tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872610766194613385.post7635374071911783628..comments2024-01-02T00:54:47.924-05:00Comments on Another Black Conservative: Some thoughts on Christine O’DonnellClifton Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00273941007555823028noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872610766194613385.post-23555194096442885612010-09-22T14:44:31.652-04:002010-09-22T14:44:31.652-04:00People who can't manage their personal finance...People who can't manage their personal finances shouldn't be managing the country's. O'Donnell had a tax lien filed against her; remember when we all howled that Timothy Geithner hadn't paid his taxes? Why is O'Donnell any different?<br /><br />O'Donnell said she won two counties in her race against Biden in 2008. Then she said she won one county and came close in another. The truth is that she didn't come close in any county, much less win one.<br /><br />She's a liar and a tax cheat. She'd fit right in with the Democrats, but I hope the Republicans aspire to be better than that.<br /><br />I'm all for conservative candidates. But give me someone with better ethics than O'Donnell.Steverinonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872610766194613385.post-45241050882566196772010-09-22T14:43:40.582-04:002010-09-22T14:43:40.582-04:00Another thing! If O'Donnell were a left-wing d...Another thing! If O'Donnell were a left-wing democrat like for instance Tim Guitner,who allegately cheated on his taxes,would the extreme left-wing media get all over her case? I don't think so.OBIT2010https://www.blogger.com/profile/07831819416122782124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872610766194613385.post-49520050246631640772010-09-22T11:55:33.728-04:002010-09-22T11:55:33.728-04:00Who can really care about her foreclosure? Good Go...Who can really care about her foreclosure? Good God. Her personal finances? Gee-zus. I won't raise the issue of the many, many, in Congress right now whose personal finances are ripe with corruption. But I will raise the issue of how many Americans I know, how many family members I know, who have been or are going through what she's been through. I've gone through Chapter 7 and a foreclosure because a ten-year business failed. Am I, O'Donnell, and others like us bad and immoral? Is any of us unfit for public office now? What should and must matter is what she believes, what she sees as the future for America, and what she will do. If anything, what shortcomings others might make of her past are, to me, a sign that she understands first hand what is happening to America.Reednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872610766194613385.post-48794783524964993672010-09-22T09:39:34.319-04:002010-09-22T09:39:34.319-04:00This is why I don't consider myself a REPUBLIC...This is why I don't consider myself a REPUBLICAN! They are generally NOT conservative enough for me and are part of the left-wing establishment in D.C. To be a Republican (or a Democrat) is all about worldly party affilleation and not about PRINCIBLE OR MORAL ABSOLUTES! It's just like you said, Christine O'Donnel didn't cause the messes this contry is in today like our national multi-trillion doller debt or our outragiously high tax rates. But the "ellite" (so-called intellectuals) cause this.OBIT2010https://www.blogger.com/profile/07831819416122782124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872610766194613385.post-84968622550991066372010-09-22T04:58:31.966-04:002010-09-22T04:58:31.966-04:00Well said, and you're right on. Rove is playi...Well said, and you're right on. Rove is playing a political game that doesn't exist anymore; he doesn't know it yet, that's all. His commentary and advice would have been spot on only a year or so ago (well, okay, closer to two), but this is war, and we're not playing for political percs and ridiculous big government, big spending, big entitlement crap--we're playing for keeps, for the future of our nation. Big stakes, but that's where we are, where we've been forced (and sort of where we complacently drifted, too, at least I did). My money's on America and her people in this one, the pols won't know what hit them until they read about it in a history book in fifty years.<br /><br />Funny how few of these smart guys actually understand what is going on and that they are not important (and become less so with their ignorance and staunch refusal to wake up and smell the coffee, or tea, I guess). Change is hard, and it's going to hurt a lot of career pols (and the hangers on, pundits, et al), but that's just too bad. They've drifted off course, don't give a damn about America or her people, and need to get out of our government. They either understand what's going on (thus the staunch resistance to and distancing from the Tea Party), or they are deaf, dumb, and blind. Either way, they need to go.Fuzzy Slippershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13021615731454709413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872610766194613385.post-8825087812343015912010-09-22T01:30:45.460-04:002010-09-22T01:30:45.460-04:00While Castle has been a sore loser, there's a ...While Castle has been a sore loser, there's a part of me that doesn't really blame him. O'Donnell's campaign let out an ad attacking Castle implying he was gay. That's a difficult fence to mend.<br /><br />As far as O'Donnell goes, my complaint against her has always been ethics. She mismanaged her personal finances to the point of losing her house. She failed to pay some staffers from her last campaign, and at least one of them sued her for it. She lied about receiving a degree, and in fact didn't get a degree for a long time because she had failed to pay her student loans.<br /><br />We'd all be laughing at a Democrat nominee with such personal failings. Why should we accept a Republican with them?<br /><br />Castle's a RINO, but had he won the seat (and he was 10+ points ahead of Coons), the Republicans would have been one seat closer to majority. And with that majority would come committee chairs and the ability to schedule which bills got voted on. Losing this seat is a huge strategic loss.<br /><br />Finally, just how conservative do you expect a successful candidate in Delaware to be? How many times do conservatives win statewide elections there? Sometimes, you have to take a strong candidate who will vote your way 50% of the time, rather than running a weak candidate and get a Democrat elected.<br /><br />Look at California: do you really expect a truly conservative Senator or Governor in that state? But Carly Fiorini, despite being a RINO, is orders of magnitude better than Barbara Boxer. Likewise, Castle would still have been better than Coons.Steverinonoreply@blogger.com