Posted on 11/04/2010 4:30:30 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
There is a singular event that shoved the Republican Senate car over the cliff.
That event was the primary victory of Christine O'Donnell. This morning she used a phrase that is right on the money. That description is "Republican Cannibalism."
I personally hold Karl Rove to blame, followed closely by Senator John Cornyn. Rove is an establishment Progressive Republican of the first order.
Following O'Donnell's message of values victory in Delaware, Rove started slinging mud in her direction because he realized she was a woman that couldn't be bought & sold on a D.C. street corner.
It was Rove who almost exclusively undermined an untested Republican. When challenged, he became entrenched, making it a media story.
Coming out of a surprise primary victory, everyone would obviously be questioning O’Donnell’s candidacy.
It's the "Man Bites Dog" story. Rove turned an opportunity to help create an up-and-coming political star into much less.
The bottom feeder Rove chose for his personal aggrandizement to put blood in the water. The sharks had a feeding frenzy.
The result was that yet another "Traditional Values Candidate" was beaten by her own political party, & the momentum of several other races was slowed.
It gave Reid & others the chance to further paint traditional values candidates as kooks. The Republican cannibalism resulted in the Senate leadership failure to get behind Republican nominees.
The cannibalism by a self-professed REPUBLICAN strategist, wrapped up is his own glory led to lost momentum by MIller, Fiorina (albeit her real defeat was the unfortunate infection), Buck, Angle & Rossi.
His poor choices contributed to a decay of no less than 15 percent-point in Delaware. Had Delaware been advocated by Rove, rather than diminished, today we would be looking at a three-seat Senate majority, & a Republican Governor in CA.
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There’s no justifying what Rove did to Christine O’Donnell but if you want to toe the party line knock yourself out.
Well, you get a 100% liberal over a 50% liberal plus a smaller minority for Republicans.
That makes no sense to me. I’d rather have a chance of someone’s support rather than no chance at all and we needed every seat in the Senate we could get. RINOs included.
You are correct. The Dems loved it.
“True believers” were her only base, and there’s just not enough of them in Delaware to get her elected.
Rove should have kept his mouth shut, but it didn’t affect the voting IMO.
I’m from Delaware. I voted for her in both the primaries and the general election. In fact, I voted for her the last election as well. That’s right - this is not the first time she ran. She ran before against Biden in 2008.
She did it without, to my knowledge, any assistance from the Delaware Republican Party, a group of elitists if ever there were any. This pack of idiots were responsible for not providing a viable candidate. Like it was illustrated in SC, nature abhors a vacuum. Here, the party just assumed that the Republican voters of Delaware would just go along with their fellow country club member Castle. If anything the guy was worse than Snowe or Collins, if that’s imaginable.
It just reached a point where I couldn’t pull the lever one more time for the guy. If it’s any consolation to anyone, I think the guy was going to be out in 4 years anyway - he’s had serious health issues and would be approaching 80 in the next election. No loss whatsoever. It wasn’t Rove, no matter how crass and contrary he acted. It was the elitists who run the state GOP.
Yes. But Karl Rove could not keep her from totally wasting the opportunity to explain that the PHRASE "separation of church and state" is not in the constitution and how it is an example of how liberals warp the Constitution.
Karl Rove could not stop her from making that idiotic "I'm You" and not-a-witch detour.
The "Karl Rove is a demon" talk around here is indistinguishable from DU posts.
Wow. Imagine if Castle had won and Joe Miller had that money instead to use against the crooks in Alaska.
RECEIPTS SPENT REMAINS DEBT
COONS, CHRISTOPHER A SEN $3,294,824 $2,337,312 $957,512 $250,000 10/13/2010
O'DONNELL, CHRISTINE SEN $4,924,506 $3,555,003 $1,360,328 $247,613 10/13/2010
MILLER, JOSEPH W SEN $1,980,296 $1,331,859 $647,934 $341 10/13/2010
MURKOWSKI, LISA SEN $3,416,929 $3,005,107 $773,826 $0 10/13/2010
True. And now take a look at the numbers in #126 for “opportunity cost.”
KARL ROVE IS AN ESTABLISHMENT FIRST REPUBLICAN, NOT A SUPPORTER OF CONSERVATIVES.
That’s the real bottom line.
“The Stupid Party” is a polite term for Democrat butt boys/ girls.
He did win.
He has even less influence on me today than he did before he went off on O'Donnell...on TV!
Rove showed how extremely immature he is when he doesn't get his way. Wonder if this is why he is recently divorced?
Rove needs to grow up!
Conservatives wanted to make a statement, Rove wanted to win.
We needed the win more.
I was ticked at him and Dana Perrino. He didn't have to like it, but he should have kept a lid on it.
All I am saying is that supposedly voters in Delaware were familiar with COD.
If you look at my previous post upthread, you will see that COD had some very real problems.
Actually, if Rove would have kept quiet, she may not have gotten all that campaign cash that poured in as a result.
I also find it odd that Palin never showed back up in Delaware, even though people were anxiously awaiting her appearance the other day. She did say she would go there and help her after the primary.
It’s not as if Delaware was the only example of Republican turpitude in this election.
In Florida, their candidate was Charlie Crist, until the grassroots folks pulverized him.
In Alaska, their candidates was Lisa Murkowski. ‘Nuff said.
In Illinois their candidate was pro-abort, pro-homosexual leftist Mark Kirk.
In Kentucky their favorite was former Bill Clinton supporter Trey Grayson.
Etc.
Wake up conservatives. Too many of you are still snoring, or at least too groggy to think straight.
I think there are at least two issues being discussed here.
1. He caused O'Donnell to lose. Probably not, AFAIC.
2. Rather than suck it up and take a loss stoically he decided to diss the candidate, IOW, doing the democrat's work for them. He did do that AFAIC.
Because of #2, I wouldn't consider him a person I'd want on my side. Knowledge is good, but wisdom, i.e. knowing when to STFU, is a prerequisite for using the knowledge effectively.
I agree that he was angry...that was obvious. I wish he had not let his emotions get the better of him, but we all make mistakes. Even Karl Rove.
However, O'Donnell losing was not his fault, and Rove raised and spent large sums of money for Repubs..conservatives and RINOs alike. Rove is a good guy.
See #136.
Rove helped keep Al Gore and John Kerry out of the WH, while adding House and Senate seats in 2000, 2002, and 2004.
I’m glad he’s on our side.
I did not nor will I give one cent to the RNC.
I decide which candidate gets my money.
I might buy that if he only did that once but that's not the case he continued his attacks multiple times. I would expect that from the democrats not someone in the Republican party. It appears now he's going to try the same thing with Sarah Palin. You're a fool Rove. That's a battle you'll never win.
So true and lets don’t leave Charles Krauthammer totally out of this equation either. He didn’t make any personal attacks on O’Donnell but he was just as negative on her as Rove. The two of them are largely responsible for her losing as is the RNC who did not back her sufficiently. Shame on all of them.
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