Posted on 09/20/2010 12:10:14 PM PDT by presidio9
One of the new stars of the Tea Party movement, an entertainer recently mistaken in Delaware for an actual politician, is Christine O'Donnell. Start here with O'Donnell, just because you have to:
Even Karl Rove thinks she is too far off the grid. This from a guy who thought Dick Cheney was fine.
Delaware is a state that has about one-third the population of Brooklyn. O'Donnell, running for the U.S. Senate, won her primary race with just over 30,000 votes. Even the Mets occasionally draw more people than that. No matter, she was suddenly a new drum majorette for the Tea Party.
Oh, sure. O'Donnell is a younger, peppier, more pleasant version of Sarah Palin, whom she channels in clothing, mannerisms, peppy rhetoric. So she and her 30,000 votes were supposed to be another example of the tidal wave of Tea Party fervor that is supposed to be sweeping America, even though her real campaign slogan should go something like this:
There are a lot of whack jobs in Congress, from both parties, and I aim to be one of them!
Or perhaps not.
Because on "Real Time" the other night, Bill Maher ran a clip from his old "Politically Incorrect" show in which O'Donnell voluntarily copped to the following:
"I dabbled into witchcraft - I never joined a coven. But I did, I did! I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around with people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me to do.
"One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it."
At this point, you wanted somebody to jump in and ask what she thought the altar was, the counter at White Castle?
The younger version of O'Donnell sure didn't stop there. She can talk the way Michael Phelps can swim. Apparently the only way to shut her up is to have video like this hit the Internet. As soon as it did, O'Donnell canceled both "Face the Nation" and "Fox News Sunday."
O'Donnell also volunteered this in the 1999 clip:
"I mean, there's a little blood and stuff like that. We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar."
Now last week, Rush Limbaugh lost his mind after he heard Rove criticizing O'Donnell, as if Rove had committed an act of high treason by thinking that O'Donnell was some low-common-denominator candidate, especially at a time when we're supposed to need every good Republican we can find to take back the country from the infidels.
The tax liens against O'Donnell in the past weren't supposed to matter, maybe because she's playing to an audience where anybody who doesn't pay taxes is viewed as a living saint. And her weird ideas about masturbation, and how condoms don't really prevent AIDS, weren't supposed to matter. Neither was the suggestion that she has confused campaign contributions with a cost-of-living stipend.
No, sir. O'Donnell was another spunky underdog running against big government and looked like an "All About Eve" version of Palin and anybody who attacked her had to be bad, bad, bad.
You wonder how all those who have fallen madly in love with her would feel if somebody in politics they truly hate, like Nancy Pelosi, admitted she was the one who once dabbled in witchcraft. Or if they'd simply decide that Pelosi being a witch was old news and move on.
You want to worry about this country and how it seems to be getting dumber by the minute? Worry that the problems with it are so profound, and have made people so desperate and crazy, that there are actually 30,000 people in Delaware who think that Christine O'Donnell and her beliefs - whatever they are - are some kind of solution.
Or that in New York a loudmouth like Carl Paladino, another big Tea Party guy with ideas about immigration and illegals that make Arizona's look enlightened, is suddenly a candidate for governor.
You actually want to see Paladino on a whistle-stop tour with that Arizona governor, Jan Brewer, at his side. You may have seen Brewer make a television appearance not long ago and wait 15 seconds for her next thought. Boxers get counted out after 10.
Paladino would have been delighted and jumped right in. Already you can tell he thinks having any kind of unspoken thought is a felony.
Paladino is supposed to be another part of the tidal wave of those set to take back the country, starting in November. And no worries if he stumbles along the way, the way poor Christine O'Donnell did this weekend. He can just say the devil made him do it.
The Communist Left is always crying crocodile tears about “witchhunts”.
Now who is engaging in the witchhunt?
Oh yeah, the same Socialists who are crucifying the tea party as “racists” and “hate mongerers” and “tea bagging homophobes”.
Very funny!
Darn. You beat me too it.
On November 2nd, bring out your (politically) dead.
Will be discussed after 2012 elections, when the pardons are issued.
Wow. Do you really mean to tell me liberals are now reaching back into the 17th century for their slander tactics?
Okay, I thought at least dabbling was a requirement for a political career. No?
You’re smart enuf to be a Ravenclaw.
>>I dabbled into witchcraft - I never joined a coven.<<
Two things:
1. She said she dabbled, not that she was a witch.
2. It is past tense.
This needs a context to have meaning. If it was just something she looked into when she was young and that is as far as it went, this is completely irrelevant stuff. If she actually became a witch and got into this stuff, and especially if she still is, well, THAT would matter.
I have not followed this woman, her campaign or her position on issues, but if this is all these guys have against her, I’m not impressed.
I even have the scarf
Someone tell Lupica Christine hung out with fools two decades ago when she was in high school, but last year the US govt spent his tax dollars building a wicca worship site at our USAF Academy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/01/air-force-academy-gives-p_n_444800.html
My tagline is a response to the left (and GOP Establishment).
Christine looks sweet to me””
Yes she does. She is very photogenic and her pictures don’t line up with the whacked out accusations.
I said on another thread the first thing they should do is plaster her picture on every billboard in DE. A face like hers sells and it’s the exact antithesis of the grey haired, flannel suited insider.
"Of course I inhaled. That was the point, wasn't it?" - Barack Obama
"I smoked it. But I didn't inhale." - Bill Clinton
Now, why is the media getting all fired up about this witchcraft comment about something she did over 20 years ago when they just blew off these other two quotes?
Good...but I’m thinking something more like...’poof, be gone’
Good...but I’m thinking something more like...’poof, be gone’
Good...but I’m thinking something more like...’poof, be gone’
An excellent analogy. Just look at some of the primary election results - we already have people whining that they don't want to "go on the cart".
To the author: You ask how conservatives would respond if Nancy Pelosi admitted she dabbled in witchcraft. I ask you how would YOU respond if Nancy Pelosi dabbled in witchcraft.
As for O’Donnell, she will be a black magic woman to the gop establishment, the dems and the dems’ media.
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