I know what happened. I live here. Whatever else you think, DeLay had no business running in the primary if he was not going to stick it out in the general.
His candidacy was hurting the party BEFORE the primary.
Now, he has a chance to run and stick it to Lampson, and he turns tail and hides behind his move to Virginia.
He has damaged the party, and will likely put a Democrat in his old seat.
A sorry legacy, that.
There you go again, arm chair quarterbacking. You just can't help it can you? I suppose you think.... no, you know, that DeLay had a crystal ball and could predict that he'd lose all of his appeals to have his trial moved up. And I'm sure you ignored the fact that DeLay was buried by the press with relentless negative daily assaults on his character, to the point that many in his own party suggested that he withdraw his candidacy.
Now, you want a man who values his word and promise to go back on it to become the democRAT whipping boy yet again. It's obvious that you don't have the foresight to realize the hoopla the press would make of DeLay letting his name stay on the ballot after he moved his residency to Virginia.
The press would immediately slant drill DeLay again and harp, "Obviously DeLay tried to trick the voters in his district. Even the conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, saw his move to Virginia as insincere and turned him down, blah, blah, blah."
The man can't win, no matter what he choses to do, especially with nimrods like you who think you know better.