You want villains in the Delaware race??? How about Karl Rove who savagely attacked her, no doubt because he had a lucrative deal in place as a consultant to Comrade Castle, the George McGovern of the Delaware "GOP," the windtunnel Delaware yacht club "GOP" leaders, Muffy and Skipper down at the polo club, Junior Leaguers, babykillers, lavender Louies, environmentalwhackos, and the spineless cowards and traitors such as Cornyn who run the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee into the ground in their rank lust for electing establishment footstools to Senate seats across the land.
They wanted Alaska's pro-abort and utterly corrupt Princess of Privilege and hereditary senator Moocowski re-nominated and when they were thwarted by the mere GOP voters of Alaska who had the nerve to nominate an actual Republican in Joe Miller, the NRSCC then squandered funds attacking the unelectable Demonrat until Moocowski inherited his Demonrat votes and generally gave Miller the back of their hand. Moocowski re-elected and making the seat safe for the corruption for which her family and the senior GOP senators are known. Oh, golly, another case where conservatives are JUST unelectable!!! When will they ever learn to leave politics to the corrupt corps of money mandarins who know that politics is all about cash, payoffs, subsidies, fat contracts, big jobs with bigger paychecks and absolutely NEVER about principles and policies, which are just sucker bait for the dimwits.
Fortunately, Christine will have a million dollar fund as a base for purging the unprincipled idiots who tried to nominate Comrade Castle. More power to her. Coons isn't very bright and, through a reflexively Marxist and social revolutionary and anti-American voting record, he will help spoil the franchise for liberalism in Delaware.
Apparently the Utah message of purging Bennett did not sink in yet. Next time, we will see a lot more useful primaries to reform the spineless GOP Senate caucus.
If Comrade Castle had been nominated, nothing vaguely cognizable as "We" would have had any way of winning that race. Comrade Castle is not US. He is also an embarrassingly old fossil to be seeking a freshman term as a Senator but I digress.
In 2006, the powers that be in the Delaware GOP recruited some unknown clueless RINO to be their sacrificial lamb against powerful Democrat Tom Carper. Ting is a professor who teaches classes about immigration law at the Temple University School of Law, and no prior political involvement. Nevertheless, the Delaware GOP insisted he was the only “credible” GOP candidate, and dismissed the other two Republicans (Mike Protack and Christine O’Donnell, both of whom were far more passionate and would have pushed hard in the general election) as “not serious candidates”. Ting had no clue how to run a campaign, so the state party wasted a ton of money and resources to primary to promote him, and forced him down the throats of GOP primary voters by marginalizing the other candidates. After winning the primary, Ting provided to be a complete dud in the general election, providing only token “opposition” to Castle. He had absolutely no platform to campaign on, no stance on any issue besides immigration, and basically phoned-in his campaign with a completely unappealing message of “I’m not Tom Carper” Carper steamrolled the guy and Ting finished with under 30%. Because state Republicans had wasted so much time on the worthless RINO Senate candidate, they did not pay attention to other races down the ticket and Republicans got killed down the ballot. Ting later showed his true colors and endorsed Obama in 2008, campaigning for him.
The exact same scenario played out in Illinois during the 2008 primary, only this time it was a unknown family medical doctor , Steve Sauerberg, who the state party proclaimed was the “only credible candidate”, and threw the other Republicans (who were much more vigorous choices) under the bus. Sauerberg, a political newcomer, was clueless about every issue aside from medical issues. The IL GOP likewise wasted all their time and money to get the inept Sauerberg through the primary, who went on to crash and burn in the general election against Dick Durbin, and also ran an issue-less “I’m not Dick Durbin” campaign message. And just like Ting, also finished with less than 30% of the statewide vote. A truly pathetic choice. And just like Delaware, all the lower races suffered from wasting time propping up the RINO Senate candidate.
A parallel between O’Donnell’s 2008 Senate race can also be drawn to Illinois, in this case our 2002 Senate race. At the time, the state party was pre-occupied with other stuff (in Illinois case, running Jim Ryan for Governor), so they sat on their hands in the Senate primary. As a result, a decent conservative candidate (O’Donnell in Delaware 2008, Jim Durkin in Illinois 2002), emerged as the party’s nominee. The state party was perfectly fine with that person as their nominee (and said so at the time), but provided them with zero help during the general election. Nevertheless they made a decent showing with money, and actually ran far better than the “credible” RINO the state party had insisted on in a different election cycle.
Now fast forward to 2010…the RINOs in the state party see an open seat and want to run a well-known socialist DIABLO Congressman who is completed wedded to Obama’s agenda (Castle in DE, Kirk in IL). The decent conservative who had previously been the party’s nominee says the DIABLO sucks and floats the possibility of running against the DIABLO.
Immediately, the state party savagely attacks their OWN prior nominee, claiming so-and-so is too right-wing and will scare away the voters and dredging up all kinds of lies about them. In Illinois, they succeed to beating the decent conservative into submission because they have the combine to silence him. In Delaware, the decent conservative persists and ends up on the primary ballot. In both cases, the state party uses every tool possible to assist the DIABLO in the primary campaign, and flat out hides his treasonous record and tells conservative voters that he’s a good guy at heart. They profess that we MUST elect this DIABLO to be the “41st vote” and claim that only the DIABLO can stop a “disastrous” lame duck session, etc., etc.
You can figure out the rest. Had Castle been elected, he would be right there with Mark Kirk to sit down with Dick Durbin and decide what socialist policies they want to enact together.
So while there’s no combine in Delaware, the powers-that-be at the Delaware GOP seem every bit as slimy as their IL GOP counterparts. It’s time to take out the trash there.