Today's Washington Examiner posted a short commentary by J.P. Freire on Christine O'Donnell's primary election victory in Delaware. The commentary opens with the doomsday comments from various sources that her primary victory will keep the Republicans from taking over the Senate.
The article points out that the Republican Party establishment has made it very difficult for conservative candidates to get elected, and as a result, the grass roots of the party have taken matters into their own hands. The Republican establishment has, on more than one occasion, supported a traditional part-time Republican (read "RINO") over a conservative. They have claimed that they were following the Buckley rule, but ignored it when convenient. Now they are seeing the results of their actions.
I don't know if Christine O'Donnell can win in Delaware. I do know that voters across the country will no longer accept the status quo. When the Republicans act the same as the Democrats, they can now expect to be challenged in a primary and voted out of office. The Republican party has a choice--remain part of the established political class and fade into oblivion or wake up and get back to its conservative roots.
On a personal note, while I was standing at my local polling place holding a "Marty Lamb for Congress" sign (he won in his primary!), the woman next to me, who was holding a sign for another candidate for a different office told me "she was not voting for any more Republican weenies!" She wasn't going to vote for Democrats, but she was not going to vote for any Republican that was not willing to take a strong conservative stand. And I live in Massachusetts!
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