Posted on 11/03/2010 7:06:56 PM PDT by Qbert
“I think this is a debate we have to have, in light of the results. The O’Donnell circus consumed the Philadelphia media and brought down Toomey’s margins as well.”
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And just exactly what proof can you furnish to back up your claim? Can you point us to one person who went to the polling booth in Pennsylvania with the mindset of “Gee, I was going to vote for Pat Toomey but I’m going to vote for Sestak instead because I don’t like that whack-job O’Donnell in Delaware”. Please!
The bottom line is, Toomey secured a senate victory in a traditionally BLUE state.... PERIOD. I don’t care if it was by 1 vote or 1 million votes. Republicans seldom win there and if Toomey had lost, I can assure you O’Donnell wouldn’t have had a darned thing to do with it.
“The debate is over. RINOS ARE OUT! SQUISHY reach-across-the-aisle fossil incumbents are on life support.
2012 will show them the exit door.
It’s the RINOS AND MODERATES who made both parties look and act alike.
NO MORE. So what that we lost with a good conservative candidate in solid blue state? Castle was worse than a democrat and the polling said Coons the Marxist would have defeated him too.
You see, RINOS have taken the conservative vote for granted and it’s not there for the taking anymore.”
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Amen to that! Conservatives and the Tea Party are NOT going away and we will welcome the fight to purge the GOP of any RINOs who betray our conservative principles.
It’s a new era indeed! We are in the process of forever changing the establishment landscape in Washington!
Very eloquently put!
Let the PEOPLE decide for themselves who they want to nominate for office and be represented by in Washington, not the lamestream media or a bunch of blueblood inside-the-beltway establishment hacks. Up until now, this is precisely how we ended up with our current two-party system: Democrat and Democrat-Lite (GOP).
“The exit polls are skewed. There may be many who decided they weren’t going to vote for anyone. Or maybe they were so ticked off by o’donnell that it drove more dems to get out and vote for Coons. The O’donnell bashing could’ve affected Toomey as well.
Castle also didn’t have a post-primary campaign. I’m sure that would’ve changed things.”
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Or maybe O’Donnell was harmed because Castle, Rove, and the rest of the GOP establishment not only refused to back her with their support, but instead publicly smeared and ridiculed her?
I cast the blame squarely on the GOP establishment for O’Donnell’s loss more than anything.
Well, that’s about enough of this chit.
Graham is from that little elitist club in SC that has for over a hundred years thought having an almost feminine manner and soft speech was a sign of breeding, manners, and intellect. Not to say education, of course, because the only sign of that was the proper schools from cradle to grave.
Now, not everyone in that club is “old money” or even old families with old family names so you can’t tell them by their roots. You can tell them by their affected manners of speech and sensitivity. Things that “offend” and upset Graham are much the same as those that upset the Victorian era Brits who were climbing into the “better classes” and denying that anyone in their family had ever done anything so shabby as mine coal or sell rags even though their entry into the middle and upper classes was based on those very things. Sure, during a campaign you can talk about “Diddy worked in the mills”, but you’ll be forgiven that along with the other lies you tell to get the “lint heads” on you side.
Asking Graham what he thinks about the Republican approach, particularly what he thinks about anything Jim does, is no different than asking a snobbish Brit or one of the few democrat fascists who still pretend to have manners. They’re never going to like Jim, they’re never going to accept him into their “club”, and they’re really, really, pissed off that he ever won the office of Senator from SC in the first place. They’ve seen him as a usurper from day one, worked behind the scenes many times to hurt his efforts on a state level, and at least Graham himself would more than likely vote the opposite of Jim just out of spite to cancel his vote out.
I guess there is stuff like this going on in every state, but when know people involved, it’s three times as disgusting. Especially when you respect the hell out of someone who you personally know made it all on their own by virtue of hard work and honesty and see them targeted like this.
Regards
Thanks for enlightening me, I stand humbly corrected.
Sorry if I was a little terse in my response. It’s just bugs me when I hear ththat type of statement, and even more so when it’s one of our conservative talking heads on TV or radio.
I hear it all the time, Obama is mismanaging the economy, when he is doing exactly what he has set out to do.
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