Key Republican: Palin cost us the Senate

The Hill ^ | Nov. 8, 2010 | Jordan Fabian

[Free ThinkerNY]

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) cost the GOP control of the Senate, a powerful House Republican said.

Rep. Spencer Bachus (Ala.) said that Tea Party-backed candidates whom Palin endorsed underperformed against their Democratic rivals, costing the GOP key pickup opportunities.

"The Senate would be Republican today except for states [in which Palin endorsed candidates] like Christine O’Donnell in Delaware," Bachus said at a local Chamber of Commerce event last week, the Shelby County Reporter wrote Sunday. "Sarah Palin cost us control of the Senate."

Bachus' is one of the most visible Republicans to criticize Palin for her political activity during this election season. Some Republicans have privately groused that Tea Party-backed candidates who were not electable prevented the GOP from taking control of the upper chamber.

[Jim Robinson]

Nonsense!

Palin (actually, Tea Party America) won us the House, 6 more seats in the Senate, 680 state legislative seats and 9 additional governorships, and no telling how many other positions in other state and local races!!

The Tea Party is the best thing to happen to the Republican party since Lincoln!! It’s breathed new life into the otherwise dying moribund GOP!!

We could have done a little better in the senate races had the Republican elite helped out a bit rather than bad mouthing our candidates 24/7!!

Good to know they’re beginning to recognize the power of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. We have them in a panic!!

And we’ll be gunning for even more seats in 2012 and beyond, including the White House!!

It’s open season on corrupt bastards, good ‘ol boys and other assorted RINOS and turncoats!!

Rebellion is brewing!!

Go, Sarah, GO!!

[Rum Tum Tugger]

Bachus is obviously a fool.

[mwl8787]

Palin chose to get involved in both Alaska and Delaware. No one baited Palin to jump into those races.

[Spok]

RINOs cost us the White House. They need to get the message that we’d rather lose with principled conservatives than lose with compromising, feckless wimps that call themselves Republicans. The Tea Party can’t win them all, but kowtowing to the MSM won’t win at all.

[oldvike]

Bachus’ seat must be targeted for 2012. Where do I donate?

[central_va]

Bachus needs to be primaried.

RINO hunting is such fun sport...

[FrankR]

So the grizzley's came in and bagged the prey, and now Bachus wants it mounted on HIS wall.

What the fool doesn't know is that Sarah can get people UN-elected with about the same frequency she gets them elected...remember in 2012 Bachass.

[Darren McCarty]

Redstate debunked this crap already quite in detail.

Political Malpractice

Clueless RNC

Redstate v NRSC

I'm not voting for Palin in 2012, but I'm blaming the NRSC. These dips**ts endorsed Crist and Specter early on.

[Le Chien Rouge]

I won’t give a DIME to the GOP establishment....only to conservative individual candidates, especially ones endorsed by the Tina Fey look-a-like...

[altura]

Adding names to my S-list.

[proud American in Canada]

) Not taking control of the Senate was a blessing. The Dems are still in control. What’s coming in 2011 is on them.

That's what I think, too.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Those dollars were donated, but NOT to either of the traditional parties.

I no longer give a penny to the RNC or NRA.

I donated directly to a dozen Tea Party candidates, and to the Gun Owners of America.

Not a penny to RINOs.

[Josephat]

How do you suppose that down ballot would have turned out had Castle and the RNC got behind COD?

As far as Alaska, once more the RNC went against the will of the people. Murkowski had no business in this race and she wouldn’t be there without the establishment RNC. They are not our friends and have got to go if we are going to save this great country.

[9YearLurker]

Of course not. The problem was the GOP Establishment’s sabotaging of the candidates that those states selected, not Palin having backed candidates in the primary.

Primary candidates whom she believed in, who were considerably more conservative than the alternatives, welcomed her aid and endorsement.

[ilgipper]

Palin did not miscalculate in her home state. Her candidate won the primary with margin to spare. Unfortunately, the incumbent decided to ignore those results and take on the party’s selected candidate in the general. Miller would have won easily without the write-in campaign. Who knows, he may still win.

[3niner]

Good point!

[Deb]

Maybe there can be a separate site where people can post all the anti-Republican media propaganda (real or imagined) being used to turn Republicans against each other.

Then FReepers would have their own cesspool where they could throw poop at every GOP politician who makes a statement.

[FreeAgent]

To Rep. Spencer Bachus

“be gone before someone drops a house on you too”

[Outlaw Woman]

for later...

[Josh Painter]

Though Bachus has been a harsh critics of bailouts, guess what he voted for?

http://dailybail.com/home/hypocritical-scallywag-gop-congressman-bachus-defends-near-d.html

So guess what committee Bachus is like to become chairman of?

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-10-29/bachus-may-be-wall-street-s-new-overseer-in-congress.html

- JP