Christine O'Donnel Wins Republican Primary in Delaware

[The Germanator]

Okay, so Delaware's in the national news, so I had to make a thread about this.

Mike Castle had been an elected official in Delaware for 40 years, governor twice, and congressman for the last 20-some years. He was supposed to cruise to Joe Biden's senate seat. Upstart and Tea-Party + Sarah Palin backed Christine O'Donnell comes out of nowhere and wins the nomination, which was unthinkable a couple of months ago.

The funny thing is that Castle polled way ahead of Democratic contender Chris Coons before this, but now he is way ahead in initial polls ahead of O'Donnell. The GOP tried desperately to distance themselves from her, yet they have to back her now.

What do you think of this? As a Democrat, I think it's good that the Republican side is divided for once. It's usually Democrats splitting up votes and ruining their own chances.

And I'll leave this here for good measure, because it's funny.



This is who DE Republicans voted for...Good luck, guys.

[Professor S]

Dems have been far more united than Repubs for the last several years. There is a divide in the GOP that is becoming more pronounced over time. On one side you have the social conservatives who care more about abortion, gay marriage, and prayer in school than they do about the economy (they believe in low taxes because its politically expedient) and you have the fiscal conservatives who are also on the rise in people like Chris Christie and Paul Ryan who are not as strict on social issues and are trying to take up the torch from intellectual giants Milton Friedman and William F Buckley.

Republicans like Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum and Christine O'Donnell are counter productive to classical conservative beliefs in individual liberty. They want as much control over you or I as the hardest left politician, but they want control over different things.

Overall I think the diseases of arrogance and *demagoguery have infected both parties. It seems that everyone believes they can tell everyone else how they should live, what they should eat, what car they should drive, who they should marry, and what portion of their salary they earned. And those are only the politicians who are honest in their convictions.

I can count the number of politicians I trust on one hand, and that is a sad fact of today's political reality.

*New BFFs Pres. Obama and John Boehner are the biggest demagogues in DC today. I'd love for either of them to utter a sound, rational, non-patronizing statement instead of cliched talking points, but I won't hold my breath.

[Professor S]

Whenever morons like Christine O'Donnell win a primary, Paul Ryan can always bring me back from the edge...



Yes, Virginia, there are good qualified intelligent conservatives...

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by The Germanator

And I'll leave this here for good measure, because it's funny.



This is who DE Republicans voted for...Good luck, guys.

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Professor S

Whenever morons like Christine O'Donnell win a primary, Paul Ryan can always bring me back from the edge...



Yes, Virginia, there are good qualified intelligent conservatives...

Bring things back to 2008 levels, only give ideas that reverse actions taken after Bush was out of office... I'd like Mr. Ryan to explain how we got in the mess that STARTED in late 2007 early 2008, and his plans to rectify those bad decisions. He mentions 9-11 and the wars, but those problems apparently didn't fix themselves with tax cuts for the rich, the economy issues only got worse.

-EDIT-

You know, when I listen to him again, the bottom line of what he's saying is cut government jobs, and punish people who already have federal jobs. Sure you're going to cause a decrease in Discretionary spending, but the spending on entitlements will just sky rocket even more after all of these people are out of jobs.

And small buisnesses should file as small buisnesses to avoid being part of these tax increases.

[Typhoid]

I was making pancakes and watching CNN while she was giving a speech, and the only real part I heard was "Freedom is not tang."

And I thought "You know what...she's right."

[The Germanator]

NPR quoted from her speech a couple of minutes ago where she said,

"We're not taking back America, we are America!"

NPR commentator: Uhhh...No, you're not (paraphrasing)

She got 30,000 votes in DE in a closed primary. 3.5% of DE's population voted on Tuesday. Delaware is 65% registered Democrats (I would be, but I'm still registered in PA)

I just can't see how she doesn't ultimately get annihilated in New Castle County, DE, the most liberal part. It wouldn't shock me if she wins the lower two counties, but there's a reason we refer to them as "Slower Lower."

[Bond]

Tea party is putting the cart before the horse by voting for O'Donnell over Castle. Very disappointing...

[Teuthida]

In response to research involving cloning monkeys:

They are -- they are doing that here in the United States. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. So they're already into this experiment.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2...man-brains.php