I would rather see a Democrat win there than Castle. If we have to have Democrat I would prefer him to carry the proper Democrat label rather than being a nominal Republican.
I would rather see a Democrat win there than Castle.
I agree. Mike Castle is more sinister operating as a Republican Senator than a Democrat operating as a Democrat, regardless of the majority party business. As a FR poster said the other day, he gives the Left (e.g. Obama/Reid/Pelosi) cover, especially considering Media manipulation.
Given the Republican Party as the same joke as Democrats on honesty, conservatism, citizen responsibility, and the deep cultural reversal we desperately need, Representatives like Castle with an (R) behind their name are in the long term, and this is a long term struggle to the end, are the most devastating agents possible.
Castle, McCain, Snowe, Collins, Graham, these are the problem, far more than a declared Democrat whom we can always show up graphically, by Party ideology, as those who foster irresponsibility for their own power. But the "hands across the aisle" business confuses the long term argument, exacerbated by the Media. Indeed this is exactly what the Left is after.
Both of these candidates may be personally flawed, as we all are, but disregarding that, the essential struggle here is for the electorate to make the statement, even if O'Donnell loses in the general election. It crystallizes the sides and the politics. And that is desperately needed, much much more than the sad complicity and "pragmatism" of the elitists like Castle or those who think he gives leverage.
I will never forget it was a Republican Senator who declared at Clinton's impeachment trial, we can't afford to lose a President. That, the Kelo decision, the accommodation of an illegal invasion, the plunge into government dependence, financing corrupt global rapists like G-S, makes the (R) behind someone's name the same joke as (D). Anyone who tries to defend a vote through existing party ideologies or power plays is smoking something.
The Tea Party has it right.
Johnny Suntrade