Of course, the person who loses the general election ultimately winds up with a rating of 0, no matter how much red meat they throw the crowd.
He’s one of 8 “R’s” who voted for cap and tax.
Asking me to vote for a cap and traitor is one of those times where they party asks too much.
DEFEAT MIKE CASTLE !
(Without the histrionics)
...that won’t last long...
The O’Donnell campaign team has an good cyber-squad who are generating a lot of noise on the net.
when castle said he voted for tarp without reading it he lost my vote for good. i cant vote for someone who simply votes yes or no without reading what they vote on
The guy is a Socialist. Get rid of him no matter what. It is going to take years and a total collapse to return to the Constitution. There is no way to ‘grow’ out of this mess. No economic model will save a busted Ponzi Scheme.
The flaw in Castle's logic is that no one is saying that Obamacare can be repealed while Obama is in the WH. Rather, repealing Obamacare is a long term goal and objective.
The Dems had no problem of advocating the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" while Bush was in the WH. On issue after issue, the Dems never lose sight of their objective even when the answer is initially no. The just keep pushing and pushing until they achieve their goal. The Reps just adapt to what they believe is the immediate reality and don't have a long term strategy to roll back institutionalized socialism.
Ah, the old “Vote for a Slimy RINO Because He’s Electable” argument. Sorry, tlb, I’m not buying. We don’t fix D.C. by electing the same people who helped create the current mess.
Mike Castle: Wrong on all the right issues! Retire him!
reldimI haven't followed this one closely and I'm interested in what others think of this comment.09/07/10 14:44
I don't like Mike Castle. But somebody really needs to make the case about why O'Donnell is a good candidate beyond just "she's not Mike Castle." The basic argument I hear is "she's a conservative". Okay, granted. But she's also a disaster and strikes me as a basket case. She is her own opposition research.
A conservative can win in Delaware. But I do not believe that this particular conservative can win in Delaware. And I think the movement beclowns itself by latching on to flawed candidates in the name of purity. Are we really saying Christine O'Donnell is the best candidate conservatives could find in Delaware? If that's true maybe we shouldn't win any elections there.
Continuing with the policy of “Vote for X because at least they aren’t a Democrat” will leave us with a Senate full of squishy Republicans who can’t be counted on the make the hard decisions that we all know have to be made. We need to nominate honest-to-God conservatives and work to elect them. Will it cost a seat or two in states like California or Delaware? Perhaps. But perhaps not. People voted for hope and change two years ago and got kicked in the teeth with too much change and too little hope. Maybe this is the year that a true conservative can win in states like Delaware, and could have won in California. We’ll never know about the later, but we still have a chance on the former.
| 2008 | Bailout$ | Auto$ | 2009 | Cap&Trade | FDA/Food | Healthcare | |||||
| Representative | HR1424 | District | HR7321 | District | Representative | HR2454 | District | HR2749 | District | HR3962 | District |
| Castle, Michael [R] | Yea | DE-0 | Aye | DE-0 | Castle, Michael [R] | Aye | DE-0 | Yea | DE-0 | No | DE-0 |
All the GOP does when it spends all this effort electing Leftists Democrats in everything but name is help advance the Progressive Fascist Democrat's agenda while ensuring the GOP get tagged with an equal share of the blame with Democrats when these Democrat policy items fail in voters minds.
Spending all this time and energy trying to elect a political traitor in waiting is utterly moronic.
Why are the RNC drones so incapable of learning the lessons of history? Reagan won by offering a choice not an echo, McCain got his head handed to him in 2008 by offering an echo, not a choice. In a choice between Dem and Dem lite, the Dem wins.
Simple.
Castle voted for Cap & Trade.
Any Congressman who voted for Cap & Trade is either a TRAITOR or simply too stupid to hole pulic office. No Exceptions.
All Must be Removed.
More support for a RINO politician from a RINO magazine.
American Conservative Union
Most conservatives start any analysis of voting records by studying the member’s score from the ACU. Castle receives a dismal 52% lifetime average with eh ACU. It is important to keep in mind that the ACU ratings are not nearly as comprehensive as some of the other rating systems. They merely pick 20 votes per year that are extremely high profile and fundamental to ideological alignment. In other words, just because someone scores in the 80’s or even 90’s with the ACU, doesn’t mean that they are stellar conservatives. Quite the contrary, someone who scores near 50%, indicates that they vote with the radical left on 50% of the core issues. This doesn’t even factor in their support for hundreds of lower profile big government votes.
It is also important to note that there is a distinct trend with all of the RINO’s in terms of their ACU scores. They all make a concerted effort to become significantly more liberal the longer they stay in Congress. Therefore, the future trajectory of their pending voting record will be even more disastrous than their past lifetime average would indicate. In the case of Mike Castle, he actually scored in the 20’s in 05, 07, and 08. He has only moved slightly to the right during the past year and a half because of his Senate bid. Anyone who thinks that he will not slide back to the 20’s and vote against repealing any of the Obama agenda if elected, obviously has no concept of congressional history.
Club for Growth
Castle scores a horrendous 43% from CFG for 2009. Again, since his announced Senate bid he has been much more conservative than previous years. In 07 and 08 he earned a 35% and 26% respectively. In every year, Castle has had the most liberal voting record of any member of the 175+ Republican caucus. So in 2008, when Arlen Specter scored a 44%, Mike Castle scored a 26%! The CFG ratings give us more of an idea of how much of a statist the member is than the ACU.
Guns
Castle garners an F from the NRA and Gun Owners of America. In fact, he hasn’t earned anything but a 0, F, or F- from a pro 2nd amendment group since the early 90’s. Nuff’ said.
Life
Castle has consistently earned a 0 from the National Right to Life, while usually scoring a perfect 100% from NARAL and Planned Parenthood.
I am not by any means one of those persons who claims that only someone as liberal as Mike Castle can win in Delaware; a conservative with adequate experience and the right profile can win in Delaware or pretty much anywhere. If a conservative who had served with distinction in the state legislature, been successful in the business world or a decorated military veteran, who was an eloquent exponent of conservative principles with the ability to connect with voters, and who in general had proven to be responsible, honest and trustworthy, was running against Castle in the primary, I would support such a conservative candidate because I think that Delaware could well support him or her for the U.S. Senate. However, no such candidate filed to run against Mike Castle; only Christine O’Donnell filed. And Christine O’Donnell is none of those things. Christine O’Donnell can’t win not because she’s conservative; she can’t win because she’s a dishonest, irresponsible gadfly, and if she was a liberal Republican she couldn’t win a general election either (she might win as a liberal Democrat, though, because if Delaware voters gave John Kerry a 53%-46% majority over President Bush, they obviously don’t set a very high bar for liberal Democrats to clear).
Conservatives lost this Senate seat the second that the filing deadline passed and only Castle and O’Donnell had filed to run. This was a wasted opportunity, but we can’t turn back time. The next Senator from DE will be either RINO Mike Castle (with his 52 ACU rating) or the liberal Democrat Coons (who will likely compile a single-digit ACU rating if elected). I think that it behooves us to take the half loaf in Mike Castle and start looking for a qualified conservative to challenge him in the 2012 primary. In the meantime, whether DE elects Castle or Coons could well be the difference between having conservative Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (with the power to clamp down on Obama’s judicial nominations) and having ultraliberal Democrat Pat Leahy remain as Chairman. Conservatives like us would normally crawl through broken glass to replace Leahy with Sessions as Chairman of Judiciary; this time, we are not required to crawl through broken glass to obtain such result, only to hold our noses and vote for the RINO over a candidate that is conservative (and cute), but very, very flawed.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
I want a government that will secure my unalienable Rights. That includes the right to own property and to keep the fruit of my labor. For this I'm tarred as a hateful, bigoted, right wing extremist by RINO's, MSM, and democrats everywhere. If candidates like McCain and Castle won't pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to uphold those principals, I want nothing to do with them.
To quote Lincoln: . Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world, if I can help to save it. If it cannot be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
Has O’Donnell made a public statement on pro-life?
National Review and Geraghty are still at it, shilling for Castle (like they did for McShame).
Consider the competing sources in this race: Rush, Malkin, Ingraham, and Levin for O’Donnell vs. National Review, Weakley Standard, Bill Kristol, Hugh Hewitt, and Michael Medved for Castle.
Who are you going to line up with?