Hello to another Delawarian. Christine has been nothing but a class act since last November's election. She has been supporting the Sussex GOP via her PAC, never insinuating herself into the picture.
She did NOT go on Dancing With the Stars though few would have held it against her.
She got exonerated from that FEC charge, done by the Delaware GOP Chairman...NOW RESIGNED as he was forced.
Above a pic of Christine with my granddaughter.
Becuase the Blue Blood Ruling Class GOP will reach across the aisle to the Democrats with perfectly polished fingernails and superb coiffed hair. Who will they beat the hell out of as if in an alley cat fight?
THEIR OWN DAMN BASE!!!!
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.