“I’ll say it.
Christine O’Donnell is a terrible candidate.
Her lack of experience does not warrant her to be elected to the United States Senate”
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Are you both deaf and blind? You watched the video and conclude that Christine O’Donnell is a “terrible candidate”.
That speech was pluperfect...astonishingly good. It ranks with Palin’s speech at the GOP convention. I have supported Christine O’Donnell on this forum for months now, long before she was even mentioned anywhere else. I knew she was a conservative and thought she had the potential to be a good candidate. I was right about her being a conservative. But I was wrong about her being a good candidate.
She is a GREAT candidate. The scales fell from my eyes as I watched her delivery of that speech. I now completely understand why Rove and Krauthammer and Kristol and the rest of the Washington hive are attacking her ferociously and not, for example, Sharron Angle.
Sharron Angle is a great conservative but not a great candidate. She will probably win and she will be a fine Senator but the Senate will be where her career ends. That is no knock on her, because I very much like her. Just the facts.
Joe Miller is a much better candidate than Angle. He may go further. It is too early to say.
Marco Rubio, the darling of the “Establishment wing” of the so-called Tea Party (the Roves and the Armeys) is close to the Bushes, and I am not completely sold on him, although I hope he wins. He bears watching. Like Miller, he may go further, but it is far too early to say.
As far as Christine O’Donnell is concerned, it is not too early to say. If she wins the Senate seat in Delaware (the chances of which, after watching that video, went from 50% to 90% in my estimation), she WILL go further. I have seen some talented politicians in my life including Jack Kennedy and Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin, but Christine O’Donnell is in the same league. Just as the Establishment is trying to come to terms with Sarah Palin as the 45th President of the United States and plotting their return to power, who should appear on the scene but her heir apparent? It explains the temper tantrums that the Washington hive is throwing over her ascendancy. The loss of control of the Senate (which is their casus belli for the attacks on O’Donnell) is a mere smokescreen, a diversion. The real issue for the Beltway elites and their minions in the press is the loss of control over the Executive Branch for the better part of a generation that Palin and O’Donnell represent to them.
Because Christine O’Donnell, if she is elected in November at the age of 41, could well become President of the United States in the future. After watching her speech, I can say that with an assurance that I cannot say about any of the other crop of GOP stars on the horizon. The Herodians in the Establishment are thus in overdrive to kill her candidacy in its crib. May they fail.
Last night, Palin was caught on mic saying she can't wait to get to DE and "knock on doors". Careful what you wish for, hacks. The best retail politician I've ever seen will gladly take that challenge.
Thanks for the tip on CO's speech. I'll definitely watch it today if I can find it.
Excellent.
Yes on analysis. Christine = Major Star.
Right on the other candidates. Christine has “it”. Angle not so much. Rubio has establishment on his resume, not to be completely trusted. Miller is unknown. War hero and Yale Law School (which cuts both ways). Don’t really know enough about him. You didn’t mention Rand Paul, who is in the top tier of this tea party crop. A presidential run is assumed for him at some point.
But come November, if not sooner, Palin/O’Donnell will be typed by many. They’re like 5 foot tall basketball players who just happen to be able to jump 50 feet in any direction instantaneously.
I agree for the most part with your analysis of the Elite, Establishment, fear of Christine. I think it might go farther than that. Not only could she prevent someone that they like from being President, she could do a heck of a lot of things that they really don’t like. No “dark, undiscovered stain” there. She could put together, be a part of, a coalition of Conservatives, and anti-establishment, anti-elite, anti-expert types.
Which is pretty much what the tea party is, actually.
There is no reason at all for O’Donnell (or Palin for that matter) to really listen at all to the “conventional wisdom” on anything.
There are lots of things that large groups “support” just because 100% of the elites and their media beats the crap out of anyone who opposed them. Gay Marriage. Absurd. But the elites want it. You have a normal person, a likeable person, who has experienced a life without economic wealth and priviledge saying it’s absurd, the floodgates are open for all normal people. She has this opinion on her resume, and she can run with it if she wants, and it will get her a lot of votes.
There are a lot of things that aren’t legal that the people want legal because the elites and their media don’t want them legal. Marijuana. People go to jail for growing plants. Absurd. It’s a plant. People should be allowed to grow any plant they want. (There’s a minor caveat for somewhat obscure environmental issues, like if you bring in a certain plant to a certain area, it has no natural predators, etc etc). But huge numbers of 18-29s will vote for her just on that. If you gave 18-29s legal pot and no gay marriage, they’d love it.
There are certain groups we’d lose and certain groups we’d get. And there are many more people in the groups we’d get.
AGREED! Thanks for posting her speech at #291.
gee I guess I really do HATE her....41 and she looks like that?....trash....