Who’s Following Who ?
Sep 6th, 2010 by Frank Knotts
The following(no pun intended) is proof of the statement that Christine O’Donnell made about there being people following her. Notice the woman whispering in the cameraman’s ear, that is Mr. Castle’s congressional aid, Kate Rohrer.
The second segment was described as “window shattering” applause on the radio by a local host. Didn’t seem out of the normal by any stretch to me. Alot of hype.
So here we go again.
Anybody who’s went to any sort of event surely recognizes Kate Roehrer, no denying this. You think she’s at an O’Donnell event because she supports O’Donnell?
Now there’s nothing wrong with the Castle people being there, so long as the event is open to the public.
But it just seems….hey, it’s not like O’Donnell’s people can go to Castle speaking events and get some videotape. And it seems….small?
Here’s great big many-termed Mighty Mike Castle following crazy Christine O’Donnell around, videotaping stuff, and in at least one case being a bit ostentatious about it as Christine speaks Roehrer’s all busy whispering something….very obvious.
Very low class.
This is the sort of thing that will bring down a RINO slicker than snot on a doorknob. You ought to put this video on Youtube, let it go viral.
Mighty Mike Castle sends his legions out to video crazy unimportant female opposition who, heh, couldn’t win dog catcher. It’s the sort of story the media loves.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the Castle defenders to decry this kind of classless behavior.
At first, I was drawn in by Ross’s claims, believing that she was going off the rails. After seeing this, Christine doesn’t look quite so delusional now. I’m ashamed I let the dirty politics of the Castle campaign and the Delaware GOP almost get to me. The mudslinging from them sure does look like they are scared.
Those are Mouse’s Mouseketeers featuring Camera Weenie.
Coons’ folks follow Castle around all the time; the O’Donnell campaign lacks the staff (apparently) and probably the imagination to do this. Instead, they just engage in uncalled for rumor mongering of the worst kind.
Actually, Christine was at a Castle fundraiser telling everyone how she was running against Castle for Senate.
You know Paula, I put a link to this post on FreeRepublic, where I like to hang out.
That isn’t like this site…those folks are from across the fruited plains. And they been hearing about O’Donnell being a nut and they turn to local folks, which in this case would be me, amongst others, for what’s the facts.
Evidently they clicked in to watch the video and they came back to the Freeper thread and many specifically stated that they were impressed by O’Donnell’s speaking skills, how well she came across, her sense of humor.
For nothing else brings up the truth pretty much like our own lying eyes and lying ears. Although there’s some Ruling Class on this Blog who will tell you a sense of humor is a sure sign of insanity, that being personable is a sign of serious psychological issues and good speaking skills are definitely hiding something sinister within. Well don’t blame them, it’s all they have but it is a hoot.
Again, I know Christine personally, have had the chance to sit with her and talk to her, one on one, in small groups. She’s certainly not my BFF forever but I bet if you asked her, she’d know me. She knows I comment on a lot of blogs and she reads me.
And hell yeah, I like her….I like her a lot. I know she’s not a nut and these attempts to label her so are simply awful. And yeah I know she didn’t do so well with Dan Gaffney. Welp, she’ll pay the price for losing it, if that’s what she did. If she deserves the criticism, so be it, fair and square. She don’t deserve to be labelled a nut when she’s not anything near.
I’ve also had the chance, heh, to talk one on one with Mike Castle, not as long for sure. And he is a very personable and nice guy too….I can’t say anything bad about him on a personal level.
The point being it’s Christine that’s being labelled a nut, “delusional”, that those who like and admire her are “pathetic”.
this lambasting of innocent people, you watch,is going to come back and bite these people in the rear. It’s the WORST things the Blue Bloods could do.
I don’t see anyone hiding in the bushes. Everyone is out in the open.
What’s the problem? They can dish it out, but can’t take it? For months they’ve been whining about getting no attention. Now that they’ve got some attention, they’re not happy?
First, it shows something when you misspell the word desperate in the video. It’s not rocket science to spell all of a dozen words right…
Second, the delusional thing was that people were staking out her house, if I understood correctly. So unless Christine is claiming residence at one of these public places (and it is possible that she would), then these don’t prove her delusions.
Third, the beginning of the video clearly shows Evan being the punk in the room. However, Christine also seems to have a half dozen zombies at her beck and call, as they blocked out Ginger Gibson’s exit as well. Ginger has obviously played some basketball before, and knew how to play against the pick. Evan was actively interfering, and had this been basketball, probably would have been charged with a foul.
It is fascinating to watch the different players in that opening footage. I watched several times focusing on the various actors. Ginger Gibson should get a raise for her perseverance.
It seems that O’Donnell supporters are seeing things that are not there. Funny story at http://delawarerepublicanrecord.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/what-is-in-the-water-at-odonnell-headquarters/
Remember Virginia Senator George Allen, so whacked about a dark skinned guy videotaping him at a rally, that Allen had to point him out to the crowd and call him a macaca (monkey)? What is it with these insecure candidates? All upset somebody might “record” them.
Remember the Tea Party folks at those town hall meetings? Totally taking over. Now Christine can’t even handle a video camera pointed her way. Tea Party in Delaware has the mistaken notion that they can mess with people and nobody is going to mess back. They’re mistaken. Tom Ross is the only GOP Chairman in the country with the balls to call out a fraudulent Tea Party candidate in plain words.
The good thing about having plenty of video rolling at her events is that she won’t be able to say she won 2 counties then try to say she didn’t.
Exactly, Think123. If Christine shuts down the video people, as she did in the video above (I couldn’t hear the guy, but apparently it was a non-public event), she is free to lie her ass off. Apparently, the video of her saying she won 2 counties was recorded by the people putting on the event. Yet when cornered on the lie, she turns it around, suggesting that someone was trying to catch her in a lie on video.
She is shameless, and has surrounded herself with the worst elements of conservatism in Delaware.
And she’s been shutting off non-internal video of her campaign and appearances for some time, since before the convention. I was asked at one meeting to turn off my camera when O’Donnell was speaking at a joint forum with Urquhart, Rollins, Kevin Wade and Tom Wagner.
Why? They want “control of the message” Yates Walker told me that night when I made my disapproval clear to him.
Of course just because you’re paranoid does not mean someone’s not out to get you. Now that she’s made Castle mad, some one is out to get her.
She obviously has camera people filming the camera people. Do as I say not as I do should be her motto.
Scary track record for those who love liberty and freedom:
Kicks guy out of her announcement and controlls access.
Since before the convention “orders” cameras off.
Her goons block people with cameras on the Mall during the Beck thing.
The other video of her goon blocking access.
Blocks reporters from a public ebent in Wilmington.
This video shows her attempting to insight the crown against someone and also again “orders” cameras off. (not legal by the way)
Wake up fellow TEA PARTY people!!!!! She is horrible.
Happy Monday losers! You know the main message of these videos? Evan Quidditch is a dork. I think that is what O’Ddonnell is trying to say here, right?
Happy Monday losers!
Except that it’s Tuesday, Trust Fund.
“Loser” indeed.
Oh the injustice of life!! There you are with all your smarts and rugged good looks staring at rows of cabbages. And here I sit with my trust fund thinking it is Monday!!
The Gods must be crazy.
Smartest thing you’ve probably ever said, Trust Fund.
I call ‘em as I see ‘em.
Trust Fund
It would help if you see past your nose.
Mark Hemingway of the Washington Examiner says it better than I have, so in case you missed it, here are his observations on Miss O’Donnell:
Tea Party candidates have racked up a number of impressive ballot-box upsets, so it’s little surprise that seemingly everybody running on the Right claims the Tea Party mantle.
But just because a candidate self-identifies with the Tea Party it does not mean they have the GOP Housecleaning Seal of Approval.
Exhibit A is Christine O’Donnell, who is running for Senate in Delaware’s GOP primary against Rep. Mike Castle. At first blush, this seems like a good thing. Castle might be the most liberal Republican in the House, and it seems appropriate that someone should challenge him from the Right.
But does it have to be a candidate who makes all conservatives look like wingnuts?
Former O’Donnell campaign aides recently released a video on the Internet asking, “Isn’t Mike Castle cheating on his wife with a man?” When asked about it on radio last week, O’Donnell unnecessarily repeated the unsubstantiated rumor twice in the process of distancing herself from it.
Also last week, O’Donnell told The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack that she fears for her safety during this campaign. “They’re following me,” she said. “They follow me home at night. I make sure that I come back to the townhouse and then we have our team come out and check all the bushes and check all the cars to make sure that—they follow me.”
O’Donnell then claimed someone vandalized her home during her 2008 run against Joe Biden. And who was that? “I’m not sure who did it, but I know for a fact that Mike Castle and [Delaware GOP chairman] Tom Ross were campaigning against me,” she said. “They’ve been sabotaging my candidacy since 2008.”
O’Donnell’s campaign manager, Matt Moran, also told McCormack that pollster Scott Rasmussen is deliberately tainting his surveys to make O’Donnell look bad. I looked at the questions asked in those surveys and I have no idea what he was talking about.
Despite this erratic behavior, some conservatives are still supporting O’Donnell such as Talk radio heavyweight Mark Levin, who deserves immense credit for helping to galvanize the Tea Party movement.
But McCormack’s experience squares perfectly with O’Donnell’s brief visit last week with Examiner editorial staffers last week. She produced an old poll in which she led the Democrat in the general election, even though we pointed out a more recent one in which she trails by double digits. She repeated her paranoia about Tom Ross and Scott Rasmussen.
Asked whether her campaign was spreading online rumors that Castle would switch parties after the election, she answered: “There’s enough people in Delaware who believe because of deals that have been cut before and looking at the writing on the wall that Castle might switch parties…It’s something that people have come to us with, but we certainly didn’t originate it.”
Moran then added that Castle switching parties was within “the realm of reason” and suggested that Castle was dodging inquiries about the rumor.
I think it’s certainly in the “realm of reason” that O’Donnell is running a campaign full of delusions, ignorance and paranoia.
To hear liberals tell it, the Tea Party is a rowdy group of haters that will support any conservative candidate with a pulse. That’s completely false. The Tea Party’s greatest success so far was the election of Scott Brown, the moderate Massachusetts Republican who took over Ted Kennedy’s senate seat. Brown’s Tea Party support was indicative of a “a lively and organic political movement that is thinking strategically about getting people elected,” as I wrote at the time.
Tea Partiers do prefer conservatives – but sane ones. And someday, a candidate will arise in the First State who is both conservative and electable. This just isn’t the year.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Mark-Hemingway-Delaware-still-looking-for-a-credible-Tea-Party-Senate-contender-102284344.html#ixzz0yqzz0AS7
And for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, Rasmussen (you know, the pollster in the tank for Castle, just like Gaffney’s taking money from Castle), is out with a poll dated 9/2 showing Castle over Coons: 48 to 37, and Coons beating O’Donnell: 47 to 36. O’Donnell also has the highest unfavorables at 44%, as compared to Coons at 35% and Castle at 30%.
Here’s the link: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/delaware/toplines/toplines_delaware_senate_september_2_2010
So, to sum up, Castle can win, O’Donnell can’t. Castle is another step towards R control of the Senate, O’Donnell means continued D control of the Senate and Chris Coons as your next Senator. Rome wasn’t built in a day people. Elect Castle now and start grooming his successor, so there is a strong viable successor (rather than a flake who does more harm than good) when he decides to step down.
SF…
…and yet STILL…I’d rather have a legitimate Democrat voting for the liberal agenda than a Republican in name only.
It’s what us hardheads feel and yeah, we’re all stupid, ugly, fat…insert insult here.
But you make your point, especially the one about grooming a replacement of a more Conservative order.
First thing, get rid of Tom Ross. Next Ron Sams.
I am reminded of how they all treated Matt Opalisky, a fine conservative, family man, sweet as all get out, dedicated, ambitious….hell, by now Matt should be running where Christine is.
Somehow I don’t believe the current Delaware GOP has any interest in this grooming stuff of which you speak.
LOL. The Washignton Post quotes O’Whackadoodle:
Just let it hang there for a second…..
Sheer poetry.
Of course they’re following her. How else are they going to capture all of her glorious idiocy and babbling on tape?
Pat Fish, that Republican in name only thing is so last century. Gets old fast. For the record I am a lifetime Republican, vote all Republican most of the time. I think Castle is a real true Republican. I don’t think O’Donnell is a real true Republican. I don’t think Tea Party is belongs in the Republican Party. Just sayin. Who gets to set the rules? The winners of course.
O’donnell has pulled the video because it shows the exact opposite of what it was supposed to show. She is conning folks.
Pat Fish, that Republican in name only thing is so last century...think123
Yeah…that’s why Bennett in Utah and Murkowski in Alaska won’t even be on the general election ballot. And why Paul in Kentucky and Angle in Nevada will.
For full disclosure I have deleated Jason330′s comment, due to vulgar content. I apologize for it being up for so long. Jason330 while your contributions are less than helpful, could you at least keep it civil? Thank you. Frank Knotts
For the record I am a lifetime Republican, vote all Republican most of the time. I think Castle is a real true Republican.
Right, and you think that Obama is like Reagan.
Well, they’re both actors.