DE GOP Goes full on crazy – OR – In a room full of deranged nutbags, could you spot the VERY deranged nutbags?
NEWT IN THE STRAW
By Celia Cohen
Grapevine Political WriterNewt has his surge here, too.
Newt Gingrich, who has been left for dead in politics enough times to be the envy of Richard Nixon, nevertheless nudged out Mitt Romney in a modest presidential straw poll, taken Wednesday evening by the state Republicans at a Delaware Day dinner.
The tally had Gingrich with 39 votes, Romney with 38 votes, Rick Santorum from neighboring Pennsylvania with six votes, Ron Paul with five votes, and five other candidates splitting another 10 votes, including two write-ins for Sarah Palin.
These crazy finding are significant, because it wasn’t the a Sussex County 9-12 Patriot Racism fest presided over by a WGMD disc jockey. This was an actual DE GOP event and the straw polled were the party officials and delegates who basically run the show.
I just did the math and 62% of Delaware Republicans taking part voted for candidates with either very slim, or no chance of winning in the general.
I guess it is safe to say that the DE GOP has been fully co-opted by the lunatic fringe.
I didn’t think that the moderates would give up so easily.
@Jason – “I guess it is safe to say that the DE GOP has been fully co-opted by the lunatic fringe”
I was just thinking the same thing……
CRAZY is the new NORMAL for the Republicans
The DE GOPers and the GOP candidates for president are all “very deranged nutbags.”
When I get down on people like John Carney and Tom Carper, I have to remind myself that at least they don’t want Newt, Romney or Palin to be the President of the United States.
In 2009 I kept telling myself at least they didn’t want the GOP to control the House. By 2010 I had changed my mind.
I never thought that. About Carper anyway.