When I first read the headline of Dialogue Delaware’s recent story about Minority Leader Greg Lavelle’s predicament, “Lavelle Mulling Senate Bid,” I was confused. I thought for a brief moment the Republican Party had actually done something right and Lavelle was actually considering challenging Tom Carper. Alas, the News Journal blog post was about what we already knew: Lavelle is thinking about challenging Dr. Michael Katz in the 4th Senate District, because he has been redistricted into his Republican colleague Deborah Hudson’s 12th Representative District.
The news here is not that he is thinking about running for the State Senate, but that he has not already decided to do it. It is the obvious move. He says he is not challenging Hudson in a primary, nor should he, as that would not make sense. Because the obvious move is to run for the Senate in a new 4th District that was purposefully and stupidly made more Republican by an evil vengeful asshole named Tony DeLuca, whose own retirement from public life is hopefully in the near future.
But why is he playing it like is still trying to decide what to do? He can’t be really undecided, because unless he is going to retire or unless he is running against Carper, or for Governor, he is obviously running against Katz.
Insane and often times unwarranted bravado is key feature of any modern day Republican. So is Lavelle contemplating suicide runs against either Markell or Carper?