Maybe it's true that the national Tea Party movement wants to avoid more failures like Christine O'Donnell. Rick Santorum says candidates like O'Donnell, Sharron Angle and Joe Miller "weren't really who the Tea Party is."
Maybe so, but don't tell that to the Tea Partiers of Virginia. Christine O'Donnell is on tap to headline the Northern Virginia Tea Party's annual fundraiser next month, on Pearl Harbor Day. Last seen firing back at the GOP after leading it to a loss in the Delaware Senate race, she'll speak at an event called "Celebrating Our Progress."
"We're proud of anyone who steps up and runs for office," Northern Virginia Tea Party spokesperson Daniel Cortez tells us. "She's a role model for others." Cortez says his group occupies the central ground between Democrats and Republicans. "There's a middle, and that's the Tea Party."
O'Donnell will share the billing with Virginia State Del. Bob Marshall, the guy who once said that disabled kids are divine vengeance for past abortions.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Tea Partiers in Virginia are now trying to influence state and local politics -- running more candidates, lobbying for more issues. Already the top three elected officials are Tea Party supporters; Gov. Bob McDonnell, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and AG Ken Cuccinelli each spoke at the state's first annual Tea Party convention in October.
(Photo: From the Christine O'Donnell campaign's Flickr page)
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Divine vengence for past abortions? Not one female in my family has ever had an abortion. Yet we have one member who is mildly mentally retarded, one with autism & one who has Downs Syndrome. Mr. Marshall would do well to stop spewing this type of hateful rhetoric. After all, scripture states "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." His words are SEEDS!
Marshall's statement was indeed imbecilic - but not totally unexpected. After all, look who he's affiliated with. Those people are so skewed in their thinking, it's really pathetic.
I believe that children who are mentally and/or physically handicapped are given to very special, highly evolved people to take care of them. Quite the opposite of Marshall's statement that it is Divine vengeance.
Opinions differ greatly in matters of religious meaning. Interpretation usually begins with generational long held beliefs.
Then how do you explain Sarah Palin and her son Trig? Mentally or physically challenged children are just that. Their parents are not special because of them. Their circumstances often bring out remarkable attributes but there is no reason they bore children with health problems.
Yeah, 'the middle'. It just shows that the Teabaggers concept of Geometry hits at about the same level as their concepts of History, Civics, and Economics... The are very consistent in the high regard to which they hold themselves.
Lovely. And totally expected. She's a Palin clone in all ways and knows how to emotionally reach a crowd without needing substance to her speeches. But the Tea Party is hardly "halfway between Dems and Repubs." They are a conservative movement of the Republican Party. Their candidates say their main platform is better economic accountability but they all run with the most conservative ideals in all other facets of their campaign. So they dangle the carrot of an ideal most of America believes in (economy) and then claim their victories also mean America wants more conservatism. No, America wants a healthy economy and jobs and are putting up with the rest of it to get what it wants.
Every Tea party member i know has someone in their family...either a kid, parent or someone sucking off the government. Their child had a baby or the parent is in a nursing home while the government is paying the bill. They all want the government out of their lives except for the part that is putting dollars in the other hand. Blah, Blah.Blah.........When the food they eat kills their kids because there is no money to pay government inspectors to inspect the food we eat....taxes are part of the price for living in a civilized society.
I have got to move. My state is getting stupider by the day. And now, with great respect for and a nod to Warren Zevon, a song:
The Lament of the Losing Grizzlies
Well I set my sights on a Senate seat
Running for the GOP
But the party boys would not pay my rent
Poor, poor pitiful me
Poor, poor pitiful me
Poor, poor pitiful me
These old dudes won’t cover me
Gonna’ call Sean Hannity
Woe is me
Well I met a man who was running for Prez
I ain't naming names
He really looked me over good
And said: “Oh Maverick, we’re just the same”
Yeah he really looked me over good
But missed that dust up with the Trooper
He put me through some changes, Lord
Now my pocketbook ain’t so slender
Poor, poor pitiful me
Poor, poor pitiful me
These old dudes just don’t get me
Gonna’ go on tabloid TV
Woe is me
Well I set my sights on a Senate seat
Running for the GOP
But the press kept asking for my stands
Poor, poor pitiful me
Poor, poor pitiful me
Poor, poor pitiful me
Reporters just won’t let me be
Gotta’ stick to FOX TV
Woe is me
She'll get a gig on Fox for 30 million a year. Instead of Momma Grizzlies she'll have Momma Rats with fully functional brains.
Is Christine O'Donnell anybody's mama? Seriously. If she has children, born before she was revirginated, I've yet to hear about them. Which could be a good thing because I am sick to death of the Palin brood.
Here is my take. People like this woman would never be able to win elected office if not for the Tea Party. People like Christine are a joke on a normal day. But since the country has move RIGHT to strict constitutionalism, then even she can get elected. Or people like her can get elected.
A mass murderer can get elected if he or she says they hate socialism and Obama. That's the only requirement to be a Tea Party Member.
If they had a Tea Party Lite (instead of Express) they'd get more understanding from me. Right now they are too far right to install a rational and sane government. I just can't see these folks with their finger on the button. That will keep me up at night.
This is the first step in turning a losing campaign into a moneymaking opportunity. She'll do speaking engagements for increasing amounts of money from groups that would be happy to have the same fully functioning human brains they believe reside in mice. She is likely already at work on a book that will defiantly trumpet her ignorance, a la Caribou Barbie. She will quickly learn that duping the gullible in this way is far more lucrative than living off the campaign cash of failed campaigns.
When I look at her, I can't help but think of the Mel Brooks movie, "The Producers", (the first one, the good one). Zero Mostel has the idea that if he finds the worst play to put on Broadway, sells shares in the play, (several thousand percent of them), and the play bombs, he keeps the loot. O'Donnell has played that game a few times now, with her recent campaign bringing in the biggest payday. Who'd have thought that a candidate would come up with a campaign equivalent of "Springtime for Hitler", (the name of that stinker of a play that Mostel used in his scheme)?
"Don't be stupid, be a smarty! Come and join the..." If only they hadn't chosen a one-syllable word like 'tea'.
Yep, she's a grifter.
I seriously need to get out of Virginia. For those of you out there who are unaware of it, the Virginia Tea Party faction is completely psyched about the idea of having another civil war. This is a particularly virulent strain of Tea Fever, and they very seriously believe that being a liberal or "middle of the road" is treason. They're armed to the teeth, and really hoping they're going to get a chance to use those weapons. I see and hear it every single day. It's not a shock to me that they would be calling O'Donnell a "role model," because uniformed, proudly ignorant, angry and extremist is all they really are.
I escaped from VA in 2005, and have never regretted it. It was tough to be a lib there....heck, it was tough being anyone who didn't want to toe the fundie christian line where I lived, Lynchburg.
I was born in the Unitied States, but my mother was born in Ireland. We are big tea drinkers. Could we change the name from the Tea Party to the Pea Party. Please, it fits better! If you wanted to you could even call it the Pea Brain Party that would work too.
Admittedly, I did not read this whole report or the thread. My apologies to Laura, who is undoubtedly very good at her job. But I just had to say that the title almost made me choke laughing. The Tea Party wants a loser as its role model? How fitting.
There is no real "left" in America, just center, right and La La Land.
Thanks for laugh out loud !!
Here is a thought for MSNBC. If Fake News offers her 5 million a year to host. Then you guys offer her 10 million a year to host. Then flip her agenda!
If MSNBC is truly progressive then they need to hire free agents. Christine is a free agent. If I recall correctly, she was using campaign funds to pay her water bill. She was nothing before she was something. Hire her for the loot then flip her for the agenda.
How sweet would it be for Christine to blast O'Really?
You guys don't think FOX is doing the same thing. Look at Juan Williams. They hired him then flipped him to serve their agenda. Good guys don't always finish first. Sometimes they finish last....dead last mind you.
Please God, make her stay in VA!
I'm guessing you are from Delaware?
The "TEAT" party is the new 21st century KKK, & the South African, Apartheid AWB.
Dear God, just don't let her come to Texas, when we no longer have Molly Ivins to protect us. Besides, we already have Gov. Goodhair, who's doing the same thing Christine O"Donnell is doing with campaign money.
When she's through sucking Virginia dry, send her to South Carolina, which is probably her spiritual home--lotsa nuts and grifters.
Basis of odonnells support is the religious fundumbentalists of southern Delaware, they are basically one issue voters, anti-abortion, and have been active participants in other elections as the Moral Majority or "religious right". They would support a chimpanzee if it ran on an anti abortion and religious evangelical platform.