As Tea Party candidate beats establishment Republican candidate in polls, the Empire (tries to) strike back

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The tea party candidate is beating the establishment Republican candidate in the primary polls...

Raleigh, N.C. – It looks like there’s a real possibility of a major upset in the Delaware Senate primary on Tuesday night, with insurgent conservative Christine O’Donnell leading longtime Congressman and Governor Mike Castle 47-44. That 3 point lead is well within the poll’s margin of error.

If Castle is indeed defeated Tuesday night it will be yet another sign that conservatives have a strangle hold on the Republican Party and moderates may or may not be welcome anymore. Castle has an overwhelming 69-21 lead with moderate voters but they only make up 33% of the likely primary electorate. O’Donnell has a 62-31 lead with conservatives that’s more than enough to propel her to the overall lead.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_DE_912806.pdf

But the Republican establishment doesn't care. They still want her gone.

Not long after tea party-backed Joe Miller stunned Alaska GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Republican establishment is furiously trying to avoid a similar outcome in the Delaware primary on Tuesday. Republican leaders, top strategists and even the Delaware state GOP chairman have taken the unusual step of openly working to defeat O'Donnell and ensure the nomination of their preferred candidate, nine-term Rep. Mike Castle.

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Establishment Republicans have been relentless, calling O'Donnell unelectable, a fraud and a liar

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This weekend, Delaware Republicans set about knocking on 10,000 doors, making tens of thousands of phone calls and flooding mailboxes with fliers that explain both candidates' records. In a primary that could draw just 30,000 voters, party officials are going all-in to defend one of their top recruits and discredit O'Donnell.

"She's not a viable candidate for any office in the state of Delaware," said the state party chairman, Tom Ross, who is backing Castle. "She could not be elected dog catcher."

http://www.dc50tv.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-delaware-senate,0,3967118.story

[luckytxn 2,265]

Too bad for the Reps that she is not running for dog catcher.

[Danno 1,228]

Score another win for the the Tea Party because it looks like she won.

Palin Power grows.

[luckytxn 2,265]

GOP is still clueless. News at 10:00

[Danno 1,228]

GOP is still clueless. News at 10:00

Who is more nervous the GOP of the Dims?

[luckytxn 2,265]

Who is more nervous the GOP of the Dims?

Definitely the GOP. The Socialists are too stupid to even see anything.

[Danno 1,228]

Definitely the GOP. The Socialists are too stupid to even see anything.

You might be right..... they still think the T-Party is -just astro turf.

[The_Dude 1,142]

Good to see Danno and his fellow teabaggers stroking each other, ego that is.

[twowls 217]

Seems like a nice girl.

[JohnSmith2007 353]

Seems like a nice girl.

Oh the horror!!! This should disqualify her from any public office!!!! Run her out on a rail!!!

Jeez, and so it begins.

[Heracles 417]

Tea-party kind of reminds me of the dark ages in Europe, the movements are as similar as it gets.

Palin has about as much common sense as I have tolerance for anything hip hop or rap.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

You might be right..... they still think the T-Party is -just astro turf.

I'll put a wooden-nickel on the Dims--as they are behaving much like Canuck Baloney-Tories aka PC's of 1993 (for historical reference--in the Canuck election of that year, PC's got massacred from absolute-majority down to TWO-TOTAL Commons seats).

[twowls 217]

Oh the horror!!! This should disqualify her from any public office!!!! Run her out on a rail!!!

Hey, don't overreact. I, for one, look forward to her wise and wondrous reign.

From wiki: O'Donnell also served as a spokesperson for Concerned Women for America, a Conservative Christian political action group which seeks to apply biblical principles to issues of public policy.

I hope you don't like shellfish.

[JohnSmith2007 353]

Hey, don't overreact. I, for one, look forward to her wise and wondrous reign.

From wiki: O'Donnell also served as a spokesperson for Concerned Women for America, a Conservative Christian political action group which seeks to apply biblical principles to issues of public policy.

I hope you don't like shellfish.

The dem candidate seems to be a nice guy as well, if you like Marxists that is.

Coons took 'bearded Marxist' turn

5/3/10 10:52 PM EDT

An article Democrat Chris Coons wrote for his college newspaper may not go over so well in corporation-friendly Delaware, where he already faces an uphill battle for Vice President Joe Biden’s old Senate seat.

The title? “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist.”

In the article, Coons, then 21 years old and about to graduate from Amherst College, chronicled his transformation from a sheltered, conservative-minded college student who had worked for former GOP Delaware Sen. William Roth and had campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1980 into a cynical young adult who was distrustful of American power and willing to question the American notion of free enterprise.

Coons, the New Castle County executive who is running against GOP Rep. Michael Castle for the state’s open Senate seat, wrote of his political evolution in the May 23, 1985, edition of the Amherst Student.

The source of his conversion, Coons wrote, was a trip to Kenya he took during the spring semester of his junior year—a time away from America, he wrote, that served as a “catalyst” in altering a conservative political outlook that he was growing increasingly uncomfortable with.

“My friends now joke that something about Kenya, maybe the strange diet, or the tropical sun, changed my personality; Africa to them seems a catalytic converter that takes in clean-shaven, clear-thinking Americans and sends back bearded Marxists,” Coons wrote, noting that at one time he had been a “proud founding member of the Amherst College Republicans.”

“t is only too easy to return from Africa glad to be American and smugly thankful for our wealth and freedom,” added Coons. “Instead, Amherst had taught me to question, so in turn I questioned Amherst, and America.”

Dave Hoffman, a Coons campaign spokesman, said the title of the article was designed as a humorous take-off on a joke Coons’s college friends had made about how his time outside the country had affected his outlook.

Hoffman said the trip to Kenya helped lead to Coons’s decision to become a Democrat.

“Chris wrote an article about a transformative experience during his semester in Kenya more than twenty-five years ago,” said Hoffman in a statement to POLITICO. “After witnessing crushing poverty and the consequences of the Reagan Administration’s ‘constructive engagement’ with the South African apartheid regime, he rethought his political views, returned to the America he loved and proudly registered as a Democrat.”

In one passage of the article, Coons explains how in the months leading up to the trip abroad “leftists” on campus and college professors had begun to “challenge the basic assumptions” he had formed about America.

A course on cultural anthropology, noted Coons, had “undermined the accepted value of progress and the cultural superiority of the West,” while a class on the Vietnam War led him to “suspect…that the ideal of America as a ‘beacon of freedom and justice, providing hope for the world’ was not exactly based in reality.”

For Coons, Kenya was an especially jarring experience that significantly influenced his already-changing political beliefs. He wrote that he was particularly troubled by his experience with Kenyan elites, who he said were utterly dismissive of the poor.

“I became friends with a very wealthy businessman and his family and heard them reiterate the same beliefs held by many Americans: the poor are poor because they are lazy, slovenly, uneducated,” wrote Coons. “I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36726.html

[Peikko 1,575]

So it's a choice between someone who believes masturbating is a sin and someone who believes time spent in Africa turns clean shaven young Americans into bearded Marxists? Interesting choices