Christine O’Donnell’s First Ad: “I’m Not a Witch”

I love the gall of a professional candidate who paid for rent and groceries with campaign contributions — a full year after the campaign was over — actually railing againt the excesses of fat cat politicians.

Good ad.
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Bear in mind that my sum total knowledge of the Delaware race is from the comedians and thus I don’t know what the Democrats actually did, I think the Democrats should’ve spent most of their effort on those actual scandals such as her spending campaign contributions. The stupid quotes were already out and Bill Maher was promising more and everyone knew that every time Bill Maher came out with the next one, every news outlet on the planet was going to play it. So the Democrats let Bill Maher and the comedians play it, while they instead talk about her policies and legit scandals. If they only tag Christine O’Donnell with some of her supporters, they probably did better. If they tag her hard enough to make national headlines again, every news outlet will say it in the same breath as the masturbation quote and give the comedians another cycle of jokes.

Alex…think of the kittens!
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Oh, wait. My bad. This is O’Donnell…did we ever decide on chickens or monkeys?

If it has to die, I think it’s chickens that get choked. Moneys only get spanked.

Although I suspect you believe in evolution.

I love the smell of snark in the morning.

“I’m Not a Witch”

Possibly one of the worst opening lines since “I’m not a crook.”

Funny thing is, O’Donnell probably could have opened with Nixon’s line too.

“I’m you”

Nope. I have a real degree and don’t pay my bills with campaign contributions.

bats seems more appropriate for a number of reasons

This is a good ad, and she’s a good candidate in a state in which half the population supports PPACA repeal.
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If she has the money to really get this out in Delaware, she has a shot, despite her numbers to date.

I actually disagree about her opening line. She’s spent a good portion of the last month getting completely outgunned from free media of Bill Maher’s videos that she had to address them without being able to make it the issue of the campaign. So, open with a line that summarily dismisses them and bring the entire campaign (or at least attempt to) back to the message.

Wait. If she’s You, then she was once Time’s person of the year. And they say she’s unqualified.

She’s not me. I don’t walk around pretending that mental masturbation (that is the word salad these candidates mix together of different nonsensical talking points) actually can and will replace real policy.

If she’s anything she’s the low information voter that base their decition on feel good emotional verbiage. That confuse facts with factiods and keep repeating the same tossed out BS that can be verified with a simple search.

She’s not me – I refuse to be such shallow ditch. She’ll turn on the people who think she’s pretty and she says pretty words. And she’ll turn on the people who will post here calling us libtards and haters. I don’t hate her or anything she stands for. I just don’t care for how empty and shallow and ultimately valueless her message is.

I’d still like to know what [Tea Party supporters] would do once they got to Washington.

“This is a good ad, and she’s a good candidate”

If there’s anything “good” about this ad, it’s that it tacitly acknowledges the fact that she is not, in fact, a good candidate. It presents her as a cipher for people’s frustrations. Nothing more.

I actually disagree about her opening line.
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Then we can agree to disagree.
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The last thing a candidate with O’Donnell’s ‘craziness quotient’ should be doing is reminding people of some of her more loopy remarks…and if a potential voter somehow missed those loopy remarks in the first place, O’Donnell just made them ask “What in the h3ll is she talking about?” and invited them to examine her, warts and all.

Witch? Not a witch? Who cares again?
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What does matter and from her own website, what she believes in. http://christine2010.com/why-christine/
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Jobs- Believes jobs are created when businesses are freed from endless taxes and bureaucratic red tape.
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Security- Believes terrorism is an act of war requiring the full force of our intelligence and military resources rather than granting terrorists precious Constitutional rights and outsourcing our foreign policy to the U.N.
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Debt- Believes heaping trillions in debt on the backs of our grandchildren is immoral and that Congress is elected to make the hard choices to preserve our nation’s future prosperity.
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Taxes- Will fight to remove the crushing tax burden faced by American families and businesses and dramatically simplify the tax code.
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Life - Strongly believes in protecting the sanctity of life at ALL stages.
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Energy - Supports a market-based approach to energy solutions that will keep competition high and energy prices low.
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Values - Believes our country was founded on core values of faith, family and freedom and will fight to defend those values. Will always fight for maximum choice for parents about where to educate their kids, including private, parochial and charter schools or in the home.
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Spending - Believes unrestrained government spending is eroding our freedom, destroying our economy and ceding our sovereignty to foreign debt- holders like China.
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Accountability - Denounces corrupt pork-barrel politics, including earmarks, and will fight for increased transparency and performance information for every Federal program.
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Healthcare - Believes that the solution to the healthcare crisis is less government meddling in the doctor/patient relationship, more competition in the insurance market and more choice for families about their health plan.
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Gun Control - Christine’s strong support of 2nd Amendment rights has earned her an “A” rating from the NRA.

The same as the rest of the GOP
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If they win the majority nothing – a lot of trying to repeal, flag burning amendments, impeachment hearings
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If they don’t with a majority nothing – just keep on saying no
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It’s funny how they laugh at the ‘change’ slogan, but they’re offering pretty much the same. No details…they’re going to be the same as before, but change. I mean change the current marxist regime, but change to whatever exploded our economy.
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More change we can believe in.

Well, there’s only one way to find out if she’s a witch or not:
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I’d still like to know what [Tea Party supporters] would do once they got to Washington.
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It’s NOT like we haven’t been trying to find THAT out around here, certifiably.

Shorter
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We can’t articulate a factual basis to anything we wrote…but we strung together a bunch of emotional feel bad/feel good talking points. And all you have to do is to believe. Not your lying eyes when you find real facts that dispute this nonsense…just that what we say touches something primal inside you and you need to be mad.
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Impotent rage is good.

Alex, a good candidate is, by definition, a candidate that appeals to the frustrations and desires of the public that candidate is trying to court. Stuart isn’t saying she’s some sort of Platonic ideal of a leader, he’s saying that within the context of Delaware’s political scene she is a stronger candidate than many think.

I think Stuart also shares my frustration with the establishment media’s reaction to the Tea Party in general — these people are crying out to be part of the debate and instead of engagement they get mocked. I don’t know nothin’ about no forecastin’ but I do know that sometimes the people who get ridiculed and excluded can surprise their tormentors.

I think it’s time for the media to stop looking at O’Donnell as some sort of fluke and to realize that, indeed, she won her primary for serious reasons and not because a bunch of voters went temporarily insane. Stop acting so shocked that this happened and tell us, really, how this happened.

HA!
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If O’Donnell weighs the same as a duck, she’s made of wood, and therefore she’s a witch!

Chris Coons: What he believes on the issues.
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Jobs – believes it is important to directly help those who have suffered most in this crisis by increasing aid to the unemployed and expanding training programs to help those transitioning through careers.
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Education – believes that our institutions of higher education are the economic engines of tomorrow, and that we all benefit when every American is able to attend. That is why he will support and expand programs that provide all Americans the opportunity to attend college.
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Energy – wants to encourage other innovative programs like wind farming just off the shore of Delaware. He also is calling for a nationwide cap and trade program that will help establish a price on carbon and unleash the creativity of American ingenuity to help solve this crisis.
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Environment – calling for a nationwide cap and trade program that will help establish a price on carbon and unleash the creativity of American ingenuity to help solve the increasing effects of Greenhouse gases on the environment.
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Healthcare – Chris supports President Obama’s landmark health care legislation and is committed to working across the aisle to make it better. The new law will provide health insurance to the more than 29,000 Delawareans who lack insurance, and it will lower health insurance costs for average Americans.
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Off-shore Oil Drilling – believes the Deep Horizon oil spill is a tragic example of why we can no longer rely on oil as our main source of energy. Oil drilling not only poses an environmental risk, but our dependence on foreign oil is also a national security concern. His solution is to build wind farms off the coast of Delaware.

Good point, billiecat. Chickens it is!

“Oh, wait. My bad. This is O’Donnell…did we ever decide on chickens or monkeys?”
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It’s a hard call since she is against chocking chickens and spanking monkeys.
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I say monkeys.

Thanks so much for responding to commentary, Alex Altman, it is always greatly appreciated.

“Chris Coons: What he believes on the issues.”
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Good – a lot of sound ideas – very little fluff. He’s able to articulate real problems and not imaginary ones.

11charlie: Good one.
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I’d also suggest that O’Donnell ad the Bewitched nose-twitch (tinkle-tinkle-tink) sound at the end of the ad…
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http://resources.bravenet.com/audio_clips/movies_tv/bewitched_-_nose_twitching_sound/listen/

it feels like we are in some bizzaro universe, seriously talking about the import of a Christine O’Donnell campaign ad.
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It presents her as a cipher for people’s frustrations.
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Yes.
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Nothing more.
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Nope. There’s a bit of the ‘everyone is being mean to me-feel sorry for me’ victim being played in the ad as well. It’s not an uncommon tactic used by female candidates (hello, Sarah Palin!).
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If anything, the ad should not only make you question O’Donnell’s bizzare beliefs, but whether or not she has the intestinal fortitude necessary to represent the people of her state.

We explained O’Donnell’s emergence here (http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2016993,00.html) and here (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2019430,00.html). She won about 30,000 votes from the conservative base in a very small state, with the help of a lot of outside money. Bob Bennett lost to Mike Lee in Utah largely because the GOP party convention allows a few motivated people to pick the party’s nominee (http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1987651,00.html). I’m not suggesting these candidates are flukes; I think we put their victories in context.

For what it’s worth, several of my colleagues think it’s a great ad.

“…I do know that sometimes the people who get ridiculed and excluded can surprise their tormentors.”
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Destor,
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Liberals and moderate are the tormentors and the Tea Party are the victims of torment?
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That sounds like Tea Party thinking itself where the massively large international corporation is the David and the workers trying to unionize are the Goliath.
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Obviously Swampland’s TP advocates (the most polite term I have ever called them) has shaped my POV as well as bits and pieces of Glenn Beck, but, I can not imagine the Tea Party as the tormented.
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It reminds me of the high school bully who cruises around in the nice car his Dad gave him for turning 16, spent junior high school giving smaller kids wedgies and, after not going to college and not making as much in Daddy’s local business as he would have liked, is bitter and ready to go back to bullying again at age 48.
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Although it never really fits like it does in movies and TV shows exactly in place, I see it like this: the debate team, the marching band and the AV room crowd are the Democrats. The jocks and the bullies, most of whom didn’t make it either through college or through grad school are the Tea Party.

Agree with you both. More a passive statement that I’d still like to know what these folks are proposing other than Democrats hate America and “we” need to take “our” country back.

“I’m not Santa Claus.”

She’d be a good candidate if she had any ideas other than denying she’s a witch.

hippoath:
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The reason I posted both candidates stand on the issues comes down to basically one supports big government and those solutions. The same as the liberal agenda has been for the past 100 years. Tax, spend, and tax some more. Create a huge government full of waste, fraud and abuse.
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The other candidate is opposed to big government in all ways. Promotion of the individual, and limited government.
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People in November have a choice between continuing the big government ideas of Democrats led by Barack Obama, or they can vote to lessen the degree that the Federal Government is involved in our daily lives. Reduce taxes, reduce the size and scope of government at all levels, and return to a more free market approach to our economy.
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These are the real choices in this and all races. This is what American voters will decide going forward.

Rusty,
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That’s the fairest and most honest description you have ever given a Democrat!
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For what it’s worth, I agree with you about being witch. Who cares if she had a strange idea when she was, say, 15 or even 19 or so about religion.
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I do call witchcraft/wicca a strange religion since it was discontinued for hundreds of years and being revived from the text recorded almost exclusively by their opponents (Christians). Unlike Christianity, Judaism, Hindu, Islam… all of the big religions, it was discontinued. So, it is like they are rejecting every religion out there but searching through the theological garbage heap to find bits and pieces of a dead religion.
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But, then again, most people find atheism hard to imagine.

@Patrick,

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t agree with these folk about much but I do sense an undercurrent of feeling excluded and from our side a sense of “there’s just no talking to these people.” I don’t think it’s particularly helpful.

@ Alex Altman: thanks for the links and perspective.

“…I do sense an undercurrent of feeling excluded and from our side a sense of “there’s just no talking to these people.” I don’t think it’s particularly helpful.”
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For myself, nobody can accuse me of not communicating with the trolls or, for that matter, a sincere Tea Party follower who is not obnoxious. (Trolls I guess is defined as intentionally obnoxious and insulting).
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On the other hand, the most annoying person I dealt with was not a troll, but a man I went on debating for pages and pages with who was just so misinformed that I felt like I was teaching him everything that had happened over the past 35 years. He claimed, among other things, that we had not had a recession since Ronald Reagan became the president and many, many other completely incorrect statements.
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He then grabbed talking point after talking point seeming to not even know what they meant.
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Strangely enough, apparently he was a man fifteen to twenty years older than I am who had attended college (I believe graduated), had a middle income job and supported a family, yet, had far less knowledge of the world than most high school students.
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In that case I did try my hardest not to come across as condescending, but, it was trying.
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Keep in mind, obviously, that explaining reality to people who are woefully misinformed is not what I do for a living and half the time I kept on thinking about when he would stop and show some understanding of what I explaining to him so I could stop and watch a movie instead.
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I’m not sure everybody is as patient as I am. Some people have told me over the years that I should have been a teacher of some kind. (Not interested, but, in that context is was a compliment).

When you have to deny something outrageous and off-the-wall in your first ad, it sets the tone for your campaign and becomes the talking point. I don’t see how the ad can help her. People gravitate toward the humorous because it’s what sticks in their minds. Ask McCain and Palin. Palin became a punchline. O’Donnel is in the same bag.

I suppose I should say what I mean by “good candidate” in this particular context.
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“Good” means an obviously talented candidate, one who is able to create the impression of honesty, sincerity and authenticity through their public appearance. It means someone who is thoroughly at ease communicating clear messages to voters in staged media and extemporaneously in person.
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In those respects, Christine O’Donnell is a good candidate.
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If this becomes a personality contest between her and Bill Maher, he will look like the assh*le, and she will look like ordinary folks.
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If the Senate election in Delaware becomes any more of a referendum on current government/conditions, and the message that ordinary, flawed-but-morally-aware people need to be sent to Washington to represent the interests of working Delawareans, she will be able to pass as an authentic person.
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This is the first ad. If she’s put up on the air expressing voters’ frustrations in such sincere tones again and again, Coons’ negatives will go way up, and she’ll have a lot of room for outside groups to attack him while still looking angelic and pure.
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She’s a good candidate whose image transcends the angry Tea Party caricature, running in a state where half the population wants to repeal the PPACA, so it seems to me that she has a shot, but only if substance and issues continue to take a back seat in political press corps coverage.
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Obviously I’m not saying she’s a good candidate because she or the popular right offer policies and values that are good for America or Delaware –she and they do not.

Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/10/05/christine-odonnells-first-ad-im-not-a-witch/#comment-206526#ixzz11UqtYUsm

“People in November have a choice between continuing the big government ideas of Democrats led by Barack Obama, or they can vote to lessen the degree that the Federal Government is involved in our daily lives.”
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As I see it people in November have a choice between continuing a watered down, middle of the road, weak version of what has been a proven success for eighty years of, relative to the previous thousand years, astronomical economic growth, prosperity and technological development or they can go down the path of the previous ten thousand year path where government hires an army, courts and stands by while everything economically falls to pieces.
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I imagine people after a shipwreck treading water in a cold ocean with a lifeboat coming by. The Democrats are the ones getting on board and the Tea Partiers are the ones continuing to tread water and falling into a dead man’s float while giving everybody on the life boat the finger. November is when the Tea Party and the Republican Party try to sink that lifeboat because they have some hatred of lifeboats.

If she wins, that would be terrible for everybody.
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If she loses, she will, probably, like Palin, make millions of dollars from writing a book.

This is somewhat a response to 5.2 as well because I feel the two elements are closely related (plus grape_crush is following this thread too),
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It is a fallacy to suggest that it matters that Liberals or Moderates aren’t the tormentors and the TPers aren’t the tormented. That’s not the issue. The TPers play the role of the victims, Fox news with majority following reinforces it, and the other media compound it further with the attempts at trying to say “hey, it’s not that big.”
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I don’t think there’s a person in this particular thread that would, in a million years, vote for Christine O’Donnell nor is there a single person in this thread that would have been swayed by this ad. But that’s not what defines a good ad. A good ad needs to be able to sway the minds of the majority of the populace. The majority of the populace has heard nothing but 10 year old quotes posted on national media from her that clearly show she’s a tad unhinged. In a pair of lines (“I’m not a witch; I’m you”), she says without saying “this isn’t who I am. These quotes don’t define me. I’m just like you, who has had or continues to have these side elements, but they don’t define me. Here’s what defines me” and then she spends the rest of the ad talking about what “defines” her. What defines her? The same frustration that sits at the root of the vast majority of the populace – regardless of whether they’re Liberal, Conservative, or independent: corruption, frustration with the political process, etc – with a few Conservative positions sprinkled over the mix.
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Yes, on their own, the first two lines are useless because you’d end the ad thinking “well, what do I know about her other than that she’s a witch”, and the answer is nothing. But the rest of the ad answers the question every candidate needs to answer lest the opposition create it: who am I? Who she is was defined by the media and in an ad, Christine O’Donnell redefined herself to a reasonably accurate portrayal of herself (mainly, an undirected bag of frustration with no clear ideas on how to actually solve the problems indicated)
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A well informed person, like, well, all of us, wouldn’t be swayed by this because they already know that she’s been doing things like living off of her campaign contributions and that she’s an airhead without a single ounce of understanding, but that doesn’t make it a bad ad.
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And in today’s world of identity politics, where it’s almost more important to be the guy you’d like to have a beer with than to be the guy that clearly knows how to solve the problems, it struck the right note for a candidate who legitimately can say “hey, I’m about as stuck in the mud as the rest of you” – which is why the airhead is a potentially good candidate.
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No, I really shouldn’t use the tern “good candidate”. Good should be reserved for those who might actually do something. Let’s got with “electable”.

patrick, I think she’s banking on it. Dabbled in witchcraft. Celibate. Doesn’t masturbate. “I’m You”? I think not. The witchcraft part doesn’t bother me. But celibate and doesn’t masturbate? That’s sick.

“The reason I posted both candidates stand on the issues comes down to basically one supports big government and those solutions. The same as the liberal agenda has been for the past 100 years. Tax, spend, and tax some more. Create a huge government full of waste, fraud and abuse.”
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The reason why I responded is simple – one rely on talking points and fluff. Most of them are simply false and pulled out of someones @ss. Others are simply just rehashed, emotional blubber meant to mean something but doesn’t really mean anything. That from a candidate that can’t balance her own budget and use campaign money to pay for herself. So there’s a disconnect – she says a lot of ‘stuff” but it doesn’t jive with reality.
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The other person speaks about what makes nations great. That education creates a strong middle class and economy. That innovation pushes a country forward.
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I understand – you like fluff and feelgood. It requires absolutely no commitment of time and intellect. All it takes is stuff that tingle some kind of emotional response. Kind of being horny when one see b@@bs.
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The other require mental fortitute – to realize that it takes resources and ideas to build a better idea.
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I rather take content over fluff. I rather look at humans intellect as a resource than it’s brawn and foul mouth as a siren.
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You like rage – I like innovation.

“I’m just like you”
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Not sure if she’s Linda Tripp or Elizabeth Montgomery.

“Celibate. Doesn’t masturbate.”
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You know, I keep on thinking, she’s only a couple of years older than I am and single.
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I think one night with man like me and she’ll be a liberal Democrat before we have a cigarette afterward.
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Just thinking.

The first time she bumps uglies and realizes what she’s missed…she’s going to want to make up for lost time. How many people do you know that have said “I tried sex once and didn’t see what all the fuss was about?”. It isn’t natural, healthy or anything else. It’s crazy. Unless there’s some underlying medical reason for abstaining, I can’t even imagine it.

Even if my doctor told me that my heart was weak and that sex could kill me, I’d still be prepeared to come and go at the same time.

Why is she wearing black?

Witches do that

1. Bringing up “witch” = mentioning your opponent by name = reinforcing the issue/name in the electorate’s mind. Long-established as not being very intelligent.

2. The facial expressions don’t match the message. Assuming she was allowed more than one take, was this really the best one they shot? Is Ms. O’Donnell conflicted in some way? Does she believe what she’s saying?

If she’s not a witch then Barack isn’t a Muslim. I called it. That’s it.

She might be a witch. Boehner crossed her and she tried to turn him into a pumpkin. She got the color right anyway.

I say we toss a bucket of water on her. If she melts, we take her broom and get to go home.

Ugh. I’m with Team Alex. Terrible ad. Her voice sounds shaky, she says nothing but platitudes, the music is annoying, she wore BLACK while denying she’s a witch, AND she has the audacity to say she’s me. In your dreams, sister.
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She better be lying when she says she’s not a witch, because it would take a pact with the devil to elect her to the Senate.

I noticed that too. She does not look or sound credible. I don’t think she’s a witch, but really, she sounds like maybe she’s not so sure.

Good Lord is SNL going to have fun with that one.

Rusty @ 10.8!
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That’s the most insightful thing you’ve ever written, “_______________”
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Keep up posts like that.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/10/04/christine-odonnell-claimed-to-have-secret-information-on-chines/
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4 years ago O’Donnell claimed she had top secret information about a Chinese plot to take over the US. She couldn’t share the information that might save our country because she was sworn to secrecy.
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I still believe she never expected to win the nomination but wanted to add to her only source of income. She now has lots of money but spending little. This is her first ad. When she loses, she will have plenty of money to support herself.
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By, the way, if you are going to quote her website you might find the one she had before the Republican’s swept it clean.

When she loses, she’s going to make a fortune on the red neck speaking circuit talking about how the elitist liberal media tried to silence her because she represents the “Real America”. The uneducated will make her a wealthy woman because they’ll all flock to see her and dream of being the “first”.

Bewitched?

I’ll even say a couple of Hell Marys for Our Lady of the Perpetually Frustrated.

I’m not a liar, even thought I kinda made stuff up on my resume. I’m not a thief either – I just borrowed those campaign contributions to pay my rent.

O’Donnell is a crackpot.

Her ad didn’t have any Halloween candy for you.
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You want goodies from government.
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What are you gonna do without your goodies?
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Substitute “she’s a witch” with “where’s our goodies!”
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You go on and on about your candidates stands on issues: Lie to us. Tickle our ears. Tell us what you will do for us. Then the SOBs get elected and do whatever they want and throw you a crumb to keep you happy. There, there peon, here’s are crumb for you. You would have got more but the nasty Republicans (who couldn’t stop anything) are blocking it.
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And, you come right back for more. Give us another lying politician, just like the last one. Obama is a master, but you thought, maybe some of you still do believe, that he’s the Messiah. He’s gonna save you.
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They think that you are stupid.
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And speaking of stupid, here’s your Speaker of the House:

“I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” she says. Natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels,”
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“We see it as an entrepreneurial bill,” Pelosi said, “a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”
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“But we have to pass the [health care ] bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
That’s like saying we have to burn her to see if she’s a witch.

I’m not a crook?

In nomine patris sacredh.

Up front: I’m not from Delaware, so I don’t have a dog in this fight. However, my gut reaction to her last line, “I’m you” was “No you’re not!” How many Delaware voters will react (and vote) the same way?

Greenwald had a great post on this last month:
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“It’s hard to avoid the conclusion, at least for me, that, claims to the contrary notwithstanding, much of the discomfort and disgust triggered by these Tea Party candidates has little to do with their ideology. After all, are most of them radically different than the right-wing extremists Karl Rove has spent his career promoting and exploiting? Hardly. Much of the patronizing derision and scorn heaped on people like Christine O’Donnell have very little to do with their substantive views — since when did right-wing extremism place one beyond the pale? — and much more to do with the fact they’re so . . . unruly and unwashed. To members of the establishment and the ruling class (like Rove), these are the kinds of people — who struggle with tuition bills and have their homes foreclosed — who belong in Walmarts, community colleges, low-paying jobs, and voting booths on command, not in the august United States Senate.”
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http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/09/16/tea_party

“I suspect you believe in evolution.”

The odds are against you, friend:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/114544/darwin-birthday-believe-evolution.aspx

I think it’s more the ignorance and general stupidity of these people. Extreme conservatives have actual opinions to support their actual positions that make logical sense – often with a very different world view – they just disingenuously sell fake opinions to support their actual positions. At the end of the day, I still have the impression that this is a reasonably intelligent person. I don’t think anyone has ever confused Karl Rove with being an idiot. I have no respect for them as I know they’re far more self-serving than anything else, but still
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Tea Party candidates and supporters drive me bonkers because they show an absolute failure to understand the fundamental problems in the world. They completely fail to understand the difference between expenses and deficit and somehow rally for both lowering taxes and the deficit while having no ideas whatsoever. There isn’t an ounce of thought between them.

er, that’s supposed to be in reply to 6.14

Coming in late here, but my first reaction was to say “They dressed me this way. And this isn’t my nose, it’s a false one.” “But she has got warts!”
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My second was that denying something at the beginning of your ad means you’ve already lost the debate. Doesn’t mean the “poor me” act won’t swing some votes, though.
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Could’ve done without the tinkly, treacly piano, too.
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Finally, I had the same visceral reaction as those above to the “I’m you” line. “No, you’re not. I’m married, I enjoy sex, I have a college degree I don’t have to lie about, I have a real job and I pay my own bills.” Kinda made me angry that she was dragging me down to her level.

The festering attack on candidate Christine O’Donnell, of being interested in Witchcraft–costs nothing to the taxpayer. However Chris Coon approve of of giving 12 to 18 million illegal aliens–AMNESTY, as the majority of Dem-Liberals, that would costs our nation billions of dollars. Just in federal entitlements currently, Fair used Dept of Educational and medical records to estimating a 2004 expenditure of 113 billion dollars and that just the US government, not the state, county or city welfare programs.

America cannot afford any Democrats or Republicans who think we can keep on giving amnesty, to just about anybody? This will eventually lead to overpopulation, water shortages, energy disruption and loss of environment. Even now water is in short supply in California and other border states. We are bringing in endlessly a cornucopia of profit for businesses that employ illegal nationals, without any obligation to paying for their health care, children’s schooling and welfare. My family doesn’t want to contribute tax money to illegal alien medical treatment education for their kids or any of the unaccountable dollars amounts to foreign subjects, including a charge card every month. While Americans are still writhing from the bank bailouts, with the financially institutions placing rigid restrictions on offering loans or mortgages, the Democrats are underhandedly enacting amnesty laws, instead of enforcing the 1986. We should also make a stunning example of ridding Pro-Amnesty Governors, Mayors, Judges and all levels of officialdom. You still have time to bombard your Senators or Congressman 202-224-3121 before November and warn both parties that you intend to vote-out any pro-amnesty lawmakers.

“This will eventually lead to overpopulation, water shortages, energy disruption and loss of environment.”
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Fortunately, at 81.815 people per square mile compared to a world average of 131.918, the US is the 178th most densely populated country out of 239 sovereign countries.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_population_density
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“We are bringing in endlessly a cornucopia of profit for businesses that employ illegal nationals, without any obligation to paying for their health care,,”
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Under HCR, if these people work over the table they will either get health care or face higher taxes.
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“…children’s schooling…”
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If these people either rent or own a home, they are either paying local real estate taxes directly or through their landlord, so the burden doesn’t effect you.
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“…and welfare…”
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Never in US history were illegal immigrants ever qualified for welfare and, after 1995 welfare reform, no legal immigrants can receive welfare at all, even if they were a day old when they arrived legally and are 100 years old when they need assistance.
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“My family doesn’t want to contribute tax money to illegal alien medical treatment education for their kids or any of the unaccountable dollars amounts to foreign subjects, including a charge card every month.”
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Nobody – not one Democrat nor Republican does – and, voting for a Democrat has a 0% chance of changing this.

Anderson Cooper of CNN can’t get republicans to come on his show. Really? I wonder why Teabagee.
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2009/04/15/cnns-anderson-cooper-its-hard-talk-when-youre-tea-bagging

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You might as well head to NPR now Anderson. Oh well, a limousine liberal (in case you don’t know he’s Gloria Vanderbilt”s son) doesn’t really need to work, anyway. May you can do Gloria Vanderbilt jeans commercials.

So if Anderson Cooper is a Gloria Vanderbilt’s son that means that Christine O’Donnell is qualified to be elected dog catcher?
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Meltdown, have you considered changing your handle to nervous breakdown?
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You’re more than a little bit off topic here.

I don’t see why all the smack about O’Donnell is.. rather have a WITCH than a MARXIST we already have a HUGE number of the Marxist’s running around in the W.H…It would be interesting to say the least than we could have 1 witch in the Congress (Pelosi) and one in the senate a step UP for the senate if you ask me.. she might have more SPINE (ok a little lower) than the wimps we have now.. I have to say she does have MORE in common with the PEOPLE than anyone else running now put the claws away.. I hope she WINS.. this country could use a Christian Witch we already have enough Lawyers who don’t know what they are doing but are SUPPOSE to have this high education they are RUINING the country..