No, O'Donnell was a complete flake. Most conservatives don't sue their conservative employer claiming mental anguish and seek redress through the EEOC. That goes quite a bit beyond "life is tough".
Here's her wiki entry on the subject:
In February 2003 O'Donnell moved to Delaware to work for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a non-profit conservative publisher of educational materials and bought a house in Wilmington. In 2004, she filed a complaint against ISI with the EEOC saying that she had been demoted due to gender discrimination. Later, on February 26, 2004, she was fired, and in 2005 she sued ISI in federal court for $6.9 million for wrongful termination, claiming gender discrimination and that her firing was retaliation for talking to the EEOC. She said ISI's actions caused her mental anguish and were a consequence of "ISI's conservative beliefs". She also claimed that she had lost future financial earning power because ISI's actions had offered a flexible work schedule to allow time for a Master's program while recruiting her to Delaware at half the salary she expected in Washington, D.C., then redefined her employment after she had moved and bought a house. ISI defended its action by alleging that O'Donnell had used company resources for her own media consulting work while on their time for Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ, which O'Donnell contends was agreed to before she was hired, and that ISI cited this reason only months later after the firing as a pretext. O'Donnell dropped the suit in 2008, stating she could no longer afford an attorney.
I agree with a lot of your posts and reasoned, well thought comments. I really disagree with you about Christine O'Donnell though. I think she is mostly a con artist, totally unfit for that GOP nomination.
You may be right about the ISI case - I don’t know, and I do not necessarily believe Wiki on it. My main point is that Rove and Dana Perino made a big point about some of her other financial difficulties, which just showed an arrogance on their part - especially since she was running for the Biden seat, a seat supported totally by government spending for 30 years - with taxpayers subsidizing everything two generations of Bidens have done. I just resent the arrogance of the beltway types, assuming that financial difficulties means incompetenece. Thanks to them, a lot of competent people have difficulty. That was my main point more than any particulars.
I’ve also met her, and in person, she is stunningly beautiful and very impressive. Maybe, ala Dan Quayle, she doesn’t come across that way on the tube...