rssPrimary Challenger Goes After Rep. Mike Castle for Soft-Pedaling Chances of Health Care Reform Repeal
Friday, March 26, 2010 at 11:39 am
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Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), whose moderate record has made him the GOP’s most likely candidate to win a Senate seat in a blue state this year, has suggested (practically) that repeal of health care reform was not really a promise Republican candidates could keep. “While this president is in office,” said Castle, “repealing this full law is not realistic and not the best use of our efforts.”
Castle’s reward: “Repeal Castle,” a new Website and multimedia campaign launched by Christine O’Donnell, his conservative primary challenger. (She was the party’s sacrificial lamb against now-Vice President Joe Biden in 2008.)
O’Donnell’s not going to defeat Castle unless he makes a ton of mistakes — I’m from Delaware, and can confirm that Castle is one of the most popular politicians of either party in the First State. But what does this mean? First, Castle won’t sign onto Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) repeal bill, which takes some air out of that campaign. Second, Castle isn’t promising to support repeal if he makes it to the Senate in 2011. And that takes some air out of Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) campaign for a similar repeal bill. If Republicans pull an inside straight and win the Senate, right off the bat they’re going to disappoint on one of their campaign promises.
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Comment posted April 6, 2010 @ 4:42 am
Christine O'Donnell hasn't held a steady job, if any job at all, since she ran as a write-in candidate in 2006. She carries campaign debt from year to year, won't work and doesn't pay her staff as promised or reimburse them for their expenses but does manage to reimburse her boyfriends for their expenses. She is quoted as saying that if she takes a job, she can't live off of campaign contributions.
She carried debt to companies who worked with her 2008 campaign for over a year while she traveled the country, and apparently even went to the Middle East, all without being employed. She had to have a closed campaign announcement and even then she had an unpaid campaign staffer from 2008 removed from the event. She attached herself to the state party in 2008 when she won the nomination at the convention going as far as to use the state party headquarters as her campaign headquarters, and in 2010 she's acting like the state party outcast and disregarding the nomination process.
Instead of working between campaigns to pay off debt, she carries the debt into the next election cycle and uses donations she's getting now to pay off debts from 2008. She's runs her campaigns like a Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme, robbing Peter to pay Paul.
And her 2010 campaign, to date, has consisted of blaming Castle and his “minions” for almost 20 years worth of her personal financial problems, calling Castle a RINO, and asking for money.
But the worst part about O'Donnell running again is that good conservatives with good values get conned by her every election cycle.
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