The establishment is really turning all its gears to make sure Mike Castle gets elected to the Senate. Politico just published an article on something Chris Coons wrote for a college newspaper in 1985.
An article Democrat Chris Coons wrote for his college newspaper may not go over so well in corporation-friendly Delaware, where he already faces an uphill battle for Vice President Joe Biden’s old Senate seat.
The title? “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist.”
In the article, Coons, then 21 years old and about to graduate from Amherst College, chronicled his transformation from a sheltered, conservative-minded college student who had worked for former GOP Delaware Sen. William Roth and had campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1980 into a cynical young adult who was distrustful of American power and willing to question the American notion of free enterprise.
Chris Coons really does have an interesting background for a politician. He’s worked in non-profit public service, in the private sector and now as a politician. Leave it to Politico to make that sound like a bad thing. Did Mike Castle get a bad internal poll or something?
The source of his conversion, Coons wrote, was a trip to Kenya he took during the spring semester of his junior year—a time away from America, he wrote, that served as a “catalyst” in altering a conservative political outlook that he was growing increasingly uncomfortable with.
I guess the establishment would rather talk about Coons’s college days than talk about Mike Castle’s record. Just remember Republican Mike Castle’s record of hypocrisy: he voted against equal pay for women, against economic stimulus, against tax cuts for the middle class, against health care reform and against financial reform. He’s voted for budget-busting programs like wars for imaginary WMDs, tax cuts for the rich and deregulating banks.