September 13, 2010
Of course the DE primary is a huge clusterfuck!
I'll start off by saying normally I'd have a preferred candidate, but I don't really have one, if I had to pick, I'd probably say O'Donnell for no other reason than to dislodge an incumbent, shake shit up for the sake of shaking shit up and to kick the GOP leadership in the balls again.
Look, this is exactly what happens when there is no functional party leadership, and there is no functional party leadership, oh, there are people holding positions, making statements and shifting money around, but they aren't leaders. Leaders lead, and you can't lead if the people you're attempting to lead have zero faith and trust in you.
There's a strong case to be made that Castle should be the guy, especially given that, as our friend and moronblogger-in-arms tmi3rd noted a few weeks ago on Twitter, Delaware is so blue it looks like a Smurf splatter flick, the question I guess becomes, is he in that acceptable range of RINOism, or has he reached that Linc Chafee/Scozzafava You know what, not worth it stage of RINOism? Beyond that, there's no doubt that O'Donnell is a bit flaky and off.
The problem is that the GOP leadership led the charge for Castle, because only the GOP leadership could get excited about a squish like him. Anything that the GOP leadership willingly supports is going to automatically be suspect amongst the grassroots and Tea Partiers, even if the blind pigs of the GOP leadership did in fact find a truffle. Those amongst us in the blogosphere and commentariat who are grinding their teeth over this Castle/O'Donnell thing need to chill the fuck out. We're getting angry at the wrong people.
In a way I'm reacting to the slapfight going on between the Powerline guys, Mark Levin, Patterico and Dan Riehl. One quote from Paul Mirengoff seems to really be the center of the shitstorm,
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Look, this is exactly what happens when there is no functional party leadership, and there is no functional party leadership, oh, there are people holding positions, making statements and shifting money around, but they aren't leaders. Leaders lead, and you can't lead if the people you're attempting to lead have zero faith and trust in you.
There's a strong case to be made that Castle should be the guy, especially given that, as our friend and moronblogger-in-arms tmi3rd noted a few weeks ago on Twitter, Delaware is so blue it looks like a Smurf splatter flick, the question I guess becomes, is he in that acceptable range of RINOism, or has he reached that Linc Chafee/Scozzafava You know what, not worth it stage of RINOism? Beyond that, there's no doubt that O'Donnell is a bit flaky and off.
The problem is that the GOP leadership led the charge for Castle, because only the GOP leadership could get excited about a squish like him. Anything that the GOP leadership willingly supports is going to automatically be suspect amongst the grassroots and Tea Partiers, even if the blind pigs of the GOP leadership did in fact find a truffle. Those amongst us in the blogosphere and commentariat who are grinding their teeth over this Castle/O'Donnell thing need to chill the fuck out. We're getting angry at the wrong people.
In a way I'm reacting to the slapfight going on between the Powerline guys, Mark Levin, Patterico and Dan Riehl. One quote from Paul Mirengoff seems to really be the center of the shitstorm,
"It's disconcerting to realize that many of our activists aren't even as astute as the likes of Markos Moulitsas."
First off, Mirengoff deserves every ounce of abuse he's getting for an ignorant incendiary line like that. But in a way, he's right, especially with regards to Tea Partiers. Yeah, he's not wrong entirely, a lot of these Tea Partiers are political novices. And yeah, mistakes are going to be made as a result of that. Kos and his merry band of Marxists are fairly politically experienced and savvy (in their own demented, evil way), and the handy thing for liberals is that they're collectivists, so new people are simply drones, drones don't have to think, they just have to do what they're told, if they're more to the human hive, they'll present themselves as such in due time. Individualists don't operate that way, so there's always going to be growing pains associated with bringing new people in for conservatives and libertarians.
Instead of grinding his teeth and bitching about it, Mirengoff ought to be thrilled. A lot of these people didn't eat, sleep and breathe politics like the rest of us have for years, sometimes decades for us, and some never will. I'd rather have the extra people on board and work on polish and savvy than drive them off by sneering at them like the GOP leadership in DC and comparing them to human refuse like Kos. We wouldn't be doing what we're doing nationally without them here, and conservatives who are supporting Castle and grinding their teeth over O'Donnell's strong showing and tea party/grassroots support need to keep that in mind.
Instead of grinding his teeth and bitching about it, Mirengoff ought to be thrilled. A lot of these people didn't eat, sleep and breathe politics like the rest of us have for years, sometimes decades for us, and some never will. I'd rather have the extra people on board and work on polish and savvy than drive them off by sneering at them like the GOP leadership in DC and comparing them to human refuse like Kos. We wouldn't be doing what we're doing nationally without them here, and conservatives who are supporting Castle and grinding their teeth over O'Donnell's strong showing and tea party/grassroots support need to keep that in mind.
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