The house seat being open makes it perhaps number 2 on the rat target list with the Ex LT Guv John Carney running. Castle is obviously less afraid of Beau.
Still in a good year we have chance to hold (or pickup if you will) that house seat if a good candidate is found. Carney was able to get himself upset in last years gubernatorial primary, he can do it again.
I would vote for Castle in a glorified rat primary over Beau. Being much older, more moderate and not the legacy spawn of Vice Prez Coocoobananas he’s the better of the dems to have in there. Biden Jr. in there for the next 30 years as AuH2 points out is an ugly prospect. We’ll have another crack at the seat sooner if Castle wins.
I’m thrilled I don’t live in DE though (sadly I live in IL, same boat), I’m sure many DE freepers will be voting third party.
At least Mark Kirk will lie and try to come off as conservative while the likes of Castle and Snowe are openly disdainful of the Republican party “I didn’t change the party changed- Snowe” No Lympie the party has never been officially socialist, thanks for playing.
In any case area conservatives should set their sights on that house seat
Like you (and most FReepers, I suspect), I have no interest in enabling such a liberal weasel to become a Senator, but would gladly step aside and “let the wookie win” if it stops a second three decades of Senator Biden.
If a Beau Biden vs. Mike Castle race, I'd throw my support to Castle SOLELY as "stop Biden" move to prevent the likelihood of 36 more years of Biden in the Senate if his younger spawn becomes an incumbent. If the younger Biden decides to sit this one out and it's Castle vs. 2nd tier RAT party hack, then screw Castle. Either way we'll have some drab powerless liberal for the next six years. Besides, Castle would probably win anyway in such a scenario.
Unfortunately the only type of viable conservative who could take out Castle in the primary and Biden in November would be another big name old geezer in the party like former Governor Pete DuPont. We don't seem to have any conservative rising stars in Delaware.
Hopefully Castle will only be there for six years and then we can run a real Republican, but you never know, a lot of these Senators tend not to leave office until they're carried out feet first. I wouldn't be surprised if the was still hanging around into his 80s.
>> At least Mark Kirk will lie and try to come off as conservative while the likes of Castle and Snowe are openly disdainful of the Republican party “I didn’t change the party changed- Snowe” No Lympie the party has never been officially socialist, thanks for playing. <<
That's something new for Mark Kirk, he hasn't even pretended to be a Republican for the last 9 years because he hasn't had a primary opponent since 2000. Prior to August 2009, he didn't even pay conservatives lip service except ones that came to his fundraisers. During his 2008 campaign he openly sneered at conservatives as much as Castle and Snowe. Everything that came out of Kirk's mouth sounded like typical moonbat rhetoric, like how he "stood up to President Bush and big oil's radical agenda" and how he's rated "better than Obama by the Sierra Club" blah blah blah. I figure after the Feb. 2010 primary is over, Kirk will be back to insulting conservatives as much as possible and endorsing Obama's pet priorities in order to endear himself to RATs and "independents".