Did the Tea Party movement just snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Delaware?
In a word: Yes.
Just as wins by extreme right-wingers in Republican primaries in Nevada, Alaska and other states have renewed the hopes of Democrats in Senate races where they looked to be doomed, Delaware Republicans just ditched a seemingly certain November winner for a likely loser.
On a night when the Tea Party movement scored some big wins over candidates of the Republican establishment—in races for governor of New York and perhaps for New Hampshire's open US Senate seat—the most dramatic victory for the frenzied right came in Delaware, where Tea Party heroine Christine O'Donnell upset Congressman Mike Castle for the party's Senate nod.
Former White House political czar Karl Rove, who describes the Republican nominee for the US Senate from that state, Christine O'Donnell, as someone who "says a lot of nutty things," was arguing that the GOP just lost a Senate race.
"We were looking at eight to nine seats in the Senate. We're now looking at seven to eight in my opinion," Rove said Tuesday night. "This is not a race we are going to be able to win."
But consider those numbers: What Rove is saying is that, with the Delaware result, Republicans may have lost much more than the Senate race in a single state....
Just as wins by extreme right-wingers in Republican primaries in Nevada, Alaska and other states have renewed the hopes of Democrats in Senate races where they looked to be doomed, Delaware Republicans just ditched a seemingly certain November winner for a likely loser.
On a night when the Tea Party movement scored some big wins over candidates of the Republican establishment—in races for governor of New York and perhaps for New Hampshire's open US Senate seat—the most dramatic victory for the frenzied right came in Delaware, where Tea Party heroine Christine O'Donnell upset Congressman Mike Castle for the party's Senate nod.
Former White House political czar Karl Rove, who describes the Republican nominee for the US Senate from that state, Christine O'Donnell, as someone who "says a lot of nutty things," was arguing that the GOP just lost a Senate race.
"We were looking at eight to nine seats in the Senate. We're now looking at seven to eight in my opinion," Rove said Tuesday night. "This is not a race we are going to be able to win."
But consider those numbers: What Rove is saying is that, with the Delaware result, Republicans may have lost much more than the Senate race in a single state....
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2 comments:
I believe the Tea Party is just a bunch of rebel Republicans.
Old news, new name. So far to the right they've toppled over into the mire.
Aimless writer, you are so correct!
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