Yes and no. He was a liberal, who probably could have won statewide. But the tea party movement came upon him, and he got primaried. Which is all well and good, unless of course, you replace him with a moronic grifter with no visible means of income besides chacing tv cameras.
What it shows is that the GOP voters in DE--especially the tea party voters--have poor judgement.
More likely it showed that the tea party voters in Delaware wanted a conservative candidate - and not a lib like Mike Castle - but no well known and well qualified candidate was available, so they voted for the best conservative choice they had.
>> He was a liberal, who probably could have won statewide.
... and the instant he’s elected he joins Snowe and Collins and Brown and the other Northeastern liberal (R)s who then become like little children who abuse their power in the caucus. They gum things up and they tip power BACK to the ‘rats... yet the solid (R)s can’t bitchslap them either, because they’re nominally of the same party. Feh.
Who was it that said “I’d rather have forty solid conservatives than fifty RINOs”, or something to that effect? Demint? I agree with him. Scrap the RINO pukes and rebuild around a solid core of ideological conservatives. Any other way is merely driving off the cliff with the emergency brake partially on, rather than reversing the direction of the runaway car.