it certainly wouldn't have been a lonely crusade-- if not a winning one.
nonsense. I guess I'm just not buying that. Consider the evidence all around you. Folks in this forum (a relatively mild-mannered lot) are excoriating her. And folks in the popular media (a not-so-mild-mannered lot) are also having fun with the crusade. I have no doubt that when she was making the statements she was being picked on, and would also have been picked on by your classmates in your school. Clearly she's up against the machine, being ridiculed, no less so now for taking on the GOP establishment, than 20 years ago for making the anti-masturbation campaign. Huge balls, she has.
Angus, I'm disappointed in you. You've clearly fallen for her narrative when nothing could be further from the truth.
Moderate Republicans, or "RINOs" as we're called by folks like O'Donnell, are a minority in the Republican Party and have been under siege for decades and losing our last beachheads. TEH GOP OMG!ESTABLISHMENTTTT!OMG is only involved to the extent that their job is to get behind candidates that they believe have a better shot at moving the ball forward and increasing Republican gains.
I realize that O'Donnell may have been made fun of for her extreme views. But did that give her supporters the right to act like schoolyard bullies and claim that Mike Castle was gay?
Mike Castle has a long-term relationship with the people of Delaware and with the Republican Party of Delaware, who officially supported his campaign. Well-funded and well-organized groups from outside the state, such as the Tea Party Express, targeted Castle as yet one more opportunity to knock off one of the few remaining moderate Republicans in elected office. These groups arrogantly came in, preyed on the prejudices and jealousies of the Republican primary electorate, and replaced a moderate candidate who was likely to win the general election with an ultra-conservative candidate who has lost twice before -- and who by all indications will lose again to a 'bearded marxist.'
She's not 'up against the machine', she's fully supported by wealthy ultra-conservatives who want to protect their rights to destroy our environment and their crusade to turn back decades of progress on rights for gay and lesbian Americans. The national ultra-conservative machine beat out the Wilmington, Delaware machine.... and you applaud it like it was some sort of glorious accomplishment.
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