Christine O'Donnell attacks the GOP on Hannity's show

[Bill-in-CT]

U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell says she has Sean Hannity in her pocket, and went on his show yesterday to blast GOP leadership and ask listeners to contribute money at her website. It's rather unusual for a U.S. Senate candidate to use a talk host to blast her party during a fall election.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/...hannity-republicans-fundraising_n_763487.html

 

[Talk_Dude]

U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell says she has Sean Hannity in her pocket, and went on his show yesterday to blast GOP leadership and ask listeners to contribute money at her website. It's rather unusual for a U.S. Senate candidate to use a talk host to blast her party during a fall election.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/...hannity-republicans-fundraising_n_763487.html

It's an unusual election, and she's an unusual candidate.

 

[Silkie]

Unusual is not so bad, because it is not business as usual.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

Maybe it IS business as usual that sneaked out into the daylight for a change.

I predict it is going to be the year that a lot of lawyers figure out how they are going to generate enough income to pay for their children's college education.

 

[Bill-in-CT]

I predict it is going to be the year that a lot of lawyers figure out how they are going to generate enough income to pay for their children's college education.

Please excuse me for asking, but what does that have to do with this election cycle?

 

[quadraphonic]

Can't be better if ya ain't different.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

I predict it is going to be the year that a lot of lawyers figure out how they are going to generate enough income to pay for their children's college education.

Please excuse me for asking, but what does that have to do with this election cycle?

When elections play out normally, losers congratulate the winners and life goes on for everyone.

When elections are full of surprises, twists and turns, sore losers hire a lawyer and attempt to the the election results thrown out, corrected, etc. I am assuming a lot of people this year will not be content to pick up the phone and congratulate the winner. They will pick up the phone and call their lawyer instead.

Even those who claim this years election cycle is just business as usual may have to admit at least that this year is "usual on steroids".

 

[smedge2006]

When elections play out normally, losers congratulate the winners and life goes on for everyone.

I don't think we've had that kind of "normal" in U.S. presidential and congressional politics since at least 1990.

 

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

When elections play out normally, losers congratulate the winners and life goes on for everyone.

I don't think we've had that kind of "normal" in U.S. presidential and congressional politics since at least 1990.

I have an observation... that doesn't prove anything. If your time-frame is right then it would be possible to say that "normal" in politics went out the window when radio programming in the style we now call Talk Radio became a force. Is it reasonable to say that Talk Radio have driven "normal" out of politics, or would it be reasonable to say that normal in politics was going to become history with or without the change in broadcasting?

Is the kind of politics where losers, with at least the appearance of being pleasant, call the winner with congratulations good for the health of our self-governing society, or is the recent trend of "win at any cost, take-no-prisoners" style of politics actually good for our country?

What is the future for people who want to listen to radio, and for people who want to work in the radio industry if our country degenerates into something like a Third-World "We eat our young" civilization?

Which brings us face to face with the question we chew on in these discussions over and over: Is Talk Radio the igniter and fuel for this trend, or is it simply a natural by-product of a trend that is fueled by something else? What is the something else?

 

[Silkie]

That's too many words to ask what is normal. I remember a judge in Baltimore who once said, "The first time parties move to settle a dispute by duel I am granting it".

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/duel.htm

Now you know what normal looks like.

 

[FreddyE1977]

When elections play out normally, losers congratulate the winners and life goes on for everyone.

I don't think we've had that kind of "normal" in U.S. presidential and congressional politics since at least 1990.

Rather, we seem to be going back to the "old normal" as it existed in the 1800's.
Very sensational, dirty, highly partisan campaigns were the norm then. Some of that history
makes for some eye-popping reading!

As far as Ms. O'Donnell is concerned, the GOP has made it very clear that she is not their
chosen candidate and they are reluctant to support her. So of course she is liable to attack.

 

[gr8oldies]

I don't know that you can blame talk radio for the fact that people don't say things like "my esteemed opponent" anymore, unless you don't like the idea that there was an alternative to being spoon fed liberalism before that.