Politico: GOP Path to Senate Takeover ruined as GOP suffers it's worst nightmare

[Politics_Guy25]

Wow!!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42172_Page2.html

The path to a Republican Senate takeover narrowed to the point of vanishing Tuesday night, as marketing consultant Christine O’Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware’s Senate primary and likely dashed the GOP’s hopes of capturing the seat in the process.

XD XD XD

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. BWAHAHAHAHAHAAA!

Is this what you call being hoist on your own petard?

:rofl:

Or is it an instance of their karma running over their dogma?

[opihimoimoi]

5. Their Dogma has turned to smegma....poor widdle GOPers

all dressed up and nowhere to turn to but CRAZY Wacko Baggers

[scheming daemons]

9. Our Karma has run over their Dogma

[opihimoimoi]

15. Big Time...Armey fucked up...now its a big FAIL

[flpoljunkie]

24. Teabagger Dick showed his true colors refusing to endorse O'Donnell. Major 'co-opt' fail! Love it!

[Phx_Dem]

18. Seriously! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!

:rofl:


The lunatics have taken over the asylum. :)

[happygoluckytoyou]

43. PLEASE SEND $10 TO THE SARAH PALIN F'UP THE GOP FUND... THANK YOU SARAH! ! ! ! ! (with love HReid)

[Cognitive_Resonance]

2. It's even worse than that for the Republican Party. The fissures are going to widen

as the nutbags drag their party down. They can't put the crazy back in the bottle. The GOP is heading for a meltdown.

[bushisanidiot]

6. We need to cheer them on to go further to the right

the vote on Don't Ask Don't Tell next week will do nicely to achieve this goal.


HAHAHAHA!

[obxhead]

37. That is a dangerous path.

The further that that GOP moves to the right, the further to the right the Dems go. Just look at the last 30 years for examples of this.

[AlinPA]

25. I don't buy that. Look at the number of teabagger candidates- NV, DE, NH, TN, PA,

CO, UT, AK, FL, WI. Except for DE, they could all be in the senate next year.

[TheEuclideanOne]

36. I don't buy it either

What is so horrible about her that these other tea baggers are not doing? From what I have seen, she is not that much crazier than the other Teabag whackjobs. Seriously, can somebody explain why she is considered wackier than the rest?

[jillan]

3. Wow - that came from Politico???

hahahahaha!!!!

[bushisanidiot]

4. HAHAHAHA!! Tea baggers and Palin are so full of themselves

that they actually thought that "crazy" was a good strategy??

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

You lose, IDIOTS!

[theothersnippywshrub]

7. This is a golden opportunity for Democrats.

The Democratic party needs to attack O'Donnell intensely, relentlessly and constantly and link her to all other Republican candidates across the country and the entire Republican party. O'Donnell needs to be made into the face of the Republican party. She needs to be made into the leader of the Republican party. Every Democrat running for any office needs to paint the Republican opponent as a supporter of O'Donnell.

Republican candidates who support O'Donnell will drive away some decent human beings who ordinarily vote Republican and Republican candidates who reject O'Donnell will drive away the Scrotal Warmers.

[LiberalFighter]

20. Think of the ramifications for state legislative races. Fractured.

[Enthusiast]

26. I'm not so sure.

The attacks might allow O'Donnell to be cast as a victim. You know, depending on the nature of the attacks. I see it as a possible dilemma. Maybe I'm just feeling negative this morning.

[MattyGroves]

30. Someone on Rachel Maddow said something similar....

That Castle's attack on O'Donnell apparently turned off a lot of people.

However, one should ask those same people though what they thought of O'Donnell's campaign tactic of attacking Castle's sexuality.

I'd like to hear how one is justified and the other isn't especially when Castle's attacks were supported by known facts re: O'Donnell's financial and employment history.

[wiggs]

31. It's not good. The Koch, Armey, Palin, Hannity, Levin propaganda machine is

working. Just because it may not work 100% of the time in this general election doesn't mean that it's not effective and frightening. This is not democracy at work, it's big money and fringe polarization controlling information and a portion of the electorate. It's the same formula, on steroids and aimed at government, that the gop has used to motivate voters in years past by throwing one group or another under the bus (gays, black people, immigrants, east coast elite, etc etc etc).

And in this cycle it's working better than ever. Paul and Angle are on the doorstep. Palin almost made it. Bush did make it, twice. Gingrich, Boehner, McCain, McConnell, and Cantor have taken a hard turn right into territory that would not have been acceptable 15 years ago.

The trend is insane and does not further public discourse and democracy. ODonnell may not make it in DE, but the overall trend does not bode well.

[Enthusiast]

33. Nice post......nt

[sofa king]

41. You're not seeing the silver lining.

These candidates are so radical and so manifestly unprepared for the job that they stand a distinct chance of cutting down the Republican Party to a 30% demographic that can't win at all, anywhere. They've attracted all kinds of disadvantages, including having blown most of their money in a race against their own party, which makes the chances of any one of them winning in the general election even lower. Their highly negative influence might even serve to open up other races that previously looked safe to the Republicans.

Even if that doesn't happen and enough Tea Partiers do find their way into the Senate to give the Republicans control, their further radicalization of that Party in the Senate may prompt the defection of one or more moderate Republicans. Both Senators from Maine are teetering on the fence already, for example, and have been for a decade. The Democrats cut Jim Jeffords a sweeeet deal to become an independent, and that offer will be made again if the Republicans take over by one or two seats.

Even if that doesn't happen, Tea Party candidates are running on an agenda that promises results, and results are exactly what a Republican-controlled Senate would seek to avoid. Even if total disaster strikes and the Tea Partiers somehow take over the Senate with a far-right voting bloc, the President still gets to bat down all legislation they approve. A stalemate is the best they can achieve, while marginalizing their party all the while going into an even more important election cycle.

And that's the best they can hope for! There must be some DC Republicans digging up their stolen Iraq money from their backyards already.

[Jade Fox]

55. Thank you sofa king!

You've articulated exactly the swirling thoughts I had in response to wigg's post.

[wiggs]

56. I do see the point and agree that it should be clear that radical RW politics is crazy. It should

be clear that Palin has nothing to offer. It should be clear that RW policies have driven the economy into the ground, just as it should be clear that deregulation has a lot to do with financial, health care, and environmental disasters. It should be clear that gay marriage won't destroy straight marriages everywhere and that a muslim community center 300 feet from the WTC isn't a conquering symbol. It should be clear that Obama isn't a marxist, communist, or socialist and that he doesn't want Sharia law. It should be clear that trickle down is a myth. It should be clear that Obama can speak without a teleprompter.

It should have been clear that Kerry wasn't a coward and that Bush wasn't up to the task.

I could go on for pages...the point is that dems have had the issues and the arguments and the silver linings and still manage to cede power and message away. Explain Boxer and Fiorina to me and what rational world would have them tied for the senate. They are tied because of big money, polarization, misinformation, control of 90% of media, hate, gop willingness to go low, and because a few dems are fine with going along with concentration of wealth and power into fewer hands. Otherwise, we wouldn't we losing a single senate seat this year and would keep most house seats.

It took an illegal mismanaged war and a pantload of scandals and a tanking economy and a great potus candidate to elect some dems in 2006 and 2008. Smears, hate, and misiformation is hard to beat and we're seeing the results of 2 years of it and it's not going to stop.

[sofa king]

62. Yes, you have your points, too.

Although I think that the apparent level of discourse in American politics is actually a symptom of having a much broader section of the public paying attention.

I remember back in the '80s having to go to the library to find a copy of Congressional Quarterly so that I could find a breakdown of Senate races that year.

Now, doofuses who don't even know what the Senate is get tweeted about developments in races outside of their states, and start tossing poo around in the form of forwarded emails and gang-banged online polls and "me too" posts on the Free Republic. Are they lowering the level of public discourse? Sure they are, but in front of each one of those screaming, poo-throwing monkeys are three people who don't want that monkey to ever get back out of its cage. The monkey motivates those voters, too.

[wiggs]

59. And...if 50% of the electorate turns out for a midterm general election it only

takes 25% of the electorate to elect whom they want. That 30% of the nation that believes that Obama is muslim and that Hussein had something to do with 9/11 can elect senators and congressmen if they turn out....so playing to the crazy 30% can work.

After 2008, the gop had a choice to either go moderate and reasonable...or...go further right. They went further right and doubled down on 30 years of bad policy, THEN got out-crazied by the tea baggers and went FURTHER right still, pulling the center to the right and pulling what passes for rational public discourse into the gutter.

[blue sky at night]

53. I am with you here...

no matter how you spin it this is bad craziness for our country, and it makes me sick.

[AlinPA]

54. There can be at least 9 teabaggers in the senate when this is over: TN,PA,UT,CO,WI,NH,AK,FL, NV.

This trend is indeed insane. With DeMint, Coburn, Inhofe, Hatch and the rest of the crazies this is not a pretty 6 years coming up in the United States Senate. It is scary.

[hendo]

58. I dont understand

why everyone is so happy that the tea baggers are winning thier primaries. All this means is that they stand a chance of actually being elected.

[paparush]

38. THIS! A thousand times, THIS!

[ProSense]

8. "The GOP civil war begins early."

Via Kos

...The GOP civil war begins early.

One senior Republican leadership aide blasted DeMint for his involvement in the race, arguing he cared more about his own personal stature than a Republican majority in the Senate.

"DeMint took it a step too far here, and I think he has lost the remaining credibility he had, even within the caucus," said the aide. "DeMint is not interested in a majority, he'd rather establish himself as the leader on the fringe."

[BrklynLiberal]

10. wow

[FBaggins]

11. "If she's nominated, Republicans lose the election automatically"

So says the chairman of the DE Republican Party.

:rofl:

Best news I've seen this entire cycle.

[Cal33]

48. Couldn't he have been exaggerating things just to help the

Republican Party? They all exaggerate when they think it's necessary, correct?

[DrToast]

12. Christine O'Donnell for dog catcher! *

*

[Cognitive_Resonance]

13. The GOP has lost control to the crazies within. This won't end well for them. nt

[opihimoimoi]

16. They have presented a GIFT to us DEMs who were about to LOSE

Dem Headquarters: "THERE IS A GODDESS AFTER ALL"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eI3wYMVjeg&feature=related

DANCING TIME w Heino

[AlinPA]

52. The media will get behind O'Donnell and she will be a tough person to beat.

[applegrove]

14. LOL!

[CTLawGuy]

17. If the Republicans want to send us any more senate seats

giftwrapped, I will NOT say no. :toast:

[NBachers]

19. Please Democrats don't turn these golden opportunities into a stinking quagmire of failure

Please, no snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

[Diane R]

35. Thank you. It's way too early to spike the ball.

[Ramulux]

21. Nice to see this

Glad to see Politico join the real world for the first time in a while. I really dont know how they would spin this even if they tried. Its a great day for democrats, no two ways about it.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

22. Hope they dont have Diebold machines in Delaware

Or the last laugh could be on the Dems.

[Cal33]

49. I think most states still use those Republicn-made machines!

[704wipes]

57. Castle won with 54% of verifiable paper absentee ballots

Yet Ms. NoToWanking won 54% of the unverifiable electronic ballots and the election.
Interesting huh? Nothing to see there.

Details over at BradBlog.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

23. For a party that the corporate mediawhores

Characterize as being newly ascendant, they are having a hard time beating back primary challenges from anti-establishment (and crazy) candidates.

:rofl:

[Jennicut]

27. Hey, the Rethugs chose to feed this monster. All of us could see this possibly happening.

[dccrossman]

28. NRSC doesn't plan to fund O'Donnell for November

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/09/14/nrsc-no-plans-to-fund-odonnell/

<sarcasm>

Note from NRSC to O'Donnell:
I thought we told you that Castle was supposed to win this primary. We're helping the Tea Partiers that can win, of course, but even Armey knows that you're an idiot. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

</sarcasm>

[glitch]

42. They don't need to, with Citizens United and the Koch brothers.

I agree with the others saying way too soon to celebrate.

[Patiod]

29. No counting chickens, kiddies

Got to GOTV (and yes, I'll be doing so myself, as I hope everyone here will)

But having said that, I did I little happy dance this morning when I heard that the folks from Slower Delaware prevailed over cooler, more traditional Republicans from Wilmington and voted to put that un-electable dope up for the race. My straight-ticket-voting friends in Delaware who like Mike Castle personally and therefore voted for him would NEVER vote for O'Donnell.

[mzmolly]

32. Let us hope the path to future Presidencies is also 'ruined' with like nightmares.

:evilgrin: In fact, I'll be glad to help Palin get on the Presidential Tea Party ticket, like the GOP did with Nader.

[whathehell]

34. OMG.....and just last night I heard a Talking Head saying:

"The Democrats will almost CERTAINLY lose the Senate".

...Hell MUST be freezing over -- I LOVE IT!

[joeglow3]

39. Lets not start sucking each other's dicks just yet

There is no way she should have any chance to win. However, she managed to win with a smear campaign. Looks like outside nutjobs are already contributing a ton of money to her campaign. If we sit back and gloat about our win now, we may see another Massachusetts. Lets keep our eye on the prize.

[KansDem]

40. "Lets not start sucking each other's dicks just yet"

Okay, but what about Simpson's "310 million tits?"

[pasto76]

44. Check out gazette.com! They are saying that the climate is great for GOP!

in the conservative repuke bastion that is Colo Springs, they are trying to maintain the "lie to them to keep them happy" routine.

sgt pasto

[vaberella]

45. I hate Politico but that title is breathtaking. I'm ROFL...to the point of farting. n/t

[MikeW]

46. I think its a little too early for us to be celebrating ... there's work to do

[AlinPA]

51. Yes. This is a dangerous time for us.

[ChiciB1]

47. Ya Know... Politico May Very Well Be WRONG!! Plus I Have Learned NOT

to trust them all that much! They may be seeing this now, or they might JUST BE GUESSING!

THIS DEMOCRAT here WON'T take any of these whack jobs for granted! Do so at your own peril because they've gotten this far with what I will only call "demented ideas!" THEY ARE WINNING the elections they run in, so I say.......... BUYER BEWARE!!

I doubt many of the MSM would have predicted what you are seeing going on right now, so it's possible the GOP might not like what has been happening, but I'm not so sure they can STOP it! Nor do I think many Democrats are taking much of this as seriously as they should!

Given what we've seen for the past two years, I live in FEAR of not only them, but many DLC/BlueDog types in the Democratic Party as well!

Nuff said! I'm sure many don't agree with me, still I live with disappointment daily!

[Cal33]

50. One more thing: Don't underestimate those Republican-made

voting machines that leave no paper trails. Most states still use them!

[ChiciB1]

60. Florida Has Been Using Paper Ballots, But I Worked At My Local Voting

place a couple of times, and each time the machines had problems, and then hand counts were needed! I did watch closely, but once they left the "station" I'm not really sure what became of them!

Kathy Dent, OUR Supervisor of Elections is a real piece of work! I think she went to the "School of Katherine "Cruella" Harris, and her husband is a hot shot lawyer here! I have NO IDEA how she got elected the last time out because she has had some very bad press for many years around here!

Still, she won quite handily the last time out! I've have had confrontations with her and saying she is "nasty" is being polite! We even protested in front of her office a couple of times! She doesn't even care though!

:puke:

[Cal33]

61. Oh, wow.! This probably means that in those Republican

states, the Neocons can do with even the paper ballots what they want.
Can a rule be made where it's mandatory to have ballots in the sight of
both Democrats and Republicans at all times. And they must also be
locked up in safety boxes where at least two different keys are required
to reopen them. Dems and Pubs, one key each., no replicas!!
When the votes are close, just one percent of crooked votes can make
all the difference!

You can bet the Neocons are going to rig as many votes as they need to win!
Their past history of rigging is too well known.

Do you know if the Dems have taken any special precautions for Nov.2nd this time?
If not, can you suggest it to them - and to make it nationwide? Nov. 2nd is only
6 weeks away!