••• Castle ad --- Christine O'Donnell beat THIS. Be afraid.

[breadandwine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5BbtB-neBU

This was an ad Mike Castle ran against Christine O'Donnell. By any stretch of the imagination she should have been toast after this.

And he was viewed as a real star.

Yet she beat him.

She beat THAT ad.

This woman is being underrated.

She has teflon. They can't touch her. She was a marketing expert and knows how to market herself with all the right generic buzz words about taking on the establishment.
And she's got that gorgeous smile, charisma and super confidence.

Just look at how attacks on her just roll right off as in this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDZE8lKrVys&feature=player_embedded

A lot of the stuff being described as making her unelectable was already shoved at her by Castle and it just rolled right off. This is a toxic political environment in which right wingers can do no wrong.

Do not underestimate these people.

[Skittles]

1. ???

I look at her and I see sheer idiocy - she's a Palin clone, a repuke whore - alas, they are apparently very popular these days

[breadandwine]

2. They're actually comparing Palin and O'Donnell right down to the hair.

She's literally a Palin clone but without the nasty. O'Donnell seduces the camera just like Palin but without the nasty.

[scheming daemons]

6. No... it is only popular among REGISTERED REPUBLICANS

[breadandwine]

3. Everyone's jumping up and down over all the dirt that can be flung at O'Donnell.

It was already flung.

And it didn't stick.

This is a problem.

[spanone]

28. i guess those 'little issues' didn't bother the voters...very scary

[elleng]

30. Yes,its a problem, but it didn't stick among repug primary voters.

Not what's coming up.

[mwb970]

4. I don't get what they see in her.

She seems like a worthless little nothing to me. But they love her as if she were the Second Coming Of $arah.

I feel as though I have nothing whatsoever in common with these right-wing Taliban types. It is very difficult to think of them as genuine Americans considering the nightmare they desire for our nation. To me, this movement of demagogues and their dupes is our principal domestic enemy, and they are much more scary than our foreign foes.

[scheming daemons]

5. It was a CLOSED primary in which *ONLY* registered Republicans could vote....

75% of Delaware is registered Democratic or Independent.

Only 40,000 total votes in the GOP primary.



Your OP is ignoring the fact that she won 53% of the REPUBLICAN-ONLY vote.

She'll get damn near 0% of the registered Democrats, which outnumber the GOP.

[quaker bill]

7. She got 30,000 votes

Castle apparently did very little to get his voters to the polls. Trashing your opponent, while perhaps well justified in this case, is no substitute for GOTV.

[Skip Intro]

8. it was a repub primary. question is, how reflective is that of what is to be expected in Nov.

[KharmaTrain]

9. And It Was Directed At Rushpublicans Only...

People are freaking out, the corporate media is all moist in the loins over the results of a closed primary. Castle couldn't motivate the moderates (and if you were a GOOP moderate these days would you be very enthusiastic??) compared to the baggers who have stormed the rushpublican Bastille and got their people to the polls...all 35,000 of them. Not quite a pluraity of the total GOOP vote from '08 and about the same amount of votes O'Donnell got when Biden spanked her monkey in '08.

This doesn't mean Democrats need to be complacent...that's what cost Massetchussets. It's important to support Coons and help make sure he has the GOTV operatus in that small state that assures Ms. Purity Ball goes back to "punditry". The peril here is overkill...and with this babe it appears that could be the case. As a "mama grifter" she will wallow in victimhood and try to portray new revelations as personal attacks that will play right into the wingnut meme of being "victims". The fine line here is to discredit this tax cheat and expose her lack of qualifications without making it look personal. A very fine line indeed.

[breadandwine]

11. WHAT goop moderates? The whole country has moved to the right.....

....

[breadandwine]

10. O'Donnell exudes CONFIDENCE. She thinks she can do no wrong no matter how many laws she breaks.

Why?

Because JESUS FORGIVES HER.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Modus operandi

1. She's pretty. Uses sexism to garner favor.
2. She laughs pleasantly when responding to unpleasant accusations.
3. She begs the question, i.e., ignores what's asked and responds to a question she's designed.
4. Appeals to the masses, going to let the voters decide, not the RNC or Karl Rove.
5. She's just like regular Delawarians, struggling to pay bills. No trust fund here.
6. Palin surrogate. Voting for her is like voting for SP.
7. So rogue (like SP) that she's sure to "shake things up" in the Senate.

[WVRICK13]

13. I Am Very Afraid

we are on the verge of becoming a totalitarian christian sharia state. The RW ignores the facts in order to take control. They have to know that O'Donnell and Palin are total idiots, yet they support them because they identify with idiots like themselves. Canada is looking better every day.

[Wounded Bear]

15. They support them because they are easy to control. nt

[breadandwine]

19. A few years back Dan Quayle attended a political Christian gathering.

At it they all pledged allegiance to what they called "The Christian flag."

They all put their hands on their hearts and said "I pledge allegiance to the CHRISTIAN flag..." etc.

And Bush said JEEEEEEEEEESUS was his political guru.


These people will do ANYTHING for Jesus.


But don't worry about any of that. A Christian theocracy is good for you!!!!!!!!


It'll solve EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!

[catgirl]

14. That's why she cancelled all her appearances

Teflon? She's afraid to speak to anyone, except for FOX News. Charisma? Huh?
Sounds like you're enamored by her. I see her as a joke who has zero chance of
winning.

[LynneSin]

18. She cancelled Faux News too

people aren't going to let her cake walk.

[catgirl]

27. Palin wanted her to talk to them

But Karl Rove has a bit more power than little 'ole Sarah. Even Faux is scary to Christine now.
If there's a war brewing between Palin and Rove, it's time for the popcorn and those things
that people blow into at soccer games. I hope they bloody either into oblivion.

[mucifer]

16. This is Delaware, not Texas.

[LynneSin]

17. It was also a closed republican primary in a state that is overwhelmingly democratic

I suspect if the primary was open the independents and moderate democrats would have supported Castle.

[Gin]

20. that Castle ad about her was very good.....the same ad should be used in the general

election by Coons....I like how the picture came together with the issues about her.

[breadandwine]

23. What did that picture coming together signify?

Anyway, it is a good ad and I would have thought it would do her in.

One can say, well, it was a closed GOP primary so that is why it didn't work. But are goopers really THAT brain dead?

Man. I just don't get how Castle can run an ad like that and it just bounces off O'Donnell like bullets on Superman.

[Gin]

26. I just like those kinds of puzzles.....so I liked the concept

[kenny blankenship]

21. He described himself as a Rockefeller Republican in an interview w/ S. Colbert

A self described Rockefeller Republican, described by friendly observers as a classic Northeast Liberal Republican. He couldn't have been more marked for death if he had taken to wearing a tshirt with an illustration of the prophet Muhammed being buggered by a camel.

[SheilaT]

22. As several others have pointed out

this was a closed primary in a largely Democratic state. The other thing to remember is that in the best of circumstances primary voters are a tiny minority -- don't be fooled, dear reader, if you always vote in your primaries in your state, because you are unusual. And in any primary, if there's a loony running, that loony's supporters will be far more motivated to go out and vote than are the supporters of the moderate or mainstream candidate.

I'm speaking from experience in Kansas, where it's sadly easy for loony Republicans to win primaries, and then all too often there's no Democrat even running for that office.

But with O'Donnell and Delaware, there's a strong Democratic registration and sentiment, and so long as the Democratic Party there does a decent GOTV, and so long as the Dem nominee for the Senate actually campaigns, he should win. Would love to see a debate between O'Donnell and Coons.

[RBInMaine]

24. A right wing fringe PRIMARY is no where near a GENERAL election.

[breadandwine]

29. Others are saying that up-thread. But still, even right wingers have a few brain cells.

Pretty creepy that they just completely ignored these allegations against O'Donnell.

[LynneSin]

31. You have to understand it was a closed primary

Castle would win his elections for one reason and one reason only - moderate democrats and independents kept voting for him. In a closed primary these people cannot vote for Mike, only republicans.

Today I delivered Coons sign to a neighborhood that tends to be moderate democrats and independents. The guy told me point blank - if Castle had won that would be the sign he put on his street corner but there is no way in hell he wants that idiot as his senator.

Christine, so far, has been campaigning heavily in a county that has the smallest population. I'm sure with that $1mil jackpot she'll pay some folks to try and campaign in Wilmington but we'll see right thru it. New Castle County is the largest county and the better educated county. New Castle County is a liberal Northeast State whereas Sussex County (outside of beach towns like Rehobeth) is like being in the deep south in the United States.

O'Donnell needs to convince those independents and moderate democrats she could be a good senator and well, they just aren't buying it.

[proud patriot]

25. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee !

[Cleita]

32. Just to be the devils advocate here for a minute.

This ad was more personal attack than showing she's not a good candidate to be senator. Maybe Castle should have concentrated more on what he was going to bring to the table for Delaware if elected. All this ad did was show who O'Donnell was but nothing about who Castle was. Just MHO.

[breadandwine]

33. All studies show that negative campaigning hurts the adversary more than it hurts you.

When you skin your opponent alive the public dislikes you but they HATE the one you smeared.


So the obvious question is how O'Donnell cruised past this Castle ad.


Also, I don't know what other ads Castle ran. Could be he ran positive ones too.


And if O'Donnell has Tea Party fanatics' money coming in plus corporate money that's a lot of ad money she can fling herself. Palin can raise a boat load of money for O'Donnell too.


All cause for concern.