In Delaware, now it’s a real witch hunt
By Ward Smythe | Sunday, September 19th, 2010 | Politics
So, Christine O’Donnell has admitted that she once “dabbled” in witchcraft.
So. What?
But according to blogs and tweets on Saturday, her political career is over. Not because she says she IS a witch. But because she dabbled in it and rejected it.
If she were a Democrat the left would be filing suit to allow her to pray in Congress.
Why is it that no one on the conservative side of the aisle is allowed to have a past?
Barack Obama “dabbled” in cocaine. Bill Clinton “dabbled” in cigars. Ted Kennedy “dabbled” in under the table waitress encounters. And the Patron Saint of the Senate, Robert Byrd, dabbled in burning crosses.
Heck, Chris “The Bearded Marxis” Coons’ own dabbling with Marxism forged his political philosophy that changed him from a Reagan Republican to a Democrat.
Heaven forbid that a Republican, especially a conservative Republican admit they once merely considered something and thought the better of it.
I don’t know much about Christine O’Donnell. But it speaks volumes to me that the people leading these attacks against her are the same people who thought Trig Palin wasn’t Sarah’s son and who think George Bush masterminded the 9/11 attacks.
In other words, they’re just “dabbling” crazy.
Christine O’Donnell may indeed has some questionable circumstances in her past. Who amongst us doesn’t?
The best response I saw to all of this was over at Coyote Blog:
I know nothing about Christine O’Donnell and since I don’t vote in the state of Delaware, I probably won’t expend much effort trying to figure her out. She is accused of being a flake and of making some crazy statements. Again, I can’t say one way or the other. But I did have this thought: Since when did making crazy, nonsensical public statements in the heat of a political campaign become a disqualification for a Senate seat held by Joe Biden for three decades?
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9 Responses to "In Delaware, now it’s a real witch hunt"
We played with ouigie boards when we were kids,we also had sayonces too.What about Harry Potter? Is everyone that watched guilty of some kind of witchery? OOO, its almost Halloween.
Honestly, after years of Barack Obama constantly being called a Muslim Marxist Maoist Fascist Dictator (I think I missed a couple), you can’t expect the Left to let this one go.
From Crooks And Liars:
“If you were a Satanist who already sold your soul to the devil, and you wanted to work your way into the United States Congress to do his bidding, wouldn’t it be a devilishly clever idea to throw people off the trail by saying you “used” to be a witch? Because of course people would “assume” (and you know what they say about “assume”) you’d found Jesus and were washed in the blood of the Lamb — but what if you were, you know, literally washed in the blood of the lamb…. on a Satanic altar?”
It’s a genius plan and it makes complete and total sense. I applaud those who have the courage to stand up against the next Voldemort.
She turned me into a newt!
“Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,–
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.”
Brian waxes desperate with imagination..
Let me get this straight. The working poor who qualify for the EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit) are lazy because they work for minimum wage but it is OK for Republican candidates for office to pay their personal expenses from campaign contributions while leaving their campaign workers unpaid?
You know, I have a problem with people that attempt to make a living off government programs. But how laudable is someone who attempts to make a career out of running for office by living off the campaign contributions?
I am not very fond of Karl Rove, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day and Karl nailed it on O’Donnell. It shows just where the Republican Party is headed when guys like me praise Karl for trying to apply the brakes.
O’Donnell’s critics (on this charge) are probably concerned that she will win by casting a spell on Delaware voters. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist!)
In other words, responding to the TV clip about witchcraft was the easiest question about her past she could answer, and that one took about …10 yrs to clarify.
She could have gone on welfare and collected for a few years. She could’ve applied for EITC and lived comfortably but thinks she’s “better than that” and can do sooo much better. Talk about a sense of entitlement.
Let’s remember: It has been REPUBLICANS (along with independent ethics groups) who have made ALL of the initial charges vs her ethics, her character, her finances. So those who say “oh, asking this and that type of questions about her automatically means you’re nothing but a liberal”: Talk about Kool-Aid drinking.
Exactly how does one live for 6 yrs with no full time job? Do her parents give her an allowance? Does she live at home in Jersey? Talk about carpetbagging.
3 biggest campaign question zingers asked in last 30 yrs:
1. “Senator, why exactly do you want to be President?” — Roger Mudd to Ted Kennedy, 1980
2. “Governor Palin, what books and magazines do you read?” –Katie Kouric to Sarah Palin, 2008
3. Ms. O’Donnell, aside from one brief time 7 yrs ago, have you EVER held a full time job in the last 15 years? …And what was it? .2010
[...] Smythe pretty much summed-up the whole argument quite nicely at Bearing [...]
Brian Kirwin,
I believe that you might have borrowed that ‘newt’ quip from Alexandra Petri at the WaPo.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/roughsketch/2010/09/top_thirteen_reasons_christine.html?hpid=topnews
Here is the rest of the column.
“Anyway, here are the top 10 reasons Christine O’Donnell might be a real witch.
1. If you put her in water, she floats! So does everyone, but that’s the same criteria they used at the Salem witch trials, and they seemed to know what they were talking about.
2. She gets better-looking as time passes. Everyone else who was prominent in the ’90s came straggling out, broken and crinkled, muttering something about Vanilla Ice. Not O’Donnell. She’s like the Dorian Gray of political candidates. Witch.
3. Christine is a member of the Tea Party. One thing I know about tea is that, if you expose it to water, it dissolves. This is what the witch did in The Wizard of Oz. Witch.
4. Christine O’Donnell says gays suffer from identity disorder. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia believes that gays are not protected against discrimination under the 14th amendment, and he spends all his time wandering around in a black robe and cackling, so maybe that’s witch code. Maybe they’re in the same not-coven.
5. Witches use lots of made-up words, such as “hocus pocus” and “wingardium leviosa.” Christine O’Donnell coins her own words and phrases, too, such as “unfactual” and “republican cannibalism.” Witch.
6. Christine O’Donnell once went on a date to a “satanic altar.” Hasn’t everyone? You know your date’s going badly when he draws a pentagram on the table with sushi and insists “The Sacrifice Occurs Now.” That’s usually when I go to the bathroom and stay there. If my date comes and knocks on the door, I shout, “I’ve fallen in! Don’t come after me! I’m in a better place!” That’s not a witch thing. That’s a dating thing. Unless “satanic altar” is a metaphor for something. In that case, witch.
7. In “Wicked,” a musical about witches, the witch Elphaba sings a song about defying gravity, a natural impulse that it is impossible to resist without magic. Christine O’Donnell opposes masturbation.
8. She said she had a college degree, and then it disappeared, and then it reappeared! Magic! Witch!
9. Joe Scarborough once asked her if she was going to stop the whole country from having sex. She responded: “Yes.” Clearly, anyone with that much confidence in her powers must possess abilities beyond the ken of traditional humans. Witch.
10. She says she’s a common-sense conservative who is part of the real America. She promises to make government smaller, not raise taxes and bring values back to Washington. That would require magic. If she says she can deliver on that promise, then — witch!”
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