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Don't fall under her spell: Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell once 'dabbled into witchcraft'
New York Daily News ^ | Monday, September 20th 2010 | Mike Lupica

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.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2010electionbias; drivebymedia; hitpiece; mikelupica; paladino; witchcraft
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To: presidio9

Did somebody give Mikey another atomic wedgie? He sure is cranky in this one.


61 posted on 09/20/2010 12:45:13 PM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Conservatives want a CHOICE not an echo - No more RINOs!)
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To: presidio9
Hey “Lipica”, you do know that Wiccans have been recognized by the US Military. I mean you say all the time that you support the troops, but hate Bush and all Repubs. So are you going to mock all the troops who are Wiccans? I mean wouldn't it be hypocritical not to? Oh I forgot you only bash Repubs and Conservatives. There getting desperate folks. He'll bash O'Donnell for doing a dumb kid stunt that hurts no one, but will endorse a Dem who lied about being a combat vet. But he does support the troops, so that makes it OK. What a Moron.
62 posted on 09/20/2010 12:45:49 PM PDT by JimC214
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To: presidio9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yosCYE4vwlY


63 posted on 09/20/2010 12:46:50 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: presidio9

I’ll forgive O’Donnell her dabbling in witchcraft as a youth; I will not forgive or forget Obama’s dabbling with witchcraft and sorcery - obamanomics.


64 posted on 09/20/2010 12:47:11 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: Charles Martel
we already have people whining that they don't want to "go on the cart".

Like Lisa Murkowski and Charlie Crist among others.

65 posted on 09/20/2010 12:48:01 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (I can see November from my house. Christine turned me into a Newt. I got better.)
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To: GonzoGOP

Christine O’Donnell a witch??

Here’s the test - let’s douse her in water!!!


66 posted on 09/20/2010 12:48:04 PM PDT by ImProudToBeAnAmerican (Tom Daschle is deeply saddened... Remember him? Bahahahahahahahahaha!)
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To: gundog

>>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.<<

Straight guys haven’t seen that movie, much less reference it in real life, Mikey.

No wonder he’s washed up as a sportswriter - probably made the guys in the lockerroom uncomfortable.


67 posted on 09/20/2010 12:49:38 PM PDT by LadyBuck (In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher')
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To: a fool in paradise

“tea bagging homophobes”?

Talk about mixed emotions! It’s how I’d feel if my 16 year old daughter came home at 2 in the morning carrying a Gideon Bible.


68 posted on 09/20/2010 12:52:29 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: Charles Martel
we already have people whining that they don't want to "go on the cart".

You mean like Obama today at the twon hall saying "the recession is over" and "your doing better than you think you are". I can just hear John Cleese saying, "Your not fooling anyone."

Everything you need to know about politics I learned from Monty Python. We are the Knights who Say Tea.
69 posted on 09/20/2010 12:52:58 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: presidio9

Okay, if the past wrongdoings, weird habits, dabblings and so on of all politicians and public figures are now going to be an open book:

Let’s start with 0thugga!

Grab the popcorn.

Let the games begin!

What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Problem is she dabbled when in high school and gave it up. 0thugga and so many other slimey politicians are not only still dabbling, they’re immersed up to the neck or even over their heads, with a snorkel!


70 posted on 09/20/2010 12:54:34 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: Terry Mross

I used that phrase because the Left tries to smear tea party patriots as homophobes and then uses a slang term coined by homosexuals to ridicule the activists.


71 posted on 09/20/2010 12:55:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask yourself,where does Saudi Arabia fit on a scale of "passive" to "moderate" to "extremist" Islam?)
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To: presidio9

Why do I get the impression that Lupica would be more impressed if Snooki was running for Senator?

She’s more his speed.


72 posted on 09/20/2010 12:55:40 PM PDT by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: tet68

I hope she plays at her campaign rallies,

Season of the Witch,

WitchCraft by Sinatra!

WitchyWoman - She’s got the Senate in her eyes....


73 posted on 09/20/2010 12:55:47 PM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes!Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
Ny Daily News is written by and for illiterates. Its sentences are short and simple.

I call it "The New York Times for Second Graders."

All the liberal claptrap, without all those pesky three syllable words.

74 posted on 09/20/2010 12:56:10 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: swarthyguy

Don’t forget Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I put a spell on you!”


75 posted on 09/20/2010 12:57:48 PM PDT by SparkyBass
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To: libertarian27

76 posted on 09/20/2010 12:58:07 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: LadyBuck; gundog

>>Straight guys haven’t seen that movie,

ALLABOUTEVE - one of the best chick flicks ever! And a superb movie, too.

Have caught it a couple of times on TCM.


77 posted on 09/20/2010 12:58:14 PM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes!Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: SparkyBass

She ought to play up this angle for all its worth.

I’m sure many other songs are out there.

Who hasn’t gone out on a couple of dates that end up making great stories over drinks.


78 posted on 09/20/2010 1:00:41 PM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes!Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -Ummrika is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: altura

Why Thank YOU!


79 posted on 09/20/2010 1:01:01 PM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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To: DefeatCorruption

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Hufflepuff


80 posted on 09/20/2010 1:02:13 PM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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