The DE Senate GOP primary: Castle, Soros & a health advisory
On August 20, I endorsed Christine O’Donnell for the Delaware Senate GOP primary race. As I said on Sean Hannity’s TV show last week in repeating that endorsement, she is certainly far from perfect (who is?). But I think nine terms are enough for duck-and-hide, cap-and-tax liberal Republican Mike Castle — and it looks like GOP primary voters in Delaware are coming to the same conclusion as the primary looms tomorrow. I repeat: Entrenched incumbency is not an argument for more entrenched incumbency.
Castle’s campaign questions O’Donnell’s trustworthiness. GOP primary voters need to question Castle’s. He was just one of two Republicans to vote for the $26 billion Edujobs/BigGovJobs bailout a few weeks ago. He supported the TARP bailout that benefited many of his political donors. And he is the co-founder of the George Soros-tied Republican Main Street Partnership — which, as I reported in 2005, successfully pressured the House GOP majority to cave in to enviros on the ANWR drilling ban. The Republican Main Street Partnership PAC supports ACORN-friendly, Big Labor-backing, tax-and-spend, abortion radicals in GOP clothing like Dede Scozzafava.
This isn’t “Main Street.” This is the road to progressive hell. We already have one too many shady Soros Republicans in the Senate — and John McCain doesn’t need any more company.
As I noted a few weeks ago, the stakes are raised — not just for Delaware, but for the nation — in this race because this is a special election for VP Joe Biden’s Senate seat. The next Senator from Delaware will serve the remaining four years of Biden’s term. Which means he or she will be seated immediately after election and will be in place to vote in any lame duck Senate session. Cap-and-tax is on the table for this session. From his record and from his radical enviro associations, we know what Castle would do in the name of “Republican Main Street” values to screw over not only Delawareans, but all taxpayers.
Nine terms are enough.
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FYI: Michael Castle on Energy & Oil
* Voted YES on enforcing limits on CO2 global warming pollution. (Jun 2009)
* Voted YES on tax credits for renewable electricity, with PAYGO offsets. (Sep 2008)
* Voted YES on tax incentives for energy production and conservation. (May 2008)
* Voted YES on tax incentives for renewable energy. (Feb 2008)
* Voted YES on investing in homegrown biofuel. (Aug 2007)
* Voted YES on criminalizing oil cartels like OPEC. (May 2007)
* Voted YES on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies. (Jan 2007)
* Voted YES on keeping moratorium on drilling for oil offshore. (Jun 2006)
* Voted YES on scheduling permitting for new oil refinieries. (Jun 2006)
* Voted NO on authorizing construction of new oil refineries. (Oct 2005)
* Voted NO on passage of the Bush Administration national energy policy. (Jun 2004)
* Voted NO on implementing Bush-Cheney national energy policy. (Nov 2003)
* Voted NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels. (Aug 2001)
* Voted YES on prohibiting oil drilling & development in ANWR. (Aug 2001)
* Voted YES on starting implementation of Kyoto Protocol. (Jun 2000)
* Establish greenhouse gas tradeable allowances. (Feb 2005)
* Rated 33% by CAF, indicating a mixed record on energy independence. (Dec 2006)
* Sign on to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. (Jan 2007)
* Supports immediate reductions in greenhouse gases. (Sep 1998)
* Voted YES on $2 billion more for Cash for Clunkers program. (Jul 2009)
* Voted YES on protecting free-roaming horses and burros. (Jul 2009)
* Voted YES on environmental education grants for outdoor experiences. (Sep 2008)
* Voted YES on $9.7B for Amtrak improvements and operation thru 2013. (Jun 2008)
* Voted YES on increasing AMTRAK funding by adding $214M to $900M. (Jun 2006)
* Voted NO on barring website promoting Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump. (May 2006)
* Voted NO on deauthorizing “critical habitat” for endangered species. (Sep 2005)
* Voted YES on speeding up approval of forest thinning projects. (Nov 2003)
* Supports grants for brownfields remediation. (May 2002)
* Make EPA into a Cabinet department. (May 2002)
* Rated 70% by the LCV, indicating pro-environment votes. (Dec 2003)
* Strengthen prohibitions against animal fighting. (Jan 2007)
* Focus on results, not regulation. (Sep 1998)
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Now for a health advisory. Internal debate on the Right is a good and healthy thing. But things have gotten out of hand in this race. How out of hand? Read this latest hate mail:
Michelle,
It’s me again….the Iraq War vet that wrote yesterday. The CONSERVATIVE Iraq War vet who wrote you yesterday.
Why have you not taken issue with your website’s endorsement of Mike Castle. Allapundit has explicitly stated that he is the “RINO” who supports Mike Castle.
Is it because you care more about making money than you do standing up for conservative principles.
You lecture us not to support the RNC because of their support for RINOs and the efforts they make against TRUE CONSERVATIVES, and then you allow your website handlers to go out of their way to disparage Christine O’Donnell, and praise Mike Castle???? Michelle, if you do not overtly condemn their support of a RINO, then you are a fraud. In fact, you have all the power and ability to stop them from doing it….just tell them to stop supporting the RINO or they are fired. But you don’t…WHY?
Why should we ever listen to you preach to us about RINOs if you are going to be such a hypocrite?
Is Allapundit your husband or what??? What’s the deal???
Hope you’re happy when Castle gets elected.
You are a fraud.
Ann Coulter is speaking up for Christine.
Mark Levin is speaking up for O’Donnell.
Rush is too.
So is Sarah Palin, Demint, the NRA!!!
Where are you??????
Where is Michelle Malkin when it’s time to be counted?
Silent. And Hypocritical. Fraud.
-Robert
“Freedom is in good hands…it’s in our hands.” -U.S. Army Soldier (specifically, me – this quote is attributed to me)
Facts: I sold Hot Air in April. Allahpundit is not my husband. I endorsed O’Donnell last month before Palin, DeMint, and the NRA.
But now I’m a candy-ass RINO fraud, too? Geez.
Guess what? You can be a “TRUE CONSERVATIVE,” a blogger behind a keyboard, a talk show host behind a mic, a prime-time TV host in front of a camera, a Beltway pundit, or a heartland Tea Party activist and come to different, good-faith conclusions about this race. I know people in both the Castle camp and the O’Donnell camp. I’m not going to deride or disown my friends in the blogosphere or anywhere else because we disagree. That’s, well, unhinged.
Everyone get a grip. Take a deep breath. Fight your best fight. Make your best arguments. Wait for the votes to be counted. Then march on and move forward.
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She’s just as unethical as he, and he can actually win in November. Not to mention do it without going into an episode or filing a frivolous lawsuit. Or falling to pieces when challenged.
If she wins, I hope tea partiers know that they did their part to elect a Sen. Coons.
No man is a castle.. er, island.
I’m glad to hear you are out of Hot Air, as Allahpundit is definitely moving it left. Keep telling it as you see it.
Haven’t bothered with the HotAir site even a bit before Michelle sold it, because it was usually not a productive use of my time to read Allahpundit.
The voters tomorrow will give the final choice in DE for who they want in DC. Each state voters get to choose, from the people running, the one each thinks will be the best. There is no 100% guarantee till they get to dc if the choice was the best. I just get all the facts and vote the best I can.
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He’ll soon run it out of audience, then. Michelle was smart to sell it when she did.
Dumping him resets the seniority flag. Sounds good.
Let’s remember here too that Gov. Christie endorsed Mike Castle…and he’s the guy that we’ve heard so many times is a “real” conservative. I’d say that of all the endorsements out there…including MM’s…this is the one that says the most about Mike Castle. The only reason O’Donnell isn’t being laughed out of the state is because the MSM hasn’t done due diligence in telling who she really is…because not doing so is endangering a likely Republican pickup.
Oh…and don’t start down that “lesser of two evils is still evil” meme; refusing to pick the lesser of two evils may make an individual feel good, but allowing a greater evil to prevail (while selecting some third, self-satisfying choice) is an unethical decision. Because you know that you’re assisting the efforts of someone worse for the people than the “lesser” evil (by selecting a third choice)then you are acting knowingly in a way that harms others, which is unethical. Thus, abetting O’Donnell’s candidacy, and knowing that her success will most likely yield a Democrat (which I’ll define as “bad”), means that your action has knowingly enabled a much greater wrong than having Castle prevail. You may feel good, but it’s a narcissistic decision that does not consider the best interests of others.
Something to consider…not that many will!
DEAR GOD. Allahpundit and Michelle Malkin are TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE with DIFFERENT OPINIONS. No. NO NO NO NO.
World flying apart.
Newspapers, Websites and Restaurants are not something you can buy and expect positive profitable results. They require an innovative, intelligent and passionate entrepreneur. One person who has a vision, believes in their product and continues to innovate while sticking to their core beliefs. One Voice! Idiots like Allahpundit, and the rest of the gang who bought HotAir, have no core fundamental beliefs and desire to make a business succeed by creating a quality product. We have all seen many companies go bankrupt because a pinhead investor or group of investors bought a name and then ran it into the ground because of incompetence. Michelle was HotAir for a period of time. It was a good product. When Allahpundit began spewing his RINO propoganda, I stopped reading that site and focused my attention here at MichelleMalkin.com. Michelle has always been a marathon lead beyond the rest of the Conservative media. I hope Michelle made a killing off the sale of HotAir.
I think that the point of view I’ve seen at Powerline blog remains persuasive: the left’s punditocracy is more pragmatic and more effective than the right’s because they are willing to live with a Senator Ben Nelson or a Senator Jim Webb when the alternative would be losing the seat to a Republican.
If the left was as dogged about “purity” in toss-up elections as some on the right are, they’d never have made the threshold number of votes in the Senate to make donkey-care a reality. They understand the power that an “imperfect” politician can have simply by being a number.
Republicans technically have a real shot at taking back the Senate this November, but they won’t. Why? Because they’ll trip themselves up in Alaska (Murkowski’s hissy-fit write-in candidacy will peel enough votes away from Miller to give the seat to the donk in a plurality) and in Delaware (O’Donnell’s probable win over Castle will drive that state’s majority center-left electorate to vote for the donk in the general, even though Castle would otherwise take the seat for the Republicans).
One thing I’ll give the left is that as a singular exception to their general practice of seeing the world as they’d wish it to be instead of for what it really is, they do understand that politics is by nature a dirty, messy business: if that means realizing the “big picture,” then “sometimes having to stomach some things — and people — they’d rather not is the price they’re willing to pay.
Too often Republicans remind me of the Hungarians and the Rumanians on the eastern front in World War II: they’d just as happily shoot at one another as the Russians, and their performance as allies was accordingly what you’d expect.
I think the “Iraq war vet” lost the battle when he had to point that fact out. One should be able to stand on the strength of their argument without using some sort of moral superiority crutch.
I see nothing wrong with hot air. I don’t want to read a blog that just agrees with my opinion. Where is the fun in that? Debate is healthy.
Eat my effing shorts! Who the hell are you to call me I’m unethical because my vote for a choice that I feel meets my needs, may somehow, in your warped perception, cause your choice to lose?!
You can take your vote the RINO strategery and cram it! Other than that, I have no strong feelings.
Michelle, it is doubtful that solider is a conservative. Anyone who beleives in conservative ideals and has an internet connection is aware of your work.
If he was a conservative and thus aware of your work, he would know that you are the most consistent and fair voice on the right who virtually is never on the wrong side of an issue.
Everyone knows you are married to Jessi and everyone knows that Allahpundit was your employee. I think he was trying to insult you from the beginning and thought posing the question of whether or not Allah was your husband and implying that you are a sellout was a good way in his mind as to how to build momentum for his insults.
When it comes to politics, I’ve found that it’s not the lesser of two evils; it’s the evil of two lessers.
It’s all hands on deck for the tea party people, start dumping the tea now … And if a few RINOs go overboard then so be it.
In my District, We have Larry Kissel vs Harold Johnson. A real snoozer.ZZZZZZ
I’ll go with Thomas Hill, the Libertarian. The other two stink.
In Colorado, Tancredo is out of the debate. The other two parties hate competition! I’ve grown to dislike those two parties!
As for Delaware, anyone other that Castle I guess.
I’d like to see the Constitution followed, but those two major parties would rather avoid that.
You might want to check Nelson’s and Webb’s voting record.
There is not a whole lot that Reid has to complain about.
Moderate Democrat = Jumbo Shrimp
I still enjoy HotAir but I guess I didn’t fit in with the regulars. Posted there until a couple of weeks after the sale and now have no access.
I agree with MM, let the primary run its course. A bunch of dems may be waiting to vote for O’Donnell instead of an entrenched pol.
This remidns me of what is going on out here in WA ST (to a degree anyway). We had our primary almost a month ago. Our Primary is the top two system, in which all candidates are on one primary ballot and the top two vote getters move onto the November ballot.
In this race you had the dem sen Patty Murray take the roughly 45% of the vote, followed by Republican party candidate Dino Rossi take roughly 36% of the vote, then Clint Didier the Republican Tea Party and Palin endorsed candidate take roughly 13% of the vote, followed by Republican businessman and inventor Paul Aikers take roughly 3% of the vote.
This means Murray and Rossi move on to Novemebr.
Aikers immediately came out and endorsed Rossi and said the big picture now is to oust Murray (been in the Senate for 18 years). On the other hand, you have Didier who still is witholding his support for Rossi and telling Rossi he will only support him if he signs onto a list of demmands that Didier has.
Now Didier has a good Conservative message and I did support him and had high hopes for him for a future in politics. He sounded like a voice of reason that we need in this day and age. Instead he is holding his support hostage, looking like a poor looser and evern went as far as plagiarizing the movie Braveheart when making a press announcement telling Rossi his demands.
Rossi is leading pretty well in the polls without his support and all he is doing is making himself look like a poor sport.
My feeling on this is if Didier does nto feel he can support Rossi fair enough, but he does not need to be out there bad mouthing Rossi whenever he can; instead he should just sit it out and work towards his next endeavor.
And all this time I thought you were the anti-Christ, Rogue. All you are is unethical? Slacker.
I’ve been waiting for a couple posters, who will go unnamed, to call me the Anti-Christ. I need to work harder.
You know who I think this emailer is Michelle? I think it’s chapotier.
Once you lose integrity, the rest is a piece of cake. My Mom always said I was an underachiever.
There is more comment traffic at Hot Air about O’Donnell than on any other subject in a very long time. It is frothing. People on both sides have a passion that just won’t quit. I can hardly wait for the election results tomorrow. I contributed to O’Donnell and really hope she wins. She is a indefatigable fighter and an inspiration to the tea party.
You’re the Anti-Christ.
No, wait. You’re Hitler and the Anti-Christ’s secret love child.
I’m glad I could help you out. The suspense was killing me also.
I read Castle’s voting record. Are we sure this guy is running as a Republican? I think that Alan Grayson is more conservative than this guy!
Goodness, is there a full moon? What good is name-calling–peeing in sandbox–divisiveness? Get a grip. All you are doing is giving the opposition a thrill and creating media of the conservative “civil war.”
I am a conservative. However, no one is 100% perfect (well, Marco Rubio, our next US Senator, but I digress—and, yes, neither is he perfect but he beats the alternatives by a continent).Half of the GOP who voted in the recent Florida primary voted for Rick Scott for Governor and against the GOP’s McCollum, in spite of his effort to label him. Why? Because many (like me) are voting against incumbents, career politicians, and special interest candidates–especially against Orange Charlie Crist. I would walk to the polls on my knees on broken glass to vote against him.
Vote who you think will best represent most of your beliefs and, for heaven sake, focus on the main goal of weakening the Democratic party and throwing Dear Leader out in 2012.
Actually, I think you are ahead of me on their Order of Merit List.
Well done. Only a Moderate Muslim could slip ahead of me like that.
Your mother never realized your true potential.
Oh great, that’s all we need, another anchor baby!
Either way, she’s spending all my inheritance, dammit!
I think Mr. Castle needs to come to terms, and moveon. If he needs help to make that decision, there is a siege engine gathering beyond the ramparts, affectionately called “The Tea Parties,” that will be more than happy to help usher him out of office, come November.
Nine terms…I just can’t help but wonder; is he financially better off now than when he first took office? It seems public office is a way to self-enrichment, with no real risk involved.
A lot of people are missing the point. The Republicans controlled the Senate with a filibuster-proof majority and used that majority to establish the foundation for what we now have. The explosion of government started under Bush. Scamnesty was a Bush initiative. TARP? Same thing.
Adding Castle to the “Gangs of McCain” is not good for conservative nor for the viability of the GOP in 2012 (which is much more important). As it is, with the extent of the “Gangs of McCain” still unknown since they always seem to be just big enough to deliver landmark liberal victories to the Democrats, it might just be that we need 120 Republicans in the Senate to establish a true GOP alternative to the Dem agenda.
If O’Donnell ends up losing in November, the fault lies with the GOP establishment for again failing to deliver a true alternative to the Democrat or when one wins despite their opposition, for failing to support a conservative.
If O’Donnell wins in November, which is a real possibility, and turns into the evil incompetent the RINOs are telling us she is, she can be voted out in 2014.
If Castle wins, he will be impossible to unseat in 2014 with the GOP establishment behind him.
The GOP establishment needs to accept that if the GOP disappears, it will be replaced by a much better party. If they insist in being the other Democratic Party (the stupid one), they deserve to be eliminated.
When the Whigs disappears, the Democrats didn’t take everything over. Lincoln became president. That is what will happen this time too.
Oh please don’t tell me the prez is on the tv again…
spacycakes…quick turn on the mute button and watch as it is funnier that way to see his ears and make up what he is saying.[actually, I race across the room to turn it off, but if you have to torture yourself, turn off his voice] While filling in what he is saying speaking like Daffy Duck, make sure you raise your voice at the end of each choppy teleprompter sentence for emphasis, and talk loudly—has anyone else noticed he yells now on the campaign trail? Oh, and regally raise your chin for the best photo op and to signal that his diatribe is complete for the day. That is all.
Whatever you do, don’t listen to his sibliant “s” sounds as that hypnotizes you and will make you as loco as Sally Field on Sybil.
Why aren’t you watching Okrah and eating chocolate bon-bons?
As is mine.
…please disregard that mistaken strikeout.
OK, here’s my best argument:
1. O’Donnell doesn’t have an ice cube’s chance in hell of winning the Senate race, thus making support of her in the primary a fool’s errand which will undermine the GOP in the Senate. But we all decide when to stand on principle, and I despise Mike Castle’s voting record and political liberalism. I live in Illinois and don’t think I can vote for liberal scumbag Mark Kirk, so I certainly understand the animus toward Castle.
But make no mistake: it is idiotic to send a Democrat there when we don’t need to.
2. Christine O’Donnell isn’t qualified to run for alderman, much less Senate. Maybe I have a higher regard for the Senate than the various multi-millionaire media celebrities who are endorsing O’Donnell, and maybe they know better than me that the Senators that are already in office are illiterate twits with nothing to speak for their accomplishments. But can anyone please articulate for me a reason for supporting O’Donnell as a candidate that doesn’t include the words Mike and Castle?
She is a deadbeat with no education and no work experience. I am astonished that Coulter, Malkin, Limbaugh, Levin, and Hannity believe that she is qualified to sit in the Senate and vote on the most important issues in the world.
I’m sorry to say it, but she’s a nitwit. And only a nitwit would vote to put a nitwit in the Senate, no matter what her platform is.
#3 cheapseat: “I’m glad to hear you are out of Hot Air, as Allahpundit is definitely moving it left. Keep telling it as you see it.”
Nonsense. Allah’s periodic variance from conservative orthodoxy is so hilariously scandalous at HotAir that he commonly refers to himself with an epithet used by a fellow conservative blogger — “Chamberlein-esque candy-ass RINO” — not cheerfully, but ruefully.
Take a deep breath. Sure I disagree with Allah from time to time. But he’s solidly conservative and one of the best and most entertaining political commentators anywhere in media. He’s a joy, even if he supports blah, blah, blah.
My guess is she’ll fit right in with the educated deadbeats with no work experience.
Why can’t we have a Franken?
44 – 45
Understood. Sorry to sound like a snob, but wouldn’t it just make your buttons bust to show the Dems that you have higher standards than to hire a KKK organizer (Byrd), a bored/nitwit millionaire’s housewife (Boxer) and a failed comedian (Fracken) to run the Senate?
Good grief.
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That’s what I thought. The only argument for nominating O’Donnell is that she’s not Castle.
Good morning, Senator Coons.
Perhaps you need to step back further.
By supporting RINOs and letting them take office, a message is sent to politicians that they can safely forsake conservative values, both during the election and while in office. I would define this as reinforcing “bad behavior”.
Ultimately, that bad behavior will “do harm”. As we saw with McCain and others. Even with fmr Pres. Bush.
So while your vote for a RINO may in the short term look like a benefit. In the long term, it is poison. Yes, it would be a big win to get control of the Senate back. But what good is that control if the bills that we are fighting against still get passed?
Not to mention….. Scott Brown had no shot at the Massachusetts Senate seat as that election approached. Seems that changed, didn’t it? Not that I like Scott Brown so much. But the point is… he wasn’t a lost cause.
Who’s to say that O’Donnell could not pull of a similar win?
Who was talking about a republican majority on January 2009???
Even if she loses the general election, I think in the long term, an O’Donnell primary win is worth it. It sends a message to the RINOs……
Your days with a gov’t job are numbered.
We have been hearing that we need to vote for the most conservative republican that can win. Where has that gotten us when the most conservative rep that can win turns out to be a party approved mostly liberal/progressive? Where are the candidates that stand for the country? All these political elites regardless of party believe that they can rule because the rest of us will never have the qualifications to to win. I believe that they are wrong. A common citizen who believes in the Constitution would do a much better job in DC than all these full of themselves job protecting big government party partisans. None of them give a damn about the country or their constituents. They have nothing but contempt for us.
DC is filled with so called brilliant people with ivy league educations who have driven this economy off a cliff and buried the rest of us with one unconstitutional mandate after another. Quite frankly, I don’t think that the first 5 people in the phone book would have done any worse. I want someone with character, integrity, love for this country and will take the oath to actually protect and defend the Constitution. We run this country. Not the parties. Not the elites. Not the DC insiders.FIRE them all. Take this country back. Get rid of all the intrenched candidates. Any newbee who fails to live up to promises of smaller gov, boot them in the next cycle. This is war against the status quo and it won’t be won until all the crap is gone from DC! So hunker down and get ready for the long hall.
I just had a Franken. But I ran out of tissue.
that would be correct.
That’s right. I’d rather have Joe the Plumber in the White House than Obama the Bummer.
Really. We’d be better off all things considered.
Sheryl Crow: That’s because you used more than a square, you wastrel!
Works for me.
How much talent does it take to vote on a bill that none of them read? How many of us read the bills while our reps did whatever? They ran from us, insulted us, refused to answer our emails and phone calls. And we are supposed to reward that because they can win????? When do we get to win? We said no to bailouts. No to stimulus. No to healthcare. we said no, no, no and they jammed it down our throats and stuck us with the bill. How dare they!
Thank you Michelle for putting these facts together. After reading the comments from the RINO’s over at Hot Air on this topic I thought I was pretty much the only person sick of these career politicians.
We WILL remember! ;o)
I’m ok with losing the seat if it means we can rid the party of liberal Republicans.
The people of Delaware need to make up their mind. They’re either with us or agin’ us, but electing some wishy-washy Republican instead of a real Democrat shouldn’t be an option.
All: Read McCormack’s piece in Weekly Standard. It exposes Levin as a bit unhinged, and the rest of the conservative Galaxy of Stars as really reckless.
http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/mark-levin-emails-lol-i-think-youre-ass-you-can-quote-me?page=2
She’s got a $6.9 million dollar “Gender Discrimination” lawsuit against the premier conservative academic consulting group, ISI. It claims, among other insanities, that she spent 6 months laying around depressed and crying after they fired her. She worked there for a year.
She’s unemployed, and unemployable. She lies about a lot of weird stuff. “Crazy-kinda-hot” might be fun in a singles bar in Barcelona, but not in a GOP Senate primary.
It’s a shame MM couldn’t put together an endorsement of O’Donnell that actually mentions O’Donnell. Her only argument is “Not Castle”.
She can do better, I think, or maybe she can’t think of anything that speaks for O’Donnell at all.
I just hope to God that DE voters won’t pick Castle just because “he’s better than the Demoncrap.” Uh, he’s pretty much the same thing, people!
dan708 – are you a Chicago-suburbs guy?
EEEEEW! Eating ‘cheddar’s shorts is too much even for me. Me and my fellow RINO Gov. Christie will just have to keep our fingers crossed tomorrow, and hope that an electable Republican wins. Of course if she loses, O’Donnell will do the independent dance for us and still screw up the election.
I had such high hopes for this year, but I knew that we (meaning the various stripes of Republicans) would mess up a golden opportunity with 101 litmus tests of conservative credentials.
Unfortunately…for Republicans…the US doesn’t run on a parliamentary system, because then we could have Republicans and Conservatives and then form coalition governments. Our two party system forces everyone on the right into the same party, and then it’s a winner take all contest that leaves a little less than half of the people on some form of the right feeling pretty tepid about the winner…and then they don’t go to the polls.
Democrats don’t have this problem, because at the end of the day they believe in nothing and have no problem showing up at the polls for candidates they really don’t care for.
If O’Donnell wins this, then I hope everyone pulls hard for her…and if she doesn’t, I hope everyone pulls for Castle.
I like her too but let’s for sure not consume our friends in this fight
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/09/027216.php
If O’Donnell does pull this off, just think:
1) A newbie with questionable credentials;
2) An Establishment Republicans with 30 years of [self-?] “service;” and
3) The majority of Delaware electorate choose the newbie!!!
That should tell you (and the establishment) just how far the tide has turned on the self-serving establishment. (Actually, the fact that this is even close says volumes, even if we don’t mention the dirty politics the establishment is trying to promote.)
More things terrifying the establishment RINOs (neocons especially):
1) we outnumber them by multiples,
2) we are more passionate
3) we show up in large numbers to events.
4) we keep winning elections for candidates they wrote off.
They have nothing left in their bag of tricks than to resort to the arguments and tactics of their liberal mother ship, the Democratic Party.
We’ve been beeitching for many months about getting rid of rinos and now the chance to get rid of Castle is obvious.
Yes we will have to take it in the shorts in the short run but the long run is the goal.
The elites in the GOP are blind.
Based on just MM’s listing of Castle’s voting record, I’d vote ABC.
Just why is it every Tea Party Candidate that has won was declared “un-electable” by the RNC?
To them, Tea Party IS “un-electable” and when they say a candidate is “unattractive” they mean that despise grass roots conservatives and wish we would all go away…
Here is the way I see it. You have a steaming pile. You have Castle. I’d vote for the steaming pile. But wait! We don’t have to vote for the steaming pile because we have O’Donnell to vote for!
What’s the problem?
I wonder how the RNC “leadership” is going to explain away the incredible impact the Tea Party Movement is going to have in November?
It is likely that the RNC “leadership” may be even more distressed by the looming Tea Party Movement victory. The lefties can always rant about “those extreme right-wingers” but the RINOs in the RNC are going to have to sit down at the table with lots of people they despise…
Expect massive attempts to co-opt Tea Party people just after the election. We are going to have to be increasingly vigilant after the election! We may have to repeat this lesson in November 2012 for the benefit of the RNC “leadership.”
“He/she can’t win the general election,” is the last line of defense for the party establishment.
My question to the RNC is what will you do if the non-establishment candidate wins? I know what they did in Iowa. They aided the Democrat.
I’d like to give Mike “Cap and Tax” Castle a big, figurative kick in the butt out the door!
Hit the road, Castle! We don’t want you here! Nobody likes you! GET OUT!! Go join the Democrat Party if you believe in Global Warming!
O’Donnell is a conservative? Oh puhleez! The most important issue facing America today is tort reform. In order for the country to prosper and employ people, businesses must be free from these frivolous and vexatious lawsuits that take money from people and companies who actually work and earn it and gives that hard earned money to lazy people like O’Donnell who do not work for a living. These stupid slip and fall cases are bad enough. But these pernicious phony gender discrimination lawsuits are far worse. Any time a lazy employee like O’Connell can’t cut it in the workplace, they file a bogus lawsuit alleging gender discimination. These lawsuits from people like O’Donnell are nothing more than shakedowns. O’Donnell and her liberal civil rights lawyer obviously told the defense attorney that if the company did not settle with her, then O’Donnell would drag the case out for years and years, bleeding the company for years. So it is easier to simply settle the case then fight it for years. Then in the same lawsuit, O’Donnell told an absurd tale of working toward her masters degree at Princeton. Heck, O’Donnell couldn’t graduate from the sixth grade the way she behaves.
Tort reform is an issue, but certainly not in the Top Five.
Wow, that sounds a lot like our current president — except he had an Ivy League education, which makes him much more dangerous. I don’t know much about O’Donnell, but personal attacks don’t convince me. Please tell us which of her positions on the issues are not based on conservative principles. Then tell us why they are worse than Castle’s positions.
I didn’t see this item in Michelle’s list:
When Kucinich wanted to impeach Pres. Bush for the war in Iraq, he moved that his HRes 1258 be referred to the Judiciary Committee. All of the Democrats and 24 Republicans voted “Aye” (yes). Castle was one of those who voted with the Democrats.
I just read every comment on this thread. I can see the two sides of the debate. And if I were a Delaware voter, I’d vote to throw Mike Castle out. He is a pathetic and stupid old liberal, who is slowly flushing our country down the toilet. I’d much rather take my chances with ODonnell. I have no trouble with her lack of an establishment “pedigree”.
RINOs have always been the brakes on the conservative movement. A majority is worthless if we constantly have to worry about appeasing the Democrats in the Republican party.
Ace and Allahpundit choose to live in the Democrat stronghold of NYC for a reason.
All O’Donnell’s people have is hyperbole and rhetoric. Describe her utter lack of qualification for elected office and it’s a “personal attack” or a “lack of an establishment pedigree”.
I am a Director of Sales and she’s not qualified to work for me in sales. When I worked as a banker in commercial lending, she would not have passed a credit check to work at a responsible level in a bank.
Are you guys effing kidding me? You are blinded by your partisanship. Mike Castle sucks I would hate to have him in the Senate with the GOP, but this chick would be an embarrassment if she was my state representative.
Maybe you’re right; maybe we’re better of with a Dem in that seat.
I’m glad I don’t live in Delaware. Whichever way I voted on this, I have a high degree of confidence I would end up deeply regretting it.
As bad as Castle is, Coons is simply awful. Think Van Jones. Or Barack Obama.
And once Coons is an entrenched incumbent, he could easily be there for the rest of our lives. It is Delaware.
And control of the Senate Judiciary Committee matters. Think if anything happens to any of the five sane Justices on the SC during the next two years.
The Republic is on a precipice.
But O’Donnell could win the general. It’s just highly improbable. Do we stake so much on such a wobbly vehicle?
I’m glad I don’t live in Delaware.
I would probably vote for her on the argument to give Delaware the choice. If she loses to the likes of Coons because the voters of Delaware are really that vile, then we can all loathe Delaware forever.
Painful post, Roland. Which I greatly sympathize with…
Errah, Hopefully Christine/Sarah clip off this RINO’s whorne tonight. NMR = No More RINOs!
I cannot remember how many times I have heard reference to W.F. Buckley’s
“most conservative electable” in the context of this primary.
The thing is:
It’s not just the geographic matter of
“who’s electable in Delaware/Massachusetts is not the same as in Oklahoma/Alabama”, (duh)
but also temporal:
who was not electable four – much less fifty – years ago may well be electable today.
The latter point seems to have been ignored by most if not all pundits on this topic.
I hope O’Donnell wins the primary; I think she has a decent chance to win this November of 2010.
Couldn’t be – it had no wine review
“Lincoln’s formal education consisted of about 18 months of schooling and he was largely self-educated; he was an avid reader, writer and poet. He was no committed laborer during his teen age years, with family and neighbors then referring to him often as lazy.” (Wikipedia)
Dunno why anybody would send a goofy email like this to Michelle since she has been clear on where she stands. Leave the unhinged, uniformed email rants to the leftists – they’re better at it anyway.
And though I agree with the general consensus that AP writes like a naive 16 year old lefty, no one has to read HotAir at all; problem solved easy enuf.
I think in this instance you have a two part vote. In the primary you have to vote what’s best for the GOP. In the election you have to vote for the best candidate.
I think with Castle we stil need to send yet another message to the Michael Steeles and Trent Lotts of the GOP that we are no longer going to accept the co-opting of our principles.
I think Rush’s take on this Delaware election is correct. If you support the same old gang of McCain, McConnel, and Graham having their staff offices, and their committee chairmanships, and accomplishing nothing, FINE, Castle’s your guy. But if you want to unass the Washington go along to get along group, you have to break some eggs. Castle is a vote to control the Senate which will do nothing for the next 2 years, as it did between 2004 and 2006 when it had 55 country club rino’s.
I’ll take 30 DO SOMETHING NOW conservatives over 60 WE CAN’T PUSH THAT AGENDA, THE PRESS WILL HATE US rinocrats.
This is like being forced to choose between death-by-a-thousand-cuts, or getting shot right between the eyes.
I blame the GOP.
Mark Levin has the same position.
For the time being, I think I’d be delighted with a do nothing (therefore spend nothing) Congress. They may spend their days writing resolutions to commemorate themselves, and strong letters of condemnation to Madagascar and such. Just STOP SPENDING MY GRANDCHILDREN’S MONEY!
From The Other McCain:
For all of you on the Castle bandwagon, he voted to investigate Bush on taking the US to war with Iraq. He fell in line with Waters and company and is unrepentant. Is this who you want in the Senate? I say go with those who will repeal O’care and quash cap and tax. Then extend the Bush tax cuts indefinitely.
But we don’t need the Senate for that. The House can block the spending by itself.
The problem with leaving the Senate in Democrat hands is judicial appointments and treaties. Obama doesn’t need the House for those.
The question is whether a RINO controlled Republican Senate will actually bottle up Obama’s appointments and treaties.
The answer is: Not bloody likely.
In which case the Senate is irrelevant until 2013.
Time for the citizens of Delaware to retire another “MODERATE” Republican!!! They will benefit in the long run… I only hope that they do not make the same mistake Arizona made, and go with the RINO incumbent…
Yep.
I guarantee the Republican leadership will do everything they can to BUY their votes with earmarks and promises of monies for reelection. Sending them to congress is only half the battle.
That’s what Dick Armey is about. I must have read 5-6 six reports about how now only is the GOP divided but the Tea Party as well and they always cite Dick Armey for the “split” of the Tea Party.
News flash MSM! Dick Armey is NOT involved with the Tea Party in any way except in his own mind. He is an establishment Republican.
If 2 terms were good enough for a statesman like George Washington, they’re good enough for the troglodytes we have in D.C. now. I don’t care what office it is.
If it’s good enough for Washington, it’s good enough for everyone else.
typo:
how
nownot only is the GOP divided but the Tea Party as wellPasadena Phil said:
Are you sure thats true? I don’t think Bush had a filibuster proof Senate. In fact, I thought the biggest thing that stymied his Republican majorities is that the Dems voted in lock step once they chose to hate him. Nancy and Harry got their people to vote together almost 100% time so the Republicans could accomplish nothing without a compromise which Bush unwisely agreed to. Then they hammered him.
I could have sworn the biggets obstacle Bush had was not only the threat of a filibuster but that they actually did filibuster a few things? Thats where Harry made his leadership name.
Thank goodness the Senate is busy with important issues.
And yes, I like burros. If I had room, I’d have one out front to greet visitors and passers-by.
Let’s not forget Castle voted to impeach GWB as well….
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/09/14/castle-vote-to-impeach-bush
Another typo:
just as Castle and Fiorina will be
whenshould they win.