Subject: Ron Williams Editorial today
From: "David Walsh" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:49:28 -0400

....if you haven't already seen it
O'Donnell is undeserving of the victory Del. voters bestowed on her 
By RON WILLIAMS The News Journal
September 16, 2010 06:10 AM
Some 30,500 Republicans have embarrassed the dickens out of the state of Delaware by voting for a candidate who has no chance of winning the general election, is a verifiable liar and cheater with no known means of employment other than her campaign money and has nothing to claim as a campaign platform other than whatever the tea party stands for.
And other than not liking the fact that there are such things as incumbents in elective offices, I'm really not sure what tea party people really think about anything.
Was I dead wrong on the Christine O'Donnell-Mike Castle race for U.S. Senate? Absolutely.
Was I wrong that she should not have won the race against U.S. Rep. Castle? Absolutely not.
This is a woman who will stoop as low and often as necessary to fool voters who, for the most part, know nothing about her or her so-called policies or positions.
From what I heard in this campaign, she actually has no real position other than what she's stolen from the tea party people: no cap and trade, overturn Obamacare, no abortions whatsoever, no stem-cell research, blah, blah.
One thing came through loud and clear in this vote, and that's that voters are angry and fed up with status quo political arrangements.
There's probably some credence that can be given to some Republican conclusions that Glen Urquhart, the developer from Rehoboth Beach, a fringe tea party supporter and evangelical conservative, helped sway Republicans to the O'Donnell ticket.
Urquhart at least ran a legitimate campaign with real money and fundraising for more than two weeks. O'Donnell's extraordinary success can be attributed to the $250,000 the Tea Party Express organization pumped in to her campaign coffers the last two weeks.
What was originally billed as a nationally recognized campaign between the vice president's son, Attorney General Beau Biden, and Castle ended up as a nationally recognized campaign between Castle and a Sarah Palin-endorsed tea party ne'er-do-well who to the best of everyone's attempt to determine hasn't held a real job in the last six years or so.
Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer and other legitimate conservative national commentators are on the record as saying she can't win the old Joe Biden seat of 36 years against Democrat Chris Coons, the upstart national political office seeker who's been dabbling in New Castle County government for close to a decade.
But don't forget. Joe Biden was only in his second year as a New Castle County councilman when he knocked off incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Cale Boggs in 1972 and then went on to become VP.
O'Donnell is a U.S. Senate candidate who has no clue. Her first clueless decision was to boycott the state's largest daily newspaper and instead use conservative radio and television to try and pass on her message. So far, that has worked. It won't work in the general election, and even if she continues her childish ways, this paper's news staff will find ways to cover her campaign anyway.
Christine O'Donnell is a fraud and has no business on a statewide ticket of any party. While those 30,500 people who voted for her are as clueless to her politics as she is, hopefully there are a significant number of Democrats and independents who will see Chris Coons as the only legitimate candidate in the race.
As one prominent Republican said the day before the primary, if O'Donnell wins, Coons might as well go ahead and start shopping for office furniture. (I think I saw Coons at Staples last night.)
The record-breaking 57,000 Republicans who voted in the primary sent a message to the party establishment that it is no longer running the show. That's fine. But putting somebody like Christine O'Donnell in the driver's seat is crazy and a sure sign that primary voters are not of a clear mind.
The best quote I saw in Wednesday's paper was from a longtime Republican who actually said that he didn't care if O'Donnell won the general election; he just wanted to send the message that Mike Castle was too liberal and changes had to be made.
Now that's the kind of twisted political reasoning that gets people like Christine O'Donnell on a statewide ballot.
Other primary surprises
Democratic auditor nominee Richard Korn, as best as I can tell, used no advertising, print or electronic, and still managed to knock off challenger Ken Matlusky, who did run radio and print ads.
I can understand why Korn wouldn't do radio ads because of his heavy Long Island, N.Y., accent.
Some people, including me, thought Trinidad Navarro would give New Castle County Sheriff Mike Walsh a close race. It wasn't close. Navarro won 63 percent to 37 percent.
- O'Donnell victory sends message about real change
- David Broder: Repubicans will benefit despite their own failings
 
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