O’Donnell, you’re soooo bad!

Get thee behind me, Charles KrauthammerI renounce you and all your works.

Tuesday in Delaware was a bad day not only for Republicans but also for conservatives. Tea partier Christine O’Donnell scored a stunning victory over establishment Republican Mike Castle. Stunning but Pyrrhic. The very people who have most alerted the country to the perils of President Barack Obama’s social democratic agenda may have just made it impossible for Republicans to retake the Senate and definitively stop that agenda,

he says in today’s Chi Trib, playing the tempter.

He just knows this to be true.  No chance for her, he would like to say, but as a pundit he must cover options, so to O’Reilly he said one in ten.

I say he believes it but is also repelled by the woman, who is socially conservative and un-Harvard-like in ways he finds repellent.  Like Sarah Palin

These women do not fit into his worldview except as viewed from the tip of one’s nose, head down slightly, just enough to make his point.

Sorry, Charles, you do not speak to my condition, I being for many months in a life of quiet desperation, politically speaking.

Later great (second) thought: Another interpretation is possible: Charles wants Obama held up at the pass so much that he’s extremely exercised about what he considers blowing the opportunity.  Which makes him too much the rational thinker, not enough the romantic.  The O’Donnell nomination is pressing Tea Party luck — too far, he says.  But this is no time to be squeamish, say the gung-ho revolutionaries, or at least rebellion-pushers.  Among which am I.

O’Donnell summed up

"The Third-Term Panic", by Thomas Na...
"The Third-Term Panic", Thomas Nast, Harper's Magazine 7 November 1874

Guest blogger Mike Fahy sums up the Connecticut victory for O’Donnell:

I thought it could not get any better than Joe Miller’s defeat of Alaska’s biggest RINO last month. Delaware has not elected a Conservative since Caesar Rodney rode all night through a thunderstorm to sign the Declaration! It just gets better, and better, and better!

Miracles have become commonplace for Palin-endorsed Conservatives. Christine O’Donnell clobbered liberal Michael Castle, the political twin of Mark Kirk (RINO, IL), in Delaware’s Republican Senate primary, 53 percent to 47 percent.

Karl Rove bashed winner Christine O’Donnell as his entrenched RINO went down! Conservative writer Michelle Malkin labels Rove an “effete sore loser,” posting a photo of Rove thumbing his nose at you.

Karl Rove’s idiotic rant against Christine O’Donnell’s victory will undoubtedly appear in a Chris Coons campaign commercial. Obviously, RINOs are more comfortable electing a Liberal Democrat than electing a Palin-endorsed Conservative Republican.

The Freedomist reports that Rove was an undercover operative for Delaware RINOs while pretending to be a fair-and-balanced Fox analyst. Should Fox News fire Rove?

Last night, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) announced their refusal to fund O’Donnell against Democrat Chris Coons (a self-described Marxist) in November. Palin, DeMint, and the Tea Party will fund O’Donnell in defiance of the GOP.

This morning the NRSC reversed their refusal to fund O’Donnell after receiving angry e-mails from NRSC contributors. NRSC chairman John Cornyn released a statement promising to support O’Donnell with an NRSC “check for $42,000, the maximum allowable donation that we have provided to all of our nominees.” Not true: The NRSC sent double that maximum amount to Mark Kirk, (RINO, IL)!

Another RINO lie: The NRSC pledged to stay out of contested primaries. John Cornyn, chair of the NRSC, said on 11/4/9: “We will not spend money in a contested primary.”

Delaware losers: virtually the entire Republican Party, National Review, Weekly Standard, Krauthammer, most second tier radio talkers, and cap™ global warmers everywhere.

Delaware winners: Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint, Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party, talkers Limbaugh/Levin/Hannity, Mama Grizzlys, and rank-and-file Conservatives everywhere.

This is a prelude to the next primary election: GOP v. Sarah Palin in Iowa’s 2/6/2012 presidential caucus. Sarah kicks it off this Friday with her keynote speech at Iowa’s annual Ronald Reagan Dinner. Donations accepted at SarahPAC.

Republicans who hate Republicans — loser Michael Castle refuses to endorse winner Christine O’Donnell, and loser Lisa Murkowski refuses to endorse winner Joe Miller.

“You betcha!” O’Donnell said in response to someone shouting the Palin catchphrase from the ecstatic election-night crowd. “There’s another woman I’ve got to thank. Thank you Governor Palin for your endorsement…she was a vote against the politics of personal destruction.”

On with O’Donnell then! Fight the good fight again!
Sons of TyrConnell are valiant and true!
Make the proud Saxon feel Erin’s avenging steel!
Strike! For your Country! O’Donnell abu!
O’Donnell Abu (The Clan Connell War Song, circa. 1843)

Reader D:

Rush and Levin (and Hannity) pummeled Christine O’Donnell’s opponent.

I heard Medved and Hewitt denigrate her. (Hewitt has always praised Kirk, too. )

Levin had O’Donnell on last night for at least one whole segment. The pundits had me afraid to hear her voice, or what crazy stuff she’d say. She was NORMAL. Yes, some cliches, those are the politicians’ traditional lexicon. She is articulate and likeable and she was on national radio and not tongue-tied. McCain is an old dud. O’Donnell is new blood — and for those “Independents,” she’s as perky as Katie Couric.

These are NOT feminists, but they are women warriors, and Michele Bachmann leads the contingent.

Rush and Levin (and Hannity) pummeled Christine O’Donnell’s opponent.
I heard Medved and Hewitt denigrate her. (Hewitt has always praised Kirk, too. )
Levin had O’Donnell on last night for at least one whole segment. The pundits had me afraid to hear her voice, or what crazy stuff she’d say. She was NORMAL. Yes, some cliches, those are the politicians’ traditional lexicon. She is articulate and likeable and she was on national radio and not tongue-tied. McCain is an old dud. O’Donnell is new blood — and for those “Independents,” she’s as perky as Katie Couric.
These are NOT feminists, but they are women warriors, and Michele Bachmann leads the contingent.

Karl doubles down

Parody of Bush advisor Karl Rove as Palpatine ...
Karl Rove as Emperor Palpatine in Fox's "American Dad"

Saving Karl Rove with Greta. Did she get a call from Roger Ailes? “Let Karl explain himself”? Probably not, yet . . .

Plus: Karl too smart here for his own good? Talks too much, floods us with data, Smarty-pants at head of class? You decide.

I think he should shut up. One thing to support one primary candidate over another, but to bash the nominee is not smart. He’s justifying himself in this, can’t let it go.

Reader D:

It’s too bad Karl stooped to the tactics of the Libs: When you can’t argue with a candidate’s political/social issues, attack their person. The Libs tried to dub “W” a drunk and a dummy. Reagan was an old actor who fell asleep during briefings. Almost any conservative is dumb AND crazy.

And choosing the more conservative candidate in a primary is different than choosing the less offensive of two candidates in the general election. That’s why I’ll vote for Kirk in the general…but not in a primary against a more conservative candidate.

Illinois, Delaware, and points between, with both hands tied

Flag of Delaware
Flag of great state of Delaware

Allusions abound in this Joycean blather from Mrs. Hickey’s boy Patrick, today in and about the swamps of Illinois (Capitol Fax Blog) and Delaware-become-national politics (the O’Donnell overcoming the GOP regular for the Biden seat), with a small pearl inserted in the middle: “Marque Kirque” for senate.

If these be illusions, make the most of them, but not before working through the thickly populated text.

So be my advice to readers on this 15th day of September, year of Our Lord 2010. Amen.

As for the state in question, see here for Perry Como’s contribution: Words

and

Music!

So be my advice to lovers of fine music.

Perry:

A week late, I see.