15 September 2010

Annoying, but not unexpected.

Yesterday marked the decisive victory of a Tea Party candidate over the establishment Republican candidate in the Republican primary in the state of Delaware. Christine O'Donnell handed Mike Castle his rear end on a platter, in fact.

I freely admit that I don't know much about O'Donnell as a candidate. In fact, mostly what I know about her is that she has expressed anti-masturbation sentiments, which has apparently created some sort of vortex causing an inability by the media to hear anything else. I haven't been making a Herculean effort to keep up on the primary race in a state in which I do not live, so like I said: I don't know anything else about her.

What I do know, now that the primary is over and O'Donnell has won: the GOP is letting us down, AGAIN.

Not just because they were incapable of raising a better establishment candidate, i.e. one whom the Tea Party, small-government conservatives could get behind. Rather, I'm annoyed this time because they have announced, essentially, that they are taking their ball and going home. Which is to say that Christine O'Donnell will be receiving no national fundraising support from the Republican party.

You unbelievable whiny brats! I get that O'Donnell is not your favored candidate. That is abundantly clear. However: is she worse than the Democrat she's running against?

(On the other hand, support from the NRSC is something like support from Obama: more hindrance than help. So I guess they're doing her a favor.)

UPDATED:
Turns out that negative publicity has consequences, and the NRSC realizes that "vindictive baby" looks good on no one.

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