(From the Christine O'Donnell campaign's Flickr page)
Tea Party Republican Christine O'Donnell has looked deep inside and found the reason she lost the Senate race in Delaware. In a Facebook post titled "O'Donnell Highlights Election Accomplishments," the campaign writes:
"The lesson to be learned is that once the voters have spoken and chosen their candidate for the primary, the party leaders should follow Reagan's 11th commandment and unite towards victory. Had this been done by the State GOP this would have unified the party and allowed the process to immediately move ahead full force," stated O'Donnell on Wednesday morning.
Goodness knows she kind of tried to "kiss and make up" with her primary opponent, Rep. Mike Castle, after spending that part of the election season insinuating that he was gay.
Her campaign spokesperson Doug Sachtleben adds:
"In mid-July a Rasmussen poll showed that Christine would have defeated Chris Coons. Had the NRSC and State GOP backed O'Donnell after the primary, like Sen. McConnell did with Rand Paul Kentucky's Senator-elect, we may have seen the victory that the poll predicted. Instead, we experienced a stall and Republicans didn't come together until there were less than 2 weeks left before the election. Clearly, Christine and the campaign would not have been alone in defending against the mischaracterization aimed at her."
The big difference between Delaware and Kentucky, of course, being that Rand Paul actually had a chance.
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Blame those pesky voters!
I think she has narcissus personality disorder!
that's "narcissistic"- see she's put a spelling hex on me!
Of course O'Donnell losing in Delaware had nothing at all to do with the dozens of controversies which arose after she had the GOP nomination. Maybe Christine O'Donnell could have won, if she'd been less, you know, Christine O'Donnell.
How is it possible for ANY liberal, progressive, democrat to have had the fiscal responsibility narrative (the 30 yr history of the deficits & national debt & its ever compounding carrying cost burden) HIJACKED by 30 years of wreckless conservatives and republicans??????
Take just one example progressive, Rachel, with a great communication gift & platform: For Rachel to do just an occassional segment, quip, or comment on the topic, is to utterly cave into the relentless talking-points avalanche conservatives & the Repub party decided to engage in after 2008. Now voters are associating fiscal stewardship and fiscal conservativism to the Republicans!!!!! Since the Reagan Revolution they've been on a tear to bankrupt the nation (via "Starve the Beast"). The entire gross national debt was "just" $1.0 Trillion upon completion of Jimmy Carter's last executed budget, 10-1-1981. (Great benchmark, btw!) Now, $20 Trillion later ($13.7 principal debt plus $7+ Trillion in Net Interest) Republican claim they are the responsible ones?????? The last fiscal conservative was Jimmy Carter when he was nixing all those expensive water projects and dams! Fiscal Conservatives had been extinct for nearly 30 years, save Bill Clinton's "surpluses as far as the eyes could see" departing legacy and gift to America (reversed within months upon mega wreckless GW Bush. For the fiscal responsibility NARRATIVE to be ALLOWED to be hijacked from progressives is the real crime here. Look within ourselves, progressives; we let conservative just take it from us without a fight, without a sustained argument. Shameful.
I heartily concur with all you have said!
The ONE message here is that she has NO ONE to pay her rent for November....Wanna cough it up Boner??
Naa...didn't think so... See ya Christine... go be on Maher's show for some cash.. then you're done.
Wrong, she has plenty of unspent campaign cash to tide her over until she starts her job at Fox, which should be any day now. And of course, there is the book she will have ghostwritten for her by the same one that scrawled one out for Caribou Barbie, the speaking tour that will pay her 6 figures to spew mindless bon mots, and perhaps even her own reality show. She already knows from Palin's example that the real goal should be to make tons of money off her 15 minutes of fame.
@RB-Chicago: I thought she had Sean Hannity in her back pocket...maybe he'll pay her rent.
@Uffdaguy: No doubt she will be a regular Fox pundit by the end of the year. Also fyi, the term "Caribou Barbie" is an insult to caribous. And Barbies.
Surely the pen is being laid out for her to sign her contract with Fox even as we speak.
As I write this, the voters in Washington State still await the results of the race between Patty Murray and their own Christine O'Donnell -- Dino Rossi, who will run for any office just for the sake of trying to unseat anybody he sees as an incumbent. This is his third or fourth elective race since the year 2000.
I send my sincerest apologies to all caribous and Barbies that I may have offended with my thoughtless remarks! :)
She can't use leftover campaign funds for personal use (Ethics Reform Act, 1989) because she was running for a federal office. It can be used for debt incurred as part of running the campaign.
I think it might be a good idea if someone kept an eye on how she does spend it.
BeckyB1, I believe you are correct. Once a candidate loses she ceases to be a candidate and can no longer draw her wages from campaign contributions.
Just how many openings does FOX have for "Circus Nut Political Commentator"? Is FOX going to solve the unemployment problem?
O'Donnell has used campaign funds in the past for personal use, as was pointed out during the campaign. Nothing will stop her from doing so now, as I can't imagine the administration going after her. If they were too spineless to go after Bush and Cheney and the rest for their crimes, you know they won't even bother with O'Donnell. She's rich now, and that is probably all she really wanted out of this campaign.
@Uffdaguy: On behalf of all caribous, apology accepted. As for Barbies, I am not empowered to speak on their behalf at this time. I suggest contacting Ana Marie Cox.
@Karlton: Epic.
I’m sure that coming across as a wack job didn’t help much.
Nor did coming across as a witch (an insult to actual witches, like Hermione Granger!) ;)
Rachel, if you want to interview O'Donnell now, you might try a summoning spell. Looks like she's going to dabble her way through life.
Accio Loser! (Whoops...that might summon ALL the defeated candidates, including "Dr." Art Robinson.)
Accio O'Donnell!
The scary thing about Christine O'Donnell is she truly believed she was right everything she said.
Evolve (v) to develop gradually; to undergo or develop by a process.
Christine did not lose the senate race, she evolved out of it.
So let me get this straight; it's the GOP establishment's fault that she didn't win? Christ almighty, that woman had millions of dollars to try to win a senate seat in a state with less than a million people in it. How about taking some personal responsibility and own up to the fact that the voters in Delaware did not want Christine O'Donnell as their senator. Period. She had plenty of time, opportunities and resources to convince them otherwise, and she failed to do so. Blaming other people for your own shortcomings makes you look like a sore loser and a pretty lousy person.
She blames the repub party, yet at the same time she told them she had Hannity in her pocket and could raise money by running against the repub establishment. The woman is a hypocritical, delusional nutcase.
All I want for Christmas is a Palin/O'Donnell ticket in 2012. Oh the humanity!
Rachel hit the nail on the head last night talking about how the tea party cost the Republicans the Senate. Her point seemingly was that if it hadn't been for the Tea Party, the Republicans would have swept the Democrats out of the Senate as well.
Progressive need to start concentrating on the big stuff and limit the side shows. Big Stuff: Trillion issues, getting America WORKING again, deficits, debt, infrastructure projects needed & job creators to boot.
1776 - 1981: Total National Debt = $1.0 Trillion
1981 - 2010: Total National Debt ups to $13.7 Trillion plus $7 Trillion Net Interest costs = $20+ Trillion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
$20 Trillion debt cost GROWTH via Reaganomics! [Only a Dem produced surpluses: Clinton]
Chart that narrative, Rachel... and do so on a sustained basis, 3 nights a week.
Canada's Mary Walsh from This Hour Has 22 Minutes trying to interview Christine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHyZaS-PXOQ&feature=player_embedded
FiveThirtyEight says Rasmussen overestimated Republicans every which way this year. And everybody in Delaware has known for years that O'Donnell is the sucker the Republicans got to go against Joe Biden. (Of course, Coons is the sucker the Democrats got to go against Castle...)
Fast forward to the Morning of Wednesday, November 3, 2010...Chris Coons defeats Christine O'Donnell.
no surprise, nothing is ever her/their fault on the Right, from Ginny Thomas and Rand Paul's thug asking for apologies to their policies, and of course there's the Dunning-Kruger factor.
however, O'Donnell kiss-and-make-up? but isn't kissing lustful and therefore adultery??
When they took that poll in July - did those being polled know that Chirstine O'Donnel LIED about her resume? Did they know she was a WITCH...well she was at one point! then she became a born again virgin evangelical who want to BAN your right to MASTURBATE in the privacy of your home...because SHE thinks God doesn't want you to. SO MUCH for a SMALLER government eh? O'Donnell, Bachmann, Angle, Palin....the grizzly women of the American Taliban....voting for the right to establish THEIR THEOCRACY.
January 1, 2013 President Sarah Palin, flanked by Vice President Christine O'Donnell, and House Speaker Sharon Angle, with Sec. of State Michelle Backmann.
Oh thank God. I woke up and discovered It was just a nightmare.
Good name for that quartet: The Four Horses' Asses of the Apocalypse
Of course, the one question -- THE ONE QUESTION!! -- that I never heard anyone ask of Christine O'Donnell:
Are you a good witch, or a bad witch?
Even though I don't live in Delaware, I still would have liked to know the answer to that one!
(And yes, of course, you may use this on air, Rachel!)
oh, she's a Bad wITCH, a very big Bad wITCH.
^_^
Can you please have a "name Christine O'Donnell's forthcoming (because we all know it probably is) show on Fox News" contest?
I'd like to officially offer "The Witching Hour" as the first submission in this contest. Also, if she's co-hosting a show with Sarah Palin then my guess is modified to be "The Mama Grizzly Witching Hour."
Christine, go away. Just go away.
No one in the Tea Party is a witch...'cause they just can't "spell"...hahahahahahahaha!
Ooooh, whoooooo, Wich-ie Woman, She's got some pie in her EyE - hiiiiiiiiii