1 See if she floats!

2 Finally, Legal Insurrection provides a sterling example of how not to end the intra-party feuding over O'Donnell's nomination.
Yeah, when we all know the way to end the feuding is to fist-fuck Leftist memes about her to death so [cough, cough] we can all keep up with what the MFM is saying about her.

See you all on other threads. This is the last one I look at with O'Donnell as a theme.

3 Build a bridge out of her!

4

*They* dressed me up like this!

5 Garrr, mention that wenches name again and there's a keelhaulin' in it for ya.

6 Arrr, if we had a President with balls, we'd tell Ahmedinejad t' release the prisoners else "the bombin' begins in 5 minutes". A pence for an old man o'de sea?

7 Hmmmm.

@ Malor

"As longtime moron It's Vintage, Duh observed to me, some people are demanding "unity" in the same sense that Democrats demand "bipartisanship.""

Except of course it was *YOU* who was demanding that all conservatives get behind McCain in 2008 because ... he was "our" candidate.

In fact you were pretty much in a fucking high dudgeon for weeks because conservatives like myself were still opposed to McCain and didn't want to support his lame old ass.  You want us to dig that shit up Mr. Fucking McFuck?

So don't give me any fucking shit about O'Donnell.

8 Heh, Boston is bad because they use guns. Try the half-assed "mini-Southies" in MA cities like Worcester, Springfield, Brockton, etc. I know families whose members have been fist fighting every time they see each other for generations. Hell, I'm in a running feud that's spanned at least 20 years.

9
fuck that, my comment is too good to be pushed down

We need to get rid of all (R)'s who are in favor of "working with Democrats" and coming up with "bipartisan" solutions.

First of all, no more solutions, please. You've done enough damage while fixing things, already. Second, I want conservative legislation coming out of Congress, not half-Republican, half-Democrat 2000-page pork-laden bills that do nothing but add more bureaucracy.

If this makes me a purity voter...it's time for a 3rd party.

10
oh, and pirates are so last week

This week we are vagina-themed.

11 Hmmmm.

@ Malor

In fact why don't you shut your stinking fucking piehole about O'Donnell completely for the entire election cycle?  Because I'm totally fucking sick of assholes like you shouting one fucking thing when it's your fucking candidate and then doing something else when it's not.

You're a hypocrite and I frankly don't want to hear it anymore.  And no, I'm not an O'Donnell supporter either.  I really don't give a rat's ass about her.  I'm just fucking sick of getting lectured by asshats like you.

12 Except of course it was *YOU* who was demanding that all conservatives get behind McCain in 2008 because ... he was "our" candidate.

I opposed McCain vigorously (and so did every other blogger here at the HQ), right up until he became the GOP nominee. Then we all took a deep breath, recognized that he would be better than Obama, and supported him.

Are you suggesting that we should have continued to oppose McCain, even after he won the GOP nomination? Because that's fucked up.

13

He's offering to return the two remaining U.S. citizen hikers in exchange for eight Iranians convicted here of violating sanctions.

I wonder if there's a similar deal going on regarding this morning's news about American troops taken into custody in Iran. Has there been anything else on that?

14

Arrrrrrrgh, I don't want no stinken unity. Those Scally Wags Rove, Patterico, Chrystal, DrewM and the rest are only good for shark bait. All of them are bilge suckers and should be flogged with a cat o nine tails.

You want unity join a convent.

15
oh my, is Dallas gonna lose at home in the new stadium and go 0-2?

hmmm, toby, hmmm?

16  You're a hypocrite and I frankly don't want to hear it anymore.  And no, I'm not an O'Donnell supporter either.  I really don't give a rat's ass about her.  I'm just fucking sick of getting lectured by asshats like you.

What the fuck are you talking about, dipshit? Before the primary, I wrote that whoever wins we should support 'em. Because they're better than the Democrat. And I stand by that. If that's hypocrisy then you're out of your mind.

17 Dan Riehl is currently accusing Powerline's John Hinderaker of secretly being connected to the evil Sith Overlord Senator Cornyn.  He's demanding they confess to coordinating their distaste for O'Donnell with Cornyn, in a sub rosa effort to get O'Donnell to drop out and substitute in Castle.

18
Ricky Williams need to take care of his balls by making them feel more secure.

19
Old and peglegged: the Sunday shows
The real swashbucklers: inner tube money bombs

20
It's pretty sad the Titans can't beat Rapesliberger's backup's backup.

21 "Unity" is so fuzzy. If O'Donnell supporters would use the word "capitulation" instead the discourse would be much more honest.

22 Erik W @13, Drudge had a link with info to the effect that it's being denied by both the Iranians and NATO.

23 fuck that, my comment is too good to be pushed down

We need to get rid of all (R)'s who are in favor of "working with Democrats" and coming up with "bipartisan" solutions.

First of all, no more solutions, please. You've done enough damage while fixing things, already. Second, I want conservative legislation coming out of Congress, not half-Republican, half-Democrat 2000-page pork-laden bills that do nothing but add more bureaucracy.

If this makes me a purity voter...it's time for a 3rd party.

What Georgia said.  We've gone so far to the 'lets play nice with the other side' left that we ran McCain...A liberal (NOT a RINO, but someone 20 years ago would have been seen as leftist).

We keep conceding ground and giving in only to give in more and concede more.  Face it, we've been expected to be doormats.

I think it's bizarre that we let the MFM and Libs set the playing field, pick the music, tell everyone what to wear and we comply! 

Happily.  Hrmpt.  Talk about lacking self respect.

24 Oh, and because I may not have made it entirely clear: Dan Riehl has been behaving like an absolute jackass for several months now.  This is merely the climax, the resounding crescendo of his douchetastic arc.  Either he goes full 'Lonewacko'-style commando with his idol Mark Levin or he sobers himself up and apologizes to a lot of good folks.

25

You just want high blog traffic.  That's how you're getting high blog traffic.

I wrote a long response in his comments this morning, and it wouldn't post:  "Your blah blah blah couldn't be verified" or whatever.  The gist was, I suggested the way to go about getting rid of his laundry list of bad things in the future would be to ensure we get control of the Senate. 

And check the headlines re O'Donnell.  More news today about how she's been spending campaign money--even when she didn't have a campaign:  Bowling, pizza, etc.  Allegedly.  And allegedly "flat out illegal."

I hope that's not the case, because people didn't give her money to hit the lanes and eat cheeseburgers.  That would be a large breach of trust.

26
Retard & Brain Fart
Bryant Gumbel & Dan Dierdoff

27 As I said in the previous threads, my convictions are strongly influencing my thoughts this cycle. My convictions tell me to do all within my power to make sure that Fiorina, Rossi, Angle, Buck, Kirk, that guy in North Dakota with the hot daughter, Boozeman, Coats,Toomey,O'Donnell, Raese, McMahon, and DioGuardi get elected in November. That Kirk, O'Donnell, DioGuardi and Raese win to buffer in the Lame Duck. Fuck, if Hoffman and Wargotz can make it a race too in Oregon and Maryland my convictions say help them too. Fuck 51. My convictions say 55. That buffers us IF (and thats, despite media hype, a big if) Snowe AND Collins both bolt. Not to mention Webb, Nelson, Nelson, Testor, McCaskill and Sherrod Brown would begin shitting themselves on our monstertruck-steamroller rampage towards 60 in 2012. /// The shit over who said shit/didn't say shit, whether the shit is really shit or just that fake doggy poo from Things You Never Knew Existed, whether O'Donnell/Castle/Palin/etc is a RINO/RINOkiller, the purity campaign to purge RINOS NOT EVEN FUCKING UP THIS CYCLE, the attack on those who want to purge Rinos...all of this is just shoving our dicks deeper and deeper in wet cement. When the alarm clock goes off for the general and the cement dries, where the fuck are you going to be?

28 He's absolutely a hypocrite to then slander his opponents by suggesting they opposed O'Donnell to get "high blog traffic."

Your complaint would ring truer if you just did a post on all the crap she said instead of dribbling it out for maximum effect like Maher.  It's all on Thinkprogress. Why act like each snippet is some grand revelation? Bottom line it's from a stupid TV show 10 years ago who's format was an argument specifically designed so that the opposing sides took the most extreme positions and said the most extreme things. You don't have a show called Politically Incorrect and then have everybody make nice-nice.

29 #13  I wonder if there's a similar deal going on regarding this morning's news about American troops taken into custody in Iran. Has there been anything else on that?

Both Iran and the US military are denying that story.

Iran denies detaining seven U.S. troops

30 Argggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...................

31
Favre just got caught and manhandled.

32 Pittsburgh's D is fucking killing me. Way to go, Vince "Braintrust" Young.

33

I hope that's not the case, because people didn't give her money to hit the lanes and eat cheeseburgers.  That would be a large breach of trust.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 19, 2010 03:28 PM (Q43FA)

You're right brewer, she should be having $500,000 parties at 5 star hotels with live entertainment like the rest of the political class.

34

And check the headlines re O'Donnell.  More news today about how she's been spending campaign money--even when she didn't have a campaign:  Bowling, pizza, etc.  Allegedly.  And allegedly "flat out illegal."

I hope that's not the case, because people didn't give her money to hit the lanes and eat cheeseburgers.  That would be a large breach of trust.

Posted by: rdbrewer
The spending was already addressed on NRO, and by someone who had thought her to be a poor candidate. A politician is allowed to draw a salary from the campaign. I agree that incorrect spending is just that. If that is going on here, that could have been addressed long before this election. That it was not, and that she apparently survived one brush with the IRS tells me that there isn't much here. Certainly not the same league as Obama with AVS, or Rangel, or Hell, most of Obamas' cabinet.

35

And check the headlines re O'Donnell.  More news today about how she's been spending campaign money--even when she didn't have a campaign:  Bowling, pizza, etc.  Allegedly.  And allegedly "flat out illegal."

I hope that's not the case, because people didn't give her money to hit the lanes and eat cheeseburgers.  That would be a large breach of trust.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 19, 2010 03:28 PM (Q43FA)

Who says she didn't have a campaign? The woman ran in 2006 and 2008 and did better each time. I'm sure she announced the minute Biden resigned. So yes they are all campaign expenses. Somehow eating cheeseburgers and hitting the lanes are a breach of trust but flying your ass to NYC, staying in 5 star hotels and eating catered food for fundraisers on all the campaign's expense is all fine and dandy now? BS.

36

You're right brewer, she should be having $500,000 parties at 5 star hotels with live entertainment like the rest of the political class.

There's a difference between using campaign funds and using part of your salary akin to an attorney comingling client funds.

37
Sounds a lot like the bullshit controversy over Sarah Palin's wardrobe expenses.

Yeah, Republicans were pushing that 'scandal' too along with the media.

38 Your complaint would ring truer if you just did a post on all the crap she said instead of dribbling it out for maximum effect like Maher.

Belay that shit. I haven't written a single post "dribbling" O'Donnell crap out. I've avoided it, intentionally.

And no, this post doesn't count, the witch thing broke long ago and I'm presenting her campaign's response. Unless you think even official campaign releases are off-limits.

39 The shit over who said shit/didn't say shit, whether the shit is really shit or just that fake doggy poo from Things You Never Knew Existed, whether O'Donnell/Castle/Palin/etc is a RINO/RINOkiller, the purity campaign to purge RINOS NOT EVEN FUCKING UP THIS CYCLE, the attack on those who want to purge Rinos...all of this is just shoving our dicks deeper and deeper in wet cement.

When the alarm clock goes off for the general and the cement dries, where the fuck are you going to be?
Posted by: CAC, full of convictions

Exactly. You took a dim view of O'Donnell, as did I. The primary is over, and you are supporting the party choice, such as she is. Why some blogs are waging this war I don't know. I'm afraid that this will give life to the clowns bemoaning the purity thing, which is being used as cover by the sore losers who are facing a sticky end (and not in a good way either).

40 I agree Rocks, but it has to come out of salary unless it was a bona-fide campaign expendature.  Going bowling with a prospective contributor might even count.

41 The coven had to eat.  That explains the pizza.  And the High Priestess looooved to bowl.  Had her own shoes and everything.

42 I wonder how much unity we would be seeing out of some of these people if the RINO traitor had won the primary instead of Christine O'Donnell?

 I realize that she is the candidate and what is more, I realize that I don't live in Delaware so really it is not my business anyway. When it gets right down to it the people of Delaware are the ones who will make the choice...but that does not mean I don't have a right to my opinion. 

Sometimes I get the feeling that the only difference between Olbermann and Maddow and Kos and some of their counterparts in the world of rightie pundits is their politics...the personalities and tactics are much the same from time to time.

43 I never said the cobloggers here were either deliberately sabotaging the Right, nor engaged in a traffic-generating scheme. I just said they were getting off on stirring up conflict. Basically I called Drew a troll. There's worse things to be, but I don't have to take his comments seriously. Nor yours.

44 38: that would ring truer if you didn't turn around and, instead of urging that we all get behind O'D (lest we help throw the contest to a tax-hiking proto-liberal loon like Coons) you took a shot at LI and then cited IVD, a wannabe Beltway insider that hates OD, as being the voice of reason.

45
The question is: Who's digging this shit up?

46

Two simultaneous purity threads are really going to attract the lurkers and people who really don't give a care about O'Donnell-Castle, aren't they? We shouldn't care anymore. Let the pundits talk & the voters decide. The rest is just recycling the same arguments every. single. freaking. thread. 

47 I'd be more embarrassed by the revelation that I appeared on a Bill Maher show than that I considered some wacky religion.

48

Posted by: NM Hick at September 19, 2010 03:27 PM (TxrZh)

Thanks. I was wondering about the veracity of the story, considering no one else picked it up.

49 Did anyone else see the gag ads for O'Donnell with the witch theme, over on the Theo Sparks site (Last of the Few)? Both are really clever, though I doubt that the second one would be endorsed by the campaign. Here it would be enshrined.
Sorry, I am linkage impaired.

50 Yeah, keep calling us traitors.  That'll guarantee unity. 

But I think Patterico should drop the topic.  He has a good blog.  He should waste bandwidth responding to Levin et al. 

51

There's a difference between using campaign funds and using part of your salary akin to an attorney comingling client funds.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 19, 2010 03:35 PM (Q43FA)

Jeeebus, we've had candidates for years hiring their wives, children, husbands, wives and paid them salaries far above what they could have got somebody competent at but now we're worried about a cheeseburger and a game of bowling?

52 Belay that shit. I haven't written a single post "dribbling" O'Donnell crap out. I've avoided it, intentionally.

And no, this post doesn't count, the witch thing broke long ago and I'm presenting her campaign's response. Unless you think even official campaign releases are off-limits.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at September 19, 2010 03:35 PM (1TvCg)

I thought you were speaking for all of AoSHQ Gabe. I did not mean you specifically when I said Your. I apologize if that is the way you took it.

53

I'd be more embarrassed by the revelation that I appeared on a Bill Maher show than that I considered some wacky religion.

Looking at my career today, I'd have to disagree on that.

54
Yeah I'm sure if Castle won we'd be going over his finances with a fine-toothed comb and searching all the transcripts for something unusual.

If Castle won, it'd be over. There wouldn't be any of this shit on the blogs.

55 @50
That's shouldn't waste bandwidth...

56 #39 Its by both. The puritans are STILL using this as the war hammer now to go after people WHO ARENT FUCKING UP FOR ELECTION YET. To scare them off, I suppose? stupid. The establishment hacks are STILL using the bullshit to try to prevent O'Donnell from winning because they don't WANT the New-Method of running towards the right or on the right in the general to take hold. STUPID. Get over it, use whatever strategy WORKS IN YOUR STATE AFTER THE PRIMARY, AND GET BEHIND YOUR PARTY'S CANDIDATE WHEN THEY WIN. Both sides are overshooting here. Focus on your OWN race and start the blowout.

57 42: Are you insane?! Most of us would get right behind Castle just like we got right behind McCain even though he sucked balls, so please stop tossing around this BS strawman that those of us backing the only candidate we have would have dumped...the only candidate we would have had, just so we could act like a bunch of petulant children that think putting a lunatic, tax-hiking, Marxist in office over a RINO would even be on the radar for 95% of us. I like to think that Team Castle would have, by now, realized that COONS is the enemy, not OD, and that we should perhaps think about taking him apart instead of the only bloody candidate we have. But no, being 'right' (yet to be seen) is more important than actually winning because, ya know, you guys have ethics and we don't...

58 This week we are vagina-themed.

Posted by: I See Georgia O'Keefe When I Look At My Penis at September 19, 2010 03:19 PM (hsb95)

¿Who wants tacos?

59
At least Nancy didn't waste money on cheeseburgers while spending millions flying on Air Force planes:

One CODEL traveling from Washington, DC, through Tel Aviv, Israel to Baghdad, Iraq May 15-20, 2008, “to discuss matters of mutual concern with government leaders” included members of Congress and their spouses and cost $17,931 per hour in aircraft alone. Purchases included: Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey, Corona beer and several bottles of wine.

60
Yeah, keep calling us traitors. 

Who the fuck is calling you traitors?
YOU made this shit up and YOU keep repeating it.

That goes for you, Ace, Drew, Gabe, and all you [redacted] you keep repeating these idiotic exaggerated characterizations of our positions.

61 In the name of Unity™ I think every time someone comments or posts on O'Donnell ... DRINK!!!

At this rate, that'll be a real traffic killer when Moron Nation is passed out by noon.

You want some funny in the ironical way? No matter where you stand on Christine O'Donnell, this here's hilarious: Rosie O'Donnell Fears Christine O'Donnell Might Win Despite the 'Crazy S**t' She Says

Really, Mrs. "Fire can't melt steel - Google it!"? Bwahahaha.

62

I wonder how much unity we would be seeing out of some of these people if the RINO traitor had won the primary instead of Christine O'Donnell?

Many of them said they'd rather have a democrat.  Maybe that was just hyperbole.

63 Off to the Sports bar for the Pats game. Frickin' loudmouth Jets are about to crushed in ways they never before thought possible. Look for an absolute mauling and utter humiliation to be the "keys of the game".

64 I think that everyone who is down on O'Donnell should practice the "polite manners" thing that our mothers taught us all.

If you can't say something nice about her, then don't say anything at all.

and ugh.....

arrggg matey.

65 32 Pittsburgh's D is fucking killing me. Way to go, Vince "Braintrust" Young.

Posted by: gator at September 19, 2010 03:32 PM (aOKEC)

--I know.  I wish one of my fantasy teams was playing Chris Johnson this week.

66

One CODEL traveling from Washington, DC, through Tel Aviv, Israel to Baghdad, Iraq May 15-20, 2008, “to discuss matters of mutual concern with government leaders” included members of Congress and their spouses and cost $17,931 per hour in aircraft alone.

You obvious have no understanding of business principles, and how markets are a force in our economy an' stuff.

67

Apparently, making a hit-and-run post over at HA, and then running back to AoS is your style.  OK.  I'll follow you over and repost here.

For a guy with a supposed law degree, you've got some serious reading comprehension issues.

The article isnÂ’t talking about voicing opinions, LI is referring to this:

To that end, they regurgitate every snippet of gossip and every tape from the 1990s without context or reflection, much less waiting until the OÂ’Donnell campaign has a chance to respond.

Will every Maher snippet be replayed around the right-wing blogosphere, accompanied by another round of “I-told-you-she-was-unelectable” recriminations? If so, why? Because you actually think a guy who gets even fewer viewers than Chris Matthews, clipping selectively edited decade old snippets, is newsworthy?

Recall that Maher is the guy who thinks that the American voters are too stupid to be entrusted with the vote, and now heÂ’s out to prove it.

And, not to burst your bubble, but: “you decided to take on bigger blogs in the ‘sphere?”

Get over yourself. YouÂ’re all small potatoes -- even if you do all tweet back and forth, and occasionally even get a response from someone famous.

(I realize that you just made that comment over at HA to make a supposed point about "how does it feel to have your motives questioned?" or some such, but, actually, when people keep up with the "see-I-told-you-she-can't-win" crap, while still maintaining that "she's our candidate, so let's all act like it," then motives deserve to be questioned.)

68
No, nobody said they'd rather have a Democrat.

Some people, such as myself, said they did not want Castle in the Senate. There's a difference.

69



Are you insane?! Most of us would get right behind Castle just like we got right behind McCain even though he sucked balls, so please stop tossing around this BS strawman that those of us backing the only candidate we have would have dumped...the only candidate we would have had, just so we could act like a bunch of petulant children that think putting a lunatic, tax-hiking, Marxist in office over a RINO would even be on the radar for 95% of us.

I like to think that Team Castle would have, by now, realized that COONS is the enemy, not OD, and that we should perhaps think about taking him apart instead of the only bloody candidate we have.

But no, being 'right' (yet to be seen) is more important than actually winning because, ya know, you guys have ethics and we don't...

I did not say you did not have ethics. It is just that after having been told a couple of thousand times that it would be better to have Coons the Democrat than Castle the RINO in there, I kind of got the impression that RINO hunting was more important than winning.

and no, I am not insane. As for getting behind O'Donnell, fine, I would rather see the Republican win...that does not mean that I don't have some reservations about her.

70

I wonder how much unity we would be seeing out of some of these people if the RINO traitor had won the primary instead of Christine O'Donnell?

Many of them said they'd rather have a democrat.  Maybe that was just hyperbole.

Posted by: rdbrewer

Yes, some did. Others did not. Some like myself wanted O'Donnell but voted for Castle, so as to avoid the scrutiny that she is getting, that most of the in crowd doesn't get. The fact remains that she's the candidate, blogs and posters who could be helping the cause are fighting each other, and dead-enders are flailing around for lifelines and candidates are in need of money and labor. Get it together people.

71 The rest is just recycling the same arguments every. single. freaking. thread.  Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at September 19, 2010 03:40 PM


This.

I had my opinions before the primary.

Primary is done.

We need that seat.

This is not the stuff of long diatribes or 20/20 hindsighting. It is what it is.

Time to support the Nominee. Bearded Marxist vs Nominee on our side. It ain't rocket surgery.

72
If you keep reinforcing them with the idea we (the base) will always pull the lever for the R, they'll keep giving us McCains and Castles.

It won't stop until we stop supporting these shitbags at the ballot box.

73 The shit over who said shit/didn't say shit, whether the shit is really shit or just that fake doggy poo from Things You Never Knew Existed, whether O'Donnell/Castle/Palin/etc is a RINO/RINOkiller, the purity campaign to purge RINOS NOT EVEN FUCKING UP THIS CYCLE, the attack on those who want to purge Rinos...all of this is just shoving our dicks deeper and deeper in wet cement.

When the alarm clock goes off for the general and the cement dries, where the fuck are you going to be?
Posted by: CAC, full of convictions

Exactly. You took a dim view of O'Donnell, as did I. The primary is over, and you are supporting the party choice, such as she is. Why some blogs are waging this war I don't know. I'm afraid that this will give life to the clowns bemoaning the purity thing, which is being used as cover by the sore losers who are facing a sticky end (and not in a good way either).

Posted by: Blue Hen at September 19, 2010 03:36 PM (1O93r)

Blue Hen Johnson is right!

Oh, sorry - had a Blazing Saddles moment.

But yes: the primaries are OVER.  Nobody has a time machine that would let us all go back and change the results, so the only choice available to us now is to support the current crop of Republican candidates or watch the Democrats retain dominion over our lives.  I'll support Kirk and O'Donnell in equal measure at this point, because the goal right now is to get as many Senators with the R by their names as possible.  On November 3rd, we can restart the war over who to nominate for 2012;  until then, focus on defeating the Democrats.

74 63

I wonder how much unity we would be seeing out of some of these people if the RINO traitor had won the primary instead of Christine O'Donnell?

Many of them said they'd rather have a democrat.  Maybe that was just hyperbole.

Yep. Reihl, Levin, and many commenters here said they'd rather a Democrat than Castle. So of course it's legitimate to wonder if those folks would have turned traitor if Castle had one.

The reverse isn't true though. The pragmatists said they wanted that seat to be GOP. And lo-and-behold, the pragmatists have kept their word.

75 We don't have the time or energy to waste ourselves on this stupid shit anymore. If we have a blowout in the Senate races, BOTH sides end up pointing to a victory- for the establishment, they have a majority of 55-45 in the Senate (again if the blowout scenario happened). for the true conservatives, they have a base of DeMinters- O'Donnell, Toomey, Johnson, Angle, Buck, Raese and DioGuardi. Conservatives also have some less-than-perfect but party loyal moderates(but not RINOS): Rossi, Fiorina, Kirk, Coats, that guy in ND, Boozeman, McMahon. ALL of them are running on and will win with a conservative message of less spending and focusing on pro-business job growth. The few who toyed with trying to run the "moderate in the general" method, like Kirk, suffered in polling and went to the right to win and maintain support. The fundamental dynamic of the election is a HARD SHIFT to the right, even by the most moderate of the potential candidates. WINNING should please the party crowd, winning with more conservatives should please the true-bloods.

76 Hmmmm.

@ Malor

"What the fuck are you talking about, dipshit? Before the primary, I wrote that whoever wins we should support 'em. Because they're better than the Democrat. And I stand by that. If that's hypocrisy then you're out of your mind."

And how is this fucking shit of yours "support'em"?  And yes this fucking post counts.  They ALL fucking count you asshole.  If you want to post shit that doesn't count then fucking post it in your head and leave it there.

Frankly I think of you as the resident asshole that I endure just to read everybody else.  But it's time for you to live by the same fucking rules you shove onto everybody else.  O'Donnell won the primary.  "whoever wins we should support'em" or shut the fuck up.

77
btw, Castle showed you how much he cares about the Republican majority in the Senate and he told you what he thinks of the base of the party.

Yet some of you still think he's the right guy to send to the Senate.

78

I donated to O'Donnell as did my wife. Both of us are independents.

Did O'Donnell's make some stupid comments when she was young? Yes.  But who hasn't?

Frankly, she could she say she practices witchcraft now, and independents wouldn't care as long as she votes against Mr. Marxist in the WH.

Will her stupid comments from her younger days make a difference in my small business?  No.  But her votes will help me and other businesses and individuals in this country.  This is not a governorship, this is a senate seat.

She opposes cap n tax, DeathCare, and will oppose the Marxist in the WH as well as DE, and that is all that matters to independents.

Ignore Bill Maher, people of DE won't care what this millionaire scumbag has to say.

79

Blue Hen Johnson is right!

Oh, sorry - had a Blazing Saddles moment.

Posted by: stuiec

Hey!! The candidate is a *BONG*

80 So close to seeing Dallas 0-2 and KC and the Dolphins 2-0.  A great weekend.

81 Ah, I see. I could tattoo "Vote for O'Donnell" on my forehead and memomachine would still be unsatisfied. Done with this.

82 live by the same fucking rules you shove onto everybody else.

Gabe, are you controlling memo by voodoo doll again? Hitting refresh and stuff? For shame! You stop that shoving right now or there will be no dessert!

/sarc

83 Chicago beat Dallas?  ncj is going to be insufferable. 

84
toby, I expected tears

you're not doing your part

85 #79

I thought the primary was over and here you are still smacking Castle around.

I supported Castle, because he voted against Obamacare, he voted against the stimulus, he voted for the tax cuts and he had the best chance of winning for the Republicans.

I did not feel comfortable with O'Donnell because of some of the strange things she has said and done, I had the feeling that there was more bad out there and I just did not trust her. Sorry. I can not help that. And the fact that anyone who asks about any of those things was shouted down and yelled at accused of all sorts of crap just for being curious did not help.

But like I said, I am not from Delaware, so it is not up to me anyway.

86 Mon Cher Gabriel,

Plots and conspiracies against all true conservatives are multiplying at an alarming rate. Scarcely a week goes by without another explosion. This is hardly surprising, however. Ever since the foolish People became content with breaking up the conspiracies by RINOs instead of purging every one of them from the Party!Â… I am tired of repeating it, but as long as the conspirators remain in office and on the web, the conspiracies will not end! By constantly hatching new plots against the Tea Party, they will eventually succeed in destroying it!  Even today these aristocratic conspirators are working to overthrow the Revolution. They do this by hiring reactionaries from the old regime, by enlisting the services of bloggers and by corrupting the poor through bribing armies of informers, RINOs, and pundits online.

Vee have tolerated this for too long!  Christie, Brown, and that dastardly Fox News shall not save you.  Vive le peuple!  Vous shall not defeat la révolution!

87

My problem with Castle v. O' Donnell is that there have been several bloggers, republican establishment figures and commenters telling me I didn't have a choice. Either back Castle or you're a loser.

I didn't back either one of them until now but if I were living in Deleware I would have done the exact opposite of what the people telling me I didn't have a choice wanted me to do.

In the future said bloggers/establishment figures better find a better reason for me to back their candidate other than "you don't have a choice".

88 50 fucking points from the Pitt D? Really???

89 I thought the primary was over and here you are still smacking Castle around.

I think that he's referring to the fact that Castle chose not to endorse O'Donnell,and that his 'staff' was still taking shots at her. As a pirate might say, "Bedlam ain't in it". That was a disappointment.
His support would make her run easier.

Us not bickering here would also help things.

Here's a thought. What might anyone do to get him in gear and endorse her?

90 So close to seeing Dallas 0-2 and KC and the Dolphins 2-0.  A great weekend.

Posted by: logprof at September 19, 2010 03:54 PM (BP6Z1)

What's the KC score and who are they playing?

91 It's a win-win at this point.  Either O'Donnell goes on to win the election and the GOP keeps a seat that would normally have been a Democrat stronghold in any other year, or assholes like Mark Levin will learn that you can't crap all over your fellow conservatives and expect them to unite behind your candidate before it's too late.

92 Absolutely, we must have 100% ideological purity.  If anyone dissents, they must be expelled, cast off, exiled!

All you "true conservative" quarter-wits who wouldn't back McCain gave us Obama.

Thanks a lot, jerk-offs.

93 Damn, not gonna do as well as last week with my picks.

94

Hey!! The candidate is a *BONG*

Posted by: Blue Hen Johnson at September 19, 2010 03:53 PM (1O93r)

Gabby Johnson: the only citizen of Rock Ridge qualified to speak on Talk Like A Pirate Day.

95

I wonder how much unity we would be seeing out of some of these people if the RINO traitor had won the primary instead of Christine O'Donnell?

Many of them said they'd rather have a democrat.  Maybe that was just hyperbole.

Yep. Reihl, Levin, and many commenters here said they'd rather a Democrat than Castle. So of course it's legitimate to wonder if those folks would have turned traitor if Castle had one.

The reverse isn't true though. The pragmatists said they wanted that seat to be GOP. And lo-and-behold, the pragmatists have kept their word.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at September 19, 2010 03:51 PM (1TvCg)

Unity? I don't know. Complete obliviousness I think you could count on. If Castle had won no one would give a shit anymore so why post on it? We would have no stories about his campaign expenses and what he said 10 years ago because nobody would care. They would move onto Murky and her write in campaign. 

O'Donnell is news, fine, nobody expects no coverage of this stuff but just taking it and running with it the way it's been handed off by Bill Maher like a baton in a relay race is a little much. Maybe some of it is lingering animosity, maybe some of it is just plain laziness. I don't know. But I do know these are blogs which claim to be right wing. Is it too much to ask that these stories at least give our candidates the benefit of the doubt? The entire explanatory portion of Drew's post amounts to "It's old" He then goes on to give the impression OD may have canceled her appearance on the Sunday shows because of this when the story about it makes clear that isn't true. He finishes with a rehash of the canard by Ace that we should vet or candidates better when nobody gave OD a snow ball's chance in hell of beating Castle. Why would anyone have vetted her? She was nobody's first choice. She was many people's only real choice, to them anyway. The DE GOP basically stacked the deck with  Castle and now we are moaning that we should check the player's better when OD was the only person dumb enough to play with a stacked deck and still managed to win? Please.

96

What's the KC score and who are they playing?

Posted by: robtr at September 19, 2010 04:02 PM (fwSHf)

--They just beat Cleveland 16-14.

Not thrilling, but it's great to be 2-0.

97 We should have had an NFL pot with new cheerleader pic to dampen this thread.

98 The Irish slums of Boston were the place where the leftist welfare trap was first perfected.  Just as blacks were corralled into the projects and taught to destroy themselves beginning in the 1960's, so were the Irish of south Boston beginning in the late 19th century.

So it isn't any surprise that Boston sucks, and that the "working class" areas are especially noxious.  Like any slum, it is as much a state of mind as it is a zip code, and the smartest thing that anyone there can do is leave. 

99

As longtime moron It's Vintage, Duh observed to me, some people are demanding "unity" in the same sense that Democrats demand "bipartisanship."

And the "true cons" HAAAAAAATE it when you point out they're acting that way.  "Shut up, we won!"

A primary, kids.  You won a primary.  And since then, have done nothing but try your best to piss off moderates / independents in the movement, and discourage them from supporting your chosen candidate.

100 What we need is a few concern trolls to gently chide O'Donnell folks into coming in off the ledge.  They could say things like, "You know, I've been fighting my heart out for Christine, but it's soooo disappointing to see my fellow supporters undermining my efforts by attacking people whose support she'll need in order to maintain her momentum heading into the general.  :-( "

101 Let him enjoy it for next week his Bears will face the wrecking crew that is the Packers.
Posted by: lowandslow
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Muahahahaha.. we will crush those cheeseheads on national television before the entire world!

102 Muahahahaha.. we will crush those cheeseheads on national television before the entire world!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 19, 2010 04:50 PM (Do52

how is your o-line doing?

103

 He's absolutely right that she's our candidate, so let's all act like it. He's absolutely a hypocrite to then slander his opponents by suggesting they opposed O'Donnell to get "high blog traffic." And he's out of his freakin' mind to then suggest that the Powerline guys or Patterico or, well, us don't want "to see our kids grow up in a nation in which the state is the servant not the master." As longtime moron It's Vintage, Duh observed to me, some people are demanding "unity" in the same sense that Democrats demand "bipartisanship."

Hmmm. Perhaps he's just looking for some explanation that makes sense...

104 With Cutler performing like that, who needs an offensive line??  lol..

Actually, they did better today.. it took them a while to make some adjustments, but from that point on they were solid protecting Cutler.. Bad news.. they couldn't make a conversion to save their souls.

105

Look, there were 2 candidates. Castle was really not a republican but he caucused with republicans. O'Donnell is not ideal and was supported by the bitter clingers that all the elite hate. The people spoke. However, instead of falling into line, these knuckleheads that love "strategy" threw themselves down on the floor and started screaming and running her down. In response, the people who didn't want the dem, said "STFU, you're hurting the nominee". The screamers screamed louder. Eventually their fit subsided because they couldn't get what they wanted without looking like total douchebags and pissing off the bitter clingers that they need to win anything. They are now running down the bitter clingers for noticing.

I could give a rat's ass but I do think that those of you who have problems with the bitter clingers and their lack of elite strategy should give it a rest. Here's the deal, you have to have the bitter clingers to win, that's why McCain didn't. The bitter clingers had better learn a little about strategy too. In the end the bitter clingers are more important than the independents.

People that are not politically saavy don't grasp that chairmanships, speaker chairs, etc matter. They do but not at the expense of the whole movement.

106 I be agreein with the scurvy legal insurrection on this one.

107 Exactly how did Ahmedinejagoff get into the country? Seriously, ignore 1979, how did he get into the country? It's moments like this you wish Big Boy (thank you, Dale Peterson) were on the case.

108 I see Chrisite O'Donnell and  Alvin Greene ending up on reality TV after they lose their respective elections

109 Why some blogs are waging this war I don't know....Posted by: Blue Hen at September 19, 2010 03:36 PM

It's a "war" because the Big-Time Bloggers are playing war games on their computers, not worrying about reality.

It's simple: hard-core professional bloggers speak only to each other. Jonah Goldberg writes to other bloggers on NRO, and they get into these involved little inside-baseball "discussions;" "Poppin' Fresh" writes to and for other bloggers he likes, Reihl, Patterico and the rest do likewise. I don't think a single worthless one of them would recognize the real world if it walked up and kicked 'em in the nougats. They're a bunch of inbred, myopic whiners, much like the pasty-faced little creeps who were always picked on in third grade.

To them, it's all about nuance and process. They feel like Cool Kids if they can analyze a given issue or candidate 'til it rolls over and dies from sheer boredom.

Unfortunately, one of the things that gets lost along the way is a discussion of honest questions about candidates and ideas. Anyone who dares question the current favorite is instantly some kind of deformed cretin. We end up with mindless rah-rah support and slavering hatred. No middle ground.

For the most part, this is the best place to discuss politics I know of. Except when ace is deep into Tepid Air linkage, that is.

110 (|p-{|}  Pirate smilie.  Get it?  He's got a bandana on his head and the "p" is his patched eye... well, arrrrrrrrr, then.

So we're all on the vagina theme now?  {|}     

111 Hmmmm.

@ Malor

"85 Ah, I see. I could tattoo "Vote for O'Donnell" on my forehead and memomachine would still be unsatisfied. Done with this."

And you've got problems with reading comprehension.  Personally I support conservative candidates and don't waste my time or money on non-conservatives regardless of party.  And that includes McCain.  I wouldn't vote for McCain if my life depended on it.

But you're the one who always bitches about conservatives who don't like ponying up for libtards in the GOP and now you've got a chance to live the same fucking life you push on us all the time.

Primary is over, O'Donnell is the candidate, support her or shut the fuck up.

That was your line to conservatives with regards to the RINO asshats in the GOP so now that your line to live.

112 Anyway... And, about Boston, eesh: Boondock Saints, The Departed, Mystic River, Gone, Baby, Gone. Movies don't lie; it's a place to run from, mateys (you thought I'd forgotten). One for your netflix queues: 1973's The Friends Of Eddie Coyle, with Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, and Richard Jordan. The original Boston townie goon movie; actually filmed in Boston and surroundings. To gutter (South) Boston what Mean Streets was to NY. And don't fool yourselves; all this recent Hub crotchgrabbing is a hollywood expat conceit. Boston is the pussiest of all big cities.

113 I supported Castle, because he voted against Obamacare, he voted against the stimulus, he voted for the tax cuts and he had the best chance of winning for the Republicans.

Are you sure about that?

114

And, about Boston, eesh: Boondock Saints, The Departed, Mystic River, Gone, Baby, Gone. Movies don't lie; it's a place to run from, mateys (you thought I'd forgotten).
As a native Bostonian, now Maniac, I took my teenagers to see this movie Friday night. MORONETTES, this guy, Jon Ham is the most handsomest man I have ever seen in my life. Go see this movie for the scenery.