Posted on 09/19/2010 4:23:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Karl Rove – the top GOP strategist who declared last week that Christine O’Donnell’s surprise victory does “little good” for the party – is now calling on the surprise Senate nominee to explain her comments about witchcraft.
"In southern Delaware where there are a lot of churchgoing people, they're going to want to know what that is all about,” the former aide to President George W. Bush told "Fox News Sunday."
“My view is she can’t simply ignore it,” he said. “She’s got to deal with it and explain it and put it in its most sympathetic light and move on.”
O’Donnell uttered the comments in question during a 1999 appearance on the now-canceled show “Politically Incorrect,” saying then, “I dabbled into witchcraft – I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. ... I dabbled into witchcraft.”
The 11-year-old interview was dug up Friday by liberal comedian Bill Maher – the former host of Politically Incorrect. During the 1999 appearance, O’Donnell also described one of her first dates – with a witch “on a satanic altar.”
A spokesman for the O’Donnell campaign did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
“She can’t simply say, ‘Oh these are unfactual, and not true,' and just ignore them,” Rove also said. “I don’t think the people of Delaware have or are accepting that as a reasonable explanation.
Citing exhaustion and scheduling conflicts, O’Donnell canceled her plans over the weekend to appear on both "Fox News Sunday" and CBS’ "Face the Nation" – a move Rove called a “smart decision.”
“She shouldn’t have accepted in the first place,” he said. “It’s Delaware voters, not conservatives across the country who will determine the outcome of this election … and there is, as I say, resistance.”
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The “trashing” is in the out of context quote. Had Maher showed the entire segment the whole thing would have been a non issue, but the out of context quote is very provacative. Of course Maher knew it but being the sleaze that he is, went with it anyway.
Rove knows it too, he is just on a rampage to sabotoge Christine in order to say I told you so. His career is on the line....well, what used to be his career was on the line but it is moot now that he has thrown it in the crapper.
O’Donnell became a evangelical Christian in college. It was then that she joined the College Republicans. Through Jesus Christ she turned her life around.
Maybe Ms. O’Donnell should wear a neck brace in public; it worked for Teddy Kennedy in court about a month after Chappaquiddick, the first and only day he “needed” to wear one. There’s a triple standard here; when some nonsense someone did back in their teens that hurt no one is held against them (I suppose you never did anything you regretted) while felonies are forgiven routinely if you have the “right” political views.
Rove must explain why he and his crowd expected us all to shut up about McCain’s atrocious record on real issues in office and support the nominee, but a nitnoy issue that means squat requires O’Donnell to kowtow.
I would also point out that we were told that O’Donnell couldn’t win because Delaware is Libville...since when does a lib care about somebody being a wiccan in high school?
Explain, so that we don't just write you off as completely unhinged.
I think the remark is self-explanatory. There's no obvious reason why Rove should still be shooting off his mouth after the primary is settled. His guy lost, to someone obviously preferable to the Democrat. By Rove's own "party-unity" logic, by which he supported that Lefty clown Castle to begin with, he's obligated to help the winner, shut up . . . or be recognized as a traitor.
You misjudged the outcome of the 2006 elections. When you speak, I hear dated party politics. A "architect" you are no longer. You have become "archaic".
Sure, as soon as I have time. I'm still working on crop circles.
Looking at the current stable of low-class political scum inhabiting Washington and the pedigreed RINO’s, communists, general perverts, thieves and traitors I can honestly say that her youthful mistakes are no concern to me.
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Agreed. If this is their best shot, they are firing blanks.
In the war of ideas and freedom versus the state, Rove has become a weapon in the enemy’s arsenal. Fortunately, he is a .22 cal. short.
I would be interested in hearing the answer given by the boob, who Mr. Rove engineered into the oval office for 8 years, when asked about the goings on at the Skull & Bones initiations and meetings!
Rove is one of the hatchet men sent out to destroy any uprising against the Order, in the early stages.
I saw, again, another direct shot across Sarah Palin''s bow when Rove directly challenged her to go to Delaware and help her chosen candidate to win. When people like Rove make such direct challenges to someone of Palin's prominence, tells me the hierarchy is deeply worried that their castles will be overrun.
Witch? That’s fine with me. moslem? That is not fine with me.
Corrected my hasty writing... sorry see above.
Looks like he’s havin’ some troubah wid some o’ dem go’mi’tt wohkehs.
Yes, that is what I was trying to point out (except I inadvertently add a NOT which was immediately corrected). You did add the clarification that I was trying to say, thanks.
Hopefully, she still has the costume...
Well, the negative experience sure seems to have turned her on to Christ in a big way.
Exactly. What used to be called “white” magic or “white” witchcraft is the present day Wiccan religion. Actually, it’s similar to paganism. It is NOT satanic.
As you mentioned, the U.S. military accepts Wicca. On the PBS series “Carrier” that aired a few years ago, which depicted life aboard an aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy, several of the enlisted women were shown practicising their “religion.”
Rove and the left are grasping at straws. Most teenagers have done something that’s considered “out there”....it’s not that unusual.
She has already addressed it, so I am ready to move on.
Still, it is weird that she felt compelled to tell the tale on national TV
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By its inherent nature, politics draws people with some degree of extroversion or even exhibitionism. There are exceptions to the rule, but usually there is some degree of attraction to the limelight.
As they say, politics is show business for ugly people. With some exceptions, to be sure.
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