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Have You Called 202-675-6000 Yet?

Posted on | September 15, 2010 | 35 Comments

DOVER, Delaware — Checkout time is noon at the Fairfield Inn here — headquarters for the Christine O’Donnell campaign — and the lobby is fully of campaign staffers, reporters, producers, etc. Christine’s dad just bummed a smoke from me. He’s supposed to be quit, but on such an occasion, his daughter didn’t object to the old guy having a celebratory smoke.

What a night we had last night, huh? The final night of the primary season, and the Tea Party stuffed a torpedo right up John Cornyn’s tailpipe. Also, I got linked by Michelle Malkin.

Smoke ’em if you got ’em, I say.

Mike Castle is playing sore loser — RINOs never lose gracefully — but I’m far more troubled by reports that Cornyn and the National Republican Senatorial Committee won’t support O’Donnell. Their phone number is 202-675-6000, and I think they might need some friendly persuasion. IYKWIMAITYD.

Up in New York’s 23rd District, last word was that Doug Hoffman — the guy who started this whole year of wild Tea Party action — was losing by less than 500 votes to a rich-boy GOP establishment candidate. That hurts, especially because Hoffman’s former campaign manager Matt Moran was the big winner here with Christine last night.

On the bright side, Charles Lollar won the nomination to take on Steny Hoyer in Maryland’s 5th District. Semper fi, baby.

Everybody’s asking, “What does it mean?” There was a reporter here from the UK Guardian this morning who said that Christine’s victory is the hottest story in Europe now. I don’t yet claim to have obtained Final Wisdom as to the meaning of O’Donnell’s victory, but will remind you of something I said last week:

Do Delaware’s pro-lifers they know that Mike Castle gets only a 10% score from the National Right to Life Committee? Do these pro-life voters know that Mike Castle was one of only 11 Republicans who voted against a law that would have made it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for abortion without parental notification? . . .

One Catholic reporter argues that those pro-life voters made a difference, so don’t believe the media hype that social conservatives don’t matter for Tea Party candidates. From my column today for The American Spectator:

Christine O’Donnell did not merely defeat Mike Castle in Tuesday’s Senate primary. She beat the Republican establishment, both nationally and in Delaware, and she beat a veritable army of naysayers who said she couldn’t do it.
O’Donnell also beat a vicious negative attack campaign into which her Republican opponents dumped every bit of trash they could find. Yet this had no apparent effect on the Tea Party-backed, Sarah Palin-endorsed candidate, who won with 53 percent of the vote to Castle’s 47 percent. Her little-known Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, can’t possibly hit O’Donnell with anything worse than she got from the GOP establishment. . . .

Read the whole thing. And please hit the tip jar. Checkout time is noon, and I’m going home.

UPDATE: Maximum donation? Wow. That was quick. Blogs get results! But I think they need to give her triple-max, as an apology. Call 202-675-6000 and tell ’em what you think.

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL for U.S. SENATE

Category: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware, Election, Republicans, Senate, Shoe Leather Fund

Comments

35 Responses to “Have You Called 202-675-6000 Yet?”

  1. steveegg
    September 15th, 2010 @ 3:53 pm

    Guess they heard your footsteps – Politico reports Cornyn has reversed course.

  2. steveegg
    September 15th, 2010 @ 11:53 am

    Guess they heard your footsteps – Politico reports Cornyn has reversed course.

  3. William
    September 15th, 2010 @ 3:58 pm

    Now with all the whiff of needing political spin after last night’s media disaster. Brav-o, NRSC.

    Just got word back from the MSM: they’re sorry they couldn’t stay for Breakfast, and you’re money’s on the nightstand.

  4. William
    September 15th, 2010 @ 11:58 am

    Now with all the whiff of needing political spin after last night’s media disaster. Brav-o, NRSC.

    Just got word back from the MSM: they’re sorry they couldn’t stay for Breakfast, and you’re money’s on the nightstand.

  5. Joe
    September 15th, 2010 @ 3:59 pm

    Cornyn wisely walked back from the brink.

  6. Joe
    September 15th, 2010 @ 11:59 am

    Cornyn wisely walked back from the brink.

  7. richard mcenroe
    September 15th, 2010 @ 4:00 pm

    NRSC caved, donating 42 grand, “legal maximum” to O’Donnell.

    Or, in layman’s terms, three trips to the strip club for Steele’s RNC peeps.

    Couldn’t have anything to do with her filling her $200k moneybomb overnight, could it?

  8. richard mcenroe
    September 15th, 2010 @ 12:00 pm

    NRSC caved, donating 42 grand, “legal maximum” to O’Donnell.

    Or, in layman’s terms, three trips to the strip club for Steele’s RNC peeps.

    Couldn’t have anything to do with her filling her $200k moneybomb overnight, could it?

  9. Dean
    September 15th, 2010 @ 4:09 pm

    Now that O’Donnell has reached the $200k goal and set a new goal of $350k, the NRSC sees that they should lend a hand.

  10. Dean
    September 15th, 2010 @ 12:09 pm

    Now that O’Donnell has reached the $200k goal and set a new goal of $350k, the NRSC sees that they should lend a hand.

  11. Joe
    September 15th, 2010 @ 4:12 pm

    Capt. Ed is reading the stars and fixing the position:

    There’s a difference between northwest Florida and Delaware, but perhaps not as big as one might think. After all, O’Donnell got 54% of Republicans in her state to reject Mike Castle and his liberal policy positions, a fact that these analysts continue to miss. Castle was hardly an unknown, and he had the full weight of the Republican Party in his corner, too. Yet more than half of the supposedly moderate Republicans in Delaware, who the party insisted wouldn’t support a true conservative, deliberately chose O’Donnell and rebuked the GOP for pushing a liberal in this election cycle.
    Is Delaware a more moderate state than Florida? Yes. Will it be harder for O’Donnell to win a general election than Castle? Yes. But it appears from the only poll that matters that the differences between the two have been overstated, and that the Republican Party missed a big opportunity to promote a candidate that actually believes in limited, smaller government for the Senate seat in Delaware. We know that there had to be a few potential candidates, because 54% of the Republicans in Delaware just told the GOP that’s what they wanted all along. And if they don’t start paying attention, that may be the apocalyptic development of this election.

  12. Joe
    September 15th, 2010 @ 12:12 pm

    Capt. Ed is reading the stars and fixing the position:

    There’s a difference between northwest Florida and Delaware, but perhaps not as big as one might think. After all, O’Donnell got 54% of Republicans in her state to reject Mike Castle and his liberal policy positions, a fact that these analysts continue to miss. Castle was hardly an unknown, and he had the full weight of the Republican Party in his corner, too. Yet more than half of the supposedly moderate Republicans in Delaware, who the party insisted wouldn’t support a true conservative, deliberately chose O’Donnell and rebuked the GOP for pushing a liberal in this election cycle.
    Is Delaware a more moderate state than Florida? Yes. Will it be harder for O’Donnell to win a general election than Castle? Yes. But it appears from the only poll that matters that the differences between the two have been overstated, and that the Republican Party missed a big opportunity to promote a candidate that actually believes in limited, smaller government for the Senate seat in Delaware. We know that there had to be a few potential candidates, because 54% of the Republicans in Delaware just told the GOP that’s what they wanted all along. And if they don’t start paying attention, that may be the apocalyptic development of this election.

  13. ccoffer
    September 15th, 2010 @ 4:33 pm

    She’s got O’mentum!

  14. ccoffer
    September 15th, 2010 @ 12:33 pm

    She’s got O’mentum!

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  16. Adobe Walls
    September 15th, 2010 @ 5:26 pm

    Could the “conventional wisdom” that only “Liberal Moderate” Republicans can win general elections in the Northeast be because the Republicans stopped trying to elect real Conservatives decades ago?

  17. Adobe Walls
    September 15th, 2010 @ 1:26 pm

    Could the “conventional wisdom” that only “Liberal Moderate” Republicans can win general elections in the Northeast be because the Republicans stopped trying to elect real Conservatives decades ago?

  18. Randy Rager
    September 15th, 2010 @ 6:19 pm

    Why should anyone vote for a RINO? The choice is simple: treasonous leftwing dirtbag or decent upstanding rightwinger. Why vote for someone trying to be both?

  19. Randy Rager
    September 15th, 2010 @ 2:19 pm

    Why should anyone vote for a RINO? The choice is simple: treasonous leftwing dirtbag or decent upstanding rightwinger. Why vote for someone trying to be both?

  20. Joe
    September 15th, 2010 @ 6:25 pm

    Christine O’Donnell’s father smokes?!!!

    Oh well, that changes everything. You cannot support a person who is related to a person who smokes (tobacco at least). Tobacco is so patronizing, colonialist and brings up images of slavery, exploitation, and slavery (did I mention slavery?). And it kills! Think of the children!

    Oh. I forgot about that. Nevermind.

  21. Joe
    September 15th, 2010 @ 2:25 pm

    Christine O’Donnell’s father smokes?!!!

    Oh well, that changes everything. You cannot support a person who is related to a person who smokes (tobacco at least). Tobacco is so patronizing, colonialist and brings up images of slavery, exploitation, and slavery (did I mention slavery?). And it kills! Think of the children!

    Oh. I forgot about that. Nevermind.

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  23. Estragon
    September 15th, 2010 @ 7:30 pm

    Okay, so the anonymous report about no support from NRSC turned out to be a LIE.

    Anybody willing yet to put their name to the anonymous report Castle won’t endorse?

    Funny, back when conservatives cared about truth in reporting, we used to mock the Legacy Media’s reliance on anonymous and/or unnamed sources.

    I know, I know – consistency, like integrity, ain’t in style these days.

  24. Estragon
    September 15th, 2010 @ 3:30 pm

    Okay, so the anonymous report about no support from NRSC turned out to be a LIE.

    Anybody willing yet to put their name to the anonymous report Castle won’t endorse?

    Funny, back when conservatives cared about truth in reporting, we used to mock the Legacy Media’s reliance on anonymous and/or unnamed sources.

    I know, I know – consistency, like integrity, ain’t in style these days.

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  26. Adobe Walls
    September 15th, 2010 @ 8:24 pm

    Does somebody need some sweetener for those grapes?

  27. Adobe Walls
    September 15th, 2010 @ 4:24 pm

    Does somebody need some sweetener for those grapes?

  28. Joe
    September 15th, 2010 @ 8:49 pm

    Estragon, was it a lie? Or did some dick just say it and then Cornyn and others realized what a massive mistake that was.

    And is Castle now supporting O’Donnell? If so, great. If not, he is a dirty Scozzafava.

  29. Joe
    September 15th, 2010 @ 4:49 pm

    Estragon, was it a lie? Or did some dick just say it and then Cornyn and others realized what a massive mistake that was.

    And is Castle now supporting O’Donnell? If so, great. If not, he is a dirty Scozzafava.

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  31. flenser
    September 15th, 2010 @ 9:30 pm

    Anybody willing yet to put their name to the anonymous report Castle won’t endorse?

    That came from Kate Dickens, a Castle aide.

    WILMINGTON, Del. — A senior aide to Rep. Mike Castle told POLITICO the nine-term congressman will not be endorsing newly minted GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell. “She is a con artist who won by lying about Castle’s positions and her own life,” said Kate Dickens, a Castle aide. “Out of state support was enough to pull her through yesterday so she can rely on it through November.”

  32. flenser
    September 15th, 2010 @ 5:30 pm

    Anybody willing yet to put their name to the anonymous report Castle won’t endorse?

    That came from Kate Dickens, a Castle aide.

    WILMINGTON, Del. — A senior aide to Rep. Mike Castle told POLITICO the nine-term congressman will not be endorsing newly minted GOP Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell. “She is a con artist who won by lying about Castle’s positions and her own life,” said Kate Dickens, a Castle aide. “Out of state support was enough to pull her through yesterday so she can rely on it through November.”

  33. DaveP.
    September 15th, 2010 @ 9:53 pm

    Have any proof that it was a ‘LIE!!1!’ instead of a bad mistake that Conryn and co. almost didn’t recover from? Or are you just making things up to make yourself feel better?

  34. DaveP.
    September 15th, 2010 @ 5:53 pm

    Have any proof that it was a ‘LIE!!1!’ instead of a bad mistake that Conryn and co. almost didn’t recover from? Or are you just making things up to make yourself feel better?

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