Saturday, September 18, 2010

Palin And Rove Disagree In Delaware

Anytime I hear mention of the state of Delaware I am reminded of the movie Wayne's World when Mike Myers delivered a very unenthusiastic "imagine being magically whisked away to...Delaware...Hi, I'm in Delaware". Last week however, Delaware was the source of some interesting developments in the final Republican primaries heading into the midterm elections. One candidate was endorsed by Sarah Palin, the other by Karl Rove. The Rovian endorsement of Mike Castle was based on a calculation that he was more electable and had fewer negatives. From what I could gather from Palin's speech, her endorsement was based more on momma grizzlies and "the establishment". O’Donnell won the primary thanks in part to Palin's endorsement and afterwards Rove had some harsh words for the winner, upsetting a number of Republicans.

Can she win the Senate seat? Her Democrat opponent is to the left of Obama and it is entirely possible that she could win the blue state. But here we are only days after her nomination, and we are starting to learn more of her negatives. Some social conservatives might like her past crusade against the "sin" of masturbation, but they can't like her past admission to dabbling in witchcraft. “We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.” But who hasn't dabbled in witchcraft at some point, right? As it turns out, she has been an "activist" for some time and has an archive of television footage making potentially controversial statements, many of which have yet to be re-discovered. This could just be the beginning. Her "negatives" are going to become a lightning rod for attacks on the entire Republican Party in November.

Sarah Palin may have just come in at the last minute and flipped that Senate seat from Republican to Democrat, or so says Charles Krauthammer. Karl Rove should have been more gracious after she won the primary, but that doesn't mean that his initial opinion was wrong. Mike Castle had already been fully vetted and had won several statewide elections. Does that make him part of the "establishment"? Perhaps. How is it that we've come to a place where having no experience is an asset? It is fair have gripes with the governing class, but a replacement without adequate qualifications is not necessarily going to do a better job.


4 comments:

  1. I don't think the Tea Party movement has a typical hierarchy. It will be unable to repeat the "expert" analysis of Rove/Krauthammer.

    Republican-Democrats incumbents will be swept up by this movement and targeted.

    http://www.starfishandspider.com/

    http://www.thenextright.com/warner-todd-huston/is-the-tea-party-like-a-starfish-like-the-apache-like-al-qaeda

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  2. We've had Marco Rubio, Joe Miller, and Rand Paul all win big for the Tea Party, but it takes Sharon Angle and Christine O'Donnell to bring out the attack-dogs in the Democratic media.

    I doubt any candidates past is completely blameless, so just what is it about Republican/conservative women that gets the Democrats going ? Both Ms. Angle and Ms. O'Donnell are being treated just like Palin was.

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  3. O'donnell will do fine. Rove is way off the mark.

    Castle was in their for ages and is a republican in name only for the most part.

    They need fresh candidates, not dinosaurs who are willing to forfeit principles for political expedience and "by-partisanship". He was for cap & tax for craps sake!

    I can't believe I'm even having to speak up after how he just treated his opponent.

    The the footage being used against O'Donnell thus far hasn't been damning. They're just smears. Take them in their full context.

    And hell, they're coming from creep like Bill Mahr. he's hardly up to anyone's standards yet is leading the charge against her. That should tell you of their desperation. The "man" is an ass.

    I can't believe I've had to go through the trouble of typing this. Fuck! %b

    p.s.

    They did this to Palin and she's a mini Mike Harris. And thats why they didn't target her on her policies. The whole process is a popularity contest through character assassination. And I can't get over how people can't see through it.

    The U.S. is not in a situation to put up with this. They need as many tea party canidates as they can get even if it means splits in the party in some primaries etc.

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  4. Here she is, interviewed by Hannity:

    On radio after primary win:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH9S8LZ_8TE&feature=related

    On tv addressing smears:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtdU5Fz1b_w

    ^She's clearly a little nervous (after all) but gets a handle on things in the second video.

    Here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7EQbSdQ_os&feature=related

    Shes plenty electable.

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