“I do understand Castle was a RINO squish and a walking turncoat. But winning the Senate in 2010 was really important.”
It’s this kind of thinking that is killing us politically. Nominating people who seem to have a monopoly on being straight up ASSHOLES, like Castle, gives us Boehner’s approval rating. Also, do you think some grand conservative agenda would have been passed in a Republican senate full of McLames? If you nominate LIBERALS, no matter who controls the senate, the laws passed will be LIBERAL.
Sometimes you have to take what you can get. We are not going to elect a conservative stalwart in Delaware right now. It’s just not going to happen. O’Donnell was not even electable and ended up losing by something like 18 points.
Democrats run fake “conservatives” and “moderates” in red states in order to deny us seats. They understand the importance of the vote for leadership. They know the likes of Pryor, Begich, Heitkamp, are going to vote against the party fairly regularly, but it’s worth it for them to deny us a seat. Those senators vote for Dem leadership and give them procedural votes as needed.
In Delaware in 2010 we could have denied the Democrats a seat. That’s the best we could do there at that time. We’d get a vote for our leadership and on most procedural votes. It’s really not that complicated, we need to be nominating the most conservative candidate that CAN win.