This election season is getting interesting with the outcome of several of the recent primaries. Its also starting to show the true colors of the Republican establishment. First there was Dede Scazzafava in New York's 23rd Congressional district. The GOP leadership backed this liberal Republican with ties to ACORN and the labor unions in the primary race against Doug Hoffman. When Hoffman pulled ahead of her in the polls thanks to widespread grassroots support, Scazzafava dropped out of the race and through her support to her former Democrat opponent, Bill Owens. After the Republican party had pumped over a million bucks into her campagn. Can you say RINO? Even without party support, Hoffman made a good showing against Owens, losing by only 5 percentage points. Probably what Scazzafava's treachery siphoned off in votes. You would think the Republican party would take the hint that the voters don't want party regulars at the expense of conservative, responsible government. But this past week we see more signs of big party politics in the GOP. In Delaware, Christine O'Donnell beat long time congressman Mike Castle for the GOP ballot position for Joe Bidden's old Senate seat. O'Donnell came from nowhere, but had a conservative platform and with grassroots support from the Tea Party movement, along with endorsements from Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint, handily beat Castle. Castle, while he had the GOP establishment's support, didn't offer much in the way of platform and solutions to our country's problems (he voted with the Democrats about 60% of the time) and in the latter part of the campaign went completely negative against O'Donnell. That didn't help him much. When O'Donnell won, he should have man'ed up and congratulated her and worked to support her in the general election. But no, he went even more negative and even reportedly had a teleconference with Obama and Bidden - you have to wonder what that was about and where that's going. Hell, even the Republican party would not support her victory. The initial response was that she was on her own and would not get party support. (NRSC Chair Cornyn later backed off and said she would receive the full NRSC contribution of $42K) Karl Rove lambasted her, saying she was not electable. Charles Krauthammer said she had about a 10% chance of winning. Interestingly, the day after the election, O'Donnell's campaign was hurting financially and she was asking for money on her web site. Rush Limbaugh made the comment that if everyone just gave her a buck, she could make the $50K she was looking for. By the end of the day, she was up to a million bucks and the next day when I looked, it was over $1.5 million. I wonder if the GOP elite still think that her electability chances are only 10%? And now we have another sore loser in Alaska. Two weeks ago, tea party favorite Joe Miller beat Senator Lisa Murkowski. Not that Lisa was ever elected in the first place - she was appointed by her father when he stepped in to take the governor's office. Again, Murkowski had the backing of the GOP establishment and the GOP was pissed their gal lost. So was Lisa. She wasn't going to take this lying down. Instead of working with Miller to be sure Alaska sends a (conservative) Republican senator to Washington, she strikes out on her own and announces that she is going to run as "write-in" candidate. This is pure spite. Does she think she can win her seat back this way after a majority of the voters told her "NO"? She knows this is just going to split the Republican voting block and give the Senate seat to the Democrats. She is nothing but a spoiled immature brat that is a sore loser. If the GOP can't reign in this kind of behavior, all I can say is that I am through donating money and time to the Republican party. I'll make donations to specific candidates whose platforms and positions I support - even those outside of state or district where I live - but I am through supporting a party where the establishment is more interested in preserving their own power base than in serving the people. There could be a revolution coming people.
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