Last night I couldn’t believe Christine O’Donnell beat Mike Castle. I walked around stunned. How could this happen? And then I realized what happened. Why wouldn’t she win? For far too many years the entire Republican Party has fed their supporters a steady diet of issue-less tripe. They’ve run on liberty, freedom, real America, family values, Christian nation, etc. Even their claim of “less government” rings hollow due to lack of specifics. But today’s GOP doesn’t do specifics – they simply call their opponent names (commie lib, socialist, etc), question their Americanism, and wrap themselves in their god and the flag.
So why wouldn’t O’Donnell win? Ideology trump issues. That has been the GOP message for years. Last night establishment Republicans lost to their own strategy.