“They’re following me,” she told The Weekly Standard. “They follow me home at night. I make sure that I come back to the townhouse and then we have our team come out and check all the bushes and check all the cars to make sure that—they follow me.”
Now suddenly this has raised the ire of some conservative pundits – suggesting that she isn’t fit for office because of her caution. But actually, she does have cause for concern. According to a video from her campaign – it has been documented that operatives from her opponent’s campaign, Rep. Mike Castle, have in fact attended events she hosted with video cameras. So how would you feel if you were being followed with a video camera?
Sorry, flame me if you will but she sounds like a bit of a nut. Campaigns film at opponents’s events all the time hoping they catch you saying something dumb or kooky. This is nothing new. That’s a far cry however from “following you home” or that they’re hiding in the bushes and thus needing to send campaign aides out to search through the landscaping. This claim makes her sound a little weird. Add to that her claim that her home and office were vandalized, yet she didn’t report either to the police, and it seems she has a pattern of either paranoid delusion or just making up victim claims to score political points. I’m not a fan of Mike Castle. But we could have done better coming up with a conservative opponent to the guy. This one seems like a lose-lose.
Let me see if I got your argument right. You think she’s crazy because she thinks people are out to get her. That’s basically your argument.
Now, it has been proven time and time again that they are in fact trying to get her.
So, she thinks that they’re trying to get her and she’s right.
What she might be guilty of is inexperience, perhaps. She should know, I suppose, that they wouldn’t do exactly what she thinks they might do. She should know that her many many opponents, which for some inexplicable reason now include the NRSC, as well as the Delaware GOP, would not jump her from the bushes. They have done 1000 other nasty things, but Christine should know that they wouldn’t spy on her house, or do anything like that. Ok, gotcha.
Would they have called Christine paranoid a week ago if she said she thought the NRSC was working against her? “Oh Christines crazy,” they’d say, “everyone knows that the NRSC only works for incumbents.”
Christine has many well documented reasons to be paranoid, but she might not be enough of an insider politician to know which dirty tricks they would or would not pull.