Posted on 09/09/2010 7:59:53 AM PDT by MarkLevinFan
In any other election cycle, at any other moment in Delaware's political history, Mike Castle would be coasting to victory. A two-time governor and longtime member of Congress, Castle, 71, has $2.6 million in the bank, a statewide approval rating in the high 60s and the backing of just about every official Republican institution in the country, including the Delaware state party, which in May endorsed him to run for Vice President Joe Biden's old Senate seat.
But in Castle's more than 40 years as a politician, he has never had to deal with someone quite like Amy Kremer, a former flight attendant from Atlanta who arrived in Delaware on Tuesday, only one week before the Sept. 14 Republican primary. Hours later, she gathered reporters and activists in a Wilmington hotel to officially christen Castle the latest target of the voter rebellion known as the Tea Party. "The time has come for us to put down the protest signs and pick up the campaign signs and get engaged," Kremer announced, adding that her group would spend at least $250,000 to oust the Delaware GOP's political patriarch in favor of Christine O'Donnell, a tenacious conservative pundit and Tea Party standard bearer. "We have stood on the sidelines for long enough," Kremer said.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Just 5 days left!
Good luck..
Thanks!
I was going to say WTF are you doing slumming around on “Time”?
But that was actually a pretty balanced article void of the “usual” tea party
bashing. Can’t believe a Libtard rag is taking us seriously.
Yes, that thought had crossed my mind, as well. ;-)
We can cross anywhere we want... We cross anywhere we want.... We are Americans.
Surrender.... so we can rebuild your sorry ass society into a new a better world.
GO CHRISTINE!!!
No surprise that Time would want to beat the guy with the best chance against the RAT candidate. Hence, no anti-TP rhetoric.
Here’s hoping republicans will no longer buy the “any republican is better than a democrat” nonsense. Castle has voted with Hussein more than many democrats.
C’mon freepers and Tea Partiers!!! Vote the RINO OUT!!!
Time magazine should be avoided at all cost. The sooner they go belly-up, the better.
Go Christine!
BTTT
Sarah Palin just OFFICIALLY endorsed Christine O’Donnell on Hannity’s radio show
WooHoo!
Can you tell me IF (a very big if, I know),
IF Castle would to lose in the republican primary, is it possible for him to still appear on the ballot in general election? Or if the candidate loses the primary, that’s it.
The reason I am asking is that - I’m in north Wilmington area. The sort of priuses and volvos that used to have Obama stickers now sport Mike Castle for Senate sign. I wonder if he’s peeling away liberals’ votes.
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