National Review ceased to be a reliably conservative publication over 20 years ago. I used to read the Corner occasionally until 2008 when it became a transparent pipe organ for Mitt Romney.
The Great One gets it right (again). Geraghty and Erickson are all about making a living and “going with the flow” (as Palin says). The Conservative cause is always subject to subordination for people such as these when it conflicts with their personal agenda.
The good news is that Christine O’Donnell is very likely to beat Castle and she is also quite likely to defeat Coons. This is going to screw up the arrangements of Plugs Biden who had foreseen Castle as a seat warmer for Beau Biden, a Republican whose vote he could count on (and who, according to reports from Delaware) has committed to switching parties after the election. Beau will have to face an incumbent in 2014 instead of a lame duck.
BTW, I have a theory that the ferocity of the attacks on COD is generated not so much by Castle himself as by his Democrat puppet masters who want to keep the seat in the Biden family. The “politics of personal destruction” character of the attacks appears to have a Democrat, Chicago-style flavor, and is uncharacteristically harsh for a Yankee elitist such as Castle.
Maybe we should establish a House of Lords so the elite’s children can inherit their seats in the Senate instead of going through all this trouble. Voting is so messy and you never really know what can happen.