It really is a classic. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell lambasts the President for getting the award because …. wait for it…. the President should be more belligerent and desirous of war. Before we get to that point of the rant, let’s review something that she gets wrong in her third sentence of her guest post:

It’s highly unlikely that they nominated him on the merits of his predecessor, so I am a bit confused about which accomplishments as a community organizer qualified him for this award.

Ah, Christine! That is precisely why the award was made: his predecessor. I will let Kavips explain:

He won the prize not because he was so good… but because: THE REPUBLICANS WERE SO BAD. Horrible really, a national disgrace.. America is paying the price for it today.

This metaphor best describes it.

It’s as if one drained a sewer and let nature take over. Those who stood at its lip and quaffed at the odious stench a year ago, returned one year later to see a few blades of grass and flowers sprouting… noticed a tremendous difference… And to anyone living near that sewer, the difference is cataclysmic… No smell, no putridness, no gagging, all traits experienced under the Republican leadership…

So some credit is due. Obama drained the sewer. But it needs to be remembered, his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009, is not a measure of how he was so great.. he is normal… It reflects instead, that the Republican Party is so vile, stinky, with a putrid smell that makes one vomit, that any improvement, however slight, is welcome.

Get it Christine. The predecessor, George W. Bush, that you admire so much was so God awful that he just may have won his successor the Nobel Peace Prize for the sole accomplishment of NOT being George W. Bush or a Republican. So, you got it wrong, President Obama did not win the Nobel Peace Prize on the merits of his predecessor, he won it on the demerits of him.

But let’s continue with Christine’s rant:

So let’s take a look at what he’s done to achieve world peace during the first few months of his Presidency. […]

In the past few months, the Obama Administration has cut our missile defense spending in the midst of a pending nuclear war, turned its back on Israel in her own fight against Iran, denied access the best equipment for our military, but takes regular jaunts overseas for great photo-ops.

So, let me get this straight, Christine wants nuclear war with Iran and an unnecessary and massive taxpayer spending on the F-22 and a missile defense shield, and with those two objectives she foresees, what? Well, I don’t know what she foresees, but it is not peace. I always love the delicious hypocrisy of a Republican decrying wasteful spending in Washington all the while demanding more and more unnecessarily wasteful military spending. Indeed, Christine gets in a few shots at the President in her crazed diatribe about wasting taxpayer money on the President’s trips abroad. Ok, so in Christine’s world, spending taxpayer money for the President to travel overseas for diplomatic summits and multinational conferences is bad, but spending taxpayer money on a war with Iran, on an absurdly wasteful military boondoggle known as the missile shield, and on unnecessary F-22 fighter planes, not to mention escalating the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, well, all of that spending is ok.

Let’s be honest here. Republicans are in full freak mode today over the Nobel Peace Prize because they do not like the Nobel Peace Prize. They do not like diplomacy. They do not like international cooperation. They do not like the pursuit of a real peace. They will say they want peace, but the peace they seek is a Pax Americana, where America achieves peace through the forced subjugation of the entire planet. What they like is bombs, body counts and war. For that is what brings them their peace.

Add to that the fact that Republicans really really really, and I mean really hate President Obama. He drives them bonkers, rabidly insane. So when you have President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, you have the recipe for Peak Wingnut. A perfect storm of conservative self immolation that would be hysterical if these same conservatives were not also in control of this nation’s only viable minority party.

Yes, you read that right.

The conventional wisdom is that Castle’s entrance into the Senate race not only makes this race competitive, but also makes Castle the likely winner of the race no matter who he faces. However, Public Policy Polling says that if Beau Biden runs, Democrats still favored to keep the seat.

When we polled the state in March Castle was leading Biden 44-36. But not surprisingly his name recognition was also ten points higher. Among respondents who had an opinion of Biden, whether it was positive or negative, the Democrat led 43-41. And the undecideds in such a scenario were 64% Democratic to 12% Republican, as well as 35% African American.

So Castle’s early poll leads are largely a function of name recognition, and given his nearly 30 years in statewide office really aren’t that substantial.

By this time next year everyone in Delaware’s going to know who Beau Biden is. Democrats who have a positive opinion of both Castle and Biden and are torn about who to vote for are more likely to be influenced by Joe Biden as a candidate surrogate than anyone Republicans could possibly send to the state. And if it’s necessary Barack Obama will come in to reach out to those blacks who were only giving Biden 52% of the vote on our poll earlier this year (and folks don’t realize that Delaware has one of the highest black populations in the country.)

Although it’s not a perfect comparison, when Delaware voters had the choice between a popular old politician and a popular young politician in 2000 they chose Tom Carper over incumbent Bill Roth by a 56-44 margin in an election cycle that you would have to describe as pretty much a wash nationally.

Interesting. Jason Scott thinks that Beau Biden will not make the race. So that probably means he will. Just kidding, Jason. Seriously, I think Beau Biden will run if only to fulfill his role in the family mythology. His father won his Senate race by beating a long time incumbent, and while this is an open seat, that is what Mike Castle is, a 28 year statewide incumbent.

Castle is in. I must say I am pretty surprised by his decision. Everything over the past year, from his anemic fundraising to his delays in announcing to his lukewarm uninterested comments on the race to his wife’s desire for a Florida retirement to his confrontations with the Crazy Eileens of downstate to his health and his age all led me to believe that Castle was calling it a day.

He is going to get serious competition for the race, whether that be in the form of Beau Biden, John Carney or Matt Denn. The Democrats are not going to just give away a Senate seat just because “The Delaware Way” demands it. Indeed, I still find it hard to believe that Castle is going to run a competitive campaign, but that is probably because I have never seen Castle run a competitive campaign. I was 16 in 1992, the last real competitive campaign he had. Will he raise enough money for the race? And if he doesn’t, does he have a committment from the NRSC or the RNC?

And what does his decision mean for the rest of state wide races. As we know, former Lt. Governor John Carney is running for Congress. Local right wing whackjob Christine O’Donnell is running for Senate, which means Castle will have a primary, but probably not a competitive one that he will have to worrry about.

So now all eyes turn to Attorney General Beau Biden. Will he or won’t he? The Delaware Way requires that Biden run for reelection as AG in 2010, and then he can run for Senate in 2014 when Castle really retires. But is that what he is going to do? It might be the smart thing for him to do, since he has been away from the state serving honorably in Iraq for a year. But will he face pressure from national Democrats, including his Vice Presidential father, to run now? And if he doesn’t run, will John Carney or Matt Denn run in his place? And if either one of them does run for Senate, does the other run for the House? And if not, who runs for the House? Beau? New Castle County Executive Chris Coons? State Senator Mike Katz?

Oh the fun is just beginning.