Posted on 09/08/2010 11:30:38 AM PDT by Superstu321
Over the past week, several political-insider wizards of smart have deemed Republican senatorial hopeful Christine O’Donnell unelectable – almost taking it to the point of vitriolic screeds you’d expect to hear from left-wing commentators, which would probably appear as a guest on MSNBC in their prime time lineup.
Their issue: In an interview, O’Donnell had claimed she could be the potential target of political opponents and that she had to be extra careful when she would go home at night.
“They’re following me,” she told The Weekly Standard. “They follow me home at night. I make sure that I come back to the townhouse and then we have our team come out and check all the bushes and check all the cars to make sure that—they follow me.”
Now suddenly this has raised the ire of some conservative pundits – suggesting that she isn’t fit for office because of her caution. But actually, she does have cause for concern. According to a video from her campaign – it has been documented that operatives from her opponent’s campaign, Rep. Mike Castle, have in fact attended events she hosted with video cameras. So how would you feel if you were being followed with a video camera?
That being said – who are these detractors, as conservative males, to call into question the safety self-concerns of a 41-year-old female in what could be a highly charged political contest? Is it really the smartest thing to do to be so obsessed with the race for a Delaware Republican senatorial nomination that one would make these judgment calls about someone’s character, especially coming from the political right? It’s a bizarre phenomenon to say the least.
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Yep. From this event I have come to realize the Political Elite that runs the GOP has far more in common with the Obama-Pelosie-Reid political machine then they do with average citizens
O’Donnell is a flake.
“They’re following me,” she told The Weekly Standard. “They follow me home at night. I make sure that I come back to the townhouse and then we have our team come out and check all the bushes and check all the cars to make sure that—they follow me.”
Now suddenly this has raised the ire of some conservative pundits – suggesting that she isn’t fit for office because of her caution. But actually, she does have cause for concern. According to a video from her campaign – it has been documented that operatives from her opponent’s campaign, Rep. Mike Castle, have in fact attended events she hosted with video cameras. So how would you feel if you were being followed with a video camera?
Sorry, flame me if you will but she sounds like a bit of a nut. Campaigns film at opponents’s events all the time hoping they catch you saying something dumb or kooky. This is nothing new. That’s a far cry however from “following you home” or that they’re hiding in the bushes and thus needing to send campaign aides out to search through the landscaping. This claim makes her sound a little weird. Add to that her claim that her home and office were vandalized, yet she didn’t report either to the police, and it seems she has a pattern of either paranoid delusion or just making up victim claims to score political points. I’m not a fan of Mike Castle. But we could have done better coming up with a conservative opponent to the guy. This one seems like a lose-lose.
Jim Geraghty of the National Review being among the most unhinged. That lame-ass defender of all thing establishment appointed himself vigilante IRS agent.
Wow. That sure is scary.
Do you think Cornyn is in on it or is this a Steele deal. By the way, what does Steele do and has anyone heard from him?
Now suddenly this has raised the ire of some conservative pundits – suggesting that she isn’t fit for office because of her caution. But actually, she does have cause for concern. According to a video from her campaign – it has been documented that operatives from her opponent’s campaign, Rep. Mike Castle, have in fact attended events she hosted with video cameras. So how would you feel if you were being followed with a video camera?
Sorry, flame me if you will but she sounds like a bit of a nut. Campaigns film at opponents’s events all the time hoping they catch you saying something dumb or kooky. This is nothing new. That’s a far cry however from “following you home” or that they’re hiding in the bushes and thus needing to send campaign aides out to search through the landscaping. This claim makes her sound a little weird. Add to that her claim that her home and office were vandalized, yet she didn’t report either to the police, and it seems she has a pattern of either paranoid delusion or just making up victim claims to score political points. I’m not a fan of Mike Castle. But we could have done better coming up with a conservative opponent to the guy. This one seems like a lose-lose.
I met one of those trackers with a video camera at an event and told him his boss was a pig! I’m sure he got that on his recording! LOL!
Sounds like Castle is running the same kind of dirty campaign that Marty Lamb is running here in MA 3rd district.
Only Dumbasscrats campaign like that. *cough*
Ha.
Just look at what the actions of the left did/does to ALL the opponents of Clinton and Obama .
They harass them at Home !
Just Ask Ken Starr and Paula Jones and Any CEO of a large Corp!
Your the naive one here !
Astroturfing? Don’t be silly. You seem to make that comment quite alot to people you disagree with.
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean someone isn’t out to get you.”
I am inclined to believe Lloyd Marcus:
“I sang at the Tea Party Express press conference in Delaware supporting Christine O’Donnell, Constitutional Republican for U.S. Senate. O’Donnell is a “real deal” Tea Party movement candidate; create more jobs, cut spending & debt, lower taxes and protecting our core values.”
Oh! And, all but a handful in Congress are not? Puhleeze!
They CAUGHT the guy in the bushes around her house!
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