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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You can bet your life that Soros is out looking for another guy like that so Baraq can attempt a Clintonian plurality.
Can’t she just say she did not inhale or something? It’s not like she drove drunk off a bridge and killed somebody.
Look at it this way. At least she might still remember how to cast a 'few spells' and direct them toward the marxist and the 'Architect'.
I thought she already had explained it. As a naive teenager she dated some offbeat dead beat not knowing much if anything about him or what even was going on during the date. She’s since repented.
What else is there to explalin?
It wouldn’t surprise me.
Well, I’m glad I’m not alone. She sounds like a conservative Christian now and I can understand doing stupid things when you’re young, but still...
Where are the bearded Marxist questions?
Heh.
Yeah, as I recall Nixon beat the hell outta him too!
Maybe if O’Donnell were into killing babies via abortion or “dabbled” in Marxism like her opponent Chris Coons, she’d be Rove’s ideal RINO. Maybe she can stick a pin in a Rove doll.
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So...Rove is NOW tripling down????? This is getting crazy...
Here’s the quote I should have posted “Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell responded to old clips that surfaced over the weekend where she said she had once “dabbled in witchcraft,” clarifying at a GOP picnic in Delaware Sunday, “I was in high school, how many of you didn’t hang out with questionable folks in high school? But no, There’s been no witchcraft since, if there was, Karl Rove would be a supporter”
I DID TOO!
Back then I didn’t like Bill Clinton cause he struck me as a bit smarmy.
I thought Perot was just the ticket, yes I did, fine independent fellow that he was.
You got to get up pretty early in the morning to fool moi.
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
If the media chooses to run with this story and it “gets legs†Delaware could end up burning the “witch” figuratively speaking! The next few days will tell.
Unbelieveable, Rove is an idiot. It would have been nice if the Pube establishment asked all these questions about the joker that is in the White House.
Confusing witchcraft and satanism is like confusing Catholicism and cannibalism.
She just did, Karl, and if you don’t shut up, she’ll stick another needle in you.
Right.
Who among us HASN’T done something really stupid as a teenager? I sure as hell did.
If she had made the comment NOW I would have questioned her intelligence for handing the vile RATS something they could gnaw on... but taking an eleven year old comment (on a COMEDY show!) that’s about something she may have done when she was a teenager...
Sorry. Much ado about nothing.
Rove’s comments are detestable. She’s our candidate now, whether he likes it or NOT, and he should be supporting her.
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