Posted on 10/15/2009 4:23:36 AM PDT by Scanian
Demure Delaware was the first state to ratify the Con stitution, but since then has not made many waves. It might, however, be part of a political wave a year from now, thanks to a direct descendent of Benjamin Franklin.
The great man's great-great-great-great-great grandson, Mike Castle, 70, a nine-term Delaware congressman, will be next year's Republican nominee for the Senate seat Joe Biden held for 36 years. This and other candidate-recruitment successes make it reasonable for Republicans to hope that in January 2011 the Senate will contain fewer than 60 Democrats.
Biden's seat is now occupied by a former Biden staffer who, in service to the ancient notion that public offices should be family patrimonies, will disappear when Biden's son Beau, 40, runs. He is the state's attorney general and has just returned from serving in Iraq with his Army National Guard unit.
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Zero will never let this happen!
The people of America must vote against every Democrat. How else can we stop the awful mess which is unfolding in Washington?
Sorry friend, putting Castle in the Senate just means moving a Democrat in all but name from the House to the Senate. We tried to tell him as a House member not to vote for Cap and Tax, amnesty, gun control, etc., etc., but that all fell on deaf ears.
As a Delaware voter, I could give a rat’s patootie if he wins the Senate seat, -we won’t have gained much.
By all means, let’s keep Mike Castle in Versailles on the Potomac. Eighteen years in Congress, eight as Governor, eight more as Lt. Governor preceeded by stints in AG, state house and state senate. He has managed to work FOUR whole years off the taxpayer dollar.
At 70, he will be a young man going into the Senate. By all means, send him to the Senate. He only has TWENTY THREE pages on his disclosure form for investments. The poor man needs us to support him.
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