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A Message For The GOP, Brought To You By Rick James

Posted on | September 15, 2010 | 55 Comments

by Smitty

It’s important to remember that the square roots of a house divided against itself cannot multiply. Michelle Malkin reports that Castle is showing just how worthy he was of any support:

A Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) campaign source confirmed to The Hill late Tuesday that the longtime congressman will not be endorsing Christine O’Donnell.

More at Hot Air, where the NRSC is sporting stage 5 cranial rectalitis:

They’re trying to limit the damage from the race but they’re only going to end up expanding it, and to pull the plug on her when she’s literally in the middle of her victory speech will stick in the craw of righties nationwide who are excited by her win. Just spend what you have to spend on her to give her a fair chance of winning, which is unlikely but possible. If you shortchange her, you only alienate people you need in November.

Get bent, ye sore losers. Rick James explains what the GOP requires:

Unity:
Brother, sister,
There’s got to be,
Uuuuuuniiiiiity.
Yeeeeeeahhh.
Unity.
Unity’s what missing in our
Liiiiiiiiiives.
Can’t you see?
Wee need looooooove.
A little word of confidence.
Every now and then.
A little hoooonesty,
And trust among us.
A little love and harmony,
And there’ll surely be,
Some unity,
Unity,
Unity.
(Unity)

On the other hand:
Via Daniel Foster,

–CNN’s Mark Preston quotes an unnamed GOP official: “Until she demonstrates some viability in the polls we are not going to have any money for her.” The official said it is now incumbent on Jim DeMint, Sarah Palin, and the Tea Party Express to support O’Donnell. “They got her here.”

Hey, that’s just the kind of idiocy that brought you the national debt and budget deficit. Thanks, unnamed GOP [censored].

Also, one hopes the Progressive notion that the Tea Parties are some GOP sock puppet has been retired. The Ruling Class had better re-read the first three words of the Constitution, for those eleven letters are key.

Dan Riehl seems to be having some difficulties with Karl Rove. How long until we see a Downfall parody with Karl Rove in the ‘Stache chair?

Category: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware, Republicans

Comments

55 Responses to “A Message For The GOP, Brought To You By Rick James”

  1. n dominic taboada
    September 16th, 2010 @ 1:36 am

    @24 — John Smith

    You’re either missing the point completely or rhetorically hitting the nail on the head by asking questions with such obvious answers.

    It’s becoming completely evident that these anti-establishment O’Donnell-types are nothing else if not self-inflated “my way, or the highway” folks who would rather make these contests personal issue than actual ideological triumphs. I find it disturbingly ironic that, while clamouring for “unity”, they’re throwing around gay-baiting ad-hominem like “butthurt”, as though it were going out of style, just because someone civilly expresses an opinion contrary to theirs: that, politically, the selection of O’Donnell was really a mistake.

    I’m not a fan of Castle, and I think he’d be precisely the kind of Maine-twin maverick that would come back to be a thorn in our collective side, but if the alternative is a histrionic, dishonest, self-absorbed lunatic like O’Donnell, I think the choice was obvious. The woman has lied about her education, has lied about her professional experience, has lied about her very un-conservative financial background, *ran a private consulting business out of her employer’s office on his time*, has misappropriated *campaign funds* to pay the mortgage on her *private residence*…the list goes on and on: this woman, by her very actions, has no sense of propriety, and she clearly thinks none of the rules and standards that apply to all the rest of us should apply to her.

    And if you want to talk about “sore losers”, wasn’t it O’Donnell who made ridiculous accusations about Mike Castle a) being gay, and b) sending thugs out to stalk her children? Is that supposed to be “fair play”? Is that the way, O’Donnell supporters, that a candidate properly and politely expresses her displeasure with being behind in the polls?

    If I’d been accused of being a gay child-stalker, hiding in the bushes for the next opportunity to pounce on a defenceless woman and her children, I would never endorse that woman either.

    I understand the need to rebel against poor establishment candidates — I was, I am somewhat sad to say, officially a Huckabee supporter up until the nomination was officially conceded to mac. But rebelling against a long-time winner who better represents the DE constituency at large (he may be pro-abortion — which I detest — but then, I’d wager, so too are more than 50% of DE voters) in favour of a dishonest shrew who sued her employer for demoting her to clerical work, claiming undue mental anguish because she *had been on fox television*.

    …Really?

    I’m not impugning a decision to support the candidate that you agree with most, even if that candidate is less suited to win. I think that sort of thing should be a political consideration, sure, but I don’t think that voting one’s conscious over pragmatism is necessarily a bad decision. What *is* a bad decision, unquestionably, is reactionarily voting for a candidate who has displayed nothing but blatantly perfidious self-aggrandisement and tendencies toward unethical violations of rules and standards for personal gain — just because she is the anti-establishment candidate.

    We on the *Right* who oppose O’Donnell couldn’t care less about her anti-masturbation stances or borderline-divisive religious statements. We could probably care a little less that she is less suited to winning in DE. What we definitely care about is the fact that she has *repeatedly* shown that she’s the type of person to not think twice about telling lies or breaking rules for her own benefit. You can say that it’s just politics, but this woman isn’t even a real politician yet, and she’s taken the slime to “a whole ‘nother level” already.

  2. Estragon
    September 16th, 2010 @ 8:12 am

    We can, should, and do have vigorous primary campaigns, and everything is fair game from general philosophy to specific issues to character to electability to experience and more. Fight it out, no holds barred (the voters will decide if you went over the line).

    BUT then we have the primary itself. The reason we actually hold a vote is to DECIDE the various things contested in the campaign. We had that, the voters decided, and it is OVER.

    Everyone on our side needs to stop fighting the primary campaign NOW. Let the Democrats spend their money, air time, and bandwidth attacking our nominee as they surely will, but let us NOT form a circular firing squad due to residual animosities. Grow the flock up!

    Now, Castle should not be berated YET. The man had a shocking loss after a very rough campaign and deserves a few days to accept it. But then he needs to be a man and accept the verdict of his party’s voters, and endorse its candidate.

    I have high hopes that Murky will use the spotlight on her Friday presser to express her gratitude for the chance to serve her state and to all her well-wishers and supporters, and to announce her unconditional endorsement of the party’s nominee, Joe Miller.

    Yeah, I know – I’m an optimist.

  3. Estragon
    September 16th, 2010 @ 4:12 am

    We can, should, and do have vigorous primary campaigns, and everything is fair game from general philosophy to specific issues to character to electability to experience and more. Fight it out, no holds barred (the voters will decide if you went over the line).

    BUT then we have the primary itself. The reason we actually hold a vote is to DECIDE the various things contested in the campaign. We had that, the voters decided, and it is OVER.

    Everyone on our side needs to stop fighting the primary campaign NOW. Let the Democrats spend their money, air time, and bandwidth attacking our nominee as they surely will, but let us NOT form a circular firing squad due to residual animosities. Grow the flock up!

    Now, Castle should not be berated YET. The man had a shocking loss after a very rough campaign and deserves a few days to accept it. But then he needs to be a man and accept the verdict of his party’s voters, and endorse its candidate.

    I have high hopes that Murky will use the spotlight on her Friday presser to express her gratitude for the chance to serve her state and to all her well-wishers and supporters, and to announce her unconditional endorsement of the party’s nominee, Joe Miller.

    Yeah, I know – I’m an optimist.

  4. John Smith
    September 17th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

    @27 — n dominic taboada

    Yes, they were intended as rhetorical questions with obvious answers (or at least the answers were intended to be obvious enough)

  5. John Smith
    September 17th, 2010 @ 3:00 am

    @27 — n dominic taboada

    Yes, they were intended as rhetorical questions with obvious answers (or at least the answers were intended to be obvious enough)