Comments on: Beau Biden – The Long Tease

By: Al Fredo

Al Fredo — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:48:40 +0000

Since when did Delawareans care about national politics when voting for their own representatives? How do you think Castle can vote however the party wants and still be reelected every two years?

I have met loyal Castle voters, and they don’t know a thing about his voting record. All they know is that he was a good governor and he hasn’t messed up enough to embarrass Delaware enough to make the news.

By: anonone

anonone — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:27:31 +0000

The fact that nobody here can even begin to describe what Biden’s opinions and positions are on national issues demonstrates what an unknown and unworthy candidate he is. If people here don’t know, you can be sure that the people of Delaware don’t either.

Just watch. An undefined and unbranded candidate is one that can be easily framed by a more experienced and well-known candidate. Castle and the national repubs are going to paint the empty canvas that is Beau Biden as inexperienced, untested, and unknown. He will be the “risky” candidate versus the “known and loved” candidate. And Biden has no record or achievement to counter that narrative.

By: Unstable Isotope

Unstable Isotope — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:03:26 +0000

#4 may happen, we’ll see. If Democrats are smart they will tie the party of no around Castle’s neck. They can ask – what has Mike Castle accomplished in the last Congress? Saying no isn’t an accomplishment. Plus he can no longer call himself pro-choice since he voted “yes” on Stupak-Pitts.

DD, exactly. Castle is not as popular as he thinks he is if he’s in a tie with an unannounced candidate.

A1, as far as Biden’s views go that’s what a campaign is for.

By: Delaware Dem

Delaware Dem — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:44:30 +0000

I dispute #1. If he is so popular then why is he in a statistical tie with Biden in the polls? Answer that in lowercase letters, Greg.

By: anonone

anonone — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:58:33 +0000

Does anybody know exactly what policies Biden actually supports?

By: liberalgeek

liberalgeek — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:12:41 +0000

Greg – 2 & 3 are absolute BS. I am sure that Beau knows about 1 and 4. And he can do 5 in any case.

Just because you use CAPS doesn’t make you less wrong.

By: greg

greg — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:01:29 +0000

BEAU IS WISE TO SIT THIS OUT.

1. CASTLE IS ENORMOUSLY POPULAR

2. THERE IS A NATIONAL BACKLASH AGAINST THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

3. THE PUBLIC IS AGAINST HIGHER TAXES AND THE HEALTHCARE PLAN

4. THE MEDIA WILL POUNCE ON BEAU’S LACK OF EXPERIENCE AND ENTITLEMENT

5. LET CASTLE FINISH THESE 4 YRS. AND BEAU CAN WALK IN FOR LIFE IN 2014

By: Brian Shields

Brian Shields — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:10:18 +0000

January is announcement season. Slow news month, holidays are over. You build momentum. Announcing now kills the momentum through Christmas as people forget.

By: xstryker

xstryker — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:27:53 +0000

1. Castle voted against the Stimulus (jobs)
2. Castle voted against the Lily Ledbetter Act (wage equality for women)
3. Castle voted for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment (anti-choice)
4. Castle voted against health care reform
5. Castle’s amendment to the GOP health care bill would allow insurance companies to raise your premiums 50% if you don’t participate in a Wellness plan
6. Castle voted for the Iraq war and supported all of Bush’s Iraq War appropriations to the tune of trillions of dollars. He has NO CREDIBILITY on budget issues.

This is Castle’s record, and Biden (or whoever) will need to keep repeating this until people remember it.

By: anonone

anonone — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:03:58 +0000

Castle has his own well-liked brand and people vote for him out of habit. The Biden name will help as much as hurt Beau. Does anybody here actually know what kind of Dem Beau is? Is he a DINO like Carper?

Look, I’ll vote for almost any D against Castle – but he is going to be very very hard to beat. Besides, Jason says Castle is going to lose so that makes him lock to win.

By: El Somnambulo

El Somnambulo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:48:40 +0000

Castle got more ink for speculation as to whether he’d run than he’s gotten since he announced.

No reason for the Beaudhisattva not to do the same.

Plus, and I admit that here’s where I get sucked in by the speculation, is it possible, just possible, that Biden is ambivalent, and that everyone’s praise (a) makes it more difficult for him to say no; and (b) lets him know that everyone’s got his back?

I doubt it, but musings like that keep everyone talking about him. As opposed to say, the term ‘cock-blockers’.

By: nemski

nemski — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:40:28 +0000

Castle has been on a downward trend in his vote tally.

Year – Castle Vote
1992 – 55.4%
1994 – 70.7%
1996 – 69.6%
1998 – 66.4%
2000 – 67.6%
2002 – 72.1%
2004 – 69.1%
2006 – 57.2%
2008 – 61.1%

If you look at ‘92 and ‘06, Castle’s two most narrowest wins, they were against strong candidates. And his latest run was against one of his weakest opponents which was his third worse showing.

Castle v Biden is no contest. Shit, Castle v Any Viable Democrat is no contest in 2010.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:12:32 +0000

Since a birdie told me that one of the candiadtes for AG won’t announce until at least January, I honestly don’t think Beau will announce until then either – just to wrap things up nice and neatly in a package.

By: Brooke

Brooke — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:11:04 +0000

Rebecca, that’s exactly what I thought. Nice as it is that we filled the hall, it was NOT a thoughtful person’s time to drop confetti. I think very well of him that he didn’t.

And really, folks. Everyone knew the cameras would go home after President Clinton spoke, so if they’d wanted cameras there, they would just have put Beau on earlier.

I enjoyed all the speakers… although I sure didn’t envy Karen.

By: Scott P

Scott P — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:06:19 +0000

anonone, Castle’s main qualification to most Delaware voters is that they’ve heard of him. Luckily for him, most of those people don’t know or care to know very much about what he does.