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Some Bad reviews for Pledge to America

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From Mike Fahy:  The Republican Pledge to America is 21 pages; the Contract with America was 869 words.

David Frum at Frum Forum — “The Pledge to America is a repudiation of the central, foundational idea behind the Tea Party. Tea Party activists have been claiming all year that there exists in the United States a potential voting majority for radically more limited government. The Republican Pledge to America declares: Sorry, we don’t believe that.”

RedState — The Pledge to America is “milquetoast rhetorical flourishes in search of unanimity among House Republicans because the House GOP does not have the fortitude to lead boldly in opposition to Barack Obama.”Club for Growth — The GOP Pledge to America is “so milquetoast that it proves to me that these guys just aren’t ready to lead.”

Doug Powers at Michelle Malkin — “It’s a real shame that the Constitution has to be re-branded once in a while – I kind of like the original.”

Hot Air — “Missing from the list of key agenda items — nothing on cultural issues. [Only] one line, buried at the end of the preamble on page one, and according to sources, even that was only added at the very last minute after Mike Pence objected.”

American Spectator — “Republicans have learned nothing from their time in the wilderness. The House Republicans are interested in attaining and then maintaining power, and not concerned with advancing the cause of limited government at a make-or-break moment in American history.”

Reader D:  Did someone expect more than half a loaf by these leftover Republicans and RINOS? It’s a first step. Get the new breed to Washington and tweak it properly. Right now it’s a start.

I think it’s also telling news from Jim DeMint that the Good Old Boys let the “Republican” who lost to Joe Miller in Alaska retain her clout:

Senate Republicans held a closed-door meeting yesterday afternoon to elect someone to replace Senator Murkowski as the top Republican on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Or so we thought.

Rather than taking away Murkowski’s leadership position on the committee, Senate Republicans decided to let her keep it. One senator after another stood up to argue in favor of protecting her place on the committee — a position she will no doubt use in her campaign against Joe Miller, the conservative Republican nominee.

So what can we expect from most of what we have on the Hill today?

Blithe Sp: The Murkowski ploy is more telling than the Pledge, I think, as does D, I’m sure.

O’Donnell summed up

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"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.

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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.