Posted on 08/09/2011 9:36:51 PM PDT by This Just In
“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.
I see the RINObots are out today.
Coons is a useful idiot to the left, and a useless idiot to the rest of us.
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.
It’s time for the GOP’s ruling class to go.
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