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September 19, 2010
The 'Lombardi Rule' is in effect
Fed up with those on the right unfairly critical of Christine O'Donnell, Delaware's Republican senatorial candidate, Legal Insurrection's William Jacobson says:
The left is doing to O'Donnell exactly what they did to Sharron Angle -- swamp her with accusations and nonsense in the days after the primary to keep her from organizing her campaign. The Nevada primary was months ago, so Angle had a chance to recover. O'Donnell doesn't have that luxury of time given the late primary. She needs to integrate millions of dollars in new cash, gear up with staff, and plan her attack.With each of your self-righteous columns and snide blog posts, you become part of the problem not part of the solution.The woman (at the time, a young woman) went on MTV and Maher and who knows where else, and said somethings that she would not say now. For that sin you are ready to toss her overboard so that you can declare yourselves to have been wiser than the unwashed voters who elected her in the primary?And we call the Democrats elitist snobs? Stop being so damn selfish. November is not about who was right or wrong in the primaries. If Castle had one, O'Donnell supporters would have rallied around him, or at least kept their mouths shut.Quin Hillyer and Mary Katherine Ham have advised that there not be a conservative blog war, because we have more important things to do right now. Fine, the perps have been called out already and it is time to rally around the effort.Now that the general [primary, I think - ed.] election is over, so too is the Buckley Rule. Please take notice that the Lombardi Rule is in effect:"The object is to win fairly, by the rules - but to win."So [name of conservative blogs and pundits still dumping on O'Donnell deleted], get over it and get to work defeating Democratic rubber-stamp hack Chris Coons.Because, as Hillyer says, "[w]e are fighting for our country here."And winning that fight in November is all that matters
I second that.
Clarice Feldman