Still a bit of establishment hand-wringing over the O’Donnell win – Kevin Williamson over at NRO gives the good advice:
About Christine O’Donnell: No strong opinion about the candidate, though I understand the reservations about her. I do not much weep for RINOs and rather enjoy the sight of them going down in flames.
What this really should communicate, I think, is that the Right needs a lot more Club for Growth–style candidate-recruiting efforts. If conservatives do not like O’Donnell, then they should be out identifying better candidates to run against vulnerable RINOs — because somebody is going to run. These incumbent takedowns are going to inspire a lot of new people to get into electoral politics, many of them without the sort of experience or backgrounds that Establishment types are comfortable with. Power, like nature, abhors a vacuum.
The proper job of those who feel that O’Donnell is a sure loser wasn’t to back Castle, but to find someone better than both Castle or O’Donnell. Understand this if nothing else out of 2010: politics has become a free for all. A catch-as-catch-can wrestling match where nothing can be taken for granted. This is not a cycle of “Republicans win, Democrats win, Republicans win” politics – this is a new thing…the GOP is no longer one of America’s two major parties, it just happens to be the party that the people are willing to use, provisionally, to express their views at the polls.
The Democrats, holding power and with a supine grassroots, is so far out of the game. Once they are out of power, what the TEA Party has done to the GOP will start to be done to them by some group which, fed up, will start agitating at the grass roots. Things only appear to be the same – everything has actually changed.
O’Donnell is not a sure loser in Delaware. Heck, Pelosi isn’t a sure winner in San Francisco. Not any longer. Even the prospect of a serious primary challenge to Obama must be envisioned. And don’t be surprised if the eventual GOP nominee in 2012 is someone you’ve never heard of. This isn’t politics as usual, this is revolution.
If you don’t like what is happening, don’t complain – get in there and fight it out. There are no restrictions any longer and there is no power elite who will be able to keep the lid on you. Ideas are to be presented to the people, and they will get to decide who wins – and everyone had better get used to that.
UPDATE: Did Catholics carry O’Donnell to victory?
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