About primary night, Celia writes:
McCain’s chief backer in Delaware was Congressman Mike Castle, the face of the Delaware Republican Party since he was elected governor in 1984.
Mike Castle, the face of the Republican party since 1984. That is a succinct explanation for why the DE GOP has fallen apart. Sure, George Bush has demolished the GOP on a national level, but other states still have functioning Republican parties.
Other state Republican parties still developed down ticket candidates. Other state GOP’s still get more that 2 people to an RD for a special election. Many can still get legit people to run for Governor.
Not here. The DE GOP is defunct. Moribund. Dead.
And nobody has ever given me a good explanation why Mike Castle does not get any of the blame for that. He is a leader with no leadership skills. He is lacking any sense of his role as the head of the party.
He, literally, could not be more useless to Republicans working in the trenches here in Delaware.