"Whaddya mean you aren't running for my old senate seat?"
Posted on 01/25/2010 7:57:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Vice President Biden's son Beau announced Monday that he will not run for his father's old Senate seat, leaving the Republican in the race without a Democratic opponent.
In a written statement, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden said he had given "serious consideration" to running for Senate but ultimately decided to run for re-election as attorney general.
"My first responsibilities are here in Delaware," he said. "Therefore I cannot and will not run for the United States Senate in 2010."
His decision only adds to Democrats' problems in defending their Senate majority. Democrats on Tuesday lost the Massachusetts special election for the seat once held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.
In Delaware, Biden's pass leaves GOP Rep. Mike Castle, a former governor, in the race without Democratic opposition.
The announcement puts to rest mounting speculation about Biden's position.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“My first responsibilities are here in Delaware,” he said. “Therefore I cannot and will not run for the United States Senate in 2010.”
Loosely translated as “I can’t win so I’m not gonna play”
this is good news
couple this with byron Dorgan’s retirement a nearly sure GOP pickup and Scott Brown’s surprising pickup in MA 2010 is starting out as a good GOP year. If we keep all our retirement seats (6 i think) we would be up to at least 43 not including other potential pickups like Illinois, Colorado, Nevada, and PA. Now if some high profile GOPers jump into the mix in other states like Pataki in NY and Tommy Thompson in WI we could see some real substantial gains on Blue state turf :)
“Never fight a battle you can’t win.”
He’s smart to drop out.
Happens all the time.
No shame there.
The real issue is WHY he can’t win.
I suspect that, if he ran, he’d have to address his own father’s issues and idiocy.
Biden Jnr has smarts that plugs can never hope for....is this a real son....DNA tests required...
B’cuz he’d loooooooz!
Bwaaak-buck-buck.
I would rather see Betsey McCoy, Former LT Governor of NY under Pataki run instead. She understands the Health care issues better than most of the New York GOP.
B-b-b-b-but, he’s clean, he’s articulate.
i dont live in NY and since Rudy isnt running the only other name i knew was Pataki
thanks for the info, is she considering a race?
Good news. Too bad Castle is so “moderate.” Still it will be a step in the right direction. Looks like that House seat will be lost though.
Buh Bye.
Even Biden’s idiot son can see the writing on the wall. Barry Hussein Obama is doing what the incompetent GOP cant - destroying the Democratic party. Gotta love it.
In fact, I have a story about Beau's incompetance involving my own fine self.
Here's my original post here on FR...
In a synopsis, I got a call one Sunday from a lady, don't know why she called me. She does attend my church and I am a local Blogger so maybe that's why.
"I want to form a group of nurses and Moms, get some signs, and go up an protest outside of the practice of Dr. Bradley. I want them to go in and get all his medical supplies and send them to Haiti," she told me.
So okay, who is Dr. Bradley you ask?
My first Blog entry on this fellow, below
Dr. Bradley has rocked this swamps of Delaware area cause the man is a Pediatrician and he has molested possibly over a 100 of his patients. He got caught because finally one of his youngest victims (and they go down as young as THREE MONTHS OLD!) finally somehow convinced her parents what awful things happened to her at the hands of Dr. Bradley.
Evidently some young children had told their parents but Dr. Bradley was smart...he picked on young victims. The guy was a doctor. The parents trusted him and wrote off their children's stories as the stuff of youngsters scared of the medico.
Only Dr. Bradley VIDEOTAPED his heinous crimes and it is rumored that some 100 victims are on that tape.
Dr. Bradley's office building is located on Rt. 1, right on the strip of Delaware's big beaches and seashores. His building has a great big bumblebee on the sign and it's called BAYBEES. Outside there's a little ferris go wheel.
It's cute, the sort of place parents take their kids and feel like they delivering their precious youngsters into the hands of a fellow who loves and appeals to children.
So this lady wanted to have the gubmint go into Bradley's now empty, and almost mocking, building, take his medical supplies, and send them to Haiti.
Well she had good intentions.
I told her that you just can't do that but someone should certainly put an injunction on that place if for nothing else, for the little victims of this monster. I helped her with her wordage on the sign and, of course, I told her to have one sign say "BEAU BIDEN...WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THE CONTENTS OF THIS BUILDING? WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER MY CALLS?"
Heh. Well she told me that the AG office wouldn't answer her calls and hey, ole Beau is this state's AG.
Anyhoo, the local yokel radio station got ahold of this story and this one woman crusade. It turned out that this well-meaning lady was the only one marching outside of this eyesore of a blight smack in the middle of a big tourist area (in hindsight, I'm thinking Bradley intentionally did that big bumblebee and ferris wheel just to attract tourists) but she did it, yes she did, every day last week.
She called me up as hey, I admired her. I did think that the bldg should be at least held for Bradley's victims as I knew that no one would go in, take the medical supplies, adn ship themn off to Haiti. Some things are in the constitution, even for child perverts.
anyhoo...Below the link to the upshot of all this.
Turns out that exactly three days after this lady began her one woman crusade to take monster Dr. Bradley's medical supplies and send them to Haiti (and she put black bows and little graves all over the property which prompted visits by the police), ole Beau filed something called a civil racketeering injunction on that property. FTA...it says this will help hold the property for Bradley's victims.
So one misguided but well-meaning woman got Biden to do WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE DONE MONTHS AGO?
This fine, fine Bradley guy has four children. They could have came in and take all the stuff inside. According to the lady of the mission, there's valuable Disney stuff and medical equipment inside the building. And all this time that building's been unprotected, left empty.
Oh, there's lots of other Delaware AG stories. This is the most recent but hey, he's a damn kid!
Just because your Dad is very, very intelligent VP doesn't make you the genius of an AG.
Beau only got elected because of his last name. His experience is zero and it shows.
The Dems will show that picture of her standing behind
Pataki at his State of the State address.
At one time, a Senator's first responsibility WAS to the state he represented. A pox on the 17th Amendment!
FMCDH(BITS)
A) you can’t loot a crime scene, even if it is for a good cause.
B) VP Biden is not “Very Intellegent”, he, like his son is barely average.
C) Biden Jr. has been a dismal failure as AG (no suprise there) and will have a tough time winning re-election to that post.
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