Re: Four Reasons Why Christine O'Donnell Might Win
Barb May
> Her opponent: Chris Coons is terrible. He has been terrible when it
> comes to protecting the taxpayers and the fiscal integrity of the
> county he currently runs. According to a National Republican
> Senatorial Committee (NRSC) analysis: "As New Castle County's
> spending skyrocketed by 10 percent under Coons's leadership, he
> shifted the burden for his irresponsibility to taxpayers with three
> massive property tax hikes of 5 percent, 17.5 percent and 25 percent
> respectively. In 2008, Fitch Ratings downgraded the county's 'rating
> outlook' from stable to negative because the county's cash balances
> were decreasing under Coons's reckless stewardship."
>
> Her supporters: O'Donnell has become the newest media superstar, and
> that has helped her get the money necessary to run a decent campaign.
> The NRSC changed course and gave her the maximum donation allowed
> under law, and most Republican senators and presidential candidates
> will follow suit. In fact, she reportedly raised more than $500,000
> the day after her primary win, with some reports saying she raised
> close to a million. That is a pretty impressive take for a woman who
> has no chance of winning.
>
> Her state: Yes, Delaware has been a blue state, but it is not clear if
> that is because of the politicians or because of the voters
> themselves. Tom Carper, for example, is one of the most moderate
> Democrats out there. He is not from the Bernie Sanders school of
> Democrats, because he knows he can't be. And while Mike Castle has
> been a very moderate Republican, his moderation came not because he
> had to vote that way, but because, as a former governor, he wanted to
> vote that way. Sure, Joe Biden had been unchallenged for a
> generation, but that doesn't mean the state is deep-blue. It just
> means that Biden had been around for a long time. Delaware has one
> big city (Wilmington) and the rest is as rural as Alabama. The rural
> voters, given the choice, will vote like Alabamans. And as they
> showed in this election, they are motivated to vote, more so than the
> moderates.
>
> The times: This is one of those elections where no incumbent is safe,
> and nobody with a record of raising taxes and raising spending is the
> favorite. This midterm election is a referendum on President Obama,
> and those who dislike him are much more likely to come out to vote.
> As Dick Morris points out in The Hill today, because fiscal issues
> are front and center in this election, conservatives are much more
> likely to do better, because people trust conservatives not to raise
> their taxes.
The author neglected to mention that O'Donnell has been attacked by Karl
Rove and the rest of the Republican establishment because she is a flake
and unelectable.
Rove:
"I've met her. I wasn't frankly impressed by her abilities as a
candidate," Rove said during an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity.
"One thing that O'Donnell is now going to have to answer in the general
election that she didn't in the primary is her own checkered
background." "There were a lot of nutty things she has been saying that
don't add up," "Why did she mislead voters about her college education?
How come it took nearly two decades to pay her college bills so she
could get her college degree? How did she make a living? Why did she sue
a well-known and well- thougth of conservative think tank? Did you ask
her about the people who were following her home to her headquarters and
how she has checked each night in the bushes? We ... can't make progress
if we have candidates who got serious character problems, who cause
ordinary voters who are not philosophically aligned with us to not vote
for our candidates out of concern of what they said and what they do.
She attacked (her primary opponent) by saying he had a homosexual
relationship with a young aide with not a bit of evidence to prove it."
The Weekly Standard has also questioned O'Donnell's "honesty and
stability."
One of the worst charges against her is that she is a professional
candidate who has been drawing a salary for several years even while
many staffers who were supposed to be paid went unpaid. Drawing a salary
from campaign funds is legal but it is unethical and particularly
despicable when you're claiming your campaign can't afford to pay the
people who are working very hard to get you elected.
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Barb
RichA
wrote:
> Her opponent: Chris Coons is terrible. He has been terrible when it
> comes to protecting the taxpayers and the fiscal integrity of the
> county he currently runs. According to a National Republican Senatorial
The Republicans are just a bad a group of cowards as the Democrats.
Too scared to tell the Americans that things have to change. To fix
the miserable economy, spending has to be reigned in. The Tea Party
will hurt the Republicans now, but in a few years, their influence
will have the desired result.
Ray Fischer
>The Republicans are just a bad a group of cowards as the Democrats.
Worse.
>Too scared to tell the Americans that things have to change.
The GOP isn't scared. They're actively trying to screw over the
country in order to benefit their wealthy patrons. They depend upon
lies in order to enact their agenda.
> To fix
>the miserable economy, spending has to be reigned in.
That's opposite what most economists say.
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Ray Fischer
rfis...@sonic.net
JLS
"Reigned" in? I thought it was "reined" in. Somebody is dull in
both English and economics.
trotsky
If the "desired result" is doing nothing to stimulate job growth you're
on the right track.
trotsky
Agreed--Rich is the most poorly educated Canuck I've ever seen. North
of the border trailer trash.
Barb May
> Agreed--Rich is the most poorly educated Canuck I've ever seen. North
> of the border trailer trash.
Igloo-trash?
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Barb
ZNUYBV
I would vote for O'Donnell before I would vote for Rove.
I will not vote for any politician that voted for bail outs, stimulus
or nationalized health care.
Barb May
> I would vote for O'Donnell before I would vote for Rove.
Sounds good to me, but that's only because I want the Repubs to run weak
candidates who can't answer tough questions.
> I will not vote for any politician that voted for bail outs, stimulus
> or nationalized health care.
There was a law passed that was little more than a giant giveaway to
private insurance companies, but no vote to nationalize health care.
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Barb
Kevin Cunningham
Yeah, now the above is a real repug, willing to have racists right by
his side as they march towards a new Iraq! But this time we'll loose
more military!
How disgusting! What do the tea baggers believe? They had to take a
poll and some tea baggers insisted that the poll didn't work. Do you
think? The only thing all tea baggers agree on is that the hate
African-Americans. Their virulent racists.
But the above small time racist is willing to wait....until when?
After we dems save this nation from it's repug fueled failure? And
then what? The tea baggers convert the repug party into a competitor
with the Libertarians?
The only thing the tea baggers hold right now is the title of the most
racist group in America.
Congratulations!