After that “witch” nonsense, no she didn’t have a chance. A conservative could have won, if they were pristine and a strong candidate, which she was not and that’s on her not on anyone else.
I was an early backer here on FR, decent looking woman against an arch-RINO, of course I was. But to have it do over again I would have backed Castle.
Palin...fell out of love with her a long time ago, I’m glad she wasn’t given a post in the administration.
I emphasized at the time why Castle needed to be defeated. Curiously, the establishment was going to allow for him to be anointed in the general election (Coons was supposed to be the sacrificial lamb). But it came with a cost. Castle was going to resign at some point early on and allow for Plugs Junior (then the state AG) to take the seat. Castle had no loyalty either to the GOP or to their base voters. One merely need look at the 1992 elections to see that he and Tom Carper merely agreed privately to swap offices.
No, Castle was a 100% weasel and scumbag. I believe he was a direct descendent of Ben Franklin’s treasonous son, and it showed.
Palin is still young enough she could make a comeback for office again.
Meh. The fact the mainstream media destroyed Christine O'Donnell in 2010 didn't change the fact that Castle was an uber-RINO scumbag and needed to be taken out. O'Donnell had been the GOP nominee 2 years earlier in 2008, and nobody claimed she was a fringe candidate or a kook back then. The media just created that narrative out of thin air in 2010 to prevent an actual conservative from winning in Delaware due to it being an open seat. O'Donnell's a sweetheart I feel sorry for what happened to her.
The only election that comes to mind where I would have backed the "RINO establishment" candidate over the conservative challenger in hindsight (knowing what I know now), is Chris Cannon vs. that creep Jason Chaffetz. I believe replacing Cannon with Chaffetz actually turned out to be a downgrade -- the district went from a 96% lifetime conservative record to a 92% lifetime conservative record, or something like that. Chaffetz turned out to be just as bad as on amnesty as Cannon, the only difference is Cannon was at least honest that he was pro-illegal whereas Chaffetz lied about being a "principled" no-compromise-on-illegals candidate to get a cushy political career in Washington.
I agree with you on Palin though. She's been dead to me ever since she backed that faux "Independent" candidate for Alaska Governor that the RATs were openly supporting. Until she apologizes for that and makes amends, I have zero interest in supporting her in the future.