Thanks to commenter John Manifold for pointing us to this post at Delaware Grapevine. Sussex County Republicans celebrated a belated Lincoln Day event and Michelle Rollins was one of the featured speakers. She sounds like she’s going to run:
“Four score and seven days ago, I awoke with a dread that said I can throw my shoe at the TV, but Nancy Pelosi does not go away,” Rollins said.
“It is time for those of us who believe in our American system to put aside our wonderful lives and say, the American system is too important to us to sit back and hope that someone fixes it.
“I’m not here to announce tonight, but I’m here to tell you I’m very close in the process to making that decision, because we cannot allow our grandchildren to be deprived of the lives and opportunities we had growing up as children in America.”
From Cohen’s reporting, it sounds like Republicans are already doing a touchdown dance and Mike Castle is measuring the curtains for his new Senate office. Neil Newhouse, the pollster for Scott Brown and perhaps for Michelle Rollins, was the event’s featured speaker.
“This is the single best year for the Republicans since 1994. If you ever wanted to run for office as a Republican, this is the year,” Newhouse said — with one caveat. “Scott Brown’s election was an early wakeup call for the Democrats. This is why it’s not 1994 all over again.”
Apparently Republicans are calling the Brown victory the “Teddy Turnaround.” This more than anything makes me want to make sure that neither Mike Castle nor Michelle Rollins go to Washington, D.C. next year.