Who is Copeland’s Next Simpler?

Filed in National by on September 1, 2015

Ken Simpler was no fluke. He ran a great campaign that offered voters a legitimate alternative to the Democratic cadidate without exciting the passions of the idiot base of the DE GOP. While he caught a break facing off against Sean Barney, a guy with all the baggage of Tom Carper and none of the name recognition, nobody can deny that the Simpler campaign was a cut above the usual half-assery Copeland’s DEGOP has become know for.

Which raises the question, who is next? Can any of the Republican candidates that have announced for statewide offices inherit Simpler’s sober, sane, level-headed, and thereby winning positioning? Let’s take a look:

Colin Bonini? NO. Bonini has spent his entire career building his image as a goofball. He’d get whiplash by trying to seen sane now. Lacey Lafferty?, uh… moving on.

Hans Reigle running for congressman? I don’t know this guy. He was the mayor of Wyoming. Did Wyoming pass any anti-gay ordinances during his tenure?

Jeff Cragg running for insurance commissioner. Maybe this guy? He is a New Castle County business man who lost to Smooth like Suede Kevin Wade ™ last time. He’ll have to get past George Parish this time. Parish, as you may recall,hates gays – but did the right thing and presided over some gay marriages. Could that weaken his appeal the among lunatics who vote in DEGOP primaries? I guess We’ll see.

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  1. puck says:

    Simpler had lots of help from Democrats who made a mess of their campaign. None of these Repubs is likely to win statewide office without help from Dems long before Election Day. If you see a Dem being targeted and attacked by the Democratic establishment, there’s your next Republican victory.

  2. puck says:

    “Can any of the Republican candidates that have announced for statewide offices inherit Simpler’s sober, sane, level-headed, and thereby winning positioning? ”

    The short answer is, no. The reason why the Repub bench is so pathetic, is that all the more-serious people with a Republican world view have become Democrats.

  3. Jason330 says:

    Hard to argue with either of those points. I’d like to think that there is a return to “sanity” on the right, but our American ideals of sanity, compromise, reasonableness, and rule of law, have been so debased by the right, that it is difficult to know what “sane” would actually look like.

    Simpler, for example, probably believes in a bunch of discredited Republican hokum (like trickle down), and yet he seems sane and reasonable in relation to other Republicans.

  4. RunCV79 says:

    @jason330 – your observations are spot on and I’d venture to say that the reason why Simpler won is because he didn’t let Copeland or any of his minions anywhere near his campaign. Truth be told, the few successful R’s who have won previously (Castle, Wagner in years past, etc.) do it totally on their own and develop their own teams, without any help from the DEGOP.

  5. Mitch Crane says:

    George Parrish presided over Civil Unions. John Brady was Clerk of the Peace in Sussex County when the Marriage Equality law was enacted. Parrish is a bigot but not an idiot. Legislators were ready to impeach him if he refused to issue licenses for Civil Unions. He did issue those licenses and was courteous to those applying, but that does not change his years of attacks on LGBT people.

  6. Rufus Y. Kneedog says:

    “If you see a Dem being targeted and attacked by the Dem establishment, there’s your next Republican victory.”
    Karen Weldin Stewart, but since that office’s election cycle coincides with the Presidential cycle, it will most likely stay D, even if she pulls off another miracle plurality and wins the nomination.
    I think having an uninspiring candidate on the Dem side is helpful, but the main ingredient is the Dems have to be napping, no Presidential race, nothing else compelling on the ballot.
    Jason correctly predicted the Auditor and Treasurer races would be based on the Dem GOTV. I didn’t think Wagner stood a chance against Mayrack but the Dem voters stayed home.