[Clintonfatigued]

"Surely there are other younger Republicans in the state we could recruit who are remotely Conservative (or even Moderate !)."

There are, but none of them would win. Actually, I think that Joe Biden will win the primary and then drop out of the race, leaving the state party to nominate his son, the new AG. And I fear that, absent a Castle candidacy, the GOP will be caught flat-footed with an unviable candidate.

This is a case where we have no good options. (seems to be a great deal of that lately, ugh)

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Actually, I think that Joe Biden will win the primary and then drop out of the race, leaving the state party to nominate his son, the new AG. And I fear that, absent a Castle candidacy, the GOP will be caught flat-footed with an unviable candidate."

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If you want to run an old Republican who would defeat Biden's son (if Biden's son was picked in a switcheroo), might as well draft former Governor Pete DuPont to run. He's only 5 years older than Castle, and is a solid conservative and a Delaware legend. If Castle ran for the Senate, we'd likely lose the House seat and not win the Senate seat anyhow, and if Castle did get elected he'd be pretty close to another Lincoln Chafee (and remember that Delaware gave President Bush 46%, not 39% as in Rhode Island).

And if DuPont won't run, there are plenty of moderate Republicans with decent name ID who could defeat Biden's son, so we don't need to resort to nominating an all-out liberal such as Castle.