Posted on 09/21/2010 8:51:42 AM PDT by patriotgal1787
"I dabbled into witchcraft. I never joined a coven. I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do." -- Christine O'Donnell, R-Delaware
Well whaddya know. Christine and I have something in common!
I too have dabbled in witchcraft, though I never joined a coven. I even hung around people who were doing these things. And like Christine, I'm not making this stuff up.
I grew up amidst self-proclaimed witches in my hometown -- Salem, Massachusetts -- the officially designated "Witch City". The City's logo is a witch on a broom. I've interviewed Laurie Cabot, Salem's official witch. Twice. I grew up with Samantha, Tabitha, and Endora, stars of the beloved TV series Bewitched, which (witch?) filmed several episodes in the Witch City.
When I was a youngster, I skated and tobogganed at Gallow's Hill Park. My high school football team name was "The Mighty Witches". Their helmets sported a flying witch decal, black on red. My high school yearbook was called "The Witch" whose cover featured a red door with black hasps.
Several Salem businesses identify themselves with the flying witch, including the hometown newspaper whose masthead is emblazoned with the ubiquitous hag. Local law enforcement uniform patches and patrol cars carry her symbol everywhere they perform police duty. The local Coast Guard Search and Rescue unit bore the witch's visage on its patches as well.
Downtown shops feature pentagonal signs and black magic potions. The most popular tourist attractions are the Witch House and the Witch Museum.
Halloween marks the high season in this little coastal New England town, founded in 1626.
It's unavoidable. I mean, what's a gal to do? Dabbling in witchcraft is a way of life in the "Witch City".
Christine O'Donnell says if she was a witch, Karl Rove would be a supporter. Now if I was a witch, Karl Rove wouldn't be a supporter... he'd be a frog. And it would take a mighty potent potion to turn the Republican establishment elitist into a prince.
After graduating college, I left the mystical Witch City, the land of witches and twitches only to find myself in the land of winks and blinks... another mythological place of occult where Major Nelson's harem-attired creature blinked in and out of her bottle. Cocoa Beach is home to the genie Jeannie, where tourists pose beneath a street signed labeled "I Dream of Jeannie Lane".
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For some of us, like Christine O'Donnell and me, there's just no escaping it. We've dabbled. It's true. Now if we can just twitch our nose a little, maybe we can make the Congressional ruling elite disappear.
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Karl Rove would be sitting on a lily pad catching meals with his tongue... if C.O. were still doing that witch thing... :)
I think Karl Rove is on a witch hunt.
Great Article!
It's all a bunch of Hocus Pocus...
Karl Rove has just become the 21 century version of Ed Rollins. Nobody cares what the either of them think anymore.
I’d turn Karl into a turd..
er... I mean TOAD!
At this point all Rove is interested in is an “I told you so moment”
And Rove’s attempt to “negotiate” with The Tea Party & Tea Party Express groups to rally behind “agreed” candidates is clear in his real mission, IMHO: he wants to co-opt the Tea Party and corral them into his agenda to get those “moderates” elected. Rove either wants to use the Tea Party despite thinking they're just a bunch of useful idiots, or he has as a goal to cause dissent within them to diminish their momentum, and hopefully break them up. Rove is in no way a Conservative - he's using the Tea Party momentum for his own Political Calculus purposes. He'll only get away with it to the extent the Tea Party believes he's a Conservative. Once smoked out as nothing more than a Big Government Loving Republican, he's then rendered impotent (he thinks adopting Big Government Spending on a smaller scale than Liberals is “success” - and claims this is what “Independents” want to see, fool that he is). Rover, Gerson (and all the other Bush Liberals); Krauthammer, National Review; Powerline - they're all out on a limb now with Christine O'Donnell. If she wins these guys will be thoroughly exposed as useless hacks who really belong to the Democrats. If she wins, Rove in particular - because his attempts to sabotage her chances have been so brazen - stands to lose the most. Whatever credibility he has left goes down the toilet in one gigantic flush if Christine O'Donnell beats Chris Coons.
Makes voting for her that much more attractive, doesn't it?
A respected pundit/ex-presidential aide offers his opinion on the electability of a candidate for Congress, and by reading the responses here you’d think he was pulling wings off of a butterfly or something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5aPhGQ0L9Q
Someone put Donovans “Season of the Witch” to an old 20’s silent movie “Haxan” with a fat friar that looks remarkably like Rove.
I “dabbled” in witchcraft when I wrote a play about a famous American writer who once proclaimed herself a witch. I did endless research on magic and witchcraft and, unfortunately, it was the most boring thing I have EVER researched. The only good thing is that it lead me to read Sir James Frazer’s monumental book on anthropology: The Golden Bough.
I’ll tell ya, if the devil is this dull, we have nothing to worry about.
Rove is a neocon, as is everyone else that’s attacking her.
Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Gerson. All neocons.
Hey not me. Liberals hate Karl Rove. Karl Rove attacks Christine, Liberals like Christine. Works fine for me.
LLS
What if?
What if, Rove is pulling all this dirt out about COD now, so when election time comes around and coons tries to spout it, everyone’s like yeah, that’s old news. What about.......
LLS
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