Until and if there’s another, detailed story, that’s what we have.
I don’t care about her debts and all that little stuff.
But that’s not the same thing as saying that her background is great.
I do think that she might need a better answer.
Here’s the thing.
Average people run into economic problems that sometimes mean they can’t pay their bills.
If the Dems argue only that she didn’t pay her bills, we’re fine.
But they probably won’t.
They might say “what kind of person, who never even paid her final small bill to her college to get her degree, runs for the US Senate over and over again?”
And our answer, that Christine is an average person, is simply inadequate to that line of attack.
She ran a write in campaign in 2006 (I think) against Carper. She did well, getting 4.3% abouts. But she had those college degree problems then. Why didn’t she take care of that particular problem then? A democrat could easily say “wouldn’t a sane candidate take care of this? There is nothing wrong with being poor. But most poor people know that when there are clear problems can be fixed by paying a minor bill, you fix them. Especially when you run for the US Senate. Over and over and over again.”
I’m 100% behind O’Donnell. I’ve been hyping her here on FR since May 27. 100%. But she needs a better answer than “what, you don’t like poor people now”
Her bio has her working at the RNC in DC 20 years ago. Christine is not a poor person with some money problems.
It’s a different story that what we’re telling. I don’t know what she’s going to come up with, but I do know that it should and can be even better than “poor person”.
Fighting the establishment for 20 years. They attack me, sometimes I take a financial hit. Fighting for conservative moral values. The GOP didn’t do it, somebody had to. It doesn’t pay well, but it was the right thing to do. She has The Passion on her resume.
Dude, she's immune. Heard of the Treasury Sec'y Geithner and his tax problems? Heard about the 41 people in Bobo's WH who owe the government they're allegedly running $831055?
Everybody's broke, everybody's had problems paying their bills in the last two years, this isn't the season people care about that.
She's gonna win, and it'll be up to the MSM to elect an MSM'r to whine louder (and invoke more negative self-karma) than Peter 'No-Filter' Jennings: "The Nation threw a temper tantrum tonight".
O’Donnell needs to confront the issues head on. If she can do so successfully, the character issue will go away; and perhaps can be played to her advantage.
Anyone who wishes to be a United States Senator can certainly be imperfect but the public should have access to accurate and factual information related to a candidate’s background.
I can assure you that the State’s only newspaper, the News Journal, will be relentless unless and until she puts these issues behind her. Otherwise these issues will follow her throughout the campaign. O’Donnell is in the big leagues now; show us the facts. Her window of opportunity is about one more week.
I would simply say to all of that. You need to find a person that has absolutely nothing in their past that can give the opposition anything to use that has the ideals that you want in a representative.
Think that may have been what Rove was trying to say...She needs a better answer.
OTOH his emotional outburst lend me to believe that he either had a connection with the rival's campaign or was planning on having a job with him.Or just doesn't like woman in political positions...
His accomplishment intentional or not:
Her name is on everyone's lips and
many have donated that may not have done so if he hadn't opened his mouth
Not all is lost and fully expect in the future for him to get behind her and possibly even assist her campaign.
Does anyone know what happened to all the detailed biographical information that was on her website? Why did they remove everything?