why thursday is a day to mark on your electoral calendar. it should favor democrats and howard dean will help us explain. that s all to come. but first, when a political candidate comes from outside mainstream politics and that candidate gets nominated to represent a major party, and part of that candidate s appeal is that they come from outside mainstream politics, there s now a well-established process of making that candidate over, subtly, to make them seem more mainstreamy for the general election. we saw that process in action with the post-primary scrubbing of republican senate candidate, sharron angle of nevada. we saw that in the shut down all media access scrubbing of rand paul. and we re now seeing the same process at work with christine o donnell of delaware. if you two to christine o donnell s campaign website right now, here s what you ll find. victory in delaware! a short article thanking the people of delaware for making christine o donnell the republican nominee for
improved christine o donnell s endorsement page. we called them today to ask their reaction to the omission. they told us in part, we were not aware of the change on miss o donnell s website, but we are also not concerned about it. campaigns make decisions or sometimes simple computer mistakes, occasionally. we also asked them if they could provide us with a copy of christine o donnell s completed questionnaire. we will let you know if they do that. and if we get that questionnaire, we will definitely let you know how she said she feels about protecting honduras from barack obama s pending invasion. but catholic families for america shares something in common with a few of the yet further groups, yet more groups who have been purged from the new christine o donnell endorsements page. that organization, that catholic families group, as well as the susan b. anthony list candidate fund, and the concerned women pac, they re all anti-abortion groups. the way that the conservative resurg
the new christine o donnell website was unveiled. and when the new christine o donnell website got unveiled, boy, things sure did look different. on the old campaign website, for example, there was this big list, prominently displayed on the endorsements page. all sorts of tea party groups and individual activists who had officially endorsed christine o donnell s bid for the united states senate. the shiny new endorsements page looks a little different now. scrolling through, you can find that very nice giant soft focus picture of republican senator jim demint. there s also one of sarah palin there too. but many of the groups that are listed on the original endorsements page are no longer listed on the new one. you can dig around on the site and still find them, but they are not listed on the official endorsements page anymore. who are they? who s been moderate makeovered out of the christine o donnell campaign? well, there s this guy. my advice to the president is, in two good words
and maybe 2010 now, and not 1994, but the same folks, a lot of them, at least, are still around, and the same tactics are still being used. in 1994, when george w. bush defeated ann richards to become the governor of texas, he did it with the help of a whisper campaign about gays and lesbians surrounding ann richards, so you know ann richards must be secretly gay. flash forward to 2010 and christine o donnell s effort to defeat republican mike castle, suddenly besieged by rumors from folks connected to people connected to christine o donnell that he s secretly gay. i think that that s a very tacky approach. i never said that mike castle was gay. i don t endorse putting out rumors that mike castle is gay. are we talking about those rumors that mike castle is gay? who said that mike castle is gay? did you say that mike castle is gay? i didn t say that mike castle is gay. where might you have heard that mike castle is gay? gay. gay. have you heard that? and it s not just the same tact
a short article thanking the people of delaware for making christine o donnell the republican nominee for u.s. senate. if you look closely, though, you will see that the date on this article is september 11th, 2010. the problem with that is that the republican primary that christine o donnell won did not happen until three days after that, on september 14th. so christine o donnell s website is declaring victory in the primary three days before she won the primary. spooky! how to explain the discrepancy? it could, of course, be the result of a little hocus-pocus maybe? eye of newt, toe of frog? the more likely explanation is that right after christine o donnell won the republican party nomination, her official website officially came down. the whole thing got replaced by this page, which prominently featured a big donate now button, and that was it. that was all that existed about her online for a few days, until