Posted on 10/03/2010 9:45:24 AM PDT by americanophile
ALL it took was some 30,000 Republican primary voters in a tiny state to turn Christine O’Donnell into the brightest all-American media meteor since Balloon Boy. For embattled liberals, not to mention the axis of Comedy Central, “Saturday Night Live” and Bill Maher, she’s been pure comic gold for weeks: a bottomless trove of baldfaced lies, radical views and sheer wackiness. True, other American politicians have dismissed evolution as a myth. Some may even have denied joining a coven. But history will always remember her for taking a fearless stand against masturbation, the one national pastime with more fans than baseball.
Yet those laughing now may not have the last laugh in November. O’Donnell’s timely ascent in the election season’s final lap may well prove a godsend for the G.O.P.
At first some Republicans had trouble figuring this out. On primary eve, a spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee badmouthed O’Donnell’s “disturbing pattern of dishonest behavior.” On election night, Karl Rove belittled her “nutty” pronouncements and “checkered background” on Fox News. But by the morning after, bygones were bygones. The senatorial committee’s chairman, John Cornyn, rewarded O’Donnell’s “dishonest behavior” with an enthusiastic endorsement and a big check. A sweaty Rove reversed himself so fast you’d think he’d been forced to stay up all night listening to Glenn Beck’s greatest hits at top volume in a Roger Ailes re-education camp.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
And apparently, Frank Rich as its champion.
Dear editors at the Times,The Voters will vote for the candidates that they choose-if you don’t like that,you can go f-— yourselves.
... uh, Frank ... we really didn't want to know this about you ...
Odonnell’s election will be useful in scaring the hell out of snow, collins, graham et al. We will get to 51 even if she does lose.
Frank Rich...once a failed theater critic,now a failed political columnist.
Dummies think they are so clever. When you get 10 dummies together it looks like a gathering of skunks. They keep Zeero in the middle and spew their stink eveytime the truth gets near.
At least our puppeteers are not of the Schultzberger strategic business and philosophy wisdom ilk.
“...to turn Christine O’Donnell into the brightest ...”
She IS bright and very American.
From Christine O’Donnell’s summer at Oxford:
“During the summer of 2001, we worked through key aspects of natural law theory from a variety of perspectives. The final exam contained two questions: 1. agree or disagree with the view of natural law expressed in Sophocles’ Antigone using a disputatio format; 2. agree or disagree with Thomas Jefferson’s quotation from 1782: “Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?”—again using a disputatio format.
Christine O’Donnell was a joy to have in the tutorials: intelligent, engaged, dynamic, good with questions and interested in ideas. Her paper on cloning was one of the two best papers written for me that summer. She successfully completed a rigorous, intellectually demanding course that was the equivalent of a course in the humanities at any graduate school at any university. As a result, I was happy to write recommendations for her for future graduate study.
The course we did that summer in Oxford is nearly a decade old, but the basic issues we addressed are eternal. Today, too many of the Republic’s leaders have abandoned the natural law tradition of the Declaration of Independence for a murky moral relativism—a relativism that is both destructive of democratic values and philosophically bankrupt. Christine O’Donnell would bring to the US Senate a deepened commitment to the philosophical convictions of the Founding Fathers at a time when the philosophical bankruptcy of too many leaders is mirrored in the economic bankruptcy of the federal government. She would surely add intellectual and philosophical depth to a Senate that at this point in its history badly needs both.”
http://presidentaristotle2010.blogspot.com/2010/09/christine-odonnell-at-oxford-some-notes.html
I will say right off this is the NYT I have not read it. Now I will say that them going after her this way is just making me not care. I like her more now than before.
They do spend a lot of time trashing somebody who supposedly has no chance of winning, don’t they?
“she’s been pure comic gold for weeks: a bottomless trove of baldfaced lies, radical views and sheer wackiness”
...funny. This describes the kenyan presidency to a tee and they can’t seem to muster up one joke.
Like when totus goes to the first urinal it says on the wall “why are you looking up here the joke is in your hand”
NY times drivel. Don’t even concern yourself with this lunitic.
Frank Rich is a vile, wretched human being.
Just ignore his hate-filled speech..He must be a miserable man. Christine O’Donnell is about saving her nation. Those of you who know anything about Christianity remember the story of Rahab, the harlot, who helped Joshua win the battle of Jerico and, even though she was not of the Jewish race, she became an ancestor of Jesus Christ. God uses the weak to confound the strong. These Senate seat are not a legacy for the ruling class. They belong to the people and the people will decide who fills them, not a hate-filled major news media and not any of the old line “powers that be.” Take heart when you read articles like this. These are simply mortal men and women who want to bully people they see as a threat to their opinions.
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