more independents than democrats and more republicans than independents. i think they are go willing to give republicans a chance but they say this is fringe and this is extreme and that is the problem across the country. o donnell may be a bit too far and delaware delaware is not the state to nominate someone with a strong conservative message. when the republican party was the kind juan liked where the establishent wament was in chad everything was quiet, february 19th when rick santelli launched the tea party so to speak with his rant on tv, they lost by more than ten points in 2008. how to they are ahead in the national congressional route by 7 points. about a 16 point swing. coincided with the huge amount of tea party activism and all the upsets. republicans at the time if you
criticizing kristine o donnell. let s watch. everything that he is saying is unfactual and it is a same because he is the same so-called political guru that predicted i wasn t going to win and we won and we won big. if he had just gotten this mad at democrats during the bush administration who knows how things would be different today. chris: add to that everyone from sarah palin and the argument seems to be your part of the republican establishment and you feel threatened by the tea party? this is actually about what is a winning strategy. there are serious questions that have been raised about miso donnell s background, character and previous actions. you can see we will ignore it and on barack obama with s policies and ignore the personal questions and count on
so much money that is funding the tea party clearly now is coming from outside of the republican establishment. some of it coming from i guess the healthcare industry some from the oil industry. they are all angry with barack obama. they overdosed with the anger at barack obama and it stirred up things to the point where i think the establishment has lost control and the tea party is now in control in terms of picking candidates and when i hear you talking about o donnell. it is amazing to me. o donnell has trouble with taxes. her academic credentials, paying for school, paying her own mortgage. someone with no record and when you start to talk policy obama is unamerican. she wants to do away with the education department. she is someone who says her jobs plan for america is simply cut the capital gains tax. i think the voters of delaware,
presidential nomination. and with the primary season all but in the books we ll look at what wild week it was on the trail. all right now on fox news sunday. chris: and hello again from fox news from n. washington. this is not the program we were planning to bring you. kristine o donnell the surprise winner of the republican senate primary in delaware agreed to come here live in washington today to take our questions. however, late friday night her campaign canceled saying o donnell was exhausted and had to return to delaware. saturday morning o donnell called me and said this i got triple booked. i had been invited to go to church and then a picnic. i have to keep my priorities to delaware voters . so we begin today when someone who has been critical of o donnell master republican strategist karl rove. you have come under a lot of fire from critics for
get back to time tested truths and help lead our country towards a more prosperous and state future if they happened to think i was the one if it were best for my family and our country i could give it a shot. chris: sarah palin opening the door a bit wider for the possibility she may run for president in 2012. back now with the panel. before we get to sarah palin s pressial prospects, look at this campaign. endorsed christine o donnell and she won and palin has backed 36 candidates in contested primaries this year. many long shots. 25 have won and 11 have lost. how much clout does sarah palin have in the republican party right now? i think more than any other single person. awfully impressive. and she backed some losing candidates and people who didn t have a chance in the maryland governor s race for