[Ludi]

She definitely did not come out of nowhere, she has been in the public eye for years. But because of her Tea Party affiliation she is getting more national attention. Sarah Palin should be worried - Christine O'Donnell is cuter, more articulate, and a tad younger than Palin. And possibly even more extremely right-wing!

Personally, I think she is as cute as a bug.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'I') consider the people who elevate Satan to the level of God arch rival as having quite a bit in common with primitive polytheistic people, not Christians. Satan get mentioned TWICE in the Old Testament, and pretty much everything else is crap John apparently made up after Christ's death. So I think of modern fundies as part Satan worshipers.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')'Donnell's comments about witchcraft were made during a 1999 taping of comedian Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect" show.

"I dabbled into witchcraft. I never joined a coven," she said on the show, a clip of which hit the Internet as O'Donnell canceled Sunday appearances on two national news shows, citing commitments to attend church and the GOP picnic in Delaware.

"I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do," O'Donnell told Maher.
"One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that," she said.

"We went to a movie and then had a little midnight picnic on a satanic altar."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100919/ap_on_el_se/us_delaware_senate_o_donnell

[Plantagenet]

[sigh] The news media sure is hyping the Delaware Senate race, with the masturbating Marxist Coons against the celibate witch dater O'Donnell.



I guess its too much to hope that the media will spend any time on the actual issues that the public should be discussing this election year.

[BasilBoy]

I think Christine O'Donnell's delusion is relevant. Yeah, it's not an actual issue, but her MTV interview proves to me that she lacks the ability to get facts and process information (granted, she was young...but I haven't seen anything that tells me she evolved). So, whatever the issue is...she's not going to use logic and thoughtfulness to arrive at a decision.

I do agree the media is horrible at covering real issues, but that's not their role. Their function is to sell viewers to their customers. It's all one big sales pitch...

[Thralen]

Just a note. The story smells like BS. Either: A) she has no clue about the difference in religions between Wicca (of whom practioners are called Witches, some practice Witchcraft, and who have a basic rule saying 'and it harm none, do as thou wilt...') and Satanism (which is a far different thing) or B) her 'date' was pulling her leg. Which is it? I'd guess A even though she has sister that allegedly is a Witch. This assumes that there is any truth at all to the story.

Thralen

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Thralen', 'J')ust a note. The story smells like BS.

[Cid_Yama]

There is apparently something called Satanic witchcraft that has nothing to do with Wiccans. This must be what she was talking about.

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[Tanada]

Take the Christine O'Donnell quiz!

http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/09/ ... rter-quiz/

So does anyone know ANYTHING about her opponent? Seems odd to this Libertarian that only the Republican is being talked about in the media.

[efarmer]

Democracy is a messy system, isn't it. The Republicans have stroked and canvassed the salient feature groups that are expressing themselves as The Tea Party for decades and have not delivered for them any more than they have delivered for their fundamental core of conservatives. The media does not mention this because it is boring and they would rather that a photo might emerge where you could see up a woman's skirt or two men kissing on a photo snapped by a two bit gumshoe in an airport restroom instead. Is the devil a Kenyan with a Hitler moustache? YOU DECIDE. (Foxed option polling.)

I do not resonate with much in the Tea Party beyond adherence to our Constitution and fiscal conservative principles being applied to the corporate casino and cancerous credit mess we have built as a nation via massive ad hoc stumbling on a bipartisan basis over many decades.

Having said that, Republicans are dealing with disenfranchised people who have paid them with their loyalty and treasure for their fair share of franchise and have been denied by the corporatist vood doo cabal that is indistinguishable from it's Democratic counterpart save for WHO gets the government cheese.

[BasilBoy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('efarmer', 'I') do not resonate with much in the Tea Party beyond adherence to our Constitution and fiscal conservative principles being applied to the corporate casino and cancerous credit mess we have built as a nation via massive ad hoc stumbling on a bipartisan basis over many decades.

[efarmer]

The polished, nuanced, experienced, connected, elected, people that the Tea Party paid and voted for to run with their football essentially disenfranchised them and came back around to see what scared the piss out of them to formulate the next ad campaign. (Uncle Karl knows what scares his people.)

They are in the DIY nightmare one finds themselves in when they hired it done and got burnt by the pros.

The media, being carrion eating raptors because we are sensation eating infosumers, will sup on their innards, and poop them out on cue during ratings week. Then to allow us a reset, they will run a nice little piece about a cocker spaniel who wears a meat dress, just like Lady Gaga's. They will pan away right as the dog realizes the Dobermans are all licking their lips and staring at him.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'T')ake the Christine O'Donnell quiz!

http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/09/ ... rter-quiz/

So does anyone know ANYTHING about her opponent? Seems odd to this Libertarian that only the Republican is being talked about in the media.

[Cid_Yama]

She had no clue that seperation of church and state was part of the First Amendment. Audience at debate jeers.

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[PrestonSturges]

A couple Tea Party flaks are trying to spin this that we are just too dazzled by CO's brilliance to grasp the sutblety of her reasoning. Penn Jillete says that she is simply stupid, stupid, stupid. Coons roughly quoted the Establishment Clause, and CO questioned whether it was there. But when the audience laughed, CO seemed to think they were laughing with her, not at her, and she seemed to preening and proud of herself.

These people live in a little ideological bubble, and they fall apart in the real world. Even if they were elected, they can not avoid violating laws. In the Bush adminsistration a lot of them got good milage with an I'm-too-darn-stupid-to-prosecute defense (Monica Goodling). If they need to, suddenly they will claim to be mentally incompetent to stand trial.

The Washington Post has an "On Faith" column where theocratic conservatives go for a serious assbeating (but the Post gives the soapbox to hardcore wingnuts every damned week). Last week it was "constitutional conservatives," and their little column was one long string of historical errors, which they gotten beaten up on terribly. Of course, their supporters claimed it was all some sort of conspiracy.

[Cid_Yama]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ut when the audience laughed, CO seemed to think they were laughing with her, not at her, and she seemed to preening and proud of herself.

[Tanada]

The Constitution which clearly states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" INCLUDES the right of public officials to practice their own faith while in public. It is just bizarre to me that something so simple is so hard for certain people to understand.

[Cog]

I'm surprised the left now wants to use the original intent of the Constitution as their mantra about the purpose of the First Amendment. That being the "separation of the church and state" Christine is correct, those words are not in the First Amendment. That was however the original intent.

Would any of the left wing want to apply their new standards of original intent to include the Second Amendment? Any takers, Ludi, Cid?

[Cochise]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I')'m surprised the left now wants to use the original intent of the Constitution as their mantra about the purpose of the First Amendment. That being the "separation of the church and state" Christine is correct, those words are not in the First Amendment. That was however the original intent.

Would any of the left wing want to apply their new standards of original intent to include the Second Amendment? Any takers, Ludi, Cid?

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'I')'m surprised the left now wants to use the original intent of the Constitution as their mantra about the purpose of the First Amendment. That being the "separation of the church and state" Christine is correct, those words are not in the First Amendment. That was however the original intent.

Would any of the left wing want to apply their new standards of original intent to include the Second Amendment? Any takers, Ludi, Cid?