After Alaska Loss, GOP Gets Aggressive Against Tea Party Candidate in Delaware

Still reeling from outsider Joe Miller's improbable defeat of GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska, Republicans in Delaware are staging an all out assault on the Tea Party Senate candidate in their state, hoping to preserve the chances of party favorite Rep. Mike Castle.
Delaware GOP officials are wasting no opportunity to attack Christine O'Donnell ahead of the Sept. 14 Republican primary, preparing a slew of negative ads and accusing her of inflating her resume and making false statements about the moderate Castle, The Associated Press reported.
"She's not a viable candidate for any office in the state of Delaware," state party chairman Tom Ross, who is backing Castle, told the AP. "She could not be elected dog catcher."
The Castle campaign has created a website, RealChristine.com, which vows to "expose" O'Donnell's misstatements.
Castle, the state's long-serving lone congressman, has been leading in the polls but the GOP isn't taking any chances after Murkowski's slim loss in Alaska sent shock waves through the party.
Republicans are also sending around audio of a contentious interview O'Donnell did with WGMD-FM this week. In it, the Tea Party-backed candidate repeated claims that she won two of Delaware's three counties in her 2008 Senate run against Joe Biden. Vote tallies show she lost all three counties.
Meanwhile, the Tea Party Express is doubling down on O'Donnell. The New York Times reported the group is funding a $250,000 media campaign, including a TV ad airing Friday outlining O'Donnell's opposition to deficit spending, federal bailouts and the new health care law.

O'Donnell's campaign did not return phone messages seeking comment.
The winner of the Republican primary will face Democrat Chris Coons in the general election.

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