Congratulations to Kelly Ayotte and Christine O’Donnell
September 15, 2010
by The New Agenda
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NH's Kelly Ayotte
The New Agenda congratulates Delaware’s Christine O’Donnell and New Hampshire’s KellyAyotte on their primary victories.
We are pleased that the RNSC retraced their missteps last evening and will now back BOTH candidates.
And of course, congratulation to Sarah Palin, “Queenmaker”! Thank you Sarah for supporting women and helping them advance politically. Hopefully leaders of both parties can learn from your example.
It’s lovely to see women winning! Yes, I do wish there were more liberal women, but if there aren’t, then that’s not the fault of the GOP women nor those who voted for them. These women should only be congratulated.
The Dems know what they have to do in order to profit from women’s thirst for power and legitimacy — run and support powerful, skilled women candidates. I look forward to seeing them do it so we can celebrate these victories on both sides of the aisle.
(Name shortened to fit your space.)
Congratulations to all of the women on both sides of the aisle who ran yesterday -win or lose. Thank you for putting yourselves out there for all of us.
“The Dems know what they have to do in order to profit from women’s thirst for power and legitimacy — run and support powerful, skilled women candidates”
That would be interesting to see. I think a lot of Dem women lost their credibility during the 2008 Democratic festival of sexism and that sham of a nominating convention. That set of choices by the Dems would be hard to come back from however they don’t even recognize that they have a sexism problem. In other words I doubt anyone stupid enough to create or participate in the Democrat’s sexism problem is smart enough to solve the problem. The Dems only hope is an insurgent grass roots take over of the party, something like the Tea Party. I don’t think liberal elitism mixes well with grass roots practicality and appeal.
“The Dems only hope is an insurgent grass roots take over of the party, something like the Tea Party.”
I’ve been thinking the same thing, but I don’t think it will happen. The current Dems arrived because they coopted one grassroots movement already. I think that the Dean phenom in 2004 really illustrated to the Dem leadership that:
1) there was a lot of dissatisfaction and energy out there in their party, and
2) there was a SHITLOAD of money attached to it.
In 2008, they coopted that and crafted a branding campaign that looked the same from the outside — millions of unique individuals sending their latte money in from teh Intarwebz all on their own! — but was 10,000% pre-packaged and establishment approved.
They coopted that grassroots movement and turned it into pure astroturf … and it’s been revealed that they did it. The Dem grassroots are used, abused, demoralized at having been manipulated, and exhausted at this point. There will be no more Democratic grassroots for some time.
I wish there were; I’d love to see both parties taken back from TPTB. I also fear that the Tea Party will be similarly coopted by the GOP party bigwigs, once they realize that this thing is real, scary, powerful, and not going away. Last night’s results may be the last straw for that.
But I hope the Tea Partiers are just as cantankerous and ungovernable as they appear to be, because there will be infiltration at this point, just like the Deaniacs of 2004 turned into the Obots of 2008, only done up a bit more slickly.
Crap — spamulator ate me …
BTW, it’s O’Donnell.
Senator Barbara Mikulsky from Maryland also won her primary, although there was nothing dramatic about that. she is establishment but was a strong Hillary backer.
other liberal women on local elections won, some of them I can’t cheer on. the vast majority of our county’s board of election is female, but with one exception they all act like a cheer leading squat to the superintendent. they seem not to have ever heard of an oversight function to he superintendent and the school system. the county is devided in green and red zone and you can guess where the bottomless bucket of funds goes. we have schools with serious problems. no one listens, answers to emails, takes action. we have several parent coalitions. the board and the school system is numb to any problems. they listen to the superintendent who claims that our county has word class education and we certainly hold a record on the money spent. our parent coalition volunteered for the challengers, but the incumbants (all on the apple ballot “teacher endorsed”) won. and we know that the teachers in distressed schools get no support from their union.
I wish there were; I’d love to see both parties taken back from TPTB. I also fear that the Tea Party will be similarly coopted by the GOP party bigwigs, once they realize that this thing is real, scary, powerful, and not going away. Last night’s results may be the last straw for that.
But I hope the Tea Partiers are just as cantankerous and ungovernable as they appear to be, because there will be infiltration at this point, just like the Deaniacs of 2004 turned into the Obots of 2008, only done up a bit more slickly.
It’s going to be truly difficult for the GOP to infiltrate something that “part” of it in the first place. That’s probably one of the biggest mistakes I keep seeing media pundits make all across the board, left to right. That the TP is some grassroots revolt within that party. Or even simply a conservative resurgence.
Uh, no.
It’s truly a movement made up of coservatives, independents and quite a few liberals who are fed up with the status quo and the things that have happened in the last few years. Simply American We The People who are tired of not being listened to by both parties.
just saw the politico article on Christine O Donnell. The hate machine is on. all the financial trouble coinciding with previous runs, a defaulting student loan, a defaulting mortgage. they think republicans can be shamed to not vote for her. the claim is that castle will not endorse her and that rove has conceded the general race.
and then that Bill Maher made fun of her in 2006.
it is a stinking sexist machine, reminds me very much of the net of lies they sun around Palin and democrats bought it. in the echo chamber of lies the person disappears and left is a sorry caricature of the target.
it will need a serious effort to stop this from start.
how are the liberal media portraying themselves by ridiculing someone who defaults on student and home loan?
how are they portraying themselves by thinking Maher finding it too funny if some woman says she find lying disrespectful. what is wrong with that answer?
You know, I really shouldn’t try posting late at night when I’m half asleep and don’t have a grammar checker.
I think what I was attempting to say is that it might be considerably difficult for something like the Tea Party movement to be co-opted by the GOP when it’s could turn out to be a larger representation of the American people than either of the two parties in the first place, maybe not in an actual national organiztion but in terms of that true local grassroots turnout at the pols where it counts.
And that’s what terrifies both parties.
Bev, I know that the Teap Party presents itself as a mix, and that it’s membership is also a mix. But the fact is that they run candidates who tack right. This means that they will impinge on GOP territory first, and are a more immediate threat to them.
This means that the GOP will go after them first.
And just believing that the purity and cleanliness of their principles will protect them is bunk. When someone worth several billion dollars tries to take the wheel, the wheel gets taken. The ONLY thing that will protect the Tea Party is if it’s members expect it to get taken over and take explicit, ongoing steps to prevent it. Otherwise, it will be useless in four years.
You don’t stay uninjured as a driver by pretending that you’re so good you won’t have an accident. You do it by expecting you will, and wearing a seatbelt. The Tea Party had damned well better buckle up — they are far too valuable a populist movement to succumb to the inflated opinion that inherent fabulousness will insulate them from outside threat. They must assume they will be infiltrated by money and take steps to prevent it — and continue to take them, like continuing to get flu shots every year.
And the spamulator eats my comment again …
Bev, I know that the Tea Party presents itself as a mix, and that it’s membership is also a mix. But the fact is that they run candidates who tack right. This means that they will impinge on GOP territory first, and are a more immediate threat to them.
This means that the GOP will go after them first.
Actually, they just had their chance. They were called primaries. The GOP establishment found out that it doesn’t always go the way they think it will when dealing with the Tea Party movement and they better start playing by new rules.
Now it’s the Democrat’s turn in November.
The thing is, there were quite a few GOP incumbents going down before Tea Party insurgents, but it’s also happened to Democrats in primaries, too. We’re just not hearing about them. Not sure if it’s a lamestream media thing in that they tend to want to talk more about the so-called GOP civil war for some odd reason (of course, no ulterior motives there, yah know o.O) or if for some reason it actually is happening more on state and local levels with the Dems but it is happening. I ran across an article just this morning about a large number of Dem incumbents losing to TP challengers in state races in Maryland, I think it was.
Of course, I could give the media the benefit of the doubt and say it might simply be that there’s not time left once everyone gets done talking about things like that Delaware race.
I could, but I probably won’t.
“Actually, they just had their chance. They were called primaries.”
And you think the GOP is just going to throw up its hands now and say “Oh, well! They bested us! We give up!”
The Tea Party will need to be vigilant. The GOP will not just sit there and say, “Welp, they beat us fair and square!”
Probably not, but then again remember how so many of the TP leaders are women? I just ran acros this:
http://michellemalkin.com/2010.....boyz-club/
Even I’m going whoa. O_O
The mud, it is a flying.
The women, they ain’t backing down.
This is getting really interesting.
Both the Dems and the Republicans and Corporate Media are lackeys for Corporate America which is profitable for them. So Any political party or movement that appeals to what is best for The People is going to get a lot of followers. Even if people aren’t drawn to the new movements core principals (Liberal or Conservative) they are going to be drawn to an image of government of The People, by The People and for The People as opposed to what we have now…a government of Corporate America, by Corporate American, for Corporate America. Also only people who are too stupid to find their way to register to vote still believe the Corporate Media’s “news” and opinion is worth listening to.
I’m just curious, when Democratic Senate candidates Robin Carnahan of Missouri and Roxanne Conlin of Iowa won their primaries, did The New Agenda offer up congratulations in their blog? I used your search function and didn’t find anything, but maybe I’m missing something.
I thought this was supposed to be a nonpartisan organization for all women. Where’s the love?
different Amy: I don’t remember hearing of Roxanne Conlin or Robin Carnahan. Many women here are fed up with the Dems and block them out now, after many years of sending our money and energy their way. If you think something should be covered here it is a good idea to bring it up yourself. I have quit listening or paying attention to the Dems. After the sexism I saw in 2008 I don’t know what it would take to get me to reengage. If Dems want to rehab their image with thinking women it is going to be up to them to make their case. For Dems to claim they are being treated unfairly is laughable to me after what they have done to Hillary and Palin and any other woman who stands for election.
A different Amy – would you like to write a blog piece about those two women for us? Unfortunately, I’ve never heard of either of them. We do, in fairness, support an equal amount of Dem women if you have been following our blog. But I think the excitement, and therefore the media coverage and public knowledge is on the TP and RNC side.
bevWKY, we had primaries in MD and TP candidates could not run against dems. the only races outside democrats and republicans were the school boards and what I saw to my disgust was winning of the incumbants. not a single challenger from parent initiatives made the cut.
Amy Siskind, I will try. But to tell you the truth, reading this blog (and others, political and otherwise) is turning in to something of a time-suck, keeping me from my real advocacy work–PTA stuff
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A different Amy,
I did look at the two candidates you mentioned and am extremely intrigued. I hope to put together something in regard to Roxanne Collin shortly because God knows we need women represented in Iowa. If elected she would be the first!
–Optix
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