Disagreeing With Charles Krauthammer

I think that Charles Krauthammer is brilliant–one of the best analysts of all time.  However, I find myself disagreeing with him for the first time, as well as with Karl Rove.  After O’Donnell beat Castle for the Republican nomination for Senate in the state of Delaware, these guys just aren’t making sense on this one. 

Krauthammer says that the Delaware people should have voted for left-moderate Castle, because Castle would have easily beaten Democrat Chris Coons.   Rove says that O’Donnell has some explaining to do about a foreclosure on her house, her inability to pay back student loans, and IRS trouble.  Neither believes that the right-wing O’Donnell, who is backed by the tea party, can beat Coons. 

I’m quite surprised to see this coming from these two smart gentlemen, because I feel like treating them like I treated my young children when they made similar mistakes: 

Guys, that was then, this is now!  Like Obama once said to John McCain, “The election is over.”  In this case, the Republican primary is over.  Castle lost so you have to say bye-bye to him no matter how much you loved him as a staunch member of the old-time Republican establishment in Washington.   He’s gone, and you just have to get it through your heads. 

Now, O’Donnell won the Republican primary, because that’s what the Delaware Republicans wanted.  Now we should simply proceed to back her through the general election. 

Krauthammer and Rove would have us go back in time and vote for Castle instead of O’Donnell.  They would have us to vote against our own ideology, based on the assumption of how the election is probably going to turn out.  There are two major problems with this:  First, how can any right-wing conservative in good conscience, violate his own ideology in favor of a left-wing/moderate agenda–regardless of who the polls say will win?  And, secondly, nobody knows for sure how a Castle-Coons race would have turned out.  Maybe the media would have found dirt on Castle, and ruined his chances. 

Anyway, since time travel will probably not become viable before November 2nd, we simply need to proceed forward and imagine how great it would be if O’Donnell actually upset Coons and became a Tea Party Senator. 

Yes, little Charles and Karl, I know that the dog ate your cookies, but there’s just no way to get them back now.  You just need to go back to the cookie jar and get a new cookie.

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