By now, you have probably heard a lot of GOP establishment elitists lamenting the primary victory of Christine O'Donnell. Now they are attacking her with far greater zeal than they have ever displayed against actual liberal democrats.
What gives?
She is conservative. She is pro-life. She is pro-gun. She is Christian. She is small government. She is anti-tax. She is for free markets. She is against Obamacare. She is against stimulus spending. She is against cap and trade. On pretty much every policy, she is exactly where the GOP platform says a GOP candidate should be.
So why do they hate her? Simple: she is not one of them.
Here is how the elitists - and by this, I mean the Washington insider elitists of BOTH parties, not the average voter, and certainly not the average conservative - see her:
She is an idiot. She is a crazy, insane, fool. She is a bible-thumping hypocrite who until last week was sacrificing babies to satan. She is an ingnorant, stupid, uneducated hick who didn't go to a real university, and who barely even graduated at all. She is white trash. She is a redneck rube from poor breeding mouth breather bitter clingers and not from a nice old money establishment family. She is a lightweight who can't win an election because she has made mistakes in her past, been involved in legal battles, and doesn't have a lot of her own money. And worst of all, she is just a pretty face, a cute smile, pretty hair and fun glasses. Kind of like that other horrifyingly bad candidate, Sarah Palin.
Oh, and speaking of witch which, Sarah Palin rushed in to endorse her and help her win the primary. That bitch witch.
That is what the elitists think. And that is why they hate her. But it isn't why they attack her so much. The attack her not out of hate, but out of fear. And why? Because her campaign is now a referendum on Sarah Palin. And they fear Sarah Palin.
The elites dread one thing more than just about anything else, and that is Sarah Palin becoming President of the United States. They don't fear it because they fear her policies or what she may do as President - well, except for one thing: flushing out all the elitists from power.
The elitists fear that the Tea Party movement will clean house, and all the elitists in power will no longer have power. Plain and simple. And to the elitists, Sarah Palin IS the Tea Party. And Christine O'Donnell is Sarah Palin by proxy. Defeat O'Donnell, and defeat Palin.
So whenever you hear some pointy headed certified smart person claiming to be a good conservative Republican and ranting about how horrific Christine O'Donnell is and how stupid the Tea Party is for nominating her and how she will lose her election, just remember what they are really saying: we hate Sarah Palin, you stupid ignorant bible thumping bitter clinger white trash idiot.
If you believe in what the Tea Party stands for, support Christine O'Donnell. If you think Sarah Palin is your friend and not your enemy, support Christine O'Donnell. If you think it is time to make good on Nancy Pelosi's pledge to drain the swamp, support Christine O'Donnell. If you believe Washington is broken and the establishment elitists are to blame, support Christine O'Donnell.
If none of that applies to you... well... just come clean and admit you want to elect committed marxist and Reid lap dog Coon instead. I'd respect you more if you were at least honest about it.
I don't know...I hear this all the time...but I think she was a terrible candidate, and I'm hardly a Washington elitist...I live in Oregon and have a regular job and a family. And I also am a conservative who always votes for the most conservative candidate.
I think qualifications matter. Are you really going to argue that she is in the same class qualifications-wise as Pat Toomey? Or Marco Rubio? They got elected...she didn't. It's not because she was conservative, or a woman. And it wasn't because she wasn't a "beltway insider" either. Rand Paul was hardly a beltway insider. It's because she just wasn't seen as a serious candidate, and that's because she just doesn't have the wealth of experience it takes to be taken as a serious candidate. I'm not saying I would not have voted for her...I would have. But to suggest that the ONLY reason people like Rove didn't like her is because she wasn't an insider is false.
Posted by: Jim Knowlton | Saturday, 06 November 2010 at 07:22 AM
"Doesn't have much money"
LOL
Doesn't *any* money, has never had a job of any description in the past five years.
Lied about her "education" repeatedly.
Claimed to be a Constitutional expert but has no idea what is is the Constitution.
Is currently under investigation for stealing campaign cash.
Completely unqualified for any job including flipping burgers or washing cars, much less a seat in the United States senate.
Posted by: GM | Monday, 15 November 2010 at 08:53 PM