Krauthammer Gets It Wrong on Delaware

Krauthammer says of Delaware's senate election that GOP members voting for Christine O'Donnell is "capricious" "self indulgent" and irresponsible".

On the other hand, I say voting for entrenched incumbent RINOs like Mike Castle that support abortion on demand, mandate cap and tax, oil drilling bans, and gun bans is irresponsible, unpatriotic, and anti-constitutional.

Krauthammer is not alone in his advice - many weak-kneed Republican leaner types agree with him. But Krauthammer is the biggest of the bunch to come out hard for Castle, so he gets my attention.

Krauthammer invokes the Buckley Rule: vote for the most electable conservative candidate. I see this rule as having a precondition and then an effect. The precondition is that an election need two or more conservative candidates running for the same office. If there are two or more, then choose the most electable one.

In Delaware, the precondition is not met. Mike Castle is a RINO with a mere 52% lifetime ACU rating. He has the lowest rating among the GOP every year as measured by the Club for Growth - even worse than Arlen Specter. Mike Castel is NOT conservative. The best that can be said for Mike Castle is he is reasonably popular in Delaware and he is not a ideological liberal. But he is a liberal, and he is not a conservative at all.

Krauthammer distorts the rule by trying to determine at the outset which candidate is more electable, and them try to convince himself that Castle is "conservative". He's not. Castle is merely a registered Republican from a liberal state.

So, there is only one conservative in the race - Christine O'Donnell. Buckley's rule, correctly applied, says vote for O'Donnell, not Castle.

In short: those who support voting for Castle are playing party politics, not engaging in a discussion regarding what governing philosophy is best for the country. Preferring party to country is not admirable -- in fact, it is wrong.

Krauthammer is also wrong that Obamacare is "irreversible." Don't take your victory plans from defeatists.

No matter what happens in this off year election, Barak Hussein Obama is going to still be president of the United States. There will be liberals in the Senate and conservatives in the Senate. In my opinion, it is best to isolate the liberals to the Democrats so that in the general election two years, the parties can have an ideologically-driven election from top to bottom, without outliers, exceptions, and -INOs between them.

A Win for the Second Amendment

The Supreme Court today, in a bare 5 member majority, held that the Second Amendment applies equally to the States as it does to the Federal government.

The case is McDonald v. Chicago, and it effectively extends the reasoning from the DC v. Heller case to all governmental subdivisions in the United States.

Samuel Alito wrote the opinion for the court: "Self-defense is a basic right ... and in Heller, we held that individual self-defense is "the central component" of the Second Amendment right. It is clear that the Framers and ratifiers of the Fourteenth Amendment counted the right to keep and bear arms among those fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty ... a provision of the Bill of Rights that protects a right that is fundamental from an American perspective applies equally to the Federal Government and the States."

So, all rights stated in the Bill of Rights apply equally to the States and the Federal governments (not just the liberal-approved rights), and the opinion is firmly rooted in the AMERICAN experience, not some wiggly international standard.

Don't tread on me! Just in time for Independence Day, too!