Final Thought
Sometimes I wonder if maybe Tom Carper is encouraging Castle to run for Senate, so they can go on riding Amtrak together for 6 more years. Castle would support Carper’s watered-down no-brainer environmental agenda, Carper would support Castle’s money picture schemes, and together they’d protect big corporations from consumers. I’m not saying Carper would actively campaign for Castle, but in a Castle-Beau race, I wouldn’t count on seeing Carper show his face a whole lot on the campaign trail. Would Carper encourage Beau to run for re-election rather than the Senate? Would you put it past him? And who would run instead?
I know, I’m just indulging in worthless idle speculation – the kind that made Celia Cohen the Delaware celebrity (delebrity?) she is today. Well, that and butt-kissing.
Tags: 2010 Election, Beau Biden, Celia Cohen, Mike Castle, Senate, Tom Carper
Tom Carper is for Tom Carper. Period.
Whatever happens you can be sure Tom Carper will make the moves that are best for Tom Carper.
I doubt angering the sitting VP is best for Tom Carper.
so they can go on riding Amtrak together for 6 more yearsit’ll be four…this will be to finish-out Biden’s term, not start anew.
BTW, if this does pan out, will there be sleeper cars involved? 😯
This is the grim thought that dodges my thoughts. Who wants to think that our frickin DINO Senior Senator will be helping Castle ‘behind the scenes”? But who can resist the thought?
I have been reluctantly mulling whether Castle gets the hip-bump DE WAY shove up to Senator by DEM party operatives. Who would they scapegoat against him? Not Beau Biden. Chris Coons?
It just seems so impossible. Yet so Delaware.
That photo…ACK… more eye bleach please.
Maybe Carper will convince Beau to hold off by giving him Carper’s Senate seat in 2012, while Carper seeks… I dunno, Secretary of Commerce or something? Cabinet positions often last only a single term. Or maybe Carper wants to head the DNC? Lots of big-money schmoozing there.
I guess you have to ask yourself what Carper’s final goal is. I can’t picture him as president (you need a spine for that), but I’ve heard he’d love to be VP someday. You know, all the prestige, none of the responsibility. What makes this implausible is that there really isn’t any better platform for Carper than the Senate, unless he fears a primary challenge – and threaten though we might, he don’t look scared to me.