The Return of Christine O'Donnell

"You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked! Well I'm not licked! And I'm gonna stay right here and fight for this lost cause… even if this room gets filled with lies like these.… Somebody will listen to me."

-- Jimmy Stewart as anti-Establishment Senator Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The woman the Ruling Class spent so much time scorning in 2010 isn't going quietly. As a matter of fact, there's not the slightest sign she's going -- period. And -- among others -- Texas Senator John Cornyn, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman, along with former Bush White House aide Karl Rove and the elites of the Delaware Republican Party, will decidedly not be happy to hear it.

On the other hand, sitting across from me last week on the sunlit patio of a local Starbucks, the first hot-off the presses copy of her newly published book Troublemaker in hand, a distinctly upbeat and enthusiastic Christine O'Donnell looked and sounded pretty sunny herself.

The subjects she talked about with such passion in last year's campaign season are today the center of Washington politics. An irony considering Ms. O'Donnell was derided not only by elitist Delaware Democrats but Ruling Class elites of both the Delaware Republican Party and, amazingly in a movement that celebrates such anti-liberal Establishment stars from Buckley to Reagan to Fox and talk radio, some conservatives. In the latter case, to be fair, there were conservatives who took umbrage at an O'Donnell lawsuit against the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute. The issue involved was gender discrimination, and was dropped by O'Donnell in January 2008. But in fact this was decidedly not the driving issue surrounding her

“the people, republicans, who opposed her were biggoted and vicious. they spouted the establisment/rove/castle talking points word for word back to me on the phone. they called her an “idiot or stupid” on the phone. they wanted to get their digs in so bad they didn’t pull the usual and just hang up the phone. that’s how much damage the repubicans had done.”

Why the past tense? From this thread it is clear that these ruminants are still chewing the same cud, and producing the same end product. It must be hard for them though, to see all that they have toadied for fading more and more everyday.

Hey,P! How are ya?!

Lots of O’DS on this thread(O’Donnell Derangement Syndrome).

Folks don’t understand the political landscape here in DE, just how heavily Dem it is,especially in the more populous northern part of the state.

They don’t understand how Christine was sabotaged by HER OWN PARTY also.

It was the efforts of grassroots folks like you and me that had to fight an uphill battle for her. To lose by ONLY 17 points in DE is a damn miracle.

Media markets were closed or reluctant to run her ads. I never had a problem with the “I am not a witch” ad. It showed her in a good light,and that was THE issue of the moment, and had to be disspelled, before the folks in northern DE would even listen to her, hat how dumb THEY are.

But hey, all the armchair critics on FR, they knew better, not ever having lived here.

The truth is, lots of GOP folks in NORTHERN DE stayed home rather than support their own candidate.

The result was, we got Chris Coons, who voted for START II, the repeal of DADT, and the DREAM Act. ANd now, he is trying to upend the Defense of Marriage Act—oh yeah, that was not even on the radar in the campaign.

Christine would have been a sane voice for fiscal responsibility, for marriage, against START II, against the repeal of DADT, and would never have supported the DREAM ACT.

She is a fighter, and has more courage in her pinky than these armchair critics who don’t know squat about DE.

I’d like to see any of these jokers last one day in the blistering heat of her six week campaign(that’s right—it was only six weeks).

To overcome all that was heaped on her, from “friend” and foe in that little time was near impossible.

Only when Coons was safely sworn in did we find out the great New Castle County Executive who raised taxes four times, left behind a $ 1.2 million deficit for his successor; New Castle County bonds were just downrated last week. Thanks, Chris!!

All the bogus FEC violations and CREW lawsuits have been thrown out, albeit nine months too late to be of any good.

But Christine is a real conservative. I have seen her in front of farmers, seniors, working class folks, and what you see is what you get. Always gracious, in spite of all of the indignities heaped upon her.

She and Sarah Palin and Sharron Angle and Michele Bachmann are a sisterhood—good, conservative women who have to justify the very air they breathe everyday in a hostile political arena.

God bless them and our country.

I don’t regret one dollar spent or one monet of time spent on her behalf. I would do it all over again.

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together clearly understands that dirty politics have been around since....well...politics.

Once O’Donnell kicked Castle’s tail off his seat, the RINO establishment, in concert with the MSM machine, kicked it into high gear in launching an all out assault on O’Donnell.

The RINO’s, and newbie, on this thread can chant the mantra, “She did it to herself”(excluding you, of course) ‘til the cows come home, but we can expect that rationale. We Conservatives have grown accustom to witnessing such behavior.

Another Freeper on this thread claimed that some of the voters on the Left would have voted for O’Donnell in order to spite Rove. That’s about as true a statement as Rosanne Barr is a singer. O’Donnell is a Conservative. Liberals never vote Conservative. Thanks to the friendly establishment GOPers, and in concert with the rabid MSM, voters on the Left wholehearted supported Coons.

Christine O’Donnell could have managed her campaign and the media more skillfully, but I disagree with those who accuse her of being the only reason the election was lost to Coons.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.