Ping!!
Wow, I thought we had wised up but then I see an article like this. The choice was clear: run a RINO and win, run a conservative and lose. People chose the latter. Now, that’s fine, and I will not second guess their choices, so long as they don’t second guess the results. Mike Castle would have won. Christine lost. End of story. Was it worth it to run a candidate more in line with conservatism and lose? Or would it have been better to run a RINO who may or may not be in your corner? Not sure, but it is what it is. This internecine finger-pointing is stupid beyond measure.
This rule has been broken before, has it not?
What makes you think that they weren’t trying to lose?
The Elites and RINOs, to borrow Kerrys favorite phrase, “would not have” someone like Christine O’Donnell elected to the US Senate. They simply would not have it!
Well, one good thing to come out of all this is that another squish bit the dust. Mike Castle would be an impediment to everything we’re trying to accomplish. At least with Coons you pretty much know what you’re dealing with up front.
Both sides of the aisle need to be cleaned out.
Can I sue the GOP to get back the $100 I donated to O’Donnell’s campaign?
Your argument is faulty. The NRC rule prohibits the NRC from backing a candidate in a primary. The Delaware rule saying it follows the national rule does NOT mean that the delaware committee can’t back a candidate in the primary — that would require the RNC rules to state that STATE committees can’t back candidates.
I think it’s stupid for a state party to back candidates in the primary, but it’s not a violation of RNC rules.
I also believe you are wrong that their actions cost them the election. There was nothing the state committee could ever have done to get O’Donnell a victory, and there are even some who now say Castle couldn’t have won either.
I don’t think COD’s almost 51,000 vote loss can be attritubed to anything more than the voters of DE chose not to vote for her in sufficient numbers for her to win in 10 just like they didn’t vote in sufficient numbers for her in 08 and 06.
It’s not like a 30 mile wide by 96 mile long state can’t be covered if one has a good organization....
Eureka! An obscure intra-party bylaw that no one’s ever heard of screwed the whole election! Wait till this gets out into the Delaware press, the great mass of the electorate will be furious as they storm the registrar’s office (tar and feathers in hand) demanding a do-over!
I bet if the digging goes a little deeper, Rove’s fingerprints are on this. No wonder he was so angry after Christine O’Donnell won the primary. He bet against her (and the people) and lost.
So, in short, there is no such thing as a Republican Party in Delaware. There’s two RAT Parties only one of them goes by the name of The Republican Party.
And these bastards tried to turn it around and blame the losses on Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint...