Posted on 09/16/2010 10:22:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Delaware Republicans have proved it: Sarah Palin is the best asset the GOP has right now.
There has been a lot of carping about Republicans' prospects for November since Palin-backed candidate Christine O'Donnell defeated longtime Delaware officeholder Mike Castle for the Republican Senate nomination Tuesday. But contrary to conventional wisdom, the 2008 vice presidential nominee has kept the party strong. How? She has kept the Tea Party faithful inside the GOP tent. Had she instead encouraged these disillusioned voters to mount third-party challenges across the 2010 general-election ballot, dozens of Democratic incumbents, not to mention challengers, would be smiling like Woodrow Wilson in 1912.
That year, a simmering feud between two wings of the Republican Party resulted in the "Bull Moose" independent presidential candidacy of former president Teddy Roosevelt. The Rough Rider's support four years earlier landed William Howard Taft the GOP nomination, but the two had a falling-out. Their disunity allowed Wilson, the governor of New Jersey, to claim the White House with the lowest winning percentage of the popular vote since the two-party era began in 1864. Wilson was only the second Democrat elected president since the Civil War; a GOP united by a temporary, even testy, marriage of convenience would have triumphed easily. But egos proved too large. It did not matter that Wilson was, in TR's term, the "coiner of weasel words."
Establishment Republicans, including former Bush aide Karl Rove, have said this year that the strength of the Tea Party movement has sometimes forced the nomination of contenders with weak prospects for winning a general election. This is surely right; O'Donnell's upset on Tuesday is merely the latest example, but there were similar complaints about the Nevada Senate contest.(continued)
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The more I think about it, the more I think that Palin could’ve won the election if she just hammered Obama 24/7.
We knew all the stuff already, the Muslim, we had the graphics. The BC controversy had already started. He was really shady.
They could’ve called him really really shady.
You have a book, that’s great. Let’s see the actual records.
No one knows you from Law school? Usually people from Harvard Law school are rich, famous people. Can’t they find someone from each of those years. I assume that Harvard is similar to BU in this, get one from each of the first year groups. He would be in one of those large groups.
They don’t take electives much, they’re learning the basics with the same people each class. Someone will know him.
just so long as they have an ample supply of arugula
I think it remains to be seen if she’s saved the GOP.
That being said, however, she’s almost single handedly saving America.
Actually, I don’t disagree greatly with many of your criticisms of Palin. But, she can fill in many of those gaps over the next two years. Her real test is in assembling a solid team of knowledgeable loyal people in those areas where she is lacking. Reagan certainly did. If she has the wisdom to choose the right people and uses her authority to provide the political will to move the best ideas from these people forward she could be an excellent President. A President doesn’t have to know everything - and simply cannot. What makes an excellent President is having the wisdom to recognize other people who do have good workable ideas and putting them into action.
She is clearly a shrewed politician and it takes brains to do that well. I don’t doubt her brain power in the political arena. You can’t fake it this long.
Time will tell on the bigger picture.
Heh... tell me you’re kidding - no salad? You did not want a steak? Sorry, can’t believe this but am just beginning to understand this generation. Really not trying to be antagonistic, it’s just that today’s generation has me baffled.
PS: I have a son of your generation (I think)...and have a hard time understanding him and his ideas of a decent meal.
Stop this UnAmerican march toward socialism and bankruptcy.
Joe is a bumb.
Second Tuesday of next week...
I would have had a sandwich but the closest they they had to a sandwich
had dilled havarti and sherry mayonnaise on it.
No thanks.
Amen
Heh... Sorry for the interruption...
Christine THANKED and gave credit to Sarah Palin, Tea Party Express, Jim DeMint (I think) and others during her victory speech.
Find the video to see for yourself.
8)Pam Bondi
Provided the margin of victory
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I didn’t know Palin supported Bondi! I saw Bondi at a candidate roundup, liked her and that’s how I voted. Palin is supporting Attorney General candidates in Florida. :P
She is definitely not stupid and she’s not just after press and fame. That’s a political structure for the right.
That Republicans in Delaware are too stupid to know
that Castle was pro abortion, anti-gun rights, pro bailout,
pro gay marriage, pro Cap and trade, pro card check and
took his agenda from Soros’s Center for American Progress?
They needed Sarah to tell them to vote for Christine?
If you are correct then Delaware's Republicans can't tell a
Bad Democrat from a Conservative.
Were not talking about subtle differences here.
It was the sound of Palin reloading.
That's what I said, NOT what you posted back to me.
What are you, obtuse or just some guy that has to think he's right, despite the facts and the graciousness of Christine O'Donnell who recognized and acknowledged those who helped her win?
FYI, voter turn out for the Republican primary was almost double, thanks to the work of TEA PARTY EXPRESS on Christine's behalf, which financed her radio and TV ads, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sarah Palin's endorsement and her robo calls, Jim DeMint's endorsement and of course her loyal campaign workers and volunteers on the ground.
You weren't on ANY of Christine threads, not on any of TEA PARTY EXPRESS THREADS FOR CHRISTINE, so you've really been out of the loop to now come in as a "know it all" with your anecdotal stories.
Of course, Delaware "conservative" Republicans know all about Castle, but he had his own group of "Republican supporters" -- the same Delaware GOP that's refusing to en dorse Christine O'Donnell. which is also the same Delaware GOP that filed suit against her campaign one week before the primary. but I'm sure you know all about *that* too.
I see an article written down the middle as opposed to an unrepentant cheer leading piece.
No, she vastly increased royalties on Alaska's oil. Before Palin the stuff was being given away at a bargain price. Now the royalty is more reasonable - though much lower than e.g. the Iraq fields charge.
Alaska owns that oil. It's ok to charge money for it - especially if you give the money directly to Alaskans.
That phrase goes back at least 45 years on the lower east side of Manhattan. I’m 56 now and it was being used by older people so figure another generation prior.
I don't have to be.
I Know Christine, I donated heavily to her campaign.
My sister went to school with her at St. Joe's.
I know more people in Delaware than you ever will.
I even know she lives across the street from
Jansens Market in the Greenville Apartments.
Yes, I know more about Christine than you ever will.
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