Tom Ross is a complete and utter idiot.In Tuesday's Delaware primary, the tea party movement may inflict its most devastating wound yet to the Republican establishment.
With an assist from Sarah Palin, tea party activists in Delaware are trying to defeat the Republican candidate with the best chance to win Joe Biden's old Senate seat and nominate instead a candidate Republican leaders say has no chance of winning the general election in November.
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"The Republican Party has lost its way," O'Donnell said. "They get behind candidates like my opponent who don't even support the Republican platform, who continue to support the Democrats' agenda, lock-step-and-barrel."
"I have no doubt if she by some miracle became the nominee she would lose the seat by unprecedented numbers," Delaware Republican Party chairman Tom Ross said.
Delaware Senate Race: A Kamikaze Republican and the Tea Party - ABC News
I'd rather have a Democrat win than a RINO who would not aggressively repeal the Obama agenda.
That makes no sense at all. A moderate Republican like Castle would vote conservative maybe 50% of the time, and probably more than that. Coons, the Democrat, would never vote conservative. That's the choice here. O'Donnell could never, ever win in Delaware, so the choice is either compromise with a moderate or let a Democrat take what had up to now been a safe GOP pickup.
Extremist conservatives are no different than extremist liberals... both think that you're either with them, or against them, and there is no in-between. Unfortunately, there may be enough of them in Delaware to blow what had been a semi-decent chance for the GOP to take the Senate. Hopefully they'll come to their senses and nominate Castle, though.
"The Republican Party has lost its way," O'Donnell said. "They get behind candidates like my opponent who don't even support the Republican platform, who continue to support the Democrats' agenda, lock-step-and-barrel."
"The Republican Party has lost its way," O'Donnell said. "They get behind candidates like my opponent who don't even support the Republican platform, who continue to support the Democrats' agenda, lock-step-and-barrel, while he should be supporting the Republicans' agenda, lock-step-and-barrel."
That was the meaning I gathered out of his statement. God Forbid someone actually functions as a representative of his district and state, they've got a national party, preselected stances and beliefs to follow!!!
Since when do you promote uniformity on a national level? Starting to sound a little communist to me, wanting everyone to be exactly the same and all... (That communist part is sarcasm) But seriously wouldn't you agree that a Representative or Senator should actually represent his state as opposed to following what a party leader somewhere, probably across the country, says?
What if there was a democratic candidate who supported gun rights very strongly, or opposed abortion as many Southern Democrats do? And this candidate was being criticized by his own party for not following their doctrine strictly enough? Somehow I think you'd be arguing my position in that case.
Double standard bro, not cool
Double Standards? I got one name for you: Joe Lieberman
Tom Ross is a complete and utter idiot.
I'd rather have a Democrat win than a RINO who would not aggressively repeal the Obama agenda. We need real Republicans in office, not Obama & Pelosi-lite.
I hope she takes this, for the race for the Senate seat will be interesting. I don't by into the RINO take on the election. People are pissed, and the village of Delaware, usually a lost cause, isn't exempt from the pain and suffering brought on by the radical leftists running the show.
Better a reformer than a chameleon.
Go O'Donnell.
PS. Don't you love the title of the article? That's Journolism at work.
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I hope she takes the race too. That makes it about 95 % sure democrats hold the seat.
I'm not Joe Lieberman, nor am I his babysitting, whatever he did u don't like has nothing to do with me or what I'm saying. I wish you could tell me exactly what Lieberman did that you hate.
If you mean how he left his party to better represent his voters than no I have no problem with that and I don't see how its a double standard. But if i did see it as a double standard, I'm not Joe Lieberman and your post has no purpose.
Keep under estimating the tea party and the public dissatisfaction with Obama and democrats. I will watch as both parties look silly.
Keep under estimating the tea party and the public dissatisfaction with Obama and democrats. I will watch as both parties look silly.
He "left his Party"? Revisionist much? His party threw him out because he "worked with REPUBLICANS"
What's extreme about wanting Republicans that support Conservative Ideas?
The real extreme here is being happy with a Senator who votes for you 50% or so of the time. What ends up happening is those Senators stab you in the back on big issues.
He "left his Party"? Revisionist much? His party threw him out because he "worked with REPUBLICANS"
Nothing, in fact I'm fine with that. I'm glad Rubio and Miller and Lee and Rand Paul won their primaries. But the extreme part is to be so enamored with purism, you'd rather Democrats hold the Senate than nominate a single moderate. Worse yet are those who think "moderate" unambiguously means "liberal", and that a moderate Republican is somehow just as bad as a far-left Democrat, or even worse.
Whereas a Delaware Democrat would stab you in the back in every single issue.
There's nothing extreme about being happy with the best you could possibly hope for. There's even less extreme about being happy with a moderate, but that's beside the point.
I hope she takes the race too. That makes it about 95 % sure democrats hold the seat.
Dav, we're gonna have to realize that while our GOALS are much aligned, you are willing to settle for half-measures where as I don't see the point.
I'd toss out Snowe and Collins from the Party tomorrow if it was in my power.
It's not so much about "purity", it's about supporting Candidates that are, conservative, not kinda sometimes when it's convenient.
"The Republican Party has lost its way," O'Donnell said. "They get behind candidates like my opponent who don't even support the Republican platform, who continue to support the Democrats' agenda, lock-step-and-barrel."
"The Republican Party has lost its way," O'Donnell said. "They get behind candidates like my opponent who don't even support the Republican platform, who continue to support the Democrats' agenda, lock-step-and-barrel, while he should be supporting the Republicans' agenda, lock-step-and-barrel."
That was the meaning I gathered out of his statement. God Forbid someone actually functions as a representative of his district and state, they've got a national party, preselected stances and beliefs to follow!!!
Since when do you promote uniformity on a national level? Starting to sound a little communist to me, wanting everyone to be exactly the same and all... (That communist part is sarcasm) But seriously wouldn't you agree that a Representative or Senator should actually represent his state as opposed to following what a party leader somewhere, probably across the country, says?
What if there was a democratic candidate who supported gun rights very strongly, or opposed abortion as many Southern Democrats do? And this candidate was being criticized by his own party for not following their doctrine strictly enough? Somehow I think you'd be arguing my position in that case.
Double standard bro, not cool
lol, so now someone who is "55% Republican" is a Democrat?
Some people are tired of settling for "55%", yeah we might lose that seat, but better the seat go to a democrat then to a RINO.
So then. You're apparently okay with passing Obamacare, Cap and Trade, more stimuluses, more welfare, tax increases, and goodness knows what else... as long as it means there aren't any damned dirty RINOs in the Senate. Hey, the GOP may be a permanent minority helpless to do anything as liberal bill after liberal bill passes, but at least they'll be full of conservatives in a permanent powerless minority!
Speaking only for Delaware, there's no way a tea party candidate is going to be elected. They elected this "Dem-lite" as many people are calling him for a reason, and that reason is that his polices are in line with what they want to see in a politican. There's no way people are going to change that much, that fast, and elect someone almost totally opposed to everything they want.
He might as well be running as the Communist candidate.
They won't be able to pass all that Dav, they don't have 60 seats now, and they WILL lose the House.
Besides, what good is are a few sometimes Republicans who VOTE with teh Dem's on big issues?
Besides, the guy is pro-guncontrol, that right there makes him worth knocking out.
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