I wonder why you haven’t seen the Delaware GOP fight Democrats like this?
Aug 29th, 2010 by David Anderson
For Immediate Release – Saturday, August 28, 2010
Contact: Tom Doheny (302) 668-1954
Why is Christine O’Donnell Lying to Delaware?
O’Donnell Avoids Local Press While Campaigning at Non-Political Rally in Washington
WILMINGTON – As Christine O’Donnell makes her way around the Glenn Beck rally in Washington this weekend, she continues to seek out national press coverage with whom she has a history of spinning half truths and lies. As Politico reported yesterday, O’Donnell is planning to shoot a political ad for her campaign at the “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial, while the stated purpose of the rally is to honor America’s troops.
Back in Delaware, O’Donnell has been cited repeatedly lying to voters and manipulating her own political history. Recently, O’Donnell has claimed that she won two out of three counties in Delaware in her 2008 race against then-Senator Joe Biden. Election results show that Biden won overwhelmingly against O’Donnell and that she did not win any counties in the state of Delaware. In addition to this blatant spin on reality, O’Donnell yesterday told Politico that she had not sought the endorsement of the Constitution Party of Delaware. But last week, The News Journal reported that O’Donnell had pushed to be on the November ballot for the election, quoting Constitution Party Chairman Pell Sherman.
“O’Donnell is hoping that voters have a short-term memory and ignore her record in Delaware,” said Tom Ross, Delaware GOP Chairman. “Sadly, Christine continues to avoid the tough questions and will spin her own reality with the hope that the national press won’t catch on.” He went on to note how O’Donnell is seldom seen in Delaware and never misses an opportunity to seek endorsements and coverage outside the state.
Her campaign appears to be getting desperate as the Republican primary is only two weeks away. The most recent Rasmussen poll has shown her support drop by five points in only a month to 36 percent – robbing her of the talking point that she would beat Democrat Chris Coons in November.
For more information, please visit www.delawaregop.com or call (302) 668-1954
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Where should we start? First the O’Donnell rally was scheduled after not during the Restore Honor Rally. No one knows what happened with the Constitution Party but those involved, but fusion candidacies are not unusual in Delaware. Even the former Republican Speaker of the House was a fusion candidate. The fact is that O’Donnell is not one. Investigating that as an option is something many candidates do in both major parties and several minor ones. As for the two of three counties, that was true for the endorsement at the convention. If that is not what she is talking about, she needs to take a day off and get some sleep. That was worthy of note. Polls go up and down. She did in fact drop support under heavy attacks, but she has picked up a lot of momentum since. I would be interested to see another one. The fact is that she has been focusing on Republican voters ahead of the primary and less on the general election. It is not surprising that her profile dropped in the general field in the short term. Whether or not that works remains to be seen.
“but she has picked up a lot of momentum since.”
Based on??? Castle gained support within the party in the last poll, where he lead her by 15 percent amongst Republicans in relation to Coons 81-66.
“The fact is that she has been focusing on Republican voters ahead of the primary and less on the general election.”
Which is what the GOP is doing right now.
How can you ask that and be reading the newspapers, let alone this blog? How many high profile endorsements have come? Didn’t Castle get knocked for Disclose Act and other things by national conservatives? The temp went up on the non-debate fiasco. The time between the two polls was the most negative for Christine. The time afterward was the most negative for him.
I don’t see any high profile endorsements. A bunch of far right wing PACs that would only influence people who were already going to vote for her is hardly a round of high profile endorsements. It just came out that she was looking at switching parties, she just got obliterated in the polls and is right where she was 2 years ago when she was an also ran in the race. Spin it how you want, she’s losing ground not gaining it.
Chairman Ross is showing some spine. Traditional old school Republicans think the DEGOP needs a new “base”. A base rooted in traditional values like tolerance and respect for others. There’s really not much of a future for us if we keep calling the majority of Delaware voters (democrats) secular socialist leftists.
If, by calling a spade a spade, the GOP Chairman offends Tea Party folks, they should simply find another political party. Maybe a new party where they can enforce the kind of purity of thought they seem to want. If the Tea Party is so far out, so intolerant that they brand a man as decent as Mike Castle a traitor to the cause, they need to go elsewhere.
Eureka!!! I have discovered the truth:
I wish I could take credit for it but cannot – attribution to Jason Linkins on Beck’s rally
“Glenn Beck’s “Restitching America’s Hymen” Rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.”
I saw this and could not stop laughing
HI Christine!!
Come on David, youre not this stupid?
David,
Christine only has herself to blame. This is not about a fusion candidacy. If Christine wanted to use the Constitution Party to pursue this option then she should have announced this in the beginning of August and let all know that she would not pursue a 3rd party or write in candidacy if she lost in the Primary. It appears based on the secret manner in which this was done that Christine was preparing for Plan B should she lose the primary.
The O’Donnell campaign’s history of lack of transparency and just plain crappy communication leaves most to assume the worst. Combine that with Christine’s history in 2006 of engaging in a write in campaign after coming in third in the primary and you have a lot of people wondering just where she is going. Upon losing in the primary will she try to bring down Mike Castle by running a spoiler campaign in November.
Now you and I can sit back and speculate and debate and have great fun doing it. But if you are Chairman of the Republican State Committee you have to deal with events and what they portend and respond accordingly. The story about Christine’s Constitution Party candidacy is now old news and we still have no word from Team O’Donnell about what her future plans are.
Anyone who fills the role of Party Chairman would have to respond forcefully to a potential spoiler campaign that to all outward appearances the O’Donnell Campaign is planning.
Christine could have settled this easily by just saying that she will support the winners of the Republican Primary. She has refused to take this step. People have taken note.
To make Christine out as the poor little victim here is to give her the benefit of the doubt that no other candidate I know of would get.
I can’t see Michelle Rollins or Glen Urquhart getting a pass if they were flirting with third parties, keeping it secret, and then not committing to abide by the voters wishes after the primary.
David, if Michelle Rollins engaged in this type of behavior, everyone here knows exactly how you and your campaign would respond.
Democrats do not make up a majority of Delaware’s electorate.
If you add Republicans and independents together, you get a majority of about 52%.
We bring them together the way Reagan did, by painting our message not in pale pastels as so many have tried in recent years, but in bold primary colors.
If the Democrats offer bold red and Republicans offer pastel pink, what do you think voters are going to choose?
Bright blue has been the color of the conservative movement for four hundred years. It’s time we got back to delivering our message in those colors, not pastel pink.
Then we’ll color Delaware blue on election maps again. Just as Reagan did here and in forty eight other states in 1984.
Given how successful he was, how did we ever get away from that formula?
David your candidate was there in DC. Are you just jealous that he didn’t make national news? How petty and hypocritical. Or are you just so out of he loop that you don’t know of your own candidate’s schedule?
Hmmm, Chairman Ross is showing spine you say. Nah, he is Mike Castle’s boy clear and simple.
In case you forget Ross and Company nominated O’Donnell in 2008 after a write in race in 2006.
The GOP HQ has so little when it comes to scruples. I support Castle but the drama of the Lancaster Pike palookas is sad.
Whether you support Ross or O’Donnell or both or neither, Chairman Ross is doing what a party chairman is supposed to do in this situation.
He’s the guy who is supposed to get his hands dirty, so that the candidate can keep his hands clean. That’s the party leader’s job.
The nature of the campaign O’Donnell has run lends itself to the vitriol of response she is getting. Take a look over at Maryland, where Brian Murphy has run a top notch, clean campaign against former Gov. Bob Erlich for the Republican nomination for governor. As a result, Murphy has earned praise and admiration from both the state party and the Erlich campaign. And he’s also picked up the endorsement of Sarah Palin too.
This matter is about neither spine nor scruples. I’ve watched Tom Ross’ stewardship of this party the past two plus years and while I have not always agreed with him, I will never doubt that he has both spine and scruples.
Democrat Girl, what are you talking about? Please read the entire post then comment again.
Tom Doheny is the GOP’s new hired gun and will write exactly what Tom Ross wants. Tom Ross wants to see that Castle is elected. Tom Doheny wants his paycheck. Both men are motivated to see that O’Donnell loses no matter what the cost.
As long as the public knows what motivates these people, we will certainly give Doheny’s article the credibility it deserves. None!!!!
Actually, I did. I know you are trying to be objective, but what was your intention in posting a very negative press release that you did not fully refute re: press coverage, which is primarily what this release was about.
And I quote, ” she continues to seek out national press coverage with whom she has a history of spinning half truths and lies”
It can be turned and twisted as you know and I do not see the point in posting this entire release. The Constitution party was secondary — I thank you for making a case for her on that point.
The party chairman is supposed to solve problems not create them.
Ross- failed candidate, failed County Co Chair, failed Wilm Region Chair.
Why can’t he talk up Castle instead of dumping on other republicans?
David,
You do realize that the NY 23 people will run a slash and burn campaign and leave the Delaware people like yourself to pick up the pieces afterwards. DG is the perfect example to go after you like that. It was uncalled for.
If, by calling a spade a spade, the GOP Chairman offends Tea Party folks, they should simply find another political party.…think123
Yeah. The established state GOP hierarchy has done so well over the past 20-years …Biden, Carper, Minner, Markell…
Maybe the old GOP hierarchy needs to ‘find another..party.’
In the voice of Goliath “I don’t know, Davey.” If you expect people to believe COD didn’t hijack the “I have a Scheme” the same way that the foxjock hijacked MLK then you truly are a true believer. “My god have mercy on your soul, proceed.”
Yeah Rick, and so has O’Donnell. Getting killed in 2 elections and going bankrupt in the process.
Look, O’Donnell is a poor candidate..I agree. But if I want a Democrat, I’ll vote for a real one.
And I’ll stick by my post- the state GOP ‘leadership’ has a pathetic track-record, at least since I’ve been here (15 years).
Delaware will remain a firmly Democratic State until the GOP moderates. Each election cycle for the last thirty years, the GOP got more right wing, each time the candidates got more right wing, the losses got bigger. We started out years ago with all three seats in Congress GOP, a GOP Governor, a GOP house in Dover. Today the only remnant of what once was, is poor lone survivor Mike Castle. He managed to survive by being a representing the people, not a Party, not an ideology.
In 2008 the Republicans got dumped out of the last GOP hold out. The majority in the House in Dover. They lost that because the GOP was on the side of big business donors, manufactured housing owners, at the very time the “people” the tens of thousands of simple people living simple lives in mobile homes, were crying out for something for someone to help them with land rents that were doubling tripling while they were trapped in houses that were anything but mobile. Anybody living in Delaware knows the story. The GOP abandoned all those tens of thousand of people because GOP Rush Limbaugh free market ideology would not permit them to act on behalf of beleaguered citizens being exploited by predatory landlords. It was all about the rights of the landlords. If the homeowners were stupid enough to get trapped in the web of unscrupulous landlords, well that’s the way it goes in the world of unfettered capitalism. No tears. No bleeding heart. It’s the ideology that counts first and foremost.
That one single act. Turning our backs on citizens petitioning government, favoring instead the interests of the wealthy land owners was the nail in the coffin for the GOP in Delaware. Once you focus on ideology to the point you ignore people you are heading into political oblivion.
In 2008 the Republicans got dumped out of the last GOP hold out. The majority in the House in Dover. They lost that because…the tens of thousands of simple people living simple lives in mobile homes, were crying out for something for someone to help them with land rents that were doubling tripling while they were trapped in houses that were anything but mobile.
The mobile home parks are in Sussex, and the only House Dems in Sussex are Schwarzkopf and the conservative Atkins.
We”ll see how your theory holds-up with Urquhart.
Rick, the subject of this post is why the GOP is fighting with right wing candidates instead of Democrats. The reason for that fight is simple. Ideological right wing candidates cut from the cloth of talk radio hurt us more than Democrats ever will. While the right wing candidates are blabbing about God and going back to the simple days of Constitutional colonial times, the citizens of Delaware have problems that need to be solved by skilled public servants. That’s what smart voters are looking for. Smart public servants that can get things done. Something more than chasing liberal goblins in our endless quest for Founding patriotic values.
That mobile home deal was not just a Sussex County deal. Citizens in all three counties knew that sad story. About how the Delaware GOP sold out the 30,000 homeowners in favor of the ten landlords. How the Party was run by the landlords, for the landlords. All spouting Rush Limbaugh politics while they doubled the rents. Conservative ideology twisted as a way to justify plain old greed. Tom Ross is going to have to get us back to being a Party that listens to the citizens of Delaware instead of listening to talk radio commentators and nutty TV shows. The people in Claymont breathing mercury fumes don’t give a shit about ideological arguments. They want a government that’s going to stop the pollution. They don’t want to hear right wing candidates spouting off about getting back to our founding ideals in harmony with God.
That mobile home deal was not just a Sussex County deal. Citizens in all three counties knew that sad story.
I doubt that many New Castle residents voted for a Democrat because of Sussex trailer parks.
I might add that, although I believe that a ‘right of first refusal’ has a monetary value, I ultimately supported Schwarzkopf’s position.
At the end of the day, I think you’re right; through cultural osmosis, Delaware is becoming another Maryland and New Jersey. I’ve been saying that for years. And maybe we’ll have to become essentially bankrupt, like Maryland and New Jersey, before things change. Already, by resorting to red-light cameras- (with ‘civil’ penalties, to circumvent the 6th Amendment’s ‘confrontation clause’)- the state is tacitly admitting fiscal desperation.
Urquhart may be the bellwether. If he is elected to Congress, the Socialist-Democrat tide will have begun to recede.
“I doubt that many New Castle residents voted for a Democrat because of Sussex trailer parks.”
You would be surprised how hot that issue was here in NCC. Most of the manufactured housing communities are in Sussex, but the heart of the corruption scandal was up here at headquarters. Somehow we totally forgot what “conflict of interests” meant. All of the sudden it was in your face, the foxes took over the henhouse. That’s how Tom Ross got were he is.
Well, if you’re up there, it’s likely that you know more about the level of passion that was aroused by the issue in NCC than I do. But the preeminent issue? I think it was related to the general disgust with Bush & Co (which is one reason why I favor clearing-out the dead wood).
the general disgust with Bush & Co
Do you really think you can wrap that old fish in new paper and sell it again?
Sure, there is a certain amount of visceral dislike for Bush, but most of all for his policies.
And the new GOP hasn’t changed up the Bush policies, instead they are doubling down on them.
Sure, there is a certain amount of visceral dislike for Bush, but most of all for his policies…
Is? I was talking about ’08. Pay attention.
And the new GOP hasn’t changed up the Bush policies, instead they are doubling down on them..
Then the GOP will do poorly in November, right? Wrong!
Will you people ever realize that ‘hope and change’ was a mere slogan?
Actions speak louder than words. Please do not ignore what the politicians have done in the past. Our character determines who we are as a person and from my point of view, O’Donnell has too many character flaws to be my leader. Vote and vote with wisdom.
Amen to that. Even 100 votes for O’Donnell is 99 too many.
Please do not ignore what the politicians have done in the past.
Agreed. So why would a conservative vote for Castle?
“You would be surprised how hot that issue was here in NCC. Most of the manufactured housing communities are in Sussex, but the heart of the corruption scandal was up here at headquarters. Somehow we totally forgot what “conflict of interests” meant. All of the sudden it was in your face, the foxes took over the henhouse. That’s how Tom Ross got were he is.”
It is obvious you have zero clue as to how Tom Ross replaced Terry Strine. It had zero to do with the manufactured housing issue. Once again think123 shows he knows nothing about what he spouts off about. Think was not even in Dewey Beach when the Ross coup occurred yet he pretends he knows what he is talking about. Think get your facts first and then spout off. Once again you have proven to me you know nothing.
“Agreed. So why would a conservative vote for Castle?”
Because I’d rather have him in the Senate than Chris Coons, who was a disaster I witnessed first hand up here in NCCo. O’Donnell is incapable of winning the general, and Coons is wayyyy worse than Castle.