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Rep. Mike Castle is considered a slam dunk to capture Joe Biden's old Senate seat. Castle is a pro-abortion rights, pro-gun control Republican who often works with Democrats. Those traits have helped make him the most popular Republican in a state that leans heavily Democratic; Castle has twice been elected governor and was elected as Delaware's sole representative in the House nine times.
Delaware Senate Race: A Kamikaze Republican and the Tea Party - ABC News
Here the National Party is pushing someone merely to fill a seat, to meet a quota. They are missing the reason for the Tea Party, the reason for the outrage in America, and if they don't get it soon, will end up losing a lot of voters disgusted with them.
Here is a guy who stands against much of what the Conservative Base is for. He's pro-abortion, pro-gun control and works with Dems a lot. Great, let him run as a ****ing democrat. The GOP is going to have to change, or it we'll see a fleeing of the base. Where? As most of you know I'm NOT a 3rd party guy, but between Boehners dumb ass comment about "I'd work with Dem's for a Compromise".
Delaware Senate Race: A Kamikaze Republican and the Tea Party - ABC News
Here the National Party is pushing someone merely to fill a seat, to meet a quota. They are missing the reason for the Tea Party, the reason for the outrage in America, and if they don't get it soon, will end up losing a lot of voters disgusted with them.
Here is a guy who stands against much of what the Conservative Base is for. He's pro-abortion, pro-gun control and works with Dems a lot. Great, let him run as a ****ing democrat. The GOP is going to have to change, or it we'll see a fleeing of the base. Where? As most of you know I'm NOT a 3rd party guy, but between Boehners dumb ass comment about "I'd work with Dem's for a Compromise".
Do you think O'Donnell has a shot at winning the general if she gains the nomination?
What good is a Republican that stands with the Dem's more often then not?
What good is a Republican that stands with the Dem's more often then not?
Do you think O'Donnell has a shot at winning the general if she gains the nomination?
She does not. Nobody (on the right) wants to talk about it, but even ignoring ideology (which alone would disqualify her from winning in a state as blue as Delaware), she's a kook maybe on par with Sharron Angle. You'd think they would have learned from what happened in that race.
This is really kind of depressing me. I liked the Tea Party, and agree with the attitudes they were helping to spread. But here they're just being unforgivably stupid. Launch a primary challenge from the right in Utah, sure, or Alaska, fine; those are red states where your candidate will probably win anyways. But seriously... Delaware? What are they thinking?
What I find depressing is that the "Tea Party" backed Candidates are all being portrayed as kooks, loons and idiots, and so many are buying the crap. The media learned with Palin how to destroy Conservative Candidates. Shame on you Dav.
Here the National Party is pushing someone merely to fill a seat, to meet a quota. They are missing the reason for the Tea Party, the reason for the outrage in America, and if they don't get it soon, will end up losing a lot of voters disgusted with them.
Yeah, you're right, they are... but a stopped watch is right twice a day. Just because people are trying to portray all Tea Party candidates as loons doesn't mean that every once in a while, one of them won't actually be a loon.
Anyways, it doesn't matter. O'Donnell could be the least loonie Tea Partier in the world, but she would still lose because it's Delaware. The choice is between a moderate Republican or a liberal Democrat. I'm disappointed so many conservatives are effectively voting for the latter.
I'm not arguing that it hurts us tactically in terms of numbers. And I understand it's Delaware, a far left state.
Maybe I'm just tired of being forced to choose between Democrat and Democrat-lite.
Delaware Senate Race: A Kamikaze Republican and the Tea Party - ABC News
Here the National Party is pushing someone merely to fill a seat, to meet a quota. They are missing the reason for the Tea Party, the reason for the outrage in America, and if they don't get it soon, will end up losing a lot of voters disgusted with them.
Here is a guy who stands against much of what the Conservative Base is for. He's pro-abortion, pro-gun control and works with Dems a lot. Great, let him run as a ****ing democrat. The GOP is going to have to change, or it we'll see a fleeing of the base. Where? As most of you know I'm NOT a 3rd party guy, but between Boehners dumb ass comment about "I'd work with Dem's for a Compromise".
As most of you know I'm NOT a 3rd party guy, but between Boehners dumb ass comment about "I'd work with Dem's for a Compromise".
Delaware Senate Race: A Kamikaze Republican and the Tea Party - ABC News
Here the National Party is pushing someone merely to fill a seat, to meet a quota. They are missing the reason for the Tea Party, the reason for the outrage in America, and if they don't get it soon, will end up losing a lot of voters disgusted with them.
Here is a guy who stands against much of what the Conservative Base is for. He's pro-abortion, pro-gun control and works with Dems a lot. Great, let him run as a ****ing democrat. The GOP is going to have to change, or it we'll see a fleeing of the base. Where? As most of you know I'm NOT a 3rd party guy, but between Boehners dumb ass comment about "I'd work with Dem's for a Compromise".
How are you choosing anything? You live in Texas.
You aren't going to get very far in politics if you can't compromise. Do you honestly expect everyone to just follow mindlessly behind some movement which is apparently unwavering and uncompromising?
If you want to know why the government can't accomplish anything, or what it does 'accomplish' is so skewed to one side its because of a lack of compromise. Take for example Obama's heath bill, it was rejected by most Republicans for the very fact that it existed, something you claim they should be proud of, HOWEVER in taking that "My way or the highway" approach they lost all opportunity to influence the bill that was going to be passed anyway because the Dems had a comfortable majority!
So by not compromising you've actually resulted in something worse, from your perspective, being passed into law! Imagine how less bad, again from your perspective, it would have been if Republicans had actually contributed to its design and creation. Now I know compromise is a dirty word to you, but the answer to the question "would you rather have something thats bad, or something else thats bad but not quite as bad" seems pretty obvious to me.
o'donnell is a flake and probably not electable. the problem is that the tea party can't come up with better candidates.
Name a single Tea Party backed candidate you aren't being told to call a flake.
Why is it the GOP has to compromise?
good god, told by WHOM?
EVERYONE has to, thats what happens when you dont have a single party state! Dems and Reps need to learn to compromise with each other so perhaps instead of bills being either entirely "I love it" or "I hate it" for everyone, people can find more room to say "well its ok, not perfect, but I can live with it."
Its better for society since we're all Americans.
Oh, what's this, you can't find a Tea Party backed Candidate you don't think is a flake? Amazing... no really :roll:
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