The next time a blogger gets close to Mike Castle, he should ask this question. “Why do you persist in supporting the Bush war when it is obviously in your best political interests, not too?
Talk about a political scoop. That answer would race to the top of both right and left political discussions.
So why does Republican Congressman Mike Castle persist in supporting a president who, within Delaware at least, has a popularity level even below the national average of 27%?
The answer could perhaps found in this Machiavellian advice that whenever you find yourself on the wrong side of the issue, dig in and fight, otherwise you will be viewed as weak and compromising.
Across America today citizens are opening high school yearbooks and gazing on pictures of what could have been. Young, beautiful faces looking out from the pages with excitement and hope for the future.
It is okay to doggedly pursue a course of action that you firmly believe is morally correct. Ghandi, Mandala, and Martin Luther King all come to mind. But to pursue a course you know to be flawed, to cause unnecessary pain and suffering, for no reason but your own political self interests, is morally indefensible.
So how is it that Delaware, the first state, the home of Caesar Rodney, could support a Congressman who is morally indefensible?
Perhaps past loyalty? How often have marriages lasted too long, have bosses not been fired fast enough, have children been allowed to be abused, because personal feelings got in the way of clear judgment? There is a gentle human tendency to having once loved, to always have affection for that person, place, or thing. We should not be faulted for this. Just the opposite, we should exalt it. But we need to balance this emotional perspective with reality.
The reality is that Americans are dying in an religiously infused Iraqi Civil War. I wonder how many British died in our Civil War? How many French? I can find no answers, so my assumption is none. So why are we losing Delawareans to determine which ancient Muslim prophet was divinely inspired?
Mike Castle. Please change your view on this war to reflect your own beliefs, and those of the citizens of this patriotic first state. Others in your party, blessed with a common sense, have made the change. Please do so soon, before Delawareans have to open up another recent yearbook, and see another ghost looking back……..
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July 12, 2007 at 6:34 pm
jason330
Very well said. This should be a Community Voices column in the NJ.
July 12, 2007 at 9:38 pm
kavips
You know, as do I, they will never print any view that does not flatter Mike Castle.
July 13, 2007 at 3:34 am
mannabozo
Good post here, kavips.
I’d also add to the list of questions to ask Mr. Castle, “Why do we have legislators wasting valuable time “protecting” Delawareans from “video game violence” when more important business waits in the wings?”
But I guess wanting to enjoy a harmless pastime is too much to ask of our Delaware politicians.
:headscratch:
May 4, 2008 at 4:11 am
lucy mcmanis
Why is Castle supporting NUCLEAR power! Cuz Bush/Cheney and the rest of the oil men are! Why is Castle not supporting wind power and re newables…cuz the man is so old he obviously doesnt know there hasnt been a nuclear power plant built in America for 30 years….where would he put the waste? how would he deal with terrorism, when it is well known our nuclear facilites right now are not protected. This man is so old and such a fool, any Delawarean who casts a vote for him, should be viewed as anti american, certainly anti-Delawarean.
May 4, 2008 at 11:59 am
kavips
In other words, the world is moving way too fast. How can a “dead man walking” possibly keep up?”
Are you saying we need someone younger, smarter, who is more in tune with today’s world, and is not carrying the baggage of constantly having to defend his support of the Cheney/Bush administration?
If so, most of Delaware is with you.