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Yes, she has run before, but it is obvious her world doesn’t revolve around running for political office.

Her only job for the past 5 years has been running for Senate in DE three times. She has not held down any other job for almost 7 years.

Her world pretty obviously revolves around running for public office.

the GOP has refused to help her in any way

National leaders like Palin and DeMint endorsed her. 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 prioritizing its limited number of operatives along the following two lines: (1) whether or not the margin in the race is close enough that incremental assistance would push it the right way, (2) whether or not the local campaign is well-funded or whether it is in desperate need of resources.

O'Donnell trailed deeply in the polls and yet she was one of the most well-funded candidates nationally.

She met neither of the rational criteria.

The blame doesn’t lie with O’Donnel. The blame lies with the GOP establishment that has refused to live up to their side of the political party bargain.

What is the number one thing that the national GOP is good at in local campaigns? I'll tell you: GOTV.

In a marginal race this is essential and this is where the national GOP shines.

In DE, GOP turnout will be the strongest it's possibly ever been - O'Donnell doesn't need any help in that category.

The problem with DE is that 47% of DE registered voters are Democrats and 29% are GOP.

Even the most sterling GOP GOTV campaign is useless unless one Democrat or independent votes GOP for every GOP voter who turns out in DE.

And it's up to the candidate to win that crossover vote.

If the national GOP could do it, GOP registrations would have been higher to begin with.

Well, wideawake, after skimming over your five posts on this thread, including two posts to me, I get the distinct impression that you don't care much for Christine O'Donnell or her campaign.

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?

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

Funny how you totaly fail to talk about the STATE GOP—that’s the group that should be helping her the most with the MECHANICS of the campaign, yet has turned their back on her.

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.