* Rebecca Sinderbrand, via CNN's Political Ticker, serves up a morsel of food for thought that Tokyo Rove and other Conservative Lite® loudmouths who have been slamming Gov. Palin for her endorsement of Christine O'Donnell in the Delaware race for the U.S. Senate should chew on:
"If GOP voters are feeling any buyer's remorse, they may take some solace in one surprising stat: despite pre-election polls that showed longtime Republican Rep. Mike Castle handily beating Coons in a hypothetical matchup, the voters who turned out today said they would still probably have sent Coons to Washington over Castle, backing him 44-43 percent."
* From the Monmouth University Polling Institute's news release (PDF) issued Friday morning:
In the past two weeks, Republican Christine O’Donnell has narrowed Democrat Chris Coons’lead in Delaware’s U.S. Senate race from 19 points to 10 points. The latest Monmouth University Poll finds Coons has the support of 51% of likely voters to 41% for O’Donnell. Two weeks ago, this race stood at 57% to 38%.
O’Donnell has actually pulled into a 49% to 43% lead in the southern part of the state (i.e. Kent and Sussex counties). Two weeks ago, this region of the state was divided at 47% for O’Donnell and 46% for Coons. The Democrat continues to hold a sizable advantage in New Castle County, but the current 56% to 36% margin is down from the 63% to 33% edge he held earlier this month.
O’Donnell has also made gains among independent voters, now leading Coons 47% to 42% among this voting bloc. Two weeks ago, she trailed in the independent vote by 51% to 41%.
“While Coons still has the advantage, it has to be uncomfortable knowing that O’Donnell was able to shave 9 points off his lead in just two weeks.
Don't you find it... odd? Karl Rove's O'Donnell-bashing pre-dicky-meant?
I Do...
Mama Grizzly is watching...
Paul Mirengoff doesn't seem to find it odd and takes an opportunity, in the last two weeks before the mid-term elections, to bash both Huckabee and Christine O’Donnell in one article. Conspicuously missing in Paul Mirengoff’s GOP Elitist hit piece is Sarah Palin. Perhaps the reason for that is Sarah Palin bites back leaving her own personal Mama Grizzly imparted ‘woundings’ when deserved.
Mike Huckabee has blasted Karl Rove and the “Republican Party establishment” for the “elitism” and “country club attitude” that he claims has driven Republican criticism of Christine O’Donnell. Huckabee says that he too was the victim of the such elitism when he ran for president. In Huckabee’s view, both he and O’Donnell suffer because they “didn't go to the right school and [attend] the proper cocktail parties on the D.C. social circuit.”
This expression of self-pity is beyond stupid.
mmmm… stupid. Oh wait, “beyond stupid.” I see… and Mirengoff goes on to say:
The problem that some in the Republican establishment (and some of outside it) have with O’Donnell begins with the fact that she has very little chance of being elected, and her nomination seems destined to cost the Republicans a pick-up in the Senate in a year when majority status is a possibility. The problem extends to concerns about O’Donnell’sflakiness and seeming inability responsibly to handle her own financial affairs, among other things.
O’Donnell’s poll numbers reflect to a degree, but in no small measure, the results of GOP Elitist attack commentaries and pieces such as this Megan McCain-esque snort-piece from Mirengoff.
Is Paul Mirengoff a Romney backer? Remember Romney backers in the McCain campaign whispering anonymously to the lamestream media, that which was intended to hurt Sarah Palin? Gee… how forthright and un-progressive like, these backers of Romney.
While I am not a Huckabee backer for a 2012 presidential run possibility, you will not see me bashing Huckabee as some GOP Establishment Elitist-wannabe bloggers are bashing Christine O’Donnell and Mike Huckabee and, when the time is right again, Sarah Palin.
But Huckabee’s attack on Rove shouldn't be understood as a serious argument. Like most of what Huckabee says, it is better understood as a means of advancing his interests – in this case, his interest in currying favor with the Tea Party movement in advance of a possible (and I would think probable) run for the presidency.
To me, it is not that Huckabee is “currying favor,” rather, it is Mirengoff currying disfavor, not that I expect anything less in an anti-Huckabee hit piece… However, [I] will make my own decisions as to what to understand as a “serious argument” and what to discard.
It does not matter what life handed to someone or did not hand to someone who has the will, determination, and grit to get a job done and done right.
Michael Oher is a perfect example of overcoming life circumstances and non-snobbery enabling that has allowed Michael to get a job done and done right with will, determination, and grit.
Karl Rove, interviewed just recently by Der Spiegel, a dominant European media company, and said that the Tea Party movement is unsophisticated.
The grassroots Tea Party movement is not a political party. The GOP is a political party who, like the Democrat Political party, has a problem with listening to the voices of the Majority of Voters in this country.
If the GOP thinks they can tell the American Population to shut-up and sit down like Obama & Co does... they will be replaced in a new Conservative Party who does listen.
-VF
Voting Female, Texas born and raised, blogs from New England.
* Michelle Obama on The Tom Joyner Show Wednesday morning:
"And let me just tell your listeners that it means all the world to us to know that there are prayer circles out there and people who are keeping the spirits clean around us."
Clean spirits? Are those the ones who partner with good witches or the one who shower frequently with Irish Spring?
Bear in mind that the First Lady said this yesterday, not when she was in high school. Of course the Obamunist mediabots, who have been ridiculing Christine O'Donnell for saying when she was a teenager that she dabbled in witchcraft or something will get right on this story, and they'll be beating Mrs. Obama up with it. Just like the Obamunist mediabots have been beating up Sarah Palin for two years because an African minister visiting her church at the time prayed that she be kept free from "every form of witchcraft" or something.
Yes, you betcha that the Obamunist media and the secularist left will be all over Michelle Obama's "clean spirit" comments like... orange and black on rice... or witches on broomsticks or something.
* It is quite possible that a write-in campaign, such as Congressman Mike Castle is currently considering, could hurt Democrat Chris Coons more than Republican Christine O’Donnell in the Delaware campaign for U.S. Senate, according to new polling results published today:
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Delaware voters finds Coons with 49% support, while O’Donnell earns 40% of the vote. Castle, a longtime congressman who lost to O’Donnell in the state’s GOP Primary, picks up five percent (5%). Another five percent (5%) remain undecided. To see survey questions, click here.
Polling for write-in campaigns is always challenging, so results should be interpreted with caution. For this survey, Rasmussen Reports asked respondents about a choice between Coons and O’Donnell without mentioning Castle. That is the choice voters will see when they enter the voting booth. However, when response options were offered to survey respondents, Castle’s name was mentioned.
Oh, yes, a Murkowski-style write in campaign by Castle cuts the far left liberal Democrat's lead over O'Donnell down to single digits. Run, Mike, run!
Related: A Jeffrey Lord must-read at The American Spectator.
* At leftist, pro-Obama CNN, the PDS-afflicted Jack Cafferty's Sarah Palin obsession has not abated. Cafferty is CNN's curmudgeon-in-residence, and we expect him to snap any day now and go into full Howard Beale mode. NewsBuster Matthew Balan reports that Beale... er, Cafferty has expanded his Zone of Hatred to include not just Sarah Palin, but Christine O'Donnell as well:
On Wednesday's Situation Room, CNN's Jack Cafferty revisited his anti-Sarah Palin obsession and somewhat predictably, grouped U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell with the former Alaska governor, stating it "feels like Sarah Palin all over again....O'Donnell has some big question marks on her resume, just like...Palin." Most of the viewer e-mails Cafferty read bashed the two politicians.
The commentator devoted his 5 pm Eastern hour commentary to the two Republican women. After his "feels like Sarah Palin all over again" line, Cafferty recounted O'Donnell's emergence on the national political scene, and wasted little time in outlining her negative similarities to Palin: "Suddenly, everybody can't seem to get enough of her. This is despite the fact that O'Donnell has some big question marks on her resume, just like Sarah Palin. She's come under fire for allegedly misusing campaign funds for personal expenses-just like Sarah Palin."
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Cafferty concluded the segment with his "Question of the Hour" on the two women: "So here's the question: why do people like Sarah Palin and Christine O'Donnell attract so much attention? Go to CNN.com/CaffertyFile, and please enlighten me, because I don't have a clue." Unsurprisingly, only two of the viewer replies which he read just before the top of the 6 pm Eastern hour could be characterized as leaning neutral, with the rest going in full liberal rage mode against the politicians. The CNN personality, along with anchor Wolf Blitzer, also made light of O'Donnell's witchcraft remarks after he concluded reading the replies.
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The CNN commentator has targeted Sarah Palin since the autumn of 2008, devoting 35% of his Cafferty Files segments over a month period to bashing the former governor. Since then, Cafferty has derided Palin as "lame" and referred to her as "Caribou Barbie." Just over two months ago, he hypothesized that the Republican's popularity was a good omen for Democrats: "If anything could overcome the increasingly sour view of the Obama presidency, it might be this. Why, the Democrats should be positively euphoric."
Matthew Balan's full NewsBusters blog post is here.
* This week Bloomberg's nasty columnist Margaret Carlson attempted to define Christine O'Donnell as Sarah Palin's protege – but "with not a fully-functioning human brain." The gutter journo's viciousness was too much even for Morning Joe's panel at leftist-locked MSNBC:
Co-host Mika Brzezinski was taken aback when the panel had to discuss Carlson's piece for The Daily Beast, "Watch Your Back, Sarah." She silently mouthed the word "bitchy" to Carlson to describe the article, adding that it was "searing."
Carlson's piece focuses on the emergence of the Republican Delaware Senate nominee as the next Sarah Palin protege, predicting a political catfight of sorts between the two female GOP stars. Carlson labeled O'Donnell an "obvious knockoff" of Palin, "hawking her wares on the shores of the Delaware."
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In 1992, Carlson hailed the primary victories of now California Sens. Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, both Democrats and both liberal feminists. "There was a rush, an exultation that surpassed any political moment I have ever known – better even than Geraldine Ferraro's vice-presidential candidacy," she wrote.
Eighteen years later, it's conservative Republican women who are heating up the 2010 midterm season, and Carlson can't do enough to bash them at every turn.
These death rattles of the lamestream media make the ugliest of noises.
* Susannah Fleetwood demonstrates in a NewsReal Blog post how the left makes witches out of any and all women who dare to challenge The Obamunist in any way:
Above is an image of Hillary Clinton that was very popular on all of the so-called liberal blogs during the 2008 Democratic primary.
Above is a picture of Sarah Palin that was very popular on all of the Leftist blogs during the 2008 general election.
Above is a picture of Arizona governor, Jan Brewer, that is still very popular on all of the so-called liberal blogs.
And finally, of course, you could all guess that the Left would make Minnesota congresswoman, Michelle Bachmann, into a witch–and this picture is still very popular on many of the Leftist blogs.
Whoa! That’s some pretty damning evidence against the Left……but, I’m not finished.
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First the left paints any woman who is uppity enough to oppose Obama as a witch, and then they shout, “Burn the witch!” So, as the author says, Bill Maher’s "Witchy Woman" attack on Christine O’Donnell comes right out of the progressive playbook, also known as Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky.
Read Susannah Fleetwood's unabridged original here.
Related: If you have any liberal friends who claim that the media doesn't hope for the political destruction of Christine O'Donnell, this should dispel them of any such foolish notions.
* Tonight on Hannity: "Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell speaks to Sean about the latest challenges facing her campaign and the truth behind the attacks on her image."
8 PM Texas Time tonight on Fox News, with a repeat at 11 PM.
Related: "Soros Sics One Of His Front Groups On Christine O'Donnell" at Joshuapundit
"Decisions, decisions: the Witch or the Marxist? No, I'm not talking about Hillary vs. Barack. Eleven years ago, according to the crack operatives working for Bill Maher, Christine O'Donnell admitted hanging around with Wiccans and dabbling in 'witchcraft'. I suggest burning her at the stake. It's the only way to be sure... But, last time I checked, high school Wiccans aren't destroying our country. It would seem that the Fabian Socialists are, however. And O'Donnell's opponent -- a self-admitted Marxist -- is just such an enemy of America."
* The left is mocking and condemning Christine McDonnell for being... a Catholic. We're reminded of Martha Coakley's "No Catholics Need Apply" moment in Massachusetts with her statement that perhaps Catholics shouldn't be working in emergency rooms. Apparently the left considers Catholics to be deserving of the same scorn as those they derisively describe as "fundies." This is interesting because Sarah Palin, whose endorsement helped lift O'Donnell to victory in Delaware, is one of those "fundies" secular leftists love to beat up on. The Governor and O'Donnell agree on many issues, not the least of which are social issues. Although as a young girl Gov. Palin was baptised in the Catholic faith, her mother changed denominations and took her children with her. Still, the bond between Catholics and charismatics is made stronger by the attacks made on all bible-believing Christians by nonbelievers and cafeteria "Christians."
Of all the stupid memes the media has tried to feed me about Christine O’Donnell in the last 24 hours, I finally came across one I found blog-worthy: Christine O’Donnell opposes masturbation. Of course in the eyes of the same media, this is bizarre, “kooky” behavior that can be used against the candidate in the general election. The geniuses at Yahoo News, for instance, write,
“O’Donnell, a perennial candidate who once argued against masturbation on a MTV special, is not likely to move toward the middle…”
Because nothing could be more partisan, right? [A] video clip was dug up by Rachel Maddow, as part of a 1996 MTV special in which O’Donnell appears with a number of other Christian youth leaders offering some pretty basic Christian arguments against masturbation. The TMP article linked in the quote quips that she “considers looking at pornography akin to adultery.”
Correction, TMP. It is Jesus Christ who considers lust in one’s heart a form of adultery, a teaching to which O’Donnell, myself, and every other Christian ought to simply be faithful.
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And no, morons, she is not calling for the outlawing of masturbation, as if such a thing were even possible. The stupidity of those who cannot imagine arguing that something is wrong without calling for it to be outlawed never ceases to amaze me.
Additional insight is provided by Deacon Keith Fournier, who writes at Catholic Online:
As a Catholic I contend Christine's win was not only about the tea party. Do not get me wrong, I truly admire the movement. However, Christine O'Donnell is simply trying to be a faithful Catholic Christian. She may not remember me, but I met her many years ago. I was involved in one of several efforts I have undertaken in my life (none of which have "succeeded".. yet) of attempting to organize Catholics to inform their political participation in fidelity to the authentic teaching of the Catholic Church and a hierarchy of values - NOT based upon Partisan political labels. She espoused then what she espouses today.
That is why I am still spending time calling attention to her Senatorial race. She is the "real deal". Oh, I know some have brought up her frailties in the past. That is backfiring with the electorate. We all know public service is not reserved to the perfect, but to the willing. I for one am sick of the hypocritical effort to bring up mistakes of the past in our candidates. The past is either a tutor or a millstone. After all, we are here to learn, to grow and to love. We are also here to stand courageously for truth. I think Christine is trying to do just that.
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On the predominant human rights issue of our age the leadership of the Democratic Party has lost its soul. Like many of my fellow Catholic Americans, I grew up equating being Catholic with being a Democrat because I thought Democrats cared more about the poor, the working class, the marginalized and those with no voice. I was wrong. The elite of the Democratic Party have embraced a notion of "freedom" as a power over others and "choice" as a right to do whatever one wants.
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However, there is a "political dualism" emerging in Republican circles which MUST be exposed and rejected. The argument is that there are "social" and "economic" issues and they must be kept "separate". Proponents claim we can "only win if we stay focused on the economic issues". Mitch Daniel and Haley Barbour are the most recent examples. WE MUST SAY NO!
For example, the reason we care about expanding economic opportunity is because we respect the dignity of every human person. The reason we want to ensure the application of the principle of subsidiarity and keep government at the lowest level is because we respect the primacy of the first government, the family. Social and political issue cannot be separated, just as the soul and the body cannot be separated.
Catholics must reject the efforts to divide the "economic" and "social" spheres. Like the earliest heresies in the Church which separated body and soul, the separation of economic and social issues is a political heresy. I encourage Christine O'Donnell to run based upon this important truth. I will be watching her race with great interest.
Christine O'Donnell's political victory shines a light on the great spiritual war which is currently raging in this land. This comes as not surprise to bible-believing Christians, for we were told to expect it many times in the ancient scriptures. To cite just one example:
"Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted." - 2 Timothy 3:12
Of course the nature of our persecution is mild compared to that suffered by Christians in many parts of the world who are tortured and killed for their beliefs. But here in the good old USA, far too many of the same nonbelievers who keep calling for "the separation of church and state" ultimately would love to see the church burned to the ground with us inside it. Hmmm. Wasn't something like that attempted in Wasilla, Alaska at the same church which Sarah Palin and her family attended? But we digress...
The point is, again, that the more that attack us, the stronger our shared bonds will grow. Despite the best ecumenical efforts of clergy and laity to bring the far flung denominations of Christendom together, the real irony is that it may very well be the political left, through its attacks on all "Christianists," as they scornfully refer to us, who will ultimately be more successful in uniting the extended family of Christ.
* From the stuck on stupid campaign of failed candidate Mike Castle comes an e-mail which basically chastises the state's voters for electing Christine O'Donnell instead of Castle:
Some 30,500 Republicans have embarrassed the dickens out of the state of Delaware by voting for a candidate who has no chance of winning the general election, is a verifiable liar and cheater with no known means of employment other than her campaign money and has nothing to claim as a campaign platform other than whatever the tea party stands for.
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This is a woman who will stoop as low and often as necessary to fool voters who, for the most part, know nothing about her or her so-called policies or positions.
Excuse us, but attacking the voters for not annointing your candidate the day after the election, besides being petty and vindictive, doesn't seem like the smartest move. It's more than just sour grapes; it reeks of waspish whine.
Guess that endorsement is out of the question, then...
* Wow. The Christine O'Donnell money bomb that we reported Wednesday morning has generated over a million dollars in donations in just a little over 24 hours. Impressive.
Take that, GOP establishment. Oh, wait. You can't take it. It was given to her campaign.
* Gov Palin appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight and discussed Karl Rove, Christine O'Donnell and the Tea Party movement:
Earlier on Fox News today, the governor gave RNC chairman Michael Steele a shout out. Chairman Steele voiced his support of Christine O'Donnell, while John Cornyn was against her before he was for her, and Karl Rove was trashing her:
Tea Party Mama Grizzlies Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, and Kelly Ayotte give Karl Rove a going over for being a snot-nosed anti-female anti-Tea Party RINO-Hugging Sore-Losing Socialist Party-Enabling Conservative Back-Stabbing Trollish Egotistical GOP Elitist Lout:
Just a sampling of the body blows delivered to the GOP Big Shots Karl Rove and John Cornyn who threw O’Donnell under the GOP Bus:
* Irish Central columnist Patrick Roberts sees Christine O'Donnell's victory in Delaware as another sign that Sarah Palin will charge to the GOP presidential nomination in two years if the grass(roots) fire continues to burn:
Who will stop Palin now with the Republican right in such a fired up, throw the bums out mood?
Mitt Romney, not on your Nellie?
Newt Gingrich? Last century's man.
O'Donnell's victory is far more significant than that of Joe Miller in Alaska. It occurred in a blue state where moderate Republicans long held sway.
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Back home in Alaska Sarah Palin may well be measuring her prospects for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue if this continues.
* Conservative Lite drinker Joe Scarborough again showed why he's no better than his fellow Palin-hatin' MSDNC fellow travellers this morning, as NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein reports:
Joe Scarborough believes Christine O'Donnell's win has cost Republicans the Delaware Senate seat and their best shot at a Senate majority. And the Morning Joe host made no bones about singling out the person he considers responsible: "I blame Sarah Palin," said Scarborough bluntly on today's show.
Scarborough's comment came not long after Morning Joe aired a clip of Karl Rove's scalding comments about O'Donnell, which I noted here last night, in which among other things the former Bush adviser declared that O'Donnell "doesn't evince the characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character that voters are looking for."
Said Scarborough: "I agree with Karl Rove."
On second thought, Moaning Joe's crazy colleagues at MSDNC are actually better than he is. At least they don't pretend to be "conservative."
First Update: The $200,000 goal has already been met and ramped up to $350K. People have been so eager to donate to the O'Donnell campaign that Drudge had this headline up:
CASH POURS IN FOR O'DONNELL; CAMPAIGN WEBSITE CRASHES...
It's back up and running now. Keep the contributions coming!
Second Update: $350K met and exceeded. New goal - A cool half a million bucks.
Third Update: Half a mil? Done. Now going for $750K.
Fourth Update: Got $750K, so let's go for an even Million dollars.
