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Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Just come out and say it, Christine: You want to round up Jews
Posted by Jill | 7:58 PM
Does Bill Maher still think Christine O'Donnell is "nice"?
Failed GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is back, and she's telling supporters she wants her newly formed political action committee ChristinePAC to "investigate and counter attack leftwing groups."

O'Donnell, who wrote that her losing campaign sent "shockwaves" throughout the nation, said in an e-mail to supporters Tuesday that her group will look into the groups "funded with one million dollars or more from billionaire leftist George Soros."

"The Left keeps after me because they consider strong, Republican women a danger to their status quo," O'Donnell wrote. "Your donation also enables me to speak out in many venues from Coast to Coast, thereby helping support a nationwide effort. This is a way that will help me counter attack our opponents and bring the battle to them."

ChristinePAC is based out of O'Donnell's Delaware home, raising concerns for ethics groups given that O'Donnell is already under investigation for alleged misuse of campaign funds.

O'Donnell also claims that President Barack Obama and the White House regarded her "as their number one opponent."


You wish, bitch.

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Saturday, October 09, 2010

How sharper than a serpent's tooth....
Posted by Jill | 7:05 AM
From the Bite The Hand That Feeds You file: Joining Joe Miller in tapdancing around the question of Sarah Palin's presidential qualifications is onetime Satan-dabbler and Hari Krishna almost-was Christine O'Donnell:
Wilmington, Delaware (CNN) -- Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell granted me a 10-minute interview at her campaign headquarters on Thursday. Here are the highlights:

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Is Sarah Palin qualified to be president?: "Is she running for president? Again, hypothetical."

Does Palin give you advice?: "She gives me 'You go, girl' advice."

Did Palin really tell you to speak through Fox News?: "I heard her say something like that on 'O'Reilly.' If anybody knows about the politics of personal destruction, it's women candidates, women politicians like Sarah Palin."

Heh. I'm not sure she meant that last one the way it sounded.

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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Does this include the Republican fratboys in the C Street House?
Posted by Jill | 6:59 AM
Maybe the reason the Republicans are leery of Christine O'Donnell is this video clip from 2003 in which she states that she really does believe you can, and should, stop everyone from having sex:



In all seriousness, though, I have to wonder about Christine O'Donnell, not from a moral standpoint, but from a mental health standpoint. This is not about "She's crazy, ha ha", but rather about What the hell happened to her in college to make her be like this?"

O'Donnell likes to paint herself as a chaste woman, but as Alex Pareene pointed out last week, O'Donnell admitted that in her days at Fairleigh Dickinson, she did things she regrets -- "drinking too much and having sex with guys with whom there wasn't a strong emotional connection." You know what? So did I. So did a lot of women. I'll bet that like me, she also had sexual experiences that today we would call acquaintance rape.

I've written before about whether it's healthy to wrap oneself in the label of "survivor of rape" for the rest of your life because some guy held you down on a bed in college and told you if you didn't fuck him, he'd rip your clothes off and throw them out the window. Yes, that happened to me, I've written about it before, and while today one might say that this kind of behavior on the part of males ought to be legally actionable, I'm not sure how my life would have been enhanced by getting on a witness stand and having to tell a defense attorney trying to paint me as a whore that yes, I went to the guy's room willingly.

Yes, there's the world as we'd like it to be, but there's the world as it is, and I think I'm much better off having decided after that incident "You know, I think maybe I'm not going to go to bedrooms in frat houses anymore", putting it behind me, and going on to have a good life and a successful marriage of 24 years duration last Tuesday than I would have by wearing a bad experience like an open wound for the rest of my life -- or by deciding that no one else should ever have sex. It's like the women who regret their abortions and work hard to have abortion made illegal so that no one else has the choice they did.

My spidey-sense just tells me that Christine O'Donnell had at least one of those bad experiences in college, and that what we're seeing in her chastity advocacy is a result. So I have a message for Miss O'Donnell:

Chrissie, it's OK to be traumatized by a bad experience. Really, it is. And everyone responds differently. And if what you have to do in order to live your life after such an experience is to live "as a chaste woman", then be my guest. However, you have to realize that not everyone responds the way you do. People have sex. They do. And the God you believe in wouldn't have made it pleasurable if He didn't want you do do it. I'm sorry you have regrets in your life, and I'm more sorry that you can't seem to get beyond those. Perhaps a good therapist could help you get past them and let you make a decision about chastity through clear eyes, rather than through the prism of whatever happened to you all those years ago at FDU. But the one thing to keep in mind is that this is YOUR issue and YOUR problem, and you have to work it out for yourself. Imposing your response to trauma on the general public is not befitting a public official.

I wish you well. And seriously. Talking to someone might help.

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Monday, September 20, 2010

We'll see if the IOKIYAR rule applies here
Posted by Jill | 6:09 AM
If a Democrat used campaign money for personal living expenses, Republicans would be howling from the rooftops. We'll see what happens when Christine O'Donnell does it:



Check out the supporter who excuses this by saying "It makes me feel like she's one of us." As if "us" pays their mortgages every month by running political campaigns, taking money from people, and then using that money to pay one's living expenses. If that is, in fact, the moral code of the Tea Party -- scam when you can -- I think we need to know about it.

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Friday, September 17, 2010

Karl Rove is a wuss
Posted by Jill | 6:06 AM
September 14:



September 15:


There, in a nutshell, is the one thing you can always say about Republicans: They will willingly march off a cliff together rather than listen to the guy who says that a cliff is coming.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Christine O'Donnell: Just another Christofascist scammer
Posted by Jill | 8:58 PM
Remember how Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker collected all that money from people thinking they were supporting a church, or buying shares in a religious theme park hotel -- and then they lived high off the hog on their ill-gotten gains? Scamming the public for dollars is nothing new, but Christine O'Donnell is elevating it to an art form.

Now that she's won her primary, her web site consists of nothing but a plea for money:

until at least 9:32 last night, there were several other pages, including one titled “About Christie,” another explaining, “Why Christie?” another supposedly debunking smears against O’Donnell, a list of endorsements, and several press releases. Here is a screen grab, recovered from Google cache, of the many options a visitor to O’Donnell’s website would have had, had they visited her site before it was stripped:



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The URL for all of these pages now direct to an error page. Could O’Donnell be trying to reinvent herself?




Hardly surprising; begging is the only gainful employment she's had for years. Unlike your average homeless person on the street who just wants enough for a meal or a can of Friskies for her cat, O'Donnell is looking for over a million dollars in donations. Those Sarah Palin suits are EXPENSIVE.

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