will be getting the boot when they come up.

Voter sentiment is going to be such that I think a Mike Castle would fall in line for repealing Obamacare, which should be the first order of business. But maybe not, since promiscuous Republicans are the ones who tend to do whatever it takes to hold onto power rather than do what’s right, and that issue probably polls in DE better than other states. Cap and Tax is dead, unless they ram it through in a lame duck Congress.

O’Donnell would be a solid conservative, but her position as 180 degrees from Obama may prevent her from getting elected in that state. Therefore, in DE, you could very well be talking about a 1 term Senator, which is fine since the next 6 years will be crucial with undoing Obama’s damage and possibly replacing Justice Kennedy.

My inclination here is to pull for Christine. If I were a betting man (and I am), you make your big bets when you’re ahead. Castle is a safer win, but Christine would be a big upgrade. It wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if Castle won. Democrats did cajole Nelson, Lincoln and Landrieu into voting for Obamacare, maybe we can use Castle to undo it.

You want me to go to the polls on September 14th and vote for a woman who lied to me for the past 4 years about having a college degree? A woman who pays her utilities rent and cell phone bills with campaign donations while her staffers from 2008 and the businesses she worked with haven’t been paid? A woman who claims that Joe Biden had a lien put on her house because of the 2008 campaign when the lien was on her house since 2006?

Are you kidding me?

http://delawarerepublicanrecord.wordpress.com/

That site has a stack of documentation, mostly court documentation, about all of the things that Christine O’Donnell claims are not true.

Please read that site and join me in reality.

Chances of a Republican victory in Delaware with Castle: 90%
Chances of a Republican victory in Delaware with O’Donnell: 0%

You want Pat Leahy as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee instead of Jeff Sessions the next time a Supreme Court nominee comes up? Castle just has to have an R attached to prevent that.

Newcastle County, perhaps moreso, but Kent and Sussex counties are much more conservative. And by the way, the lower 2 counties are growing at a MUCH faster rate than Newcastle (25% from 2000-2010 vs 6%). And I can tell you from experience, these are people moving in from MD, NJ and NY to escape the ridiculous taxes. Sound almost like Tea Party recruits to me.

and it hinges on who Christine O. is .

Joe Miller was an Iraqi Vet-Yale law school-top flight family man-war hero

Mike Lee is brilliant and as Alito law clerk on his resume plus his family traces its conservative roots back to Reagan years.

Christine O. is using campaign funds to pay her rent-Ulity-gas for her car and has no discernable means of income for several years. There are a host of small vendors in the state who are owned money from her previous campaigns. Perhaps you might pay your neighborhood printer what you owe him before you take on another senate campaign. I am a small business guy and its a happy day when you get a check in the mail– a very sad one when someone scams you for service. This is a poison issue for a GE

Majorities. Matter.

Anyone who does not live in a blue state, or even a mostly blue state, just doesn’t get it or understand. If you live in a deep red state, you have the luxury of lecturing all of us who live in blue states with your more-conservative-than-thou nonsense. Fine. Lecture away.

But understand this: You cannot win and hold a majority in the Senate by running Jim DeMint clones in states like Delaware, Illinois or New Jersey. Would you ever like to sniff a 60-40 majority in the Senate, such as that enjoyed by Dems since the disaster of 2008? Then you need Republicans from blue states, just as the Dems needed senators from Arkansas, Nebraska, etc., who claim to hold moderate views, but are more concerned with their power and could thus be brow-beaten and bribed into supporting things like Obamacare.

You can keep your ideological purity. I want a majority, because I’m tired of listening to Democrats laugh at and deride the will of the American people. How about you?

for Majority Leader.

/rolls eyes

in this country since Reagan left 1988. DE & a lot of the NE has drifted away from GOP conservatism.

Delaware did , however, elected a super conservative in Piere DuPont VI in 1976 & 1980.

A Chris Christie type of conservative would probably do well in DE this year. NJ is right next to DE and has had a very similar voting history.

Gov Christie, however, had a long resume of honorable public service. Christie O. has a long history of bad debts and shady campaign funding tricks. Great idea but she is a trojan horse for Coons.

I wasn’t dragging you in if you took my comment to be directed at you. It wasn’t. You were reporting the situation. I understood that. Was responding to folks who have thrown their hands up in the air and think Castle would work just fine since he has an R after his name. Obviously, some hunger for the majority so much that they are willing to overlook the fact Castle is probably more of a liberal than John Kerry.

No candidate is perfect. Christine is a solid conservative and that is what we need in the senate. If we’re going to take back this party we’re not going to do it with the Mike Castles of the world. Stand up for your principals and some fights you’ll win and some you’ll lose. Have faith in the people of Delaware to do the right thing. If Massachusetts Republicans put forward an articulate candidate more conservative than Scott Brown they would have won. Obama and his cleptocrats are toxic waste now and for very good reason.

don’t EVER call Mike Castle a good candidate, unless winning is the only thing that matters to you. I happen to thing winning is the means, not the end.

I don’t even buy the argument that he’s the only one that can win in DE but at least that argument has a shred of validity.

For you to refer to Castle as a “good candidate” means that you are a) either totally unaware of how far left he is (feel free to educate yourself here: http://73wire.com/2010/07/when-a-pictures-worth-more-than-488-words/); or, b) you’re yet another Castle shill whose been sent to bombard the blogs because the Castle campaign has been unnerved by the Miller upset.

Based on the content of your post, and the fact that in 1 year this is only the 2nd comment you’ve ever made, my money’s on the latter.

half-heartedly backed by an ineffectual state GOP that was chock full of go-along-to get-along Republicans. She ran against a 20+ year incumbent with a MASSIVE $$$ advantage.

BTW, if you think Castle’s a good candidate and O’Donnell is the flawed one, you’re an odd sort of a conservative.

http://christine2010.com/

To summarize:
The IRS lien was an admitted error on the IRS’s part as she was working with the IRS to resolve the tax issue – a tax issue which came up, coincidentally, after she was audited during her run against Joe Biden.

Her house was NOT foreclosed on, nor was foreclosure threatened. It was sold. Period.

his F ratings from the NRA and NRTL, his lowest in the Republican caucus ratings from ACU and Club for Growth and the millions in his campaign chest from the company’s, PACs and indivduals who benefitted from his TARP vote

(oh, and btw, if you’d have been here more than 4 months and 2 days, you might have actually learned to use the “Reply To” button by now).

because NOT everyone can have the millions of a John Kerry oh no Christine O’Donnell is NOT part of the Political Class she is just like the people she wants to serve and that is why she is the BETTER choice!

I fear that is possible, but at the end of the day I agree with you. R’s who vote like Castle, frankly make “Republicans” harder to sell everywhere.

IF we are talking about Castle being vote #51 and capturing the Senate, versus not then maybe the choice is obvious.

BUT I think that requires us to assume that someone who actually votes as a conservative and holds conservative ideals (instead of just talking like one during a campaign) could not possibly win in Delaware. I cannot accept that premise. Maybe it is true, but shall we give up the fight for conservatism in any corner of this great land?

If the principles of liberty in economic and fiscal policy are plainly articulated, versus the socialist policies that Castle has voted for, we must accept that the former message will not win?

I understand the game of politics is bigger than that, but good grief it seems to me that surrendering the fight for conservative principles before it’s even begun is a hard pill to swallow. Frankly I’d prefer that a Democrat gets elected and votes for socialist policies rather than a Republican. Cap-and-trade, are you SERIOUS? There is nothing “republican” about that.

I am not advocating for down-the-line purity on all issues here, but if we can’t even get kinda-purity on fiscal policy and the role of government in our lives, then why bother even having a Republican platform?

And with Castle’s voting record – we are also suppose to assume he’d turn and vote WITH the R’s on any dependable basis. What kind of “control” over the Senate would that look like?

the Scott Brown comparison doesn’t work here. Scott Brown was a moderate to liberal Republican running in a liberal state. He was also a State Senator at the time he was elected and had an impressive personal and professional resume. Christine is a very conservative Republican running in a liberal state (although to be fair, Delaware is not as far to the left as Mass). She is dogged by ethical questions and has a wafer thin resume. If, somehow, Christine gets the nomination, she will not be pulling off a Scott Brown like upset….

I want O’Donnell to win, but if her victory occurs because so few people vote, then her primary win will not be a sign of strong vote getting potential in the general election.

I don’t doubt conservative can win what would essentially be a low turnout caucus, but that is not the end game prize.

but I think there is a valid point that a good politician is more than simply a list of positions. JD is probably a good example of that principle. However, I am not sure how you square being unserious with being a perennial politician. To me a persistent candidate is by definition serious (at least is most cases).

If she has been carrying conservative water in Delaware in less favorable conditions, I am inclined to give her a chance.

I always choose the one who makes the right votes over the one with the *sparkling* personality because votes are all that really matter.

And your comparison of O’Donnell to Hayworth goes way beyond stupid. You have one who has no record compared to one who has one.

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don’t leave employees and vendors holding the bad and deadbeat on debts like Christine O did in 2008.

fsical conservative?

She had her chance to run a campaign and spent other people’s money like it belonged to her. Yet she is the fiscal conservative in the race??

Comparing this race to McCain vs JD Hayworth is deadon. Voting for change for the sake of change hasn’t really worked the last two years, are we really going to copy that?

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I would like to see a candidate that would appear to be ‘less flawed’. But you and I have also been around the wars enuf to know that liberals excel at creating negative narratives about conservatives out of whole cloth (primary example is the amiable dunce Ronald Reagan meme).

Thus, it *does* matter who’s laying out accusations in the political world. If Jim DeMint was laying out set of ‘facts’, and Harry Reid was laying out an opposite set of ‘facts’, there’s no way you and I would assign the same credence to both of them.

I don’t quickly call folks mobys and trolls, but I would suggest that you take a look at the posting histories of those who are shilling the loudest for Castle in this thread:

ffc99……MOlsen6……ithos……rightwingdelaware…..spiker…. and compare it to those who have been defending Christine. There’s no comparison.

On one side you have people who have registered recently and comment almost exclusively on this race, or have been registered for a while but in the last 3 years haven’t found anything to get upset about, ‘cept this race or who when they do post invarialbly attack the conservative position/candidate vs posters who repeatedly engage at RS, have RedHot priviliges, engage in a whole range of topics and candidates, and regularly write diaries.

I’ll trust the latter much more than I will the former, especially since we’ve seen this same behavior from one-hit wonders over and over again in races this year where there was a conservative running against an Establishment candidate.

When one of the Castle promoters can adequately explain their support for Castle vis a vis their vitriol for Christine, as was laid out here:

http://www.redstate.com/neil_stevens/2010/09/01/extrapolating-about-the-delaware-senate-primary/#comment-10261

I might actually begin to give them some credence.

that control of the Senate could hinge on one state and that surely Castle would win and I do think its important to back lib repubs where necessary to gain for control for conservatives and the GOP in the Senate and House. But I think most any Republican will win in Delaware due to the economy and already-shown weakness of the Dem..

Moreover, Castle is also a

(liberal) culture warrior, that

hasn’t a distinguished conservative legislative record (we vote these people into office to vote right, and not as a reward for having a distinguished liberal record or even some other type of distinguished record of a good type in the community). Their job is to vote right. We already know from Castle’s record that all that “distinguished service” for 31 years taught him nothing.

It is fine to look for many character traits thru past life for a first time candidate and for executive positions, but when you have Castle’s record and then you have O’Donnell’s positions, how is this a close call?

conservative, J, so I’m all ok w/your indecision in this case. But don’t confuse approval for Obama for voting for the Dem. Obama’s approval ratings, as low as they are, dwarf the approval ratings of the Dem Congress. The people of DE aren’t voting for President, they’re voting for a member of Congress.

I had my own queasiness about O’Donnell until I did 2 things -

1) I started looking really hard at how ‘bad’ these supposed financial picadillos of O’Donnell are vs how much a narrative had been developed by Castle folks out of whole cloth and found a lot of hat but no cattle (and I’m know from personal experience working with our candidate in our CD race that running ‘afoul’ of FEC reporting requirements is neither uncommon nor difficult to do)

2) realized that in the end every election, primary or general, comes down to a choice between two people. The choice in DE on Sept. 14 isn’t between a rock-solid liberal and the conservative candidate of our dreams and wishes, it’s between Mike Castle and Christine O’Donnell. Any concerns I have re: Christine’s personal finances are absolutely dwarfed by Castle’s liberalism.

And in this wave election year, the next choice between 2 candidates occurs on November 2. I’d prefer for the folks in DE to be able to choose between more of the same and turning back from the brink of fiscal insanity.

certainly not the worst I’ve ever seen (thank you, DC), but it’s pretty odd.

I say give to the people you enjoy giving to. If its not a pleasure, don’t do it. Especially if money is tight.

Better to give 2x to someone you really like than to give money to people you only sort of like. That way, you are happy about it.