Why would Castle run for reelection to the House every two years since 1996, finally get his chance at an open Senate seat (as you know, Castle would have preferred Roth to retire in 1994 so that he could have run straight for the Senate that year instead of having to bide his time in the House), get elected, and then immediately resign so as to let Joe Biden’s son get the Senate seat? That doesn’t make a lick of sense. Castle is a liberal, not a lunatic.
That Castle might switch to the Democrats someday ... sure, I could see that perhaps happening in the future, but only if it was in Castle’s selfish interests to do so, which would certainly not be the case after the GOP takes back both the House and Senate this year. If Castle didn’t switch to the Democrats before the 2006 or (especially) 2008 elections, when having an R next to his name was a huge liability and when he could have been in the majority party in the House, he certainly won’t switch before 2014 (when his seat is up). And whether or not he switches in 2014, I think that we need to get a solid, non-gadfly conservative to run against him that year.
I don’t want to “reward” Castle, but I don’t want to reward Coons either. We lost our chance to have a conservative win this seat when the only persons filing to run in the GOP primary were the RINO Castle and the Joe-Walsh-like O’Donnell. I think that we need to cut our loses and elect Castle for the four years remaining in Biden’s term, elect conservatives to downballot races, and have one of them run against Castle in 2014. I can understand if you cannot countenance supporting Castle even as part of a long-term strategy, so we’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
A well thought out adult opinion.
Remember DE is very blue state. Like MA, did conservatives really expect anone better than Brown? We weren’t likely to get a Jim DeMint in either case in these states in 2009/2010.
You view Castle through the prism of an honorable figure, I do not. What I’ve seen as I’ve gotten older is a real concerted effort by RINOs to collude with Democrats to the point that they are a common enemy and proponent of creeping Socialism, and an attempt to have liberals in control BOTH parties. I didn’t mean to say Castle would immediately switch and resign, but he would do so at an appointed time designed to maximize damage to the Conservative movement (Mark Kirk in IL will do the same, one reason he must be defeated in favor of the crook).
I am no longer an automatic vote or supporter of Republicans if they don’t favor open, reformist Conservative causes, and Castle is NOT our ally and I won’t merely support or endorse him on the fallacy that “only he can win.” OK, he wins, then what ? Have a guy in there who literally HATES Conservatives and reformist activists ? If electing Republicans like that is our only viable option, there’s no need for this party to exist. We should stop with the subterfuge and have these folks admit they’re both in the same boat. Better to have Coons and face the enemy head on than have Castle standing behind us with knife in hand ready to shank us at a key moment. Or have Jeffords, Specter, Chafee, Crist, Lisa Murkowski, et al taught us nothing ?