[deport]

Christine O’Donnell writes in her new book TROUBLEMAKER that establishment Republican TV guru Fred Davis pushed Christine O’Donnell into filming the infamous “I’m not a witch” ad - by saying “Let’s just see how it looks” . Then Fred Davis posted the ad on the internet, sent it to the New York Times, and placed it with TV stations — WITHOUT FINAL AUTHORIZATION from Christine O’Donnell.

Other witnesses who were present at the filming of Fred Davis’ “witch” ad confirm Christine O’Donnell’s account — that Christine O’Donnell rejected the “witch” script the night before, sat down and got wired in with ear piece and microphone, and then was confronted with the script she had rejected the night before. Fred Davis badgered O’Donnell to just “TRY OUT” the script, and if she didn’t like the result they wouldn’t use it.

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....after Christine’s repeated objection and rejection of the script...
....and then was confronted with the script she had rejected the night before......

O’Donnell said no but she didn’t mean it apparently. If she was in charge all she had to do was get up and walk. To me this says a lot about her capibilities, all talk but no walk.

[Hunton Peck]

O’Donnell isn’t running for anything. What her own capabilities may have been doesn’t matter. It’s what the RINOs are capable of that conservatives need to be attentive to.

[Rocky]

Sounds to me like she trusted the wrong people. You know, those establishment Republicans who want to maintain the status quo.

[Moseley]

If she was in charge all she had to do was get up and walk

Christine O'Donnell agrees that she should have gotten up and walked out. However, consider:

1) Fred Davis replied, Let's just try it and we'll look at it together and see what it looks like. It was filmed not for actual use but just in the development process to think about different approaches and strategies. So saying the lines was sold as only a test, an experiment, not as the actual ad for broadcast on television.

2) If you watch the ad, you can see Christine flinching while she says the first couple lines. You can see (especially if you know her at all) that she absolutely hates the lines she is saying. Then after the 3rd or 4th line, she gets comfortable with the rest of the script and becomes her normal self again, speaking normally.

3) When a person is sitting on the studio set, they are wired in with the microphone and the ear piece. SHe could not just easily get up to leave.

4) A good legislator is a consensus builder, especially in the US Senate. Christine would be good at patching together 51 votes for a bill or amendment. Christine was not running for military General, but for consensus builder.

[ngat]

Yeah, shame on her for trusting the hired consutants from her own party. She should have known the party she was a member of would stab her in the back. What ever would make her think republican “leaders” would close ranks around the candidate the voters of the republican primary chose?