If Christine O'Donnell can't win ............ UPDATED New Ad "Tax Man"

Then why is the DSCC sending reinforcements to Delaware for Coons?

Is the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee a bit concerned about the potential impact of the Tea Party in Delaware or have the Democrats completely written off Carol Shea-Porter running for New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District?

I ask because the Democrats have sent the lady who was on the ground running operations for Carol Shea-Porter’s congressional bid to Delaware to be the Field Director for Chris Coons canvassing operation.

Naturally this also means Carol Shea-Porter joins the ranks of lost-cause Dems recently removed from life support:

As Republicans made new investments in at least 10 races across the country, including two Democratic seats here in eastern Ohio, Democratic leaders took steps to pull out of some races entirely or significantly cut their financial commitment in several districts that the party won in the last two election cycles.

Representatives Steve Driehaus of Ohio, Suzanne M. Kosmas of Florida and Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania were among the Democrats who learned that they would no longer receive the same infusion of television advertising that party leaders had promised. Party strategists conceded that these races and several others were slipping out of reach.

Good thing these folks voted for that death panel isn't it?  It doesn't look as though there will be a call from the Governor to save the  Dead Dems Walking so they might as well try to save Coons skin while it still looks like it can be saved.  Naturally Dems would prefer to pour resources into a reliably liberal vote like Coons as opposed to say the  Governor of West Virginia who never met a Dem agenda item he didn't suddenly find toxic.  It is only a matter of time before the voters of Delaware figure out Coons will be a rubber stamp for that agenda.  Rubber stamp votes for the Obama agenda seem to have a short shelf life these days.  I would say it is time for another poll in Delaware.

UPDATE:  Ask and you shall receive:

The latest Fox/Pulse poll of 1000 Likely Delaware voters doesn't hold much hope for O'Donnell. It really doesn't show any movement towards O'Donnell at this point. Moreover, O'Donnell's support appears a bit softer than does Coons' support. Unless Dems are seeing something different in internals, which seems unlikely, Democrats appear to be funneling resources into the state to preserve a win. O'Donnell needs to shake things up here and soon.

And again ask and you shall receive.  Here is the latest O'Donnell campaign ad which looks like it has the potential to shake things up:

Double double, toil and trouble

Tales of moonbats; tongue of dog

Cool it with a baboon's blood

Then the socialist is firm and good

Burn her at the stake, Christine O'Donnell "dabbled into" witchcraft once upon a time.  Never fear dear reader, her "friend" Bill Maher, has her in a leg iron and threatens her with a little good-natured Wendelin the Weird treatment:

Maher seemed to remember her visits to the show fondly, sending her good wishes and predicting that she may be more successful than Sarah Palin because “Sarah Palin is mean and Christine is not.” Despite deeming her nice enough to not attack her in any direct way, Maher was not above digging through old clips of her on his program saying wacky things in order to get her back on his show. “It’s like a hostage crisis,” he explained, “Every week you don’t show up, I’ll throw a body out.”

With friends like that, as they say:

O’Donnell is being attacked for having been cutesy and wacky in the 90s, (as if she were the only person who was cutesy and wacky in the 90s). Not even Bill Maher can come up with something particularly mean-spirited to say about her. As embarrassing as the clips may be, having a far-left commentator try to coyly humiliate her just to get face time with her is about as positive an endorsement as any Tea Party candidate has gotten.

The divine Ms. Althouse is having none of it either:

It's a good attention-getting ploy by Maher. He's got the video and he's taking clips out of context for the maximum shock/comic effect. It's perfectly okay to do that with video, right? Remember when Andrew Breitbart did something like that to Shirley Sherrod, and all the liberals got all righteous about taking things out of context?

Well the left gets all righteous - when it suits them - then they turn back into the newts we know them to be:




Speaking of bit witches.  Someone take the stake to Alaska, Lisa Murkowski needs to be weaned off a powerful narcotic - stat!

The cauldron is stirring on Memeorandum

O'Donnell's a contender says ... Chris Matthews?

Broken clock theory applies here naturally, but it's still interesting to hear Chris Matthews, Eugene Robinson and Howard Fineman caution Democrats they dismiss Christine O'Donnell's candidacy at their peril.  Fineman quotes a source who suggests the race will come down to single digits which is far different than the predictions from Rove and his Greek chorus.

Predictably, Democrats having been spiking the ball on this election all day.  I seem to remember an election in Massachusetts that was impossible to lose recently.  Fortunately for O'Donnell, Democrats have already begun repeating the same mistakes they made in Massachusetts.  Talk about your kiss of death:
 

"I'm going to be very honest with you — Chris Coons, everybody knows him in the Democratic caucus. He's my pet. He's my favorite candidate," Reid said.

"Let me tell you about him: A graduate of Yale Divinity School. Yale Law School. A two-time national debate champion. He represents two-thirds of the state now, in an elected capacity. I don't know if you've ever seen him or heard him speak, but he is a dynamic speaker. I don't mean loud or long; he's a communicator. So that's how I feel about Delaware. I've always thought Chris Coons is going to win. I told him that and I tried to get him to run. I'm glad he's running. I just think the world of him. He's my pet."

Keep talking Harry Reid, keep talking. Pay no attention to the tingly-types behind the MSNBC curtain:

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Harry Reid's "pet" statement currently at the top of Memeorandum
Woah - Be sure to see the photoshop on this topic at Michelle Malkin's blog

O'Donnell Wins GOP Nomination for Delaware Senate

Stacy McCain called it from O'Donnell headquarters around 9 PM minutes before the AP called the race.

Jim Geraghty strikes the right tone:

1. As much as I may have had many bones to pick, this is a victory for Christine O’Donnell and her supporters to savor. The turnout is set to go well ahead of the expected 45,000, and she’s had no trouble finding the votes on a scale that large. Rep. Mike Castle and those who preferred him threw everything they had at her; she managed to persuade Delaware GOP primary voters that the key issue in the race was Castle’s record and not hers.

2. Delaware Republicans are a much more conservative group that past elections would lead us to think. In retrospect, how did Mike Castle never have a primary challenger in 9 terms?

3. She didn’t just beat Mike Castle’s campaign. She beat the state party.

4. Go beat the heck out of the once-bearded Marxist, ma’am.

The reference to the "once-bearded Marxist refers to this Chris Coons profile at Politico:

An article Democrat Chris Coons wrote for his college newspaper may not go over so well in corporation-friendly Delaware, where he already faces an uphill battle for Vice President Joe Biden’s old Senate seat.

The title? “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist.”

UPDATE:
Heh - Election post of the day goes to Fishersville Mike