“Castle’s defeat at the hands of Christine O’Donnell, a perennial candidate who may be the least qualified Senate nominee anywhere in the country, does indeed mark the final collapse of the Republican Party not only of Nelson Rockefeller and Tom Dewey, but also of Bob Dole and Howard Baker.”
He says that like it’s a BAD thing...
Bingo!
Howard Baker was a son-in-law of two old compromisers, Everett Dirksen and Alf Landon. Could anyone expect more of him?
My hero’s: Nelson Rockefeller, Bob Dole and (Tom Dewey? That was mid-last-century, right?).
Howard Baker I always had a positive impression of. He compromised as Majority Leader but it was 1980’s, we only had one house and Reagan. They did alright.
He’s clueless
I suspect he defines "qualified" as "supports the leftist agenda".