Tea Party Upsets in Delaware, New York

[cervidaeartioda]

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/0...uge-upset-with-odonnell-senate-victory-in-de/

Tea Party conservatives emerged from the final big night of the 2010 primary season with at least two shocking upsets: Their pick in Delaware's Republican Senate primary, Christine O'Donnell, toppled veteran Rep. Michael Castle. And Buffalo developer Carl Paladino, a political newcomer allied with the Tea Party, defeated former congressman Rick Lazio in New York's Republican gubernatorial primary.

The Delaware primary was a fitting climax to a season of noisy contests between candidates anointed by the Republican establishment because they seemed more electable, and those favored by Tea Party activists because they seemed more conservative.

Castle, a nine-term congressman and former Delaware governor, had called his race against O'Donnell a test of whether a moderate could survive in today's rebellious, increasingly conservative GOP. For him and for Lazio, also a moderate, the answer was no. Paladino now faces Democrat Andrew Cuomo, the New York attorney general and son of former governor Mario Cuomo, who has a commanding lead in polls of the race.


Tea Party gains were not limited to Delaware and New York. The movement picked up a favored Senate nominee in Wisconsin, Oshkosh businessman Ron Johnson. His victory formalized his ongoing stiff challenge to Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold.

The Tea Party also was aiming for an upset in New Hampshire's GOP Senate primary. Former attorney general Kelly Ayotte was trying to fend off a late surge by lawyer and 1996 gubernatorial nominee Ovide Lamontagne. He had momentum from endorsements by Sen. Jim DeMint, the Tea Party group Liberty Central and the influential Union Leader newspaper.

Ayotte had backing from Sarah Palin and the party establishment, including retiring Sen. Judd Gregg. She worked to gain the trust of conservatives, but was hampered by having served as an appointee of governors from both parties, by not having a voting record, and by saying she would have voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Rep. Paul Hodes ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

Delaware's O'Donnell, a conservative activist nearly three decades younger than Castle, spent much of the campaign defending herself from criticism of her character and personal finances. The Delaware GOP and party leaders such as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie mobilized to help Castle, calling O'Donnell unelectable and worse. But she prevailed with backing from Tea Party groups and prominent figures such as Palin, Michelle Malkin and DeMint.

The O'Donnell victory immediately shifted the seat, once held by Vice President Joe Biden, from likely GOP to likely Democratic and reduced the odds of Republicans winning a majority in the Senate. The shell-shocked National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a one-line statement congratulating O'Donnell. Democrats lauded their nominee, New Castle County executive Chris Coons, as an energetic reformer focused on jobs. On Twitter, pundits all but declared Coons the blue-leaning state's next senator.

"A lot of people have already said that we can't win the general election," O'Donnell said in a victory speech. "Yes, we can. Yes, we will."

O'Donnell and Johnson brought to eight the number of Tea Party allies who have won Senate nominations. The others are Mike Lee of Utah, Joe Miller of Alaska, Ken Buck of Colorado, Marco Rubio of Florida, Sharron Angle of Nevada and Rand Paul of Kentucky.

Castle, first elected statewide in Delaware 30 years ago, had broken from his party to support Obama administration priorities such as a climate-change bill and the new financial reform law, and has been working with Democrats on revisions to the No Child Left Behind education law. Many Republicans looked at the bottom line -- polls suggesting O'Donnell is unelectable -- and stood by Castle.

But his moderate record was enough to send more voters into O'Donnell's camp, despite warnings from Charles Krauthammer and other conservatives that she is a fatally flawed candidate. Issues that arose during the primary campaign included her false claims (that she had a college degree, that she defeated Biden in two of the state's three counties in 2008); irregular finances (including a near-foreclosure, an IRS tax lien and a total reported 2009 income of $5,800); unusual public statements (she's against masturbation and she believes political rivals are stalking her); and a multimillion-dollar sex discrimination lawsuit against a former employer.

"I'm an average hard-working American. I'm not a multimillionaire like my opponent. Of course in this economy I've fallen on hard times," O'Donnell said Tuesday morning on CBS' "The Early Show." She said she had straightened out her finances and "I came through to the other side in a very strong position."

 

[busybody..]

hey SCHMUCK

ever read whats on the front page?

we dont need some asshole from down under telling us what we know

GO AWAY!

 

[cervidaeartioda]

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[busybody..]

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[The_Trouvere]

This message is hidden because busybody is on your ignore list.

Shut up busybody. You are a pathetic little worm of a man.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

hey SCHMUCK

ever read whats on the front page?

we dont need some asshole from down under telling us what we know

GO AWAY!

He's correct. There are plenty of threads already on the subject.

I see Doctor Wiki, PhD Spellcheck, is here to typify Democrat behavior.

Shout, ignore, read only approved messages and assume your position is the only correct one, that the smart people agree with you and the other 78-80% of the people need you to dictate the measure and course of their lives.

 

[cervidaeartioda]

He's correct. There are plenty of threads already on the subject.

I see Doctor Wiki, PhD Spellcheck, is here to typify Democrat behavior.

Shout, ignore, read only approved messages and assume your position is the only correct one, that the smart people agree with you and the other 78-80% of the people need you to dictate the measure and course of their lives.

I do not see the threads because I have those members on ignore. People can start any thread on this forum they like, nobody has exclusive rights to thread subjects.

If many of the threads were less childish they may be taken seriously but I have no plans to speak to members like busybody that clearly have mental issues, he acts like a 9 year old delinquent.

 

[JohnnySavage]

This message is hidden because busybody is on your ignore list.

Shut up busybody. You are a pathetic little worm of a man.

There's some of that high brow discourse you are always pining for around here!

lol

It's like people are idiots on purpose around here.


Hey... can you post up the picture of Killy's dog? I always love when you bring that level of intellectualism to a conversation.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I do not see the threads because I have those members on ignore. People can start any thread on this forum they like, nobody has exclusive rights to thread subjects.

If many of the threads were less childish they may be taken seriously but I have no plans to speak to members like busybody that clearly have mental issues, he acts like a 9 year old delinquent.

I find overuse of the ignore button only isolates you and makes you look like a kook who can't hold up his end of a conversation so he prefers monologues...

Bye. You just keep mumbling to yourself and shouting at professor Wiki.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

You put WOK on ignore????

 

[tactful]

For all "those" people.

Individual foreigners, always trying to act like they're the U.S. Government or something, telling us, what we should do, and how to run our government, if they'd only give us enough time, we'll show them how to fuck it up ourselves.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Do we EVER discuss politics down under?




I can't remember the last time...

 

[cervidaeartioda]

It's obvious the tea party is growing with great momentum, in my view I expected the southern states to except it sooner than the northern states. If this is a sign of things to come the democrats are in a world of hurt.

So much for Obama bringing America "together". Obama has divided the country worse than any president in history...including Lincoln!

 

[overthebow]

I find overuse of the ignore button only isolates you and makes you look like a kook who can't hold up his end of a conversation so he prefers monologues...

Amen.

WTF???? I'm agreeing with AJ?

 

[Wok]

You put WOK on ignore????

Yes, because I keep bringing up the McCain will win thread.

 

[overthebow]

Yes, because I keep bringing up the McCain will win thread.

Well, he did win. Unfortunately, it was in another time-space continuum.

 

[Wok]

Well, he did win. Unfortunately, it was in another time-space continuum.

That thread was filled with lolz.

 

[jeninflorida]

Well, he did win. Unfortunately, it was in another time-space continuum.

clearly, those that support obama are:

a. a government worker
b. on welfare

which one are you?

 

[cervidaeartioda]

You put WOK on ignore????

Just like busybody probably another alt of busybody anyway, I will not hold conversations with unstable people.

Neither will except facts only what they believe in their delusional minds.

 

[doctor_insanus]

It's obvious the tea party is growing with great momentum, in my view I expected the southern states to except it sooner than the northern states. If this is a sign of things to come the democrats are in a world of hurt.

So much for Obama bringing America "together". Obama has divided the country worse than any president in history...including Lincoln!

The teabaggers will discover that anger and invectives will only go so far. Their batshit craziness will be more fully exposed in the general elections, and those who do survive will be expected to deliver results in Washington.

 

[cervidaeartioda]

The teabaggers will discover that anger and invectives will only go so far. Their batshit craziness will be more fully exposed in the general elections, and those who do survive will be expected to deliver results in Washington.

Can you name the results the democrats have achieved?

 

[jeninflorida]

The teabaggers will discover that anger and invectives will only go so far. Their batshit craziness will be more fully exposed in the general elections, and those who do survive will be expected to deliver results in Washington.

allow me to fix what you posted:
"bla bla bla......I want more of obama! after all I don't work so why should I care about taxes. I'm a little girl that sleeps with the lights on....I don't want to see real people"

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Tea Baggers are scaring the crap out of GOP elites.

 

[jeninflorida]

Tea Baggers are scaring the crap out of GOP elites.

now, if only it was all of the political "elites."

 

[cervidaeartioda]

Tea Baggers are scaring the crap out of GOP elites.