GOP must get behind O'Donnell 100%

The victory of tea-party favorite Christine O'Donnell sent shock waves through the party establishment at the GOP. I hope they listen to the message sent by the people of Delaware. If not, they can expect to remain in exile for many more years contemplating their foolish ways.

For a while now, the GOP has compromised on principles to win elections. In my opinion, the crushing defeat in 2006 was a result of the GOP belief that Republicans needed to look more like Democrats to get elected – to be more "moderate." That losing strategy needs to be abandoned in a hurry.

Compromising principles to win elections in more liberal areas of the country is foolish. Does the GOP really believe, in the age of YouTube and Facebook, that a candidate can say one thing in the East and another in the West and not be accused of having a watered-down message? Republicans cannot be all things to all people and be Republican.

Apparently the GOP has lost sight that America is, and always will be, a "center-right" nation. Just because a minority group of liberals can scream louder than the center majority is no reason to abandon principles in hope of a win. It is folly.

The party must remain faithful to the principles of their party that made this nation great, not the analyses of the pollsters.

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Statesmen live by principles. Politicians live by polls. And the people know it now. The yearning for sincere leadership in America is dwarfing the indiscretions of a candidate's past. The old days of "politics of personal destruction" are rapidly ending and not soon enough for me.

I couldn't care less if a person was late on a bill, if they smoked pot, if their taxes were delinquent or if their home was repossessed. It should have little to do with a person's ability to represent the people who send them to Washington if they are actually representing the will of the people. Criminal activity or patterns of lying are surely enough for me to reject a candidate, but not some mistake that 90 percent of us have made at one time or another.

The GOP had violated Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican, before the final tabulation of the vote last Tuesday night. When the GOP establishment anointed lost, the party insiders went nuts and unleashed an attack on O'Donnell that was appalling. She was in, and Castle was out. Yet the GOP was still supporting the loser? Is it really that tone deaf?

The GOP thinks it's OK to go negative against the person who will be running for the seat that the party faithful claim is crucial in taking back the Senate from the liberals? What the hell are they smoking or drinking at GOP headquarters? What could be going through the minds of incredibly brilliant people like Karl Rove or Charles Krauthammer?

I understand attacks or rigorous campaigning during the election. While I don't like it, it is part of the process. I watched the GOP establishment and Juan McCain spend $25 million smearing and lying about a fine conservative in Arizona. I fought vigorously to see McCain sent to retirement. But once the votes were counted and he became the Republican candidate, all sides rallied around McCain.

Why?

The worst conservative candidate, in my opinion, is far better for the country than the best Democrat who is mindlessly serving the dictator who sits in the Oval Office. Watching this nation being walked to the edge of destruction under this White House is no longer an option to me.

The GOP, along with the media, need to realize that most people are more concerned with what a candidate will do for the people going forward to save the nation than they are about what a candidate did years ago. No one is perfect, and I personally prefer someone who has made a few mistakes, especially if they learned from those mistakes. They are more qualified in my book. Failures and bad decisions in my past have been my greatest lessons. They have educated me in what to do and not do in the future.

The people are now far more focused on past voting records of incumbents who have been in Washington for far too long than they are about old news. That is, with the exception of Charlie Rangel's district in New York. There the vote is purely racial. Four decades of Rangel is enough, don't you think? Apparently not to those who allow themselves to be duped by a corrupt politician.

The GOP had better wake up and smell the coffee quickly or their own egos and pride are going to destroy the one hope this country has of freeing herself from the tyranny of the Obama administration.
Republicans will fracture the vote if they attack someone who defeats one of their "chosen" ones. If they attack a winner out of anger, they guarantee liberal democratic rule for years to come.

We saw this firsthand in the 1992 elections with two conservative candidates. Clinton got 43 percent of the vote, Bush 37 percent and Ross Perot 19 percent. With only that 43 percent of the vote, Bill Clinton walked into the White House for eight years. And while Bill Clinton was in no way as destructive as Mr. Obama, can the country handle more Democratic dominance in D.C.?

Can the country afford for this to happen when we are talking about freeing a nation from the grip of liberal tyranny under Pelosi, Reid and Obama?

I have thought long and hard about Christine O'Donnell's victory in Delaware. I don't know whether she or her critics are telling the truth. I'm sure sooner or later the truth will come out. It always does. But if the GOP establishment is vilifying her and the Democrats love her, she has my vote. Democrats better be careful what they wish for. Showering O'Donnell with congratulations today makes great sound bites for an October commercial. Unfortunately, the GOP establishment is providing the same to the other side.

I believe the people in Delaware, both Democrat and Republican, moderate to far right, are going to show up in a large way this November and vote for the GOP candidate. The people are going to send a message to all concerned that the days of the establishment telling us who to vote for are over. The people are going to destroy conventional wisdom because they all agree enough is enough.

The GOP should get behind this woman 100 percent. They should cease the attacks. Those attacks will do nothing but distract from the issues. A self-proclaimed Marxist radical liberal, who makes Pelosi look conservative, is also running for the senate seat in Delaware. He is up against an imperfect young lady who has made mistakes but has the support of enough people in her state to unseat the old guard. She stands for less government, lower taxes and more personal freedoms. She believes in the Constitution and states' rights. The choice could not be more stark.

Or the GOP can stay mired in the past by strategizing and manipulating the message to the point where we can't tell if the candidate is a Republican or a Democrat. But I can assure them if they go back to the conservative principle of smaller government and lower taxes as a start and stay true to those principles, regardless of what the polls say, the people will make the right choice.