Biden His Time Vs. A Media-Friendly Repug

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported the following last Friday…

DOVER, Del. - The campaign signs indicate that the candidate is from Delaware, but they don't give a clue what office he is seeking.

The candidate himself has refused to debate his opponent or appear before the voters he hopes will re-elect him, instead sending surrogates to read canned statements on his behalf at candidate forums.

Despite his stealth tactics, "Delaware's Joe Biden" is expected to easily win re-election Tuesday to a seventh term in the Senate, which he would have to resign in short order if he and Barack Obama win the presidential sweepstakes.

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As a Senate candidate, he has failed to attend any of the forums held by civic groups across Delaware for candidates for statewide office.

"He's blowing off the people of Delaware," said Biden's Republican opponent, Christine O'Donnell.

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At a forum last weekend, O'Donnell asked Biden's sister and Senate campaign chair, Valerie Biden Owens, when Biden was going to debate her. "She flat out said he doesn't need to debate," said O'Donnell. She describes Biden's refusal to appear before Delaware voters as "outrageous."

"He really feels he's too big now," said O'Donnell, 39, a conservative activist and evangelical Christian who finished last in a three-way GOP Senate primary in 2006 before claiming the GOP nomination this year. "It really just seems that he thinks people are going to vote for him because of his name."

I have to admit I’m kind of torn here; on the one hand, blowing off your opponent is a pretty odious thing to do when you think you’re going to skate to a victory.

But on the other hand, a look at Christine O’Donnell’s resume (from her web site here) tells you the following…

Christine O'Donnell is a nationally recognized political commentator and marketing consultant. Christine appears weekly, often daily, on national news outlets such as the Fox News Channel, CNN, C-SPAN, FNC's O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, Entertainment Tonight, ABC's Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and countless others. Some of her most recent projects include providing daily political commentary on the 2008 Presidential primaries for shows such as CNN's Glenn Beck, FNC's Fox and Friends, The O'Reilly Factor, and many others. Christine is also a frequent radio talk show guest-host on WGMD in Rehoboth Beach and WDEL in Wilmington, DE.

Her site also tells us that she’s worked on Republican strategy sessions with Haley Barbour, lobbied the White House for “pro-family global policies” (bet THAT was tough with this bunch), “successfully debated Cabinet members, Congressman (sic) and international leaders,” and also worked as the aforementioned marketing and media consultant to a “charity that provides scholarships to children in poor communities throughout Latin America.”

It’s impressive, I’ll admit, but I have a question; does she have any experience whatsoever in serving in government at any level at all?

Apparently not.

Yet, Christine O’Donnell aspires to serve in the U.S. Senate anyway (and replacing a six-term incumbent in the process, one of her opposition party’s senior members).

Am I the only one who thinks there’s something wrong with this picture?

Yes, finding a seasoned Delaware Repug to go up against Biden is a tall order given the limited chance of success. However, is someone with a career wholly opposed to the office she seeks (IMHO, anyway) the best the Repugs can do?

There are plenty of Dems running campaigns against incumbent Repugs who probably aren’t going anywhere, though there are fewer of Repugs like that in this election than any time I can ever recall.

And by the way, in the event that the Obama-Biden ticket wins, this story tells us that Biden’s son Beau, Delaware’s attorney general currently serving in Iraq, has a shot at his dad’s seat (with the notable difference being that both Bidens were actually elected and served their constituents, as opposed to the Repug challenger, who was busy yakking it up with her ideologically simpatico pals in the meantime).