Levin has been advocating for O’Donnell for weeks. Recently Mark took on Paul Mirengoff (and to a lesser extent John Hinderaker) over this issue. As usual, he gives no quarter.

You can read Levin’s argument on his Facebook page here:

http://tinyurl.com/2ufwjcx

No fuss.

No muss.

of conservatives being given a bad name?

Running out of Republicans who change parties in midstream for an easy primary and a couple million in campaign funding? Let’s put another one in the Senate!

Mike Castle: Delaware’s own Arlen Specter

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” –Alexander Hamilton

Study at Redstate University

you need to learn more about conservatism. We don’t need saints because we don’t rely on government. We want government diminished, get it?

And no, she isn’t being “pragmatic.”

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/09/13/the-de-senate-gop-primary-castle-soros-a-health-advisory/

Only registered republican voters allowed. If not, O’Donnell would have this on the bag with the tactical vote from Dem leaning Indies. Being closed to republicans, I think Castle will pull it out.

but if O’Donnell wins, this along with Florida and Nevada will be the most widely covered Senate races this fall.

The DNC will put as much heat as possible to force as many slipups as they can, and will try (to some degree of success) to use Christine as a club against the other upstarts.

you’ll hang up your big “Mission Accomplished” banner. The only ones who consider the election to be the war are the party hacks.

For real conservtives, the war isn’t getting a senate full of R’s. The war is getting true conservative governance – at all levels. Castle will not help win that war.

…except her “imaginary” one ever taken to compare her vs Coon.

And her imaginary one mirrored the PPP poll “within the margin of error4″ as being tied with Castle 2 weeks ago.

The real imaginaries are those who think that a radical far leftist Coon has a chance against any Republican in this wave election.

ODonnell will win the General.

Yes, but the problem is that Castle will be a vote for every Obama judicial activist himself, and will provide valuable partisan cover for the Democrats.

Even more disconcerting is that he’s not a Lindsay Graham, he’s more Specter/Chafee. Even today, he won’t commit that he would vote for someone like Alito.

http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/mike-castle-it-won%E2%80%99t-be-overwhelming-victory?page=2

There are RINOs and there are RINOs, folks. Castle not only will be a friend to liberal judicial activists, but also a likely enemy to judicial conservatives–all the while giving partisan cover to liberals.

Delaware Republicans–please defeat Castle, and if necessary, endure an honest liberal there until 2014, and meanwhile try to find a solid center-right candidate.

You know, the ones who are supposed to be on our side but they “reach across the aisle” and don’t want to rock the boat… so they don’t oppose a Kagan or a Sotomayor.

As for the polls, I’ve seen some bad for her, and some good for her like this one. I’m not sure how PPP would appreciate being referred to as O’Donnell’s imaginary friends. And yes I get that you’re using snark to continue to forward the “crazy” meme. I suggest you take a look at Legal Insurrection for the Professor’s take on that particular tactic.

I agree that she’s unlikely to win, but the analogy is a bit much. Delaware is not reliably liberal in the same way as, say Massachusetts, and even less than Utah is reliably conservative.

Perhaps a more analogous state is Indiana–a state that Dems can win in the presidency only in the best of circumstances.

Your analogy, of course, overlooks the problematic alternative.

Del. GOP voting for Castle is like the Dems voting for Zell Miller in Indiana.

SpecterCastle is going to be so good for the Democrat party if Delaware chooses him. So, by all means, choose Ephialtes for the legislative battles ahead. Emperor XerxesObama won’t mind.

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” –Alexander Hamilton

Study at Redstate University

Democrats have no value. I want republicans to get back to standing up for core conservative principles. Liberals values have made America weak in economy and military strength. Right now most people are cynical as they do not see big difference between democrat and republican. It is advantageous to Democrats when people do not see the difference.

Win or lose stand for the values that made this country.

There is no point in winning the battle and lost the war.

The reason why O’Donnell is a bad candidate for the GOP isn’t because she can’t win due to being “too conservative”.

She wouldn’t be elected in Utah.

N/T

Do you know what were her positions on stuff like:

- the medicare expansion?
- Bush’s social security reform?
- The No Children Left Behind act?

I mean, I’ve known O’Donnell for awhile. I can’t really recall her as a small-government conservative until very recently. What am I missing here?

Republican party didn’t lose its identify by electing the so called moderates; it lost it by electing so-called conservatives that once in Washington become big-spending, pork addicted and in some cases corrupt. People with deep character flaws that shouldn’t be supported by conservatives.

The word ‘conservative’ is applied in a totally different context. You cannot extend this to the conservative political belief systems, that is liberals playbook.

I read somewhere, “there are those you cannot think beyond words”.

Anyway you slice it you can infer at this time that O’Donnell will vote for conservative principles. Castle has two more than 15 years of track record which can best be called moderate. Looking at the gravity of the situation the country needs strong conservatives.

No means no for the following.

1) No for Obamacare
2) No more stimulas
3) No cap and trade
4) No more deficit spending
5) No more supreme court judge who do not follow our constitution
6) No more redistribution of wealth

and argued for the employer in lots of labor arbitrations where gender discrimination or sexual harassment was either the case and cause or was an affirmative defense. Gotta’ admit that even in a liberal town with nigh on to communist unions, I’ve never seen it argued that way. I’ve seen some that argued that in addition to not liking her for being a woman, they didn’t like her because she was a Democrat or a liberal, or even, ocassionally, a lesbian, but I’ve never seen it argued that as some article of faith the employer believed that every woman had to have a male supervisor. In government, in over twenty years, the only time I ever had a male direct supervisor was the last three and a half years. when I was an appointee. ‘Course, then I retired rather than have a female supervisor, or at least a particular female supervisor.

Excellent post by Neil and by conservativemusician as well. Whenever there’s a choice between a liberal and a Conservative, I always vote for the Conservative. The idea that the liberal might have an easier time winning in November doesn’t have any appeal to me, I’m a Conservative. Its not even clear that the liberal is the better candidate in this case, ironicly enough, given that Castle’s been sinking in the polls for months now, while O’Donnell has been surging. We know that she’s a better debater than Mike Castle because Castle was too scared to debate her even a single time, he had his minions out there lying about how ‘incompetent’ she was and yet when given the chance to back up those words, he proved they weren’t true by running scared. Its quite possible that come November Christine O’Donnell will actually win by a bigger margin than Casle would have if he’d won the nomination. Of course the bottom line is that as Conservatives we can only win if we nominate a Conservative in the primary. Whatever our chances of victory in November with Christine, whether you argue they’re 70 percent or 30 percent, or any other number you want to make up since its all just speculation anyway, I know for certain what the chance is of a Conservative winning if the matchup is liberal vs liberal, and that percentage is 0.

Happily Delaware is as tired of the RINOs as we are, Christine has already pulled ahead and by tomorrow she will probably win by a comfortable margin. Delaware doesn’t want to elect another liberal, they want real change, they want Conservative leadership, not more of the same from the left wing of either party. We’re taking our Party back from the liberals, we’re taking our Government back from the Democrats, and tomorrow Christine O’Donnell is going to send another liberal back to the Private Sector, to join his fellow RINOs Specter, Crist, Murkowski, etc. Its a great time to be a Conservative Republican, we’re winning all over the Country!