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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.