Friday, September 10, 2010

Thet bashed Reagan too.

Getting my ticket validated here boss

Castle's problem, much discussed here and lots of places these days, is conservative activist Christine O'Donnell. Willing to nominate her for the Senate when Castle didn't have the nerve to take on Biden directly (losing is never a winner with some), now that the seat is open she is being given the bum's rush. In the words of the Journal editorial, O'Donnell is a "two-time loser statewide" and "an itinerant conservative commentator and activist."

O'DonnelOver at NRO the treatment has been more polite but still the same old, same old.. Estimable conservatives all, NRO'ers Jim Geraghty, Jonah Goldberg, Dan Foster, and Andrew Stuttaford jumped on the Castle bandwagon, taking swings at O'Donnell. The Ruling Class Hits Christine O'Donnell
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This week The American Spectator released a small but important book called The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It. Written by Angelo Codevilla, it is an expanded version of the essay that ran in the July/August issue of The American Spectator magazine and later online.

The article drew a stunning response when it appeared, with Rush Limbaugh not only devoting all three hours of his show to the article but now contributing an introduction to the book. [MORE]

4 comments:

JMcD said...

Over at American Spectator...the cartoon drawing at the top of the page of the mule and the elephant wooing grandma....will it be a hoof or a big flat foot,up under her dress first?
Or both?

Bryan said...

The ruling elite senario is still playing out as Queen Lisa and her sycophant court contemplate her as an independent write-in against Joe Miller. One of the most obvious arguments is the risk that Alaska will loose its place at the federal trough.

OldBB said...

Rush has been adamant about no third party, but a lot of what he says is actually advocating third party. Electing RINOs at this point is counter-productive. While some races may be lost trying to get some RINOs out of power, it's a beginning. We're either conservatives or we're not. It's not enough to be merely anti-Democrat, but it certainly is the right way to start looking at things. I don't want another Olympia Snowe elected. We have to do better than that and be truly for the things we actually believe in.

Magnus said...

When the Democrats shifted to the left, especially in the past couple of decades, it was driven by special interests: unions, environmental organizations, anti-gun nuts, etc. The voters didn't ask for it, but went along quietly.

The GOP saw the shift and tried to keep up, running leftier and leftier candidates in an effort to stay competitive. Finally, GOP voters stood up and said, "Well, actually we disagree."

They didn't do it quietly. They did it with Tea Party rallies across the nation. Now they're doing it at the ballot box. The GOP leaders who have pursued the "keeping up with the leftists" strategy are starting to look stupid, and they're trying desperately to keep the control of the GOP that they thought they had: Murkowski, Castle, et al.

It will take a while, but they will grudgingly realize that this is in fact a democracy, and the voters decide, not the party leadership.

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