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RUSH: Bridgefield, Delaware, this is Frank. Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, mega First State dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yesterday you were talking about the Mike Castle, Christine O\u2019Donnell race here in Delaware — <\/p>\n

RUSH: I was.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — the GOP primary. It\u2019s a special election to fill Joe Biden\u2019s old seat which means the winner in November gets seated right away and will be there for that lame duck session.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s why it\u2019s important to the nation. I wanted to talk to you about Mike Castle\u2019s voting record. Conservatives here in Delaware believe that\u2019s all you need to know about Mike Castle to know Mike Castle. It gets tossed around a lot that he votes 80% of the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hold on a minute. I\u2019m having trouble hearing you. What did you say is all we need to know?<\/p>\n

CALLER: His voting record. Mike Castle\u2019s voting record is all you need to know about Mike Castle.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I can give you an example. The SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, ultra-leftist organization, in the year 2000, Mike Castle voted 0% of the time for issues concerning the SEIU. That same year he received $5,000 from them. In the year 2001, his voting record on their issues went up to 25%. Over the years he\u2019s received thousands of dollars from them, and last year he voted 83% of the time in favor of SEIU issues. Now, when you hear people say he votes with the Republicans 80% of the time, he does that, Rush, by voting for amendments and resolutions —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, yeah, I know we touched on this. McCain votes with the Republicans 95% of the time. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But the thing with Castle is he never faced a real conservative here in Delaware in his whole career back, you know, all the way back to governor, and that\u2019s why you\u2019re seeing him dump so much money and go so negative against Christine O\u2019Donnell. I think he\u2019s shaken; I think he\u2019s nervous, and this whole stuff about her past and her financial problems, that\u2019s really all that they\u2019ve got against her, but Mike Castle has a long history of voting liberal. He voted 60% of the time with the Obama agenda.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know, but we\u2019re told that he has to to get elected. That\u2019s Delaware.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t believe that, Rush. I was born and raised in Delaware, and I can tell you, in the current political climate here in Delaware also, Christine O\u2019Donnell has independent voters working on her primary. They can\u2019t vote for her in the primary, that\u2019s how bad they want her in the general election. Once she wins this primary, her numbers go way up against the Democrat here because the independent voters start getting polled.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I think this race here in Delaware, people around the country should be watching it just for the fact that it is a special election and we can get that one more vote in the Senate.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think a lot of people are going to be watching this election because there\u2019s such a rift on the Republican side of this. I mean here you\u2019ve got the carrot out there, this is the Biden seat, the Biden seat, which, you know, I guess is an aphrodisiac to some, the Biden seat, like the Kennedy seat. It\u2019s not the Biden seat. It\u2019s people of Delaware\u2019s seat. So you got Castle who is the standard, run-of-the-mill career politician in the House who represents the professionalism of it all. On the other side you\u2019ve got this rogue challenger, Christine O\u2019Donnell about whom a lot of dirt has flown, some of it people say is true. The Republican Party is split on this. There are elements of the so-called conservative movement that are split on this. That\u2019s why people are watching it. One of the things that worries me about all these kind of races is the splinter in the aftermath. Now, you look at Lisa Murkowski. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska lost her primary to a Tea Party candidate. Lisa Murkowski is running around talking about a write-in candidacy. <\/p>\n

Now, to their credit, the Republicans in the Senate said, ‘Hey, you\u2019ve lost your chairmanship. Even if you win on this write-in, you\u2019re toast.\u2019 But if she mounts a campaign as a write-in candidate, which even though there might not be a third party involved, you\u2019re still gonna split the Republican vote, a Democrat\u2019s still gonna win. People are going to have to take a look at this. We\u2019re told the Republicans are doing what\u2019s best for the party. Okay, Lisa Murkowski loses, she concedes defeat, but then if she does mount in write-in candidacy and promotes it and splits the vote she\u2019s going to give the seat to a Democrat, so how is that supporting the Republican side of things? So, yeah, Ms. O\u2019Donnell is said to have a lot of baggage, a lot of dirt. She hasn\u2019t paid her bills; she didn\u2019t pay employees; she filed suit against some prestigious think tank, which I never heard of until somebody told me about this, ISI. You know what ISI stands for? I don\u2019t. I\u2019m just admitting I don\u2019t know what they are. But apparently she\u2019s done something to them that they don\u2019t like, conservative people don\u2019t like. <\/p>\n

So she\u2019s got baggage. She\u2019s run afoul of the IRS here and there. I guess Mike Castle\u2019s clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. He\u2019s never had one problem in his background. I don\u2019t know. Most of the people in this country who have baggage have accumulated that baggage having gone up against some government agency somewhere along the line. But it\u2019s going to be interesting to watch. I mean this race really has people staking reputations on the outcome of it. So you\u2019re right, people are going to be paying a lot of attention to it, as of course will we here at the EIB Network. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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