“So, if you want to argue that Castle went against his party by not playing along with the game of endorsing an impeachment hearing on the floor of the house, you are absolutely correct.”
But doesn’t that just end it right there? The whole pro-Castle argument is that we need to have his 51st vote because he’s play on our team.
The fact of the matter is he doesn’t. When the Republican leadership comes up with a strategy, for whatever reason. They can’t count on him to play along because he’s a “maverick” who is going to go his own way, which usually means going with what the Democrats want.
Then nail him for THAT... not make up BS that he was FOR impeachment. It makes the TEA party look to be either liars and/or fools... just like the other parties.
Sure, if you want to say that the argument you’ve been making for the last 2 hours was a lie, but the truth also helps your cause, so it’s all good.
I could care less if you argue truthfully against Castle, in fact MOST freepers who are being castigated as “RINO-lovers” are really just wanting people to tell the truth and stop lying.
I have no doubt that if Castle is elected, there will be way too many times when he won’t go along with the leadership. I presume that O’Donnell will, so long as the leadership is doing what she wants. I also assume that if the leadership tries something conservatives don’t like, they will expect O’Donnell to OPPOSE the leadership, and NOT to vote with her party.
But knowing Castle isn’t conservative, and isn’t going to play with the team, doesn’t mean we should support lying about him. He didn’t support impeachment, he voted to STOP the impeachment bill.
Frankly, I think it was the right thing to do, because I don’t think playing politics with impeachment is a good thing; but it doesn’t matter, because his vote was meaningless, it was being killed by the democrats anyway.
But if he had voted YES to bring the bill to the floor, I have NO DOUBT that his opponents would be citing that vote to insist that he supported impeachment, and telling us that the other 166 republicans were just doing what they were told, but Castle wanted to impeach Bush and that’s why he voted to bring the bill to the floor.
And if he had skipped the vote like Tom Tancredo, his opponents would be saying he ducked the vote because he supported impeachment and didn’t want to go on-record about it.