printI know little about Christine O’Donnell (other than that she admires The Hildebeest), but she sure seems a sweetheart. She has just “defeated veteran politician Mike Castle for the Republican Senate nomination in Delaware.” The GOP has responded to the whipping of one of its crooked politicians with this throw down:
“Republican aides told Fox News Tuesday that the National Republican Senatorial Committee will not be funding O’Donnell’s general election campaign, leaving it up to Palin and the Tea Party Express to do the heavy lifting.”
Given GOP good will, why is O’Donnell already talking about cooperating with establishment Republicans “for the common good”?
Reaching across the aisle to get things done is a euphemism for relinquishing principles in favor of political expediency. As one hardcore tea partier said to Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, “the only time I want my representative to reach across the isle is to grab a Democrat by the throat.”
Read more about what mainstream media are calling “an upset.”
* Unrelated: I am traveling to a WND event. I will be back at my desk in a few days. My WND column will resume next week.
UPDATE: (Sept. 20): Lew Rockwell wonders whether Christine O’Donnell can be all bad since she is “hated by Karl Rove, Charles Krauthammer, John Cornyn, the Club for Growth, and Dick Armey’s KochWorks.”
Alas, “she calls for murdering the unborn and everyone else in Iran, and is, in general, a foreign policy neocon.”
I’m sure we can nit pick Christine all day. That’s the way it is when some new face jousts the windmills of the establishment. The people of the establishment lie, cheat and lie some more about the individual who is threatening their hold on to whatever it is they want to hold on to. People like us lambast the new face because they don’t agree with everything we espouse and ultimately the establishment, who we hate, wins again. Certainly there are are some litmus agenda items that cannot be ignored, but on the whole, let’s get our foot in the door and start fine tuning from there. I hate that the best men on the scene seem to be women but so be it. Christine, you go girl.