Christine O’Donnell is clearly the conservative choice over Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) for the GOP nomination for Joe Biden’s old senate seat.  Whether she’s the more electable choice, only time will tell.  In the year of the “Tea Party”, O’Donnell’s shot at garnering the GOP nod hinges on how many disaffected Republicans will turn out for her and / or to deny Castle (the “RINO” candidate) a place on November’s ballot.

To that end, O’Donnell is coming out swinging:

“Mike Castle’s voting record proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he is for special interests, against the free market, anti-Second Amendment, pro-abortion and he’s even for sanctuary cities.  It’s a preposterous record,” O’Donnell said. “Calling himself a Republican is borderline schizophrenic, confused about his own political identity.”

“Mike Castle is the most liberal congressman in the Republican Party,” said Yates Walker, campaign spokesman.

O’Donnell points out that National Journal, hardly a conservative organ, ranks Castle as the most liberal GOP House member.  To overcome the electability argument, O’Donnell can how point to a Rasmussen poll showing her with a 2 point lead over presumptive Dem nominee Chris Coons.

Given Castle’s length of service as Governor and Congressman, along with a huge fundraising advantage, will painting Castle as a RINO be enough?  Time will tell.  However, if it can be done, Delaware is a great state to do it in.  If O’Donnell is able to organize a real grassroots effort, you can easily contact just about every registered Republican in the First State.

It may just boil down to who wants it the most….  who will will work harder.

Former Reagan appointee and Delaware Congressional candidate Glen Urquhart has received the endorsement of the FRC Action PAC, an affiliate of the conservative Family Research Council.

“Glen Urquhart has proven to be a dedicated advocate of conservative causes for many years. We need representatives who will have the courage to defend the family under attack by the radical leadership of the House of Representatives,” said Connie Mackey, President of FRC Action PAC. “I am convinced Mr. Urquhart has the vision and conviction to do just that.”

“Glen Urquhart is a successful businessman who knows first hand the necessity of fiscal responsibility. During a time when out-of-control government spending is placing unprecedented burdens on our families, Glen is well-equipped to stand against this liberal trend and preserve America’s opportunities for future generations. As Chairman of the National Capital Planning Committee under Presidents Reagan and Bush, he has demonstrated his abilities to control spending and reduce debt. He represents the fiscal principles and traditional values that are vital to the economic restoration of our country.”

“America needs pro-family Representatives in the next Congress to stop the radical social agenda now before us. FRC Action PAC believes that Mr. Urquhart will be a crucial voice for the issues that best uphold and strengthen families. We are proud to support his candidacy,” concluded Mackey.

Urquhart is running for the GOP nomination to succeed Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE), who is running for the US Senate.

H/T – David Anderson @ DelawarePolitics.net

For 16 years Delaware Senator Collin Bonini (R-16) has been a fiscally conservative voice in the Delaware Senate.  Now he’s running to be Delaware’s next State Treasurer.

Frank Knotts over at DelawarePolitics.net has a great piece on why Bonini is stepping down from the legislature to run for statewide office.

Bonini will officially announce his candidacy today in all three counties:

9:30am Georgetown: Georgetown Circle

1pm Dover: Legislative Hall Steps

6pm Newark: Deer Park Tavern 108 W Main St Newark, DE 19711

The left is so afraid of Sarah Palin that they will do or say anything IF they think that it reflects badly on her.  Our pals over at DelawareLiberal are no different.

According to “Unstable Isotope”, Palin is “intolerant” and just plain stupid.  I’ll admit that spelling errors piss me off too (particularly my own), but I hardly think that makes Palin “dumb”.  After all, the folks over at DL worship at the alter of Barack Obama and he can’t even read his teleprompter.  Remember the Navy Corpse-man who received a medal?

As for denouncing the mosque at Ground Zero, Palin is right on target.  Even in Delaware, I think Mr. (or is it Ms.?) Isotope would find themselves heavily outnumbered on this one.

What happened to the “new kind of politics” promised by the Obama faithful?  Sounds like the same old partisan hackery to me.

Tuesday, Libertarian cum Republican Brent Wangen filed for the GOP primary to replace Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE).  Wednesday, the Delaware Board of Elections appears to have kicked Wangen out.

This isn’t unique.  Delaware House candidate Will McVay also has been dropped after filing.  Celia Cohen also provides some background on this issue.

Whether it’s a discussion of an elected school board in Wicomico County or whether or not the Tea Party movement should be forcibly pulled into (or distracted from) the immigration debate, we often state — “Be Careful What You Wish For.”

Over at Delaware Grapevine, Celia Cohen weaves a tale tying Michele Rollins’s run to replace Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) with a series of events that led to the Joe Biden’s election to the Senate in 1972 (the same seat Castle is running for this year).  It’s not just a great political story, it’s a great story.  The moral, like so many in politics – “Be Careful What You Wish For.”

Dave Anderson, over at DelawarePolitics.net, has a great piece about the potential impact of the recent Congressional vote to force private lenders out of the student loan business.  Fortunately for Delawareans, it won’t be as bad as some places.  Thanks to some insider dealing on the part of Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and outgoing Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-DE), some jobs that would have been lost will remain.

You know what they say — “It’s not what you know …”

Celia Cohen of Delaware Grapevine reports on the Sussex County Lincoln Day Dinner hosted by the Sussex County Republican Women’s Club and the Eastern Sussex Republican Club..  Since Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) was stuck in DC voting the right way (against ObamaCare), the star of the show appeared to have been the woman many Delaware Republicans want to be Castle’s successor – Michele Rollins.

America’s leftists are thumping their chests and crowing that their messiah has risen from the political dead and delivered his anointed health care plan.  Fair enough, they one the vote.

One thing is for certain; the left has learned little since the 2008 elections.  Remember when we heard that the Republican Party was dead and that the conservative movement was nothing more than a few angry white men?  The we had the emergence of the Tea Party movement.  Democrats cowered in their offices and refused to hold town hall meetings in their districts back home.

Now some believe that they are back on the path to victory.  The truth is they might be … BUT ONLY IF WE ALLOW IT!

pandora over at DelawareLiberal seems to think that it’s all over.  He (she?) even has the gall to quote David Frum:

A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves.

At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994.

If Frum is correct, that the Republican leadership stood firm on ObamaCare only out of some potential political advantage then we should be dismayed beyond words.  However, Frum’s solutions seem to revolve around cutting a deal with the Democrats on items that violate the basic conservative principles upon which this country was founded.

There are certain things we should not, cannot, compromise.  We cannot “cut a deal” to hand over an additional 1/6 of our nation’s economy to government.  People like pandora, and Frum, can’t understand this; one is a socialist and the other a big government Bush disciple.  It was interesting to note that pandora didn’t quote Frum’s solutions – probably because they focus on tax cuts.  However, Frum needs to realize that cutting taxes will not work if we continue to grow the size of government.

Only time will tell if we can fix the problem the Democrats initiated with today’s signing of ObamaCare into law.  However, if tea partiers and movement conservatives don’t remain active and vigilant the war is over before the first real battle – the 2010 elections – has even been fought.

Here is a the link to yesterday’s roll call vote in the House.  (I’ve also included last December’s vote in the Senate).

This is how our members voted:

YES (for ObamaCare)

DE         Carper (D)

DE         Kaufman (D)

MD         Cardin (D)

MD         Mikulski (D)

MD-02   Ruppersberger (D)

MD-03   Sarbanes (D)

MD-04   Edwards (D)

MD-05   Hoyer (D)

MD-07   Cummings (D)

MD-08   Van Hollen (D)

VA         Warner (D)

VA         Webb (D)

VA-03   Scott (D)

VA-05   Perriello (D)

VA-08   Moran (D)

VA-11   Connolly (D)

NO  (for Liberty)

DE         Castle (R)

MD-01   Kratovil (D)

MD-06   Bartlett (R)

VA-01   Wittman (R)

VA-02   Nye (D)

VA-04   Forbes (R)

VA-06   Goodlatte (R)

VA-07   Cantor (R)

VA-09   Boucher (D)

VA-10   Wolf (R)

Don’t let your representatives forget!  Thank them for voting right (if they did) and work hard to defeat those how voted to take America one more giant leap down the socialist path.