GOP Establishment Derides Delaware Tea Party Candidate As Reckless, Hypocritical, And Dishonest
As with Tea Party candidates Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, Mike Lee in Utah, Rand Paul in Kentucky, Ken Buck in Colorado, Joe Miller in Alaska, and Marco Rubio in Florida, the Republican establishment is trying to fend off O’Donnell’s primary candidacy. However, rather than learn from these defeats and take a more muted approach in future contested primaries, the Republican establishment is doubling down on its anti-Tea Party strategy.
Yesterday, the Republican Party of Delaware released a statement, calling O’Donnell “reckless,” “hypocritical,” and “dishonest”:
As the facts continue to emerge regarding perennial candidate Christine O’Donnell’s reckless and hypocritical behavior, I wanted to highlight some of the key media coverage her dishonest campaign has received over the last 24 hours…
Days earlier, Delaware GOP Chairman Tom Ross derided O’Donnell as a “troubled perennial candidate” who is “not electable in Delaware or anywhere else for that matter”
Kudos to those in the GOP willing to refudiate, er, repudiate their wingnut teabaggin’ brethren, but as Think Progress notes, the real test is yet to come:
If O’Donnell wins next Tuesday’s primary, will the Delaware GOP even support a candidate they view as dishonest and unelectable?
I’m afraid my Magic 8-Ball says “Signs Point to Yes”: the GOP has demonstrated that blocking Obama and the Democrats is more important to them than anything else. I’d very much like to be wrong about this. I must also confess to a little Schadenfraude: the TeA PaRties are the GOP’s Frankenstein’s monster; it’s not surprising that they can’t keep them under control.