Breaking: Christine O’Donnell Giving Mike Castle Primary Challenge “serious consideration”
There are persistent rumors coming out to the “pro-life” community that Christine O’Donnell is going to primary Michael Castle.
I have been unable to get a direct comment out of the O’Donnell camp, but sources say the primary challenge is being given “serious consideration.”
Delaware’s highly organized pro-life community sees itself as increasing cut off from the Republican party and especially cut off from Michael Castle whose high profile Stem cell research advocacy is, in their view, tantamount to advocating abortion.
Castle’s office has been contacted, but has yet to comment on this development.
As if Castle needed another reason to retire.
An open primary would be VERY interesting, though.
I think this might cloud the retirement issue. He certainly would not want to hand off the baton to O’Donnell and I don’t know who the country club R’s would run against her.
With her installed base, she could be very dangerous in an open primary.
To clarify: Castle would easily survive, but an O’Donnell primary challenge would chip away and possibly eliminate his 9% margin with the electorate. Most voters in Delaware are not aware Castle is basically pro-choice (yes, even with his stem-cell bill. Call me cynical). But after an O’Donnell primary, there would be nobody who didn’t know.
And the R’s would have a hard time coming up with a sane Republican to counter Christine in the primary.
All she’s gotta do is send me nekkid pitchers and she’ll swing my vote.
As to the point of ‘chipping away’; its a primary. She would be long gone by the general election.
Easily? I don’t think so. He’d survive, but in some ways he is more vunerable in a primary than a general election.
The sleep-walking-middle-of-the-roader’s that he depends on to absently mindedly pull the lever would be taken out of the mix.
Here’s another thought: If this rumor plays out, the R leadership better give up on Castle NOW, or else be prepared to give Christine something really good in exchange for sitting it out.
Do the religious right whackos have a stance on shaving vs. waxing? And if so, what styles are permissible? I figure Christine needs to broaden her platform to appeal to more voters, and her standing up and lecturing on this important issue would be well received.
I don’t follow this enough to know, but wouldn’t this be an even bigger opening for a Dem since they will be fracturing now?
It would make the race more attractive to any Dem considering taking on Castle. If the primary turned out to be very nasty it would be good news for the challenger.
Primaries don’t bother me, so I am OK with that. It’s this statement that has me riled up:
“Delaware’s highly organized pro-life community sees itself as increasing cut off from the Republican party…”
Please tell me you are kidding about that. They have numbers, yet they are part of our polarization problem from within! Then consider who usually walks in tandem with them, which O’Donnell is also a part of, and then you get the other conspirator that creates our polarization problem. If they really feel they are cut off, then their view must be total domination or nothing at all. What a joke. Maybe if they could concentrate a little better on the Senate races. Instead, as is usually the focus of their effort, they choose to eat one of their own; well, they will never admit he is their “own.”
This is nothing but Democratic wishful thinking.
Keep telling yourself that.
yeah right jason, like you could talk to a pro-lifer without screaming and showering them with spittle in full moonbat mode.
You got me all wrong. I’m pro-life. That’s why I was against the Iraq war from the start, just like you.
Never could figure out how the core GOP reconciled being pro-life with pro-war.
Oh wait, oh wait. I know; its “faith” (common answer that means nothing but is put forth as the indisputable argument).
Good points. Ms. O’Donnell is one of those warmongering pro-lifers.
You have to love such intellectual consistency. She really does make Castle look palatable.
Where’d you hear this? Linky link?
moonbat dictionary
national defense = murder
(excpet for leftist governments, then it’s just breaking a few eggs to make an omelet)
National Defense? What National Defense? Has the terrorist problem gotten better or worse since invading a pissant dictatorship? And if we count the soldiers lives lost to terrorism as a result of being where we shouldn’t, the answer goes from “Worse” to “A lot worse.”