I don’t know squat about Delaware politics, but for
    her to get this far and not support her is foolish. Toomey won’t
    suffer because of her and we will all benefit if she wins.
    Her ads are great, also.

    Even in Rove’s follow up on Fox, he still acts like she is a loser. With
    friends like that, who needs enemies?

  • fbks

    voted Republican in Alaska my whole life. On the other, Achance represents the people I despise as much as Knowles/anti hunters/environmentalists. It has always been the choice of an extreme left wing Dem vs. a watered down Republican (except Hickel who ran as AIP, and I supported him too). I was prepared to vote for Lisa if she won, but I worked hard for and voted for Miller when it was said he had no chance.
    Voting in the primary for Miller represented the most motivated vote since voting for Reagan years ago.
    If Alaska sends Lisa to Wash, her mandate will be obtaining pork and maintaining the failed system of federal control of our resources keeping Alaska in perpetual dependance. Two of the three options are so bad, that controversy or not, I am motivated to go all out for Miller. This is not blind support for the person, rather the first time my views have found a voice.

  • itrytobenice

    BO is in state campaigning for his pet Coons.

    So far, I believe he’s batting .000. Let’s hope it continues.

  • edwlstr

    Rove violates Reagan’s cardinal rule: Never criticize a fellow Republican. But Karl forgets the Bush/Rove era ended and may not come back due the willful violation of darn near every other Republican rule starting with fiscal conservatism and on ad infinitum. So, Karl, get off the stage, your part in the play is over. Your time is gone. Your “skillful architecturing” made your boss pretty unpopular with conservatives.

  • edwlstr

    inexperienced conservative to an experienced liberal. Why do you not? Recheck your own logic. You gonna vote for a demokrat because experience matters?

  • edwlstr

    nice big gut pile on their doorstep. Stay upwind and see what happens.

  • edwlstr

    another property of the federal government if you guys get into the trough too much. Didn’t you get when Sarah Palin said as much? He who pays the piper, calls the tune…If Murkowski and her flying monkeys go to Washington DC pork will decorate your landscape and Alaskans will become vassals of the federal government. Shame, too, I was going to retire there….

  • fbks

    and the ride is almost over. Lisa supporters think she will go to Wash and be showered with committee posts and earmarked padded spending bills.
    But the new senate will be filled with new members who were attacked in the same way and by people like Lisa as Joe Miller is. Lisa IS the enemy of conservatives.
    Supporting Lisa is like fighting for Napoleon at Waterloo, the end of an era. It would be a pyrrhic victory because the country is moving on.
    You need to understand Alaska is dependent on the trough because the Feds control us like a colony. We could end dependence on foreign energy, minerals, ect. There are many of us who wish our state would become a net contributor instead of a total taker of subsidies and benies.
    None of this should change your retirement plans, if you like to hunt and fish. Good, friendly people, mind their own business.

  • philipjames

    I have a question. What is it with women voters?

    Its bad enough that only 64% of Republicans in Delaware support Christine, due to the trashing she got from her own party. But on top of that, are the poll numbers that put women voters at 64% or so for Coons and only 23% or so for O’Donnell.
    (If O’Donnell could get 80% plus of Republicans and 50% or more of the women, she could possibly win)

    And then today, I read this poll.

    A CNN/Time poll last week showed the Democratic nominee, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, with a nearly two-to-one advantage among female voters, and Ms. McMahon?s campaign is struggling to find ways to connect with women.

    Can someone tell me why women are so biased against women politicians? Is it because deep down inside they still believe men are better suited for the job? What is it?