Lost in the glare of adoration for The Awesome One's appearance on The View is that Nebraska farmer and rancher Deb Fischer snuck through an opening between the establishment candidate Jon Bruning and the Club for Growth's choice Don Stenberg to win the Husker Republican Senate nomination last night.
The crack was created by the negative ads the two favorites and their SuperPAC proxies ran against each other. And though the crack at first seemed too small, Fischer received a nearly last minute shove from behind from the Republican party's most powerful endorser, Sarah Palin. While the two boys squabbled overhead, Fischer popped through, the victor by 5 percentage points.
Having been a notably effective Nebraska legislator for the last eight years, she's not a dabbler in the black arts of inside politics, she's a pro. It's not hard to see her beating Bob (New York New School) Kerrey November 2 in now very conservative Nebraska.
And once again the establishment's guy is left sucking air to the finish line as Sarah Palin's and the Tea Parties' candidate trots home ahead. Here is American Thinker's Thomas Lifson on that.
Every establishment has a limited lifetime. It is critical that the Republican party's establishment now return to their conservative roots, renounce their big spending ways, and join with their Tea Party insurgents to unite the party behind a program of true fiscal conservatism.
If not, they should plan on hearing echoes of John Donne's No Man is an Island: "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee!"
