Christine O'Donnell criticized by former aides

Politico ^ | 9/17/10 | DAVID CATANESE

[truthandlife]

By pulling off arguably the biggest upset of the primary election season Tuesday, Christine O'Donnell shocked the Republican establishment and political pundits who didn’t think her campaign for the Delaware GOP Senate nomination had a chance.

But none were more surprised then the staffers who worked for O’Donnell in 2008, when she made the second of two prior unsuccessful bids for the Senate. Continue Reading Text Size

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The tea party giant-killer who knocked off Rep. Mike Castle Tuesday is barely recognizable to them. They remember a candidate who was less interested in conservative causes than scoring a television deal, one who suggested dodging campaign vendors, believed she could give the keynote speech at the Republican National Convention and fixated on a harebrained idea to distribute tens of thousands of two-ounce suntan lotion packets to voters.

That Christine O’Donnell lost in a landslide to then-Sen. Joe Biden, who was simultaneously running for vice president.

Kristin Murray, who left her position in the state party to serve as one of several campaign managers for O’Donnell during that race, said warning bells went off in June 2008 when the two were discussing cell phone plans.

"She told me that she thought Joe Biden tapped her phone line," she said.

[ConservativeDude]

For ever story like this, people should send in another $5.....

[cripplecreek]

Why are these clowns so afraid to report on Coons?

Its reminiscent of the way the media treats Barky.

[MissesBush]

I see the DNC is dragging hundred dollar bills through trailer parks and gay bars again.

[WakeUpAndVote]

http://christine2010.com/

Almost $1.5 Million.

[nhwingut]

Tokyo Rove must have emailed this writer.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Wow, next it will be reported that someone’s ex-spouse has something nasty to say about them.

[frogjerk]

Here we go. The Palinization of O'Donnell has begun. I wonder what Meghan McCain thinks... - sarc -but the story will soon be showing up on FR.

[worst-case scenario]

Well, if she really is as irresponsible and crazy as these former staffers make her sound, she better have a great handler.

[afnamvet]

Here comes the hit pieces from the disenfranchised RINOs.

[truthandlife]

You could be right. Rove hasn’t posted on Twitter in 21 hours and he didn’t show up on Sean Hannity’s show last night.

Rove will have to apologize or try to destroy her underground so no one can see him.

[frogjerk]

Next will be the story over the Alaskan Delaware State Police controversy...

[yldstrk]

with “help” like that who needs hurdles?
sheesh, someone get the lady a frickin bookkeeper, and lose the idiot

[RexBeach]

Well, sounds like some bad judgement to me(if any of this is true). But then, how much bad judgement have Messrs. Biden and Castle exhibited?

Former staffers and theie stories? Speaking as a former aide to a number of candidates at every level, many staff I’ve known couldn’t get a gig anywhere else.

We shall see what happens.

[Freddd]

Yep.

Seems eerily familiar to what happened to Sarah Palin, eh?

[Moonman62]

Kristin Murray, who left her position in the state party...

Consider the source.

[JPG]

This is only the beginning. Stand by for more, ‘Tales From The Darkside’. I've heard that Christine enjoys dog meat, even more so if they're puppies and most of all if they're still alive!

[KansasGirl]

These stories really tick me off. First off, why are women candidates always attacked for being irresponsible with campaign finances? They did the same thing to Sarah Palin. Secondly, amazing that this same media could find ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to criticize obama about! They make me sick!

[Freddd]

In 2004, when Coons first ran for the job, he promised not to raise taxes. Since then he has raised taxes not once, not twice, but three times.

Coons inherited a surplus. Celebrating victory on election night in 2004, he said his “top priority would be to continue balancing the budget without increasing property taxes,” according to an account in the local News Journal. Yet in 2006, he pushed through a 5 percent increase in property taxes. In 2007, he raised property taxes 17.5 percent. In 2009, he raised them another 25 percent.

Coons wanted to raise other taxes, too. He proposed a hotel tax, a tax on paramedic services, even a tax on people who call 911 from cell phones.

“He was able to restore New Castle County to fiscal responsibility.”

Well, not exactly. In January 2009, Coons warned the county might be headed for bankruptcy.

Now, on his campaign Web site, Coons expresses deep concern about the federal government’s “runaway debt.”

“He’s my pet,” says Harry Reid

with his record of raising taxes, has shown throughout his career that he would rather take orders and directives from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid than do what is right for Delaware and the country,”

[mia]

Yup. . . words are just that, words. And, this is beneficial to the Republicans - how? Where are they digging up these idiots? Maybe the Dems and the RINO's should understand that we are sick of politics as usual. In the past, people shied away from candidates that had even a hint of scandal. We don't have choices any longer. . . this is a fight for the survival of our country.