F the RINOS. F them all. Take out ALL the RINOS ASAP. I love it when a RINO gets beat and then threatens a Third Party or "Write In" Campaign.

Even if they lose in the General Election, the Tea Party backed Candidates send a message to everyone in the 'Republican Establishment'.. a message that they need to learn dearly. Act/Vote like a Democrat and you will be unemployed.

Delaware Senate Race: A Kamikaze Republican and the Tea Party
Will the Tea Party Take Down Another Establishment Candidate?

In Tuesday's Delaware primary, the tea party movement may inflict its most devastating wound yet to the Republican establishment.

With an assist from Sarah Palin, tea party activists in Delaware are trying to defeat the Republican candidate with the best chance to win Joe Biden's old Senate seat and nominate instead a candidate Republican leaders say has no chance of winning the general election in November.

Rep. Mike Castle is considered a slam dunk to capture Joe Biden's old Senate seat. Castle is a pro-abortion rights, pro-gun control Republican who often works with Democrats. Those traits have helped make him the most popular Republican in a state that leans heavily Democratic; Castle has twice been elected governor and was elected as Delaware's sole representative in the House nine times.

But Castle's moderate politics have enraged tea party activists and given Christine O'Donnell an opening.

The Republican Party has lost its way," O'Donnell said. "They get behind candidates like my opponent who don't even support the Republican platform, who continue to support the Democrats' agenda, lock-step-and-barrel."

Castle hasn't had a seriously contested primary since 1992. He said he's confident this time, but acknowledges he could go down.

"This one's been difficult, not only because I have an opponent with whom I disagree adamantly on a number of issues but is also being funded by the Tea Party Express people, which is totally an out of state circumstance," Castle said.

The group Tea Party Express, which also supported the primary campaigns of Sharron Angle in Nevada and Joe Miller in Alaska, said it will spend nearly $200,000 boosting O'Donnell's primary challenge.

This one, however, may be the most bitterly divisive Republican primary yet. Republican leaders say an O'Donnell victory would destroy the state party and pretty much ruin any GOP chances of capturing Biden's old seat.

"I have no doubt if she by some miracle became the nominee she would lose the seat by unprecedented numbers," RINO Delaware Republican Party chairman Tom Ross said.

O'Donnell, who has also been endorsed by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and the NRA, called that "Republican cannibalism," which she said is an indication of just how out of touch with their voters and desperate main stream Republicans have become.

The Delaware Republican party has been issuing almost daily press releases attacking O'Donnell.

One recent release highlighted a Rasmussen poll showing Castle carrying a double-digit lead over Democrat Chris Coons in the general Senate race, 48 percent to 37 percent. When Coons and O'Donnell are matched up, Coons leads O'Donnell by a 47 percent to 36 percent margin.

O'Donnell said she remains confident that voters see her as the real Republican choice.

"There's a tidal wave coming here in Delaware and my campaign is riding it," she said. "My opponent is drowning in it."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/delaware-...467&page=1

My Litmus test for being a Republican Candidate...

1. The Candidate must be more economically conservative than the status quo for your state or district. This makes for a pretty big tent, and it inevitably leads Republican candidates from New England and the West Coast that are less conservative than some of the Blue Dog Democrats from the South and Midwest. I'm okay with this because economic conservatism is something that can be implemented incrementally and a Republican that votes with the party 50% of the time is better than a Democrat that votes with the GOP 0%. Mike Castle passes this test.

2. The candidate must be pro-Life. This is without a doubt the most pressing issue of our times and something that can't be compromised on. The Republican party was founded on stopping the great moral evil of the time, slavery, which it successfully did by passing amendments that overturned the Dred Scott decision. Now it must be willing to take a similar uncompromising stance against the evils of abortion and continue to fight for a right to life amendment that overturns Roe versus Wade. Mike Castle fails miserably on this issue and everything possible should be done to defeat him in the primary. If that fails then Republicans should vote for a pro-life 3rd party candidate to send a message to the Republican establishment... you cannot win without us and we will not compromise on something as important as the sanctity of human life.

Hopefully Christine O'Donnell in Delaware can pull off the upset. Devout Catholics like her seem to be the only remaining true conservatives in the Northeast.

This is indeed an important race. I've donated to her. I am making calls for her.

http://christine2010.com/

http://www.voterfetch.com/step2/christineodonnell/

OK, why must a Republican take such a hard line stance on getting an abo-bo? Republicans had the presidency and the congress for 6 years and nothing was done about abortion. The issue is dead. It is only used to conjur up emotional votes from the Christian Right. Republicans should drop the issue. I have a feeling they would gain more votes than they would lose.

(09-14-2010 10:05 AM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  OK, why must a Republican take such a hard line stance on getting an abo-bo? Republicans had the presidency and the congress for 6 years and nothing was done about abortion. The issue is dead. It is only used to conjur up emotional votes from the Christian Right. Republicans should drop the issue. I have a feeling they would gain more votes than they would lose.

I'm pro choice.

And I think its a damn shame that a grad student from Kansas named Stanley Ann Dunham didn't exercise her choice and terminate her pregnancy.

(09-14-2010 10:05 AM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  OK, why must a Republican take such a hard line stance on getting an abo-bo? Republicans had the presidency and the congress for 6 years and nothing was done about abortion. The issue is dead. It is only used to conjur up emotional votes from the Christian Right. Republicans should drop the issue. I have a feeling they would gain more votes than they would lose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial-Bir...on_Ban_Act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City_Policy

Obviously that is not nearly enough, but it was certainly a step in the right direction and much better than the current administration. Not to mention Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito who will help shape the Supreme court for years to come. As for it being a dead issue, you must have been living under a rock until recently. The pro-life movement has made great strides, so much so that the overwhelmingly Democratic congress had its health care legislation held up for months by pro-life Democrats until an executive order was signed banning any funding for abortion.

Also according to a recent Gallup poll, 51% of Americans now consider themselves pro-life, the most ever. So either the Christian right has ballooned in recent years(not likely) or more average Americans are recognizing abortion for what it is, the murder of a human being inside the womb.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/118399/more-a...-time.aspx

Republicans are not dropping the issue. No way, no how. The Republican controlled congress and Presidency didn't do enough, that I agree with. But the solution to that is driving out the pro-abort RINOs that are still all too common in the GOP.

(09-14-2010 10:10 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(09-14-2010 10:05 AM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  OK, why must a Republican take such a hard line stance on getting an abo-bo? Republicans had the presidency and the congress for 6 years and nothing was done about abortion. The issue is dead. It is only used to conjur up emotional votes from the Christian Right. Republicans should drop the issue. I have a feeling they would gain more votes than they would lose.

I'm pro choice.

And I think its a damn shame that a grad student from Kansas named Stanley Ann Dunham didn't exercise her choice and terminate her pregnancy.

You are wishing your political opponents would have been murdered? Thanks for the insight, Osama.

Just in from Delaware...

UNITED STATES SENATOR

245 of 325 Districts Reported


REPUBLICAN PARTY

MICHAEL N. CASTLE 20677 672 21349 46 . 4 %
CHRISTINE O'DONNELL 24107 579 24686 53 . 6 %

(09-14-2010 02:53 PM)Know Nothing Wrote:  

(09-14-2010 10:10 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  

(09-14-2010 10:05 AM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  OK, why must a Republican take such a hard line stance on getting an abo-bo? Republicans had the presidency and the congress for 6 years and nothing was done about abortion. The issue is dead. It is only used to conjur up emotional votes from the Christian Right. Republicans should drop the issue. I have a feeling they would gain more votes than they would lose.

I'm pro choice.

And I think its a damn shame that a grad student from Kansas named Stanley Ann Dunham didn't exercise her choice and terminate her pregnancy.

You are wishing your political opponents would have been murdered? Thanks for the insight, Osama.

Run along now and go find some little boys to molest.

And have a nice day!

(09-13-2010 07:06 PM)Know Nothing Wrote:  My Litmus test for being a Republican Candidate...

1. The Candidate must be more economically conservative than the status quo for your state or district. This makes for a pretty big tent, and it inevitably leads Republican candidates from New England and the West Coast that are less conservative than some of the Blue Dog Democrats from the South and Midwest. I'm okay with this because economic conservatism is something that can be implemented incrementally and a Republican that votes with the party 50% of the time is better than a Democrat that votes with the GOP 0%. Mike Castle passes this test.

2. The candidate must be pro-Life. This is without a doubt the most pressing issue of our times and something that can't be compromised on. The Republican party was founded on stopping the great moral evil of the time, slavery, which it successfully did by passing amendments that overturned the Dred Scott decision. Now it must be willing to take a similar uncompromising stance against the evils of abortion and continue to fight for a right to life amendment that overturns Roe versus Wade. Mike Castle fails miserably on this issue and everything possible should be done to defeat him in the primary. If that fails then Republicans should vote for a pro-life 3rd party candidate to send a message to the Republican establishment... you cannot win without us and we will not compromise on something as important as the sanctity of human life.

Hopefully Christine O'Donnell in Delaware can pull off the upset. Devout Catholics like her seem to be the only remaining true conservatives in the Northeast.

Frankly, I could care less if the candidate eats live babies every year to celebrate new years, as long as #1 is true. I don't give a crap about the Republican Party platform. If they are defeating candidates because (1) they support gun control, and (2) they work with Democrats, then WTF does the "tea party" stand for? uber-partisanship isn't going to cut it.

(09-14-2010 10:10 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  I'm pro choice.

RINO

(09-13-2010 07:06 PM)Know Nothing Wrote:  My Litmus test for being a Republican Candidate...
1. The Candidate must be more economically conservative than the status quo for your state or district. This makes for a pretty big tent, and it inevitably leads Republican candidates from New England and the West Coast that are less conservative than some of the Blue Dog Democrats from the South and Midwest. I'm okay with this because economic conservatism is something that can be implemented incrementally and a Republican that votes with the party 50% of the time is better than a Democrat that votes with the GOP 0%. Mike Castle passes this test.
2. The candidate must be pro-Life. This is without a doubt the most pressing issue of our times and something that can't be compromised on. The Republican party was founded on stopping the great moral evil of the time, slavery, which it successfully did by passing amendments that overturned the Dred Scott decision. Now it must be willing to take a similar uncompromising stance against the evils of abortion and continue to fight for a right to life amendment that overturns Roe versus Wade. Mike Castle fails miserably on this issue and everything possible should be done to defeat him in the primary. If that fails then Republicans should vote for a pro-life 3rd party candidate to send a message to the Republican establishment... you cannot win without us and we will not compromise on something as important as the sanctity of human life.
Hopefully Christine O'Donnell in Delaware can pull off the upset. Devout Catholics like her seem to be the only remaining true conservatives in the Northeast.

I could vote for any candidate who passes test #1.

I'm pretty liberal socially, and #2 would never be a litmus test for me. I think abortion is wrong, and abortions should be minimized, but I also think there are situations where it is the lesser of evils. I would favor a policy that minimized abortions by pushing the alternatives, like adoption, and imposed conditions, like no late-term abortions and no taxpayer funding, but not one that outlawed them completely.