Posted on 11/01/2010 8:58:13 AM PDT by smoothsailing
Have I got that about right?
If I do, then I'm curious. Why, on a highly regarded conservative website, would you repeatedly diminish and demean a conservative candidate and her campaign the day before the election? Couldn't it at least wait 'til Wednesday? What's your point?
Do you typically fall for the media spin?
I thought her campaign was mostly volunteers. Where are the RNC people? Oh yeah, they wanted her opponent so they are gleeful every time she makes a wrong move. You can actually see it in their faces when any one of them is asked on some show, usually on FoxNews, about O’Donnell and how she seems to be closing the gap. They mouth the words and you can see they just so want her to lose! She doesn’t meet there ‘vision’ of a good politician.
This is one race I so want to see as an upset. If it is at all close, I want to crush the elite in the Republican party, because even the most basic of help with things like the media, or just organization might have put her over!
The National GOP gave her the maximum allowable donation. As far as sending in ground troops, the national GOP - if it is run by intelligent people - should be
It is also funny that you aren’t talking about the MECHANICS of a campaign—creating advetisements, buying air time, mailings, etc... Those are the area’s the PARTY is supposed to help its candidates with. And those are the area’s the O’Donnel campaign is comming up short. But who has failed in their responsibility to help their legitimate candidates?
Bottom line, the old guard in the GOP (nationally and locally) is trying to cut the legs out from under O’Donnell so they can critisize the tea party movement for not supporting the establishment candidate.
O’Donnell’s message was strong enough to win her the nomination against a seasoned politician. Her message is strong enough to win the election, if she can get it out. Helping her with the MECHANICS of getting her message out is the job of the GOP (locally and nationally). The idea that the GOP (either nationally or locally) can’t spare one person (one lousey person) to advise her campaign on things like media buys is laughable.
What we’re seeing is an effort by the GOP establihsment to ostercise one of its own candidates in an effort to reign in a larger political that the establishment is (to put it bluntly) scared to death of.
I'm willing to bet any amount of money that you are exactly right.
The "they forgot" line is coming out of O'Donnell's campaign - not the station.
Given this campaign's organizational track record, the airtime might not have been paid for in a timely fashion.
There is the added possibility that it might have been a mistake with formats or with the material getting to the station on time.
There is also the conspiracy theory option.
One thing is certain: the O'Donnell campaign really should have a lot more information about what went wrong than they're saying right now.
And the fact that what they're saying is so hard to believe tells me that the screwup may very well be from their end.
I'll take that bet....
How much?
More accurately, you "totally failed" to read what I wrote about the state GOP in post 37.
“The station “FORGOT” to air it TWICE!?!?!?!”
Rush was saying that in this day and age, this absolutely cannot happen — the “forgot” part. It has to be an overt act to no air the spots.
You actually believe that a TV station "forgot" to run a paid advertisement twice in a row?
Really?
I’m reading through the remarks and am amazed at the number of professional marketing people we have here. They are telling what Christine O’Donnell’s helpers should have done and how amateurish everyone helping her has been. Y’all should have stepped and helped her, unless you’re one of sen cornyn’s flies. Cornyn refused to help her and the DE republican party still stuck to Castle who has been rubbing elbows with democrats far too long.
Typical partisan nonsense. FWIW, I live in a county in East Texas where registered Dims outnumber Pubbies about 3 to 1. Come election time we CONSISTENTLY vote to put Pubbies in state and national offices. How do you explain that?
A conservatism that does not value honesty is not conservatism.
The GOP will not do as well this election cycle as it conceivably could have due to phenomena like the O'Donnell candidacy and campaign.
Here’s another thread on this subject...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2618789/posts?q=1&;page=1#1
Might as well spread your negative drivel around and piss off as many people as you can.
Wanna go $5k or I don't know...how about $10k? I think you said...any amount.
Let's let someone hold our money...here on FR.
Read more:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42279.html
He refused to step aside after her win and this is the head of the Delaware GOP.
OR...you did it on purpose.
Put your money where your mouth is.......
And you know they didn't do that how?
Am I going to vote for someone who is basically saying: "the dog ate my homework"?
Pretty unfair to say this is comparable to a kid who says a dog-ate-my-homework. A comparison like that is more appropriate for the station that neglected to run the damn add, don't you think.
Are you aware of the cost of a 30 minute spot on a major network? Did you ever consider the possibility that she didn't have the money to spend on such an ad until recently, since she isn't getting help from the RNC? And if that's the case, doesn't it say something positive about a candidate who is not willing to spend money she doesn't have? Wouldn't said candidate be ideal to protect our taxpayer dollars?
Let's go through what I actually wrote.
I began by agreeing with texmexis that no one actually forgot. I agreed so strongly with texmexis that I said I would bet any amount of money that texmexis was, as I said, "exactly right."
Then you chimed in, wanting to know how much I would bet - which I found odd, because I thought you agreed with texmexis and myself that there is no way anyone could just forget to air a paid advertisement.
So I wrote back asking you if I misinterpreted you and if you actually believed that someone really did forget to air it.
I think you've missed something.
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