Palin Endorses O'Donnell--A Sign Tea Party Will Storm Castle?

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Anyone who runs on an "anti-masturbation" platform is absurd beyond belief. Is an election forum really the appropriate place for the discussion of "lust" and masturbation. Seems to me to be a private issue. So much for the GOP's so called opposition to "big government" involvement in peoples' personal business!!

steve of IL 9:36PM September 13, 2010

You must be right. I have seen no comments here that “contain irrefutable arguments”
Don’t recall seeing one anywhere come to think of it !

Bill Hedges of MO 7:17PM September 12, 2010

Most of the posts that are deleted contain NO insults. They DO contain irrefutable arguments. Are those considered an abuse as well. Maybe they are for the uneducated right wingers here posting on this blog!!

steve of IL 5:43PM September 12, 2010

'Tea party' candidate in Delaware rattles the Republican Party which is great news for Democrats.
Christine O'Donnell is within striking distance of beating longtime Rep. Michael Castle in the primary. The state party leader says if she wins, the Democratic front-runner will prevail in November.
Christine recently won the endorsement of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (the Tea Party Cheerleader) and a $250,000 commitment from the Tea Party Express.
The state Republican Party has gone to great lengths to push back against what it calls the out-of-town influence of the national "tea party" movement. Critics highlight O'Donnell's shortcomings as a perennial candidate who has racked up campaign debts, misstated her college degree and suggested in one interview that political opponents were following her home at night.
"Sadly, Christine's just not really a legitimate candidate in Delaware," said Republican state committee Chairman Tom Ross. "She makes a decent presentation until you know the facts."

Independent of MA 8:58AM September 12, 2010

"Tea Party plans Contract for America after breaking union contracts "
How in the world could tea party do that ???

Bill Hedges of MO 11:13PM September 11, 2010

Been putting same comment on different aricles since this week. Maybe we should all follow his lead. I am certain site would appreciate that.

Bill Hedges of MO 10:34PM September 10, 2010

"The wave of positive change can really sweep across our land with the election of Constitutional Conservatives who promise to use common sense and rein in the federal government spending!"-Sarah Palin
This tea party rhetoric is meaningless for several reasons:
#1: Many of the tea party members are all talk and no vote. The percent of Americans that actually vote is small. Often times the louder the populist movement the less happens in the voting booth because they got all their energy out before the election.
#2: Some of the tea party members CAN'T vote due to felony convictions.
#3:Even if tea party members get elected, they will be shown privileged economic information only available to congress and will realize that the entire US economy will collapse if they don't use government spending to keep the economy limping along, to keep the banks from going under, to keep unemployment from surging to 40%, to keep the dollar from collapsing, etc.
Happy times until the economic crash!

Independent of MA 9:38PM September 10, 2010

You like the article so obviously you are no conservative.
Consider this principle.
Take chance of losing but have candidate more atone to our values. Not win at any cost...

Bill Hedges of MO 1:20PM September 10, 2010

Mr Schelsinger,
Good piece - but it underscores the fact that the passionate anger of this populist conservative movement (which at least shares the policy vacuum with other populist forces of the last century or so) is prepared to chase ideological purity over electability. Whilst this is tactically excellent news for Democrats, I'm concerned that it is deeply corrosive of our national civic dialogue.

Tobbes of VT 1:07PM September 10, 2010

No big deal birth certificate is sealed. I did same for mine.
But seriously that tells me right away not to take your article to Edward Roscoe Murrow committee for possible distinction.

Bill Hedges of MO 12:55PM September 10, 2010