If anyone ever doubted what the true colors of the national GOP and many of the so-called conservative talking heads and media outlets were, this primary season has exposed them to the light of day. The primary victory of Christine O’Donnell over the handpicked establishment candidate Mike Castle was not the first sign of their true colors, but may just have been the straw that broke the camels back in opening the eyes of the GOP base (and yes, I know I just mixed my metaphors).

In this political year of special elections, congressional primaries and the like the base of the GOP, strong conservatives, have done just what Nuke LaLoosh wanted to in “Bull Durham”; Announce our presence with authority! We wrested control of the governor’s and AG offices in Virginia; the governorship of New Jersey; Senate nominations in Utah, Alaska, Florida, and Nevada; a special election for Senate in Massachusetts; and now the epic upset in Delaware. And all of this was done with little support from the Washington power brokers of the GOP establishment; in fact this was done in most places in direct opposition to the wishes of the poobahs.

Remember, the GOP supported very few of the conservative nominees that have risen to the top in this political season; the NRSC supported Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio in Florida; Trey Grayson over Rand Paul in Kentucky; Lisa Murkowski over Joe Miller in Alaska; Dee Dee Scozaffava in NY-23; and of course, Mike Castle over Christine O’Donnell in Delaware. Further, they were all supported by the GOP using the same line of “logic”, to wit, they were more “electable.” The GOP was willing to support an obvious opportunist, a person more in line with the Democrats than the GOP, and someone who voted on a resolution that allowed an impeachment referral of a sitting GOP president all on the false belief that they were “electable.”

But the O’Donnell-Castle race brought the true positions of many self professed conservatives into stark relief against those held by most grassroots conservatives. The very thought of O’Donnell actually waging a campaign against the hand picked RINO candidate in Delaware brought out the worst in these self appointed GOP elites. There were columns at National Review Online savaging her character; there were other columns attacking her for suing some conservative group; she has been called the “U” word by none other than Charles Krauthammer; and most famously attacked and smeared by an unhinged looking Karl Rove on FNC’s Hannity. Curiously though, the attacks launched against her are rarely about policy positions, but always about personal foibles, as seen by the GOP elite. I don’t know exactly where O’Donnell stands on cap and trade (although I thin we can figure it out), but thanks to Karl Rove I know that she had a house go into foreclosure; that she faced possible bankruptcy (as did I); that she once sued a conservative think tank (so what); and that she had trouble paying off her college loans (like the current President and First Lady). And these were reasons that the Delaware electorate should go running into the arms of Mike Castle, he of the support for cap and trade and the Bush impeachment process.

What the GOP elite fails to understand is that her problems are our problems, and that is why the people of Delaware rewarded her with the Republican Senate nomination. She will be exactly what the Founders expected to see in the halls of Congress, real person with a real life outside of politics. She is the citizen legislator who has had to struggle to make ends meet and who actually understands the challenges of the people she represents, instead of someone who pretends to understand after spending most of their adult lives living the privileged lives of US Senators!

The GOP is exactly what we have always said: The Stupid Party. They are not conservative, but are Republicans who care about nothing more than have a numerical majority and the power that gives them. They care more about committee chairs than actual policy positions, so a liberal new member like Scott Brown is more welcome than the idea of an honestly conservative candidate. And the example of Scott Brown is very indicative of the ideas embraced by the GOP elite. Just today (September 16) Scott Brown (R-MA) was out lamenting the idea that O’Donnell’s win meant that there is “no room for moderates” in the GOP, mirroring exactly the braying of the liberals who always say just that when one of their favored RINOs gets his tusks mounted on a conservative’s wall. But if Brown were intellectually honest he would look around the Senate and realize that the problem is not too few “moderates”, but too many of them; Snowe, Collins, Graham, McCain, Hagel, and Brown just to name a few. And I don’t seem to recall Mr. Brown complaining about conservatives when it was the Tea Party that propelled him to his seat, after the GOP establishment decided that he wasn’t “electable” to the so-called Kennedy seat in the Bay State.

Personally, I am damned happy that the conservative base has finally decided to rise up and become the force it should have always been in the Party. We have the RINOs on the run, they know it, and they are as nervous a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. We have put them on notice that they need us a hell of a lot more than we need them and we need to keep up the pressure. Its RINO season…tally-ho! (And yes, I know that’s a fox hunting thing!)