Delaware was a “double or nothing” situation, and we wound up with nothing. Castle would have voted the right way maybe 50% of the time. O’Donnell would have been a solid conservative vote. Instead Biden’s seat will be held for at least the next 6 years by another cookie-cutter liberal (predicted ACU score: 0).
I agree with everything you say.
I promised myself some time ago that I would no longer be pragmatic with my principles. I would rather wait for four years to attack that seat again than apologize for supporting a conservative Republican nominee for the position. She was the nominee after all.
Had Mike Castle won the primary, I would have supported him with obvious reservations, but I would have supported him in the absence of a better candidate.