Posted on 10/01/2010 9:31:58 AM PDT by smoothsailing
She is of Irish and Italian descent - this is a no brainer, she wins.
“I can see that you don’t think much of people who have actually earned a college degree — much less three of them. And I guess it’s likewise obvious that real-world success doesn’t count for much in your world.”
I was hoping you’d take that bait.
No, I don’t think very much of Havahd Marxists, ut then we all know in the real world it’s Ivy League or it ain’t nothing.
Now I know you are a DU troll.
Man, that article’s comments thread is rockin’.
The Tea Partiers are also holding O'Donnell up as an example for what they can do nationwide
You seem to be referring here to something you see as monolithic, as if something you call the "Tea Party" were a clone collective that spoke with one voice. I find that fascinating.
Sorry, but that's not how you're spinning it. Your girl can't compete on the accomplishments or education front, and you're just trying to find ways to make that not matter.
Now I know you are a DU troll.
Yeah, right, newbie dumbass.
And Tea Partiers never, ever refer to themelves as "we?"
It's either a movement or it's not.
“Your girl can’t compete on the accomplishments”
What accomplishments? You are right, she can’t compete with Coons. She’s not a Marxist. She’s not an Ivy leaguer.
She’s just an average every-day American girl.
Why would I want Coon’s accomplishments? I want someone who I believe will do the best thing for Americans. I want someone who understands common sense principles.
“just trying to find ways to make that not matter.”
Ok, question then. Does it bother you that Coons is, by his own admission, a Marxist? Why do you believe that education is a panacea? It’s not. Education is a tool. How you use your education is the important part, not the letters behind the name.
Maybe I should quote Buckley again. I’d rather be governed by the first 500 names out of a phone book than the board of Harvard. Buckley was an educated man, and he understood all to well the problems with education, and how education disassociates people from reality. It teaches them many things that simply are not so.
If Coons were pro life, pro market forces, pro anything that I believe, then he would be under consideration. As it is, despite his ‘education’ he’s chosen to be pro abortion, and pro market intervention. Pro marxist if you will like. I have a problem with Marxists, because I’ve known those who have survived under a real communist government. I want someone who believes in the American way of life, who respects Freedoms, not someone who dallied in Marxism because it was the fashionable ideology on campus.
I think many non-Delawareans don't realize that only 3 out of 10 registered Delaware voters are Republican (and they have lower turnout rate than the Democrats). And Christine O'Donnell got only slightly more than half of the Republicans. So this "mandate" of hers is from 16% of the voters. That's not much of a base to carry one through a general election.
Oh yeah? Like the Dan Gaffney interview?
She's exhibiting great patience and tolerance for this man's rude behavior.
Yeah, he’s trying to point out that she lies, gets caught in that lie, so she gives another lie.
In Christine O’Donnell’s world, it’s a “win” or a “tie” when you lose a county 57% to 43%...or maybe only when talking to out of state marks you can sucker at a fundraising event.
There are people who have the ability to be absolutely precise and exact when it comes to numbers and facts. We call those people accountants.
Other people have an immense talent for concepts and imagination. We call those people statesmen.
I'll let you decide whether Christine is more accountant than stateman or more statesman than accountant. I do have my own view on that.
That was one county. Yes, if you round to two significant figures, she tied. I agree that was a tie for all intents and purposes.
But even in Kent County, she lost 43% to 57%...that’s quite a gap.
Oh, dear, now you’re sounding like an accountant. :)
Well, at least she finally has a real Treasurer, after ignoring so many violation warnings from the FEC. Maybe she can get someone for personal finances, too. I just hope that if she becomes a Senator, she'll have someone to help with that budgetary stuff that she just can't get right! :-)
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...this month Coons assured the Yale Divinity School's Notes from the Quad that serving in the Senate would be a "great way for me to apply the principles and values that were honed at YDS." Coons got a Master of Arts in Religion in 1994, specializing in ethics. He learned a lot.
Now everyone who has followed the Delaware race knows that the conservative, Christine O'Donnell, has been exposed by Bill Maher the comic genius for appearing on his show sometime in the 1990s and claiming to have "dabbled" in witchcraft. But do you know what was being taught at the Yale Divinity School when Coons was there as a graduate student? Witchcraft! Had Christine been a bit older and presumably sophisticated she could have attended classes with Chris and been taught witchcraft by scholars. Perhaps she could have earned a Ph.D. in the mysteries of reading chicken entrails.
Along with classes in witchcraft, there were classes in Queer Worship and Feminist/Womanist/Gendered Theologies, and, in the Introduction to Christian Ethics II, there was Black Liberation Theology, a study Coons first picked up in Africa. Were the "values" taught in these classes among those absorbed by Coons at the YDS? We do not know because Coons is not answering calls for him to release his transcripts.
Five e-mails and a follow-up phone call from The American Spectator to the Coons campaign have been ignored. The request? Since Coons' liberal friends have made much of a high-school date by O'Donnell with a guy into witchcraft, did Chris Coons take the "Witchcraft" course the school offers? How about the "Queer Worship," "Feminist/Womanist/Gendered Theologies" or "Introduction to Christian Ethics II" courses? The latter featuring readings by Black Liberation theology guru James Cone and social justice evangelist Ronald Sider? If not, what specific courses did Coons take while getting his Master of Arts in Religion at YDS -- graduating in 1994. Who were his teachers? What was the assigned reading?
The kind of socialist values taught in these courses have a direct bearing on Americans since Coons insists he will bring these values to Washington with him.
But the once voluble Coons is suddenly doing the old Nixon stonewall routine -- simply refusing to answer any questions even as questions pile up about just what he was taught and by whom while at the Yale Divinity School.
“The kind of socialist values taught in these courses have a direct bearing on Americans since Coons insists he will bring these values to Washington with him.”
I guarantee you that he took all of them, which is why he’s trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes by telling them about Harvard Divinity School. Which is one of the reasons I *don’t* trust academia! I’ve been there, and I know what courses they offer.
But then I’m just ignorant...
“That was one county. Yes, if you round to two significant figures, she tied. I agree that was a tie for all intents and purposes.”
Where do all these folks come from? We get it, you don’t like Christine. I’m one of those ‘out of state’ marks, and I could care less about her financial difficulties.
That’s because I’m one of the ‘little’ people who’s been derided by the supposedly ‘upper crust’ folks. Pul-eese.
Care to share how much you clear in a year, since that seems to be an issue for you?
What does this have to do with financial difficulties? It’s flat-out dishonesty.
Why are her financial difficulties germane to your discussion? You brought them up because they are obviously important to you.
I’m still waiting to hear from you how much you clear in a year. I really get sick of bullies.
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