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The Citizen Legislators Cometh

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The featured headline on the Drudge Report today is “SHE’S A WINNER!” with a picture of Christine O’Donnell. O’Donnell defeated establishment darling and noted RINO Mike Castle in the Delaware GOP primary. In the campaign, O’Donnell was outspent ten to one by her opponent, was subject to countless calumny from seemingly the entire GOP establishment, yet she was still able to defeat a 2-term former Governor and sitting member of the House of Representatives.  And she won going away, by a margin of 6 percentage points (53% – 47%). If the message wasn’t clear in: Nevada, Kentucky, Florida, Alaska, Colorado and Utah, it should be clear now.

After losing to Christine O’Donnell, Mike Castle immediately announced that he will not endorse the chosen candidate of his party. When asked if he thought the national party would support O’Donnell, Castle said he did not know, then snidely threw in “they [the national party] should save their money.” Of course – only a spineless RINO like Castle can win.*

The party establishment has endorsed losers in seven states now. They have opposed Marco Rubio, Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, Joe Miller, Ken Buck, Mike Lee and now Christine O’Donnell. Meanwhile, the upper echelon of the party has pushed candidates like Chralie Crist and Mike Castle. In addition, the party leadership’s stated position is to support incumbents, like Lisa Murkowski this election cycle, and other loyal Republicans, like Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee and Dede Scozzafava. Notice a trend? Besides all these candidates being losers, none of them supported the GOP after it had outlived its usefulness for them. Arlen Specter even switched parties. But the establishment knows best.

The GOP ruling class is getting nervous. They know that the 2010 class of Republicans is not coming to Washington to climb the social ladder. Former Senate surrender Majority  Leader Trent Lott told the Washington Post of the new breed of Republicans, all endorsed, brought to the forefront, and financially supported by Jim DeMint, “We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples… as soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.” In the same Post story, Bob Bennett, who lost in Utah, said “That’s my concern, that at the moment there is not a cohesive Republican strategy of this is what we’re going to do. And certainly among the tea-party types there’s clearly no strategy of this is what we’re going to do.” The GOP establishment is not just afraid of the Tea Party movement, some of the party leaders are downright resentful. The establishment fears and understands that the election of true citizen legislators spells the end of their reign.

The ruling class Republicans are being replaced by what was noted above as a ‘new breed’ of Republicans. These new Republicans are true to the vision of the Founders. They are regular, country class, Americans. These citizen legislators are running because they have seen the destruction caused by decades of ruling class politicians in both parties. These Republicans are not going to be persuaded into voting for Amnesty, No Child Left Behind or another TARP. Instead, the new GOP will fight big government and offer a choice, not an echo.

Hotline reported that a senior Republican leadership aide criticized Senator DeMint for his endorsement of Christine O’Donnell. The courageous anonymous aide said “DeMint took it a step too far here, and I think he has lost the remaining credibility he had, even within the caucus, DeMint is not interested in a majority, he’d rather establish himself as the leader on the fringe.” Think they’re nervous? The Republican leadership should be worried – Jim DeMint’s ‘fringe’ of citizen legislators is coming to town and their elections signals the end of the ruling class’ ownership of the Republican Party.

*UPDATE: last night the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) announced that they would not support Christine O’Donnell. After 12 hours of relentless criticism for their vindictive position, the NRSC has backtracked and is now supporting O’Donnell.

Leadership You Can Believe In

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Florida megalomaniac Senate candidate Charlie Crist was on NBC‘s Meet the dePressed this weekend. On the show, Crist was asked if he would caucus with Democrats or Republicans if he was elected. His response:

And there you have it – Crist, who is clearly running as an independent because he has certain core convictions (?) won’t say who he will caucus with. I’m sure his campaign will be an ideas-based one.

Charlie Crist was a poor Governor of Florida; he was a lousy candidate in the GOP Senatorial primary; and, he would be a brutal Senator. He has no core principles, save what is best for Charlie Crist. In fact, ‘lifelong Republican’ Charlie Crist went so far as to try to get Rhambo and Dr. Demento Dean to stand with him against Floridians.

Crist’s kind, unscrupulous self-promoters, are the problem with the GOP. The party does not need Charlie Crists who have no core convictions. It is not enough for the GOP to win, conservatism has to win. Conservatism will save the United States. The Republican Party is only a vessel to advance conservatism. A Senator Crist would not be a roadblock in the Obama agenda, he would embrace big government socialism, as he has done in the past. In November, Marco Rubio will prevail. He will be a leading light in the GOP for years to come. Charlie, well, he’ll have a lot of time to work on that tan.

Crist to Run as an Independent

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Crist Almighty, I can’t say that I’m surprised by this, but I kind of hoped that Governor Charlie Crist (R-FL) could take the high road at least this one time in his life and challenge Marco Rubio in the Republican primary, not in the Florida senate election in 2010.

Despite repeatedly assuring voters that he would not seek the Senate seat as an independent, sources close to Crist say that he’s having a change of heart.

It may be the worst-kept secret in American politics today, and it’s apparently about to become a reality. Reliable sources informed me today that embattled Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, whose early lead in his US Senate Republican primary race against former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio has essentially reversed itself in the polls, is preparing to announce sooner rather than later that he will leave the GOP and continue his run for Senate as an independent. Sources add that the speech Crist will use in his announcement is now being drafted.

As Reagan said, when it comes to people who wont subscribe to true conservative principles, “let them go their way.” However, I must admit that I’m a bit concerned about how this will affect Rubio (the conservative one) in the general election. If it was a standard race with a Republican versus a Democrat, Rubio would take it hands-down. However, the presence of a “moderate conservative” (gag) could off-set things a bit.

However, at least Florida doesn’t have to worry about having a boring political ‘scene.’

H/T to AllahPundit.

Fox News Sunday Rubio v. Crist

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The Republican Senate primary battle in Florida is really a referendum on the direction the GOP wants to chart for the future. This weekend’s FOX News Sunday debate made it clear who the real conservative, ideas oriented candidate is for the GOP – Marco Rubio. Rubio defines himself as a “Jim DeMint” Republican, or a conservative. Rubio will fight the Obama-Reid-Pelosi scoilast, freedom killing agenda. Charlie Crist has a brutal fake tan, was a lousy governor and said that the two senators he admired most are John McCain and Lindsey Graham. That’s amnesty, cap and trade, and bailouts – case closed. Crist did not present a single new idea in the debate, and has not throughout the campaign. Instead, Crist is content to make false allegations against Rubio in an attempt to besmirch Rubio’s character. For Floridians the choice is clear: Marco Rubio represents the future of the Republican Party.

It Is Time For McCain To Go Home

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The thorn in the side of the GOP known as Senator John McCain recently sat down for an interview with The Hill. In the interview, McCain offers a compelling case that should lead all conservatives to support his primary challenger, J.D. Hayworth in the upcoming Arizona GOP primary.

McCain said “We have to convince these independent voters out there that we did learn our lesson about spending and we will be fiscally responsible.” One wonders where TARP, which McCain stopped his campaign to go persuade Republicans to vote for, fits into that picture. It is rich to hear the man who made a campaign promise to buy all of America’s underwater mortgages talk about fiscal responsibility.

You have to read on in the article to come across the real gem in the piece. Throughout the article, Mr. Progressive Republican answers questions about how the GOP is out of touch, and that if they want to win in the future they have to listen to the people. And who has their finger on the pulse of the USA better than the Maverick himself? Well, just about anyone else. When asked a specific question, it is clear that the Mac still doesn’t  get it. With Marco Rubio pulling away from Obama’s favorite Republican McCain said “sure, I’d be glad to help [Charlie Crist]” in his primary battle. So let me get this right, the problem is that the GOP embraced big spending policies and was out of touch while they were in power, so to solve that the Mac would “be glad” to support Charlie Crist, who was a huge supporter of the Porkulus bill, and has been demolished in the polls by a real conservative that connects with Floridians. Crist literally embraced Obama, while campaigning for the biggest, most wasteful spending bill in American history. Marco Rubio headlined CPAC. Marco Rubio is the model for the future for the GOP, not John McCain and definitely not Charlie Crist. Hopefully in the November general election Americans will have the opportunity to vote fr J.D. Hayworth in Arizona. We already know they’ll have have Rubio on the ballot.