Christine O'Donnell defeated longtime Delaware politician Mike Castle in today's US Senate Republican primary in Delaware. Castle, the First State's at-large House member for twenty years, enraged conservatives nationwide after voting for the national energy tax, better known as cap and trade, and the anti-free speech DISCLOSE Act, of he was a co-sponsor.
O'Donnell won 53 percent of the vote, 47 went percent to Castle. The financial support of the Tea Party Express and Sarah Palin's endorsement gave O'Donnell credibility, but Castle's defeat stems from those votes for cap and trade and the DISCLOSE Act. Yes, Mark Kirk, the Republican nominee for the US Senate in Illinois also voted for cap and trade, and three days later I was among the tea party protesters at Kirk's office. He got the message--I support his Senate bid.
Castle didn't get the message until tonight.
O'Donnell is hardly the perfect candidate: Mortgage issues, tax liens, unpaid debts from previous campaigns...there are no shortage of targets for Democratic attack ads.
Can she beat Democrat Chris Coons in November? In an ordinary year, she'd get clobbered. But 2010 isn't an ordinary year.
But the National Republican Senatorial Committee, at least for now, says it won't offer financial help to O'Donnell's campaign. But the Tea Party Express will.
Related post:
DISCLOSE Act closes door on free speech
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