Monday Open Thread
The Monday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
Frank Rich On Christine O’Donnell – “Useful Idiot”
Frank Rich has a smart column on Christine O'Donnell and her importance to the GOP.
Ron Williams Is Concerned
Ron Williams is concerned. Isn't he always?
Delaware Vets Speak Out Against O’Donnell’s Privatization of Vet Benefits Scheme
Her off hand remarks are so screwy that we tend to forget that her politics are freaking insane. "The idea of privatizing veterans' health care is simply wrong," said Col.…
Tornoe’s Toon: Michael Vick of Nazareth
You know what will make people forget about running an illegal dog fighting ring where you abused, tortured and executed under-performing dogs? Winning football games!
Nice House You Have There, Shame If Anything Happened To It
Via WPSD Local 6: A local neighborhood is furious after firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground. The homeowner, Gene Cranick, said he offered to…
Today’s Barrish Postmortem of DEGOP Death – Not Horrible
The late (not so) great DE GOP is laid to rest by Cris Barrish in Today's News Journal. While Barrish includes the obligatory few "They might come back.." sentiments in…
GET THEE TO MIDDLETOWN
The 9th District Democratic committee is sponsoring an event on Sunday, October 3rd starting at noon at 200 Cleaver Farm Rd. There will be a small rally to give everyone a chance to see the Democratic candidates all the way up and down the ticket.
Christine O’Donnell’s grassroots supporters in her own words
O’Donnell: We have letters that I’d love to share with you, from people saying, you know, “A couple of years ago I could have afforded to give $10,000, but I can only give $5,000 and I’m embarrassed by that.” These letters, I carry around with me to remind me of who is funding our operation.
Weekend Open Thread
The weekend edition of your semi-daily open thread.
What is Next for Liberals?
For argument's sake, let's concede the point that Obama has not turned out to be the Democratic President that he projected in the campaign. There is no "strong man" who is going to knock heads together on our behalf. There is no Democratic St. Ronny Reagan on the horizon, so the question remains, what now?
O’Donnell Strategy Takes Shape
[ ] Big Out of State Funders,
[ ] Big GOP PR Guns from VA,
[ ] No Local Media Access,
[ ] "Fly at 30,000 feet" and
[ ] "Carpet Bomb" With Negative Attacks
Here is the NJ version of Yesterday's "Where Has O'Donnell Been?" story from the AP. While the AP soft soaps the O'Donnell strategy, NJ's Ginger Gibson practices, practices some actual journalism.
Here is a link.
O’Donnell Talks to AP, Vows to Control Her Political Message
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — After nearly disappearing from public view following her upset victory in Delaware's GOP primary, Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell re-emerged Friday from a two week skeleton hiding, "My Fair Lady" style, intensive "stop saying stupid shit all the time" training marathon.