{"id":2891,"date":"2010-09-15T00:42:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2010-09-15T00:42:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T07:42:09","slug":"fingers-forbidden-and-other-primary-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/15\/fingers-forbidden-and-other-primary-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Fingers Forbidden and Other Primary Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a great day at the polls for Democrats.  Republicans have catered to insaniTEA and stoked bigoTEA pandering for votes in the most despicable places.  Their misdeeds are coming home to roost.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"15Fingers\" Virtually unknown a month ago, Christine O’Donnell rode a surge of support from tea party activists to victory in Delaware’s Republican Senate primary Tuesday night, dealing yet another setback to the GOP establishment in a campaign season full of them. A second insurgent led narrowly for the GOP nomination in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

O’Donnell defeated nine-term Rep. Mike Castle, a fixture in Delaware politics<\/strong> for a generation and a political moderate. Republican Party officials, who had touted him as their only hope for winning the seat in the fall, made clear as the votes were being counted they would not provide O’Donnell funding in the general election campaign.<\/p>\n

She enters the fall campaign as an underdog to Chris Coons, a county executive who was unopposed for the Democratic nomination. The Republican state chairman, Tom Ross, said recently she "could not be elected dogcatcher<\/strong>"…<\/p>\n

…In the other marquee race of the night, for New Hampshire’s Republican Senate nomination, lawyer Ovide Lamontagne led former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte<\/strong>, 40 percent to 38 percent [currently 39% to 38%], with votes counted from more than a third of the precincts\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <AP\/Google<\/a>><\/p>\n

Candidate of Glen Beck and Sarah Palin, O\u2019Donnell has a checkered past.  Her former campaign manager from her run against Joe Biden says she used campaign contributions for her personal expenses while campaign workers and bills went unpaid.  So at least in that way, she is a true Republican.  The national party has confirmed that she\u2019s cut off.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Fox gets official word [faux noise delinked] from their bosses at the GOP:<\/p>\n

Republican aides told Fox News Tuesday that the National Republican Senatorial Committee will not be funding O’Donnell’s general election campaign, leaving it up to Palin and the Tea Party Express to do the heavy lifting\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

From the extreme of a woman bent on keeping America from masturbating, the next Republican Nominee, who I featured here<\/a>, is a racist who loves those bestiality videos.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"15paladin\" Carl P. Paladino, a wealthy Buffalo businessman and first-time candidate, won a stunning and decisive victory over his establishment rival, former Representative Rick A. Lazio, in New York\u2019s Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

The victory for Mr. Paladino, whose agitating campaign strategy and attacks against Albany earned him a late surge in the polls, marked the second major triumph on Tuesday night for the Tea Party movement, which backed the businessman against Mr. Lazio, a dyed-in-the-wool Republican mainstay. <\/p>\n

The result was a potentially destabilizing blow for New York Republicans. It put at the top of the party\u2019s ticket a volatile newcomer who has forwarded e-mails to friends containing racist jokes and pornographic images, espoused turning prisons into dormitories where welfare recipients could be given classes on hygiene, and defended an ally\u2019s comparison of the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, who is Jewish, to \u201can Antichrist or a Hitler.\u201d<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

I wonder if he\u2019ll email O\u2019Donnell! \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n

Andrew Cuomo will flush him.<\/font><\/p>\n

As a side note, there some great news for progressives.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"15Kuster\" But elsewhere, progressives have a primary victory of their own to cheer. In the Democratic primary to replace Rep. Paul Hodes in New Hampshire’s second congressional district (Hodes is running for the Senate), liberal-backed Ann McLane Kuster clobbered more conservative Katrina Swett. (Swett committed the ultimate crime in progressive-land: she was the co-chair of Joe Lieberman’s presidential campaign<\/strong>.) Kuster was backed by major pro-choice groups, who worried that Swett could not be trusted on abortion rights issues. That mattered. But the race was also a chance for liberals to flex their political muscles\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Mother Jones<\/a>><\/p>\n

That\u2019s one less DINO to worry about!  Wasn\u2019t this a great day?<\/font><\/p>\n

Bend over, Republicans.  You\u2019re Teabuggering yourselves! \ud83d\ude00<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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