From The Note:
Christine O’Donnell, the Sarah Palin and Tea Party backed candidate, dealt a stunning blow to the Republican establishment Tuesday night, defeating the moderate, party-favorite veteran Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware GOP senate primary.
“Don’t ever underestimate the power of we the people. We the people will have our voice heard in Washington once again,” a jubilant O’Donnell told her supporters at a rally in Dover.
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, O’Donnell won 53.1 percent of the vote to Castle’s 46.9 percent.
The GOP establishment threw everything including the kitchen sink at O’Donnell and Palin, and it wasn’t even close. Of course the conventional media wisdom is this helps the . . . Democrats? WTF?
The path to a Republican Senate takeover narrowed to the point of vanishing Tuesday night, as marketing consultant Christine O’Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware’s Senate primary and likely dashed the GOP’s hopes of capturing the seat in the process.
Though six other states and the District of Columbia voted in primary elections Tuesday night, the outcome in Delaware had by far the most profound implications for the fall campaign. While Castle was comfortably on track to capture Vice President Joe Biden’s former Senate seat, O’Donnell will enter the general election at a wide disadvantage to the presumptive Democratic nominee, New Castle County Executive Chris Coons.
All I know is if I were a GOPer office holder I would think long and hard about upsetting Mama Grizzly.
Filed under: 2010 Elections, 2012 Election, General, Sarah Palin
If Palin runs in 2012 I hope Hillary does too, because I doubt O will be able to beat her.
That would be a November to remember.
and another one bites the dust per CNN:
Who will Emily’s List back in the general, the woman or the Democrat?
Probably the Democrat. They don’t like Palin. I frankly wouldn’t be all that stoked about choosing between Palin and Obama myself.
The Ewok ad:
Are they wearing the c-word T-shirts under the bear suits?
The comment “when the salmon stopped coming down the stream” had the righties howling.
I liked the ad. But? We could have had Hillary.
Only one of Palin’s BIG problems, in my opinion.
Just one look was all it took. This isn’t a feminist stance. At all. On this stance alone I would question her judgment. If only McCain had picked someone like Hillary. Since I’m a Democrat in complete Exile at this point — if the Republican Party can come up with a smart non-incest approving female?
They might get my vote.
Like most Americans in my generation? It’s disgusting right about now. Really disgusting.
Unethical stances seem to be the rule of the day. How did that happen?
Just came across this. Where was she RD? In terms of Hillary in 2008
In terms of FEMINISM?
In terms of HILLARY CLINTON?
yeah, right.
where did she say she approved of abortion? She didn’t even say it should be illegal for an incest victim to get an abortion. She said that her personal choice would be to counsel the person to choose life. I’d counsel the person to do what she thought best with her body and her life. So Palin and I disagree. But I do not like when Obamabots and the party in general twist her words to make her seem crazy or repulsive. They only do it for two reasons: they can get away with it because she is a woman and because they fear her.
Neither would I. But if McKinney doesn’t run again I’d probably go with Palin just to give the Democratic Party and ObamaNation a big FU.
Lazio lost too. Ha ha, victim of the Clinton curse.
Bill and Hillary are secretly members of the Tea Party.
I heard it at DK so you know it has to be true.
It would make sense, since they are also secret raycists.
NY Compost:
I’m voting for Cuomo
I didn’t realize you had moved to New York, myiq.
Vote early and vote often, especially if you’re not a resident of the state.
Great. Then I can vote for Jerry Brown.
It’s the Obama way!
The establishment Democrats are laughing now.
The question is, who’s laughing in November?
The Hillary and Palin treatment is not going to work against O’Donnell. Everyone knows what it is now. The R voters are as pissed off as the D voters. It is like everyone decided I will vote for whoever I f^@*ing please and take your media opinion column and shove it.
The #3 US news item at CNN.com right now is that Obama has written a children’s book called “Letters to My Daughters.” lol
OMG, you have to be kidding me!
this guy has way too much time on his hands and I cant’ figure out if that should worry me or give me a sense of relief
CNN assures us the manuscript was completed before he took office. Which I suppose means it took almost 2 years to edit what appears to be a picture book from “America’s author-in-chief.”
Jon the Groper probably did the editing. Obama is too busy partying.
Jon probably wrote the book.
well, that’s a relief, and here I thought he was doing his job as a senator while running for president!
A little time between golf and the parties, he managed to ink out the book…sales are down on ‘Dreams Of My Father’.
At least he didn’t call it, “Why Didn’t I Have Sons?”
I can see the Obots tearing up now. They’ll positively swoon over the book.
Here’s a sample:
I think it’s really creepy to write a book supposed for your kids and then publish it for the whole world to see.
By “creepy,” do you mean “sincere” and “heartwarming”?
Lol No, no, no, no, no, we know for sure Obama didn’t write it, because the full title is “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters.” lol How many days, weeks, months did The Groper have to spend convincing Big O that “thee” and “me” are synonyms?
Such a pompous title. Of course, that is exactly the kind of title that give a tingle up Chris Matthews’ leg, and make idiots swoon.
At least he decided to forego “Let Freedom Ring” or “Great God, Our King.” “Great God, Our King: A Letter to My Daughters” would’ve been worse.
Obama 2008:
Turdblossom sounds upset:
Michelle Malkin:
I love a pie fight.
I find that very difficult to believe. Turdblossom is clearly personally attacking her because she just doesn’t represent the high standards of moral rectitude, personal integrity, and character that he and his party uphold.
Rove is probably working for Obama. They have about the same politics and the same ethical standards.
Maybe he just isn’t antimasturbation and lust
the blossom is coming off the turd … they created them and now they can’t control them!!! I guess there can be green shoots around the edges of astroturf afterall! Too bad, most of them are wackos, but at least they are THEIR wackos
I think O’Donnell is a nut, a fraud, and a flake. On this one, I think the Repubs really screwed up. Castle is a moderate and would have won the Senate seat easily. At any rate, Kelly Ayotte, another Palin pick, is still 2k votes short of beating Ovide Lamontagne. In this case, Palin picked wisely, but it doesn’t seemed to have helped enough.
Ok, I have to amend, Ayotte is within 1k.
Wow, she is w/in 500. If she pulls off the primary, she will probably win GE. Have to say, Hodes was one of the worst ObamaBots in the ’08 primary. I won’t be sorry for him.
You wanna post a link or three?
http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/primaries/new-hampshire
Now that’s a link.
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/854212-196/lamontagne-ayotte-in-tight-race-for-senate.html
Sorry about that…This will give you an idea of who she is.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/216076/ayotte-is-the-best-choice-for-senate
Cleary the best choice to beat Hodes in a state like NH.
This count is slow. 53% at 12:45? Damn, though, Horn’s close too.
Now it’s Ayotte by just under 800 @ 70%
1300, 80%
The latest shows Ayotte in the lead
Kelly Ayotte up by 300 now
She’s coming down a bit, was over 500
I keep thinking of all the times we were told “Don’t vote for X in the primary, he/she is too liberal and would lose in the general.”
Then we lost with the wishy-washy winner, or ended up with another blue dog.
If I’m gonna lose anyway, I’d rather go down in flames with a real moonbat.
I’ve come around to that point of view. Gotta encourage that “far-left” stuff. Otherwise we end up with a DINO whose idea of healthcare reform is farther right than Nixon’s. (((pours another libation)))
We’re finally getting a REAL UNION to go after Bobby Brady Jindal!!!!
http://www.wbrz.com/news/union-in-the-works-for-lsu-professors/
Does that mean LA will be the first state with no public universities?
Jindal appears to be working on that option yes.
Union, Yes!
I can’t believe they didn’t have a union. My dad was in one ages ago. He taught at a state university, so I’m not sure what 1539 days is getting at.
I meant that Jindal could shut down all the state universities, kind of how Wal-Mart suddenly decides they don’t need a store in the location where the employees unionized.
I doubt he can do that with LSU. They’ve got the state football and baseball team.
Let’s all raise a glass to Bobby Jindal who is managing to unionize Louisiana! I’m not sure even Huey Long had that kind of impact on the state!!
Is that like Obama being the savior of the GOP?
yup, it appears to be so …
OK, I get it. Sorry
we had unions at all the universities here, it’s just that no one paid their dues or did anything until now … I had one in NE. I’m thinking I wouldn’t teach anywhere now without a strong union.
OT http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-crimewave-that-shames-the-world-2072201.html
Salon:
Idiots! They should vote for who they’re told to vote for, just like the Democrats do.
Salon was laughing when people flooded into MA holding those “It’s The People’s Seat–and Yes, I Am From North Dakota, Why Is That Funny?” banners, too. Lesson, there is absolutely no one too ridiculous to become a Senator.
Or POTUS
Sadly, true. Kerry and Brown are excellent examples.
Hey, one of my senators is Diaper David Vitter … he’s right up there on the wackadoo hit lists.
Yeah, you have it really bad. But I live in the bluest state in the country, Scott Brown was not supposed to happen, and Kerry is lazy.
I’d say she has exactly the same chance as a Republican taking Teddy’s seat in MA. Oh wait…
Excellent!!
Voters are sick and tired of being bullied.
A lot are tired of being promised one thing and having a completely different thing delivered to them, too.
I know I’m sick of it.
Oh, I am so happy. That would have been a real travesty, IMO.
I think it would please me if Rangel could win first in primary and then in general, just because Obama said he should leave with dignity. I don’t think his dignity is any less than O’s, nor are his ethics, come to that.
Obama’s been shilling for Cedric Richmond who hasn’t accounted for a missing $60,000 from a state slush fund that was supposed to go to rehabbing the building with his campaign office in it (which is illegal). He does have an really expensive diamond bezzle for his rolex that was purchased at a similar time period, however and hasn’t produced the proof he paid for it with his own funds yet. Also, he was disbarred for six months for running for office in a district where he was housed in a po box and rental property.
Funny, how these things work, isn’t it?
http://theamericanzombie.blogspot.com/2010/08/cedric-and-ikes-greatist-hits-vol-1.html
More on Cedric Richmond. (To quote the bloggist who is a liberal democrat: He’s bad fucking news).
interesting
Rangel’s in a really safe seat, he’s pretty much home free now. If he didn’t lose to Adam Clayton Powell lol, he’s not gonna lose.
If O’Donnel were to win the general (unlikely) it would be fun, fun, fun to watch the exploding heads of Rove, establishment Repubs, and the know-it-all pundits. (Messy, no doubt, but entertaining.)
I think the voters are turning on the establishment because the establishment/elite displays such disdain for them. We’re just a bunch of yokels, ya know, bitter clingy types. So the establishment sowed the wind and is now beginning to reap the whirlwind.
Massive fish kill in Louisiana
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100914/od_yblog_upshot/massive-fish-kill-reported-in-louisiana
I don’t understand!!! Obama sucked the oil and the dispersant up with a straw with Tony Baloney! Right? That picture is incredible! I’ve never seen anything like that.
Does NH handcount every ballot, or something? Dear god, what is taking so long?
The winner counts the votes ( remember May 31, 2008 in Washington, and August 2008 in Denver).
They forgot to stop anyone from voting, now the head cracking begins in earnest.
Supposedly, Ovide Lamontagne received thousands of unexpected votes. The explanation is that voters that initially had said they would vote for other candidates, decided to switch to Ovide. It happens. Votes that are supposed to go for one candidate, turn out for someone else.
Yeah, but they’ve been stuck at 85% for 5 hours. New York and MA managed to count almost all the votes ages ago. NH is much smaller.
It’s a trend, and nobody can stop it. Put people in office who call themselves outsiders, regardless of their past. If it worked for the Ds, and I guess it will work for the Rs in 2010. But it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the working of the government will go down the tubes, not the internet tubes
, the toilet, and Obama will be made responsible for all that mess. Funny how stuff happens.
We’re basically just screwed. Sure, Obama and his moron army to blame, but that really doesn’t help us as long as we can’t opt out of being governed by any of these people.
Stuff happens
I’m looking forward to the fight between the establishment Rs, the Tea Party group and the Ds in congress and Obama.
And “the Ds in congress” are of course split into Blue Dogs and progressives and the corporate puppets with no principles at all.
Definitely has circus potential.
The media is going to love it.
Especially since establishment media is now public relations disguised as reporting. When I can step back and not be enraged by it, it’s hilarious switching from MSNBC to FOX to CNN – how self-importantly they fluff their hair and furrow their brows exclaiming over the historic unprecedentedness of it all.
If I’m going for superfulous drama-I’ll go with the Real Housewives franchise-the news channels just make me angry and sick to my stomach.
In line with the up is down era, Republicans (who are supposedly conservative and embrace establishment) forge a grass roots Tea Party and vote anti-establishment Primary candidates into the mix, while Democrats (supposedly liberal and trailblazing Change) bring us the same-old with Obama, totally (though secretly) establishment and faux-grassroots.
It’s a trend. Nobody can stop it.
good nite
Sleep tight