O’Donnell: GOP establishment needs to get over it
posted at 12:55 pm on September 15, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
It appears that Christine O’Donnell has no intention of allowing attacks from either the Right or Left go unanswered. She appeared this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America to answer potshots taken at her last night in the wake of her convincing victory over Mike Castle from Karl Rove, the NRSC, and others. O’Donnell looked poised and focused in this five minute clip, telling George Stephanopoulos that some in the GOP have had their pride bruised and need to get past it:
How big of a story is Christine O’Donnell this morning? I got this clip from an embedded story — at CBS. They especially liked this exchange:
“Everything he is saying is unfactual,” O’Donnell said. “And it’s a shame, because he’s the same so-called political guru that predicted I wasn’t going to win. And we won and we won big… He’s eating some humble pie and he’s just trying to restore his reputation,” she said.
O’Donnell also took a shot at Rove’s personal wealth when responding to his question about why she had taken “nearly two decades” to pay off her student bills.
“I’m not a trust fund baby,” she said. “Most Delawarians can relate to having to work hard to pay for their college education. I was never dishonest about that.”
She also took a shot at the GOP establishment as a whole, saying that their backing of Mike Castle made them look “lazy” and uncaring of Republican principles, especially in this cycle. That certainly was the impression of 54% of Delaware Republicans. Perhaps the GOP establishment needs to start listening a little closer, and embrace the candidate that their members chose in convincing fashion.
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Yep, she’s bat poop crazy.
TheBlueSite on September 15, 2010 at 4:02 PM
TheBlueSite on September 15, 2010 at 3:52 PM
Want a Kleenex?
kingsjester on September 15, 2010 at 4:02 PM
Who’s principles/standards should people go by in deciding how to vote? Their own, or yours, if the principles/standards they decide are most important aren’t in alignment with yours? Are people who won’t vote for O’Donnell because they find her to be insane, incompentent, and unethical, and find it wrong to cast their vote for such a person less respectable to you than those who come to that same conclusion about her, but will vote for her anyways because they believe such a vote is better for the country? If so, why?
Never trust intellectually dishonest people who can’t disagree w/o being disagreeable; I’ve sure seen plenty of them here in this debate…
Bizarro No. 1 on September 15, 2010 at 4:08 PM
Your questions seem to ignore everything I said. I have no idea how to respond.
DrMagnolias on September 15, 2010 at 4:10 PM
Oops I apologize – I went back and looked at your post at 3:24, and see that I didn’t read it very carefully.
I agree with the point you were making.
Bizarro No. 1 on September 15, 2010 at 4:18 PM
Thank you for doing that. Nice to know we’re in agreement. :)
DrMagnolias on September 15, 2010 at 5:37 PM
You don’t care who the opposition is…. Ok… So noted.
Best Regards as always.
Irritable Pundit on September 15, 2010 at 5:50 PM
So if you’re not pleased with who the Republican citizens of Delaware chose, you get to blatantly twist the reality to soothe your bruised pride? I thought that was the democrat approach.
To Zaggs and everyone else trying to push the “rent” angle:
YOU and everyone here who has been paying attention knows that she used campaign funds to pay the expenses of her main campaign office. That office just happened to be in her home. Right where it should be for a grassroots/tea party candidate I might add. There is no legitimate reason other than vanity to rent expensive office space for a small primary. I also expect that a candidate use contributions to pay expenses related to the campaign. If you’re using your home as an office and you’re providing room and board to staffers as well, I would not only approve of but expect one to use campaign funds for a portion of the cost of maintaining the space, whether one personally sleeps and showers there or not.
ALMOST EVERY POLITICIAN does this in some way using campaign, per diem and expense accounts to pay for a portion of their home, specifically their home office.
There’s nothing wrong with this any more than there would be if you had a hot dog stand and used monies from that business to pay for a portion of your personal mortgage and wrote it off on your taxes to boot.
You know that there is nothing truly ethically wrong here yet you carry the water for the Democrats. Then call yourself a true Republican. Shame.
Jason Coleman on September 15, 2010 at 6:06 PM
You guys ever heard of buying used books? It’s easier today than ever to get one. New textbooks are for suckers.
Tuition inflation is way out of hand, mostly because of government, but there are still plenty of colleges in this country to choose from without going into major debt, so if you choose the major debt route, that’s on you.
xblade on September 15, 2010 at 6:28 PM
Yeah, I’m more than a little familiar with it.
The problem is that the people selling used books have been infected by the same kind of greed and the price savings are dwindling. Used sometimes even commands more than new because the overworked college administration sometimes runs short on stocks for one reason or another.
^ the real problem. If enough students start getting federal assistance, the bean-counters just jack up the tuition by a couple thousand until the students make enough noise for more assistance, public OR private. There’s almost no chance of a fix; even the Democrats wouldn’t think of reigning in their pseudo-academic buddies.
Dark-Star on September 15, 2010 at 7:53 PM
That’s exactly the problem with all of higher education–the minute anything is subsidized by government, prices go up, not down. And because academia is teeming with lefties, they will never recognize that fact, because they believe there is a money tree out back.
DrMagnolias on September 15, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Yep. And the worst part is they won’t even attempt the simplest fixes. It burns my biscuits that money that is supposed to be an investment in education is being used as little more than a poker chip!
Dark-Star on September 15, 2010 at 8:07 PM
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