He reemerges into human form to give a quote to the Cape Gazette:
Dave Burris, former Sussex County Republican chairman, said, “It exposes a division that’s already there between the party structure, unions and Democratic Party. Certainly, it’s advantageous to Republicans when Democrats are at each others’ throats.”
Dana over at Delaware Watch explores the stupidity of this statement more thoroughly than I can. But my thought is that the Delaware Republican Party is not in any position to take advantage of any possible division among the Democrats. To put it bluntly, the Delaware Republican Party does not exist currently as a viable opposition party. As I told Tyler Nixon last night, the Delaware GOP is rebuilding, and I have a sense that so long as the national party continues to embrace social conservatism, religious fundamentalism and neocon authoritiarianism as its distinguishing philosophies, the Delaware GOP will always be rebuilding, much like the Pittsburgh Pirates.
And this year, there is no advantage the Delaware GOP can take, when they are running a fire breathing religious fundamentalist against Joe Biden, when Castle and Lee look like poster boys for a retirement golfing community, and when the rising star of the party, Charlie Copeland, is in fact a left over relic from the du Pont era.