IMHO, Christine O’Donnell is not a good candidate for public office. She’s gotten much attention in life from her beauty and I think it has taught her the wrong lessons. I don’t buy in to her profession of faith and moral high ground because she has spent more than a decade selling it on MTV and anything Bill Mahar happens to be hosting this week. Her “fame” prior to her efforts for public office has been posing as a boogeyman for the left’s talking points. I have a hard time supporting someone who makes a living that way.
That said, she was the candidate conservatives needed in Delaware in 2010 precisely because she didn’t know any better. She took on the Delaware GOP establishment, which had been satisfied with going along to get along, and she defeated it. She also didn’t know to listen to all those people who told her she was punching above her weight class in the general election. She gave the election her all and was smacked down by both the GOP machine as well as her opponent. Were she afforded a supportive Republican party in the general election, it would have been a much closer result. I’m certain that other men and women around the nation who had not ever thought about running for public office have watched and learned from both Christine O’Donnell and her campaign. I’m also certain that well entrenched GOP party machines are a little less entrenched each day because of efforts by dreamers like Christine.
I greatly appreciate and respect your comments. I disagree, to some degree, with some of your points, but my time has run out here.
I’ll try to clarify my position tomorrow. If I should fail to respond in a timely manner, you must pardon me.
Good night,
TJI
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together clearly understands that dirty politics have been around since....well...politics.
Once O’Donnell kicked Castle’s tail off his seat, the RINO establishment, in concert with the MSM machine, kicked it into high gear in launching an all out assault on O’Donnell.
The RINO’s, and newbie, on this thread can chant the mantra, “She did it to herself”(excluding you, of course) ‘til the cows come home, but we can expect that rationale. We Conservatives have grown accustom to witnessing such behavior.
Another Freeper on this thread claimed that some of the voters on the Left would have voted for O’Donnell in order to spite Rove. That’s about as true a statement as Rosanne Barr is a singer. O’Donnell is a Conservative. Liberals never vote Conservative. Thanks to the friendly establishment GOPers, and in concert with the rabid MSM, voters on the Left wholehearted supported Coons.
Christine O’Donnell could have managed her campaign and the media more skillfully, but I disagree with those who accuse her of being the only reason the election was lost to Coons.