"They're trying to marginalize us and put us in a box," O'Donnell said to cheers. "They're trying to say we're trying to take over this party or that campaign. They don't get it. We're not trying to take over our country. We are our country. We have always been in charge."
It wasn't clear whether she was talking about the tea party or the conservative movement or both. But it didn't seem to matter to the friendly crowd at the annual Values Voters Summit just days after she shocked the GOP with her upset of nine-term Rep. Mike Castle.
Since then, O'Donnell has seemed to focus on trying to repair a reputation battered during the primary's final days. She scheduled interviews on two Sunday morning news programs and made a last-minute appearance at Friday's gathering, which serves as a testing ground for presidential candidates and up-and-coming Republicans.
After taking the stage to Journey's "Don't Stop Believing," O'Donnell recalled when President Barack Obama took over the White House in 2009.
"The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much," O'Donnell told her audience — and then added coyly: "Well, how things have changed."
She repeatedly struck a populist, outsider tone, dismissing the "D.C. cocktail crowd," chiding the "Beltway popular crowd" and blistering "the ruling class elites."
"They call us wacky. They call us wing nuts. We call us 'We the people,'" O'Donnell said, invoking conservative stalwart Newt Gingrich's saying: "There are more of us than there are of them."
3 comments:
Shake up the establishment girl!
When is anyone going to realize that "us against them" is going to get us nowhere?
God, the ruling class hates it, just HATES it, when you call them names....lol...
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