Christine O’Donnell Announces — A Good Look at the Hypocrisy Train
So have you had a chance to see this announcement? (Link opens up to WDEL video.)
It is completely choice: nonstop wingnut dog whistles and none of it made any sense. AND we see Ms. O’Donnell try to spank Mike Castle for his age, his liberalism, and for not being a real conservative. The best bit, though, is when she takes questions. In the first you can see her run through the rehearsed name calling before settling in to say something sort of coherent. She was asked about her previous money issues –had to clarify if the reporter was asking about the country or her issues — and decided to wade through the “arrogance of Mike Castle” and the “Lords of the Back Room” (Get.Out. This is a definite drift into David Vitter territory — nudgenudge, winkwink) and “the Party Bosses are scared” rehearsed (badly) talking points. Lots of bluster and not much sense. Another questioner reminded her that she said she would not run unless she could get the right money and asked about her progress on that. This resulted in another blustery answer — with a reference each to exceeding and meeting goals; getting support and funds from supporters and national leaders everywhere and telling the questioner that only the numbers available on June 30 will count for evaluation. WTF.
The entire thing could have been phoned in from repub talking point central. But it was completely choice to see the manufactured outrage over government spending. Not only because here would be another repub who never cared about this when BushCo was spending money like it was going out of style but because apparently she can’t even manage her own funds! It’s pretty damned nuts to listen to her have on about spending other people’s money wisely and the evils of overspending in light of her own issues.
According to this account from the Community News, there was even a little intrigue at the event:
Aside from members of the media, the room was filled with campaign supporters except for former senior campaign staffer David Keegan, who said he worked for O’Donnell in 2008 and planned to ask O’Donnell about her finances. Keegan, of Hockessin, was escorted out of the press conference by campaign officials, who told him only those with press credentials were invited, while he loudly proclaimed that he was responding to a Facebook invitation.
“She had me escorted out because she was afraid of what I would say,” he said after the press conference.
Wonder what Mr. Keegan wanted to ask?
Comment by Joanne Christian on 11 March 2010 at 8:27 am:
Could only here a WDEL audio at their site….flickr says they can’t run this video…sorry
Comment by Delaware Dem on 11 March 2010 at 8:29 am:
And this is the woman David Anderson thinks is manna from Heaven. David knows how to pick em.
Comment by Unstable Isotope on 11 March 2010 at 8:35 am:
I invite Mr. Keegan to come here and tell us what he wanted to say.
Comment by Unstable Isotope on 11 March 2010 at 8:36 am:
Joanne, I’ve had trouble with WDEL video. I think you need to run it in Internet Explorer.
Comment by anonone on 11 March 2010 at 9:12 am:
Gawd, that is unbearable to watch. Anybody make it past 1 minute? Those of you that can’t watch it, consider yourselves lucky.
Comment by missundastood on 11 March 2010 at 9:53 am:
She cherry picked the media she invited to the event, you had to have press credentials so all but the bloggers who worship her were weeded out, and she has a 2008 staffer carted off.
Now why would her 2010 campaign be so scared of someone from her 2008 campaign?
If this is what her campaign announcement was like, it doesn’t bode well for the rest of her campaign.
Comment by capesdelaware on 11 March 2010 at 10:18 am:
Since we were not allowed in we can only imagine her answer to serious questions.reporter:”How would acheive world peace?” O’DONNELL “If we end abortion there would be world peace”
Comment by anonie on 11 March 2010 at 11:08 am:
What’s amazing to me is that anyone takes the likes of Christine O’Donnel seriously. She’s insane, just like the tea smokers and most of the GOP. It’s just pathetic.
Comment by Geezer on 11 March 2010 at 12:02 pm:
No Snark Alert: According to someone who spoke with him, Keegan wanted to ask for the money Christine owes him from her last campaign.
Comment by just kiddin on 11 March 2010 at 12:30 pm:
Christine a perennial candidate! Medicaid, Food Stamps? Rich benefactor? How has she been supporting herself for the last two years? What legislation has she worked on as she claims with Allan Ludell?
Someone about to rat her out is according to Christine,in the “Tony Soprano camp”? Christine had to fire her? Did’nt Christine get canned at the one job she had in Greenville? Who are all these supporters asking her to run, the anti abortion idiots, other than them who got Christine?
Delaware’s teeny tiny version of Sarah Palin.
Comment by cassandra m on 11 March 2010 at 12:32 pm:
I’m listening to Christine being interviewed by Allan Loudell now and this is off the hook:
* More of the “Lords of the back room (!!!) obnoxiously pushing the career politician Mike Castle.” She doesn’t have the delivery down pat yet, but sheesh, who writes her material.
* She does not think that the wars we are fighting are a cause of our debt. So yes, shes a conservative now that we’ve confirmed her innumeracy.
*She just referred to a “liberal blog” (that Allan is supposed to be more plugged into) who has been talking about Mike Castle flip flopping his positions for this race. Wonder what blog that is?
* Still not talking about the issues with Mr. Keegan — who (or someone with a similar claims, I didn’t hear that) will be on Rick Jensen’s show today. She says that whoever is talking is indulging in “Tony Soprano tactics” and breaking confidentiality agreements. Oy.
Please, WDEL — post up the whole interview so we can link to it!
Comment by anonone on 11 March 2010 at 12:40 pm:
How can you bear it, cassandra_m?
Comment by Jason330 on 11 March 2010 at 12:48 pm:
No buzz in the wingnut-o-sphere means this campaing is DOA. Even Frank Knutts is keeping a safe distance.
Comment by missundastood on 11 March 2010 at 12:49 pm:
“Did’nt Christine get canned at the one job she had in Greenville?”
Yes, ISI, the conservative Greenville think tank canned her, and she turned around and sued them for sexual discrimination, then she abruptly dropped the suit. The inside line is that they canned her because she was supposed to promote their agenda but ended up promoting herself instead.
Maybe Jensen should have Keegan show up at the studio, like they do in that drug intervention reality show. Now THAT would be entertainment.
Jason, you need to check out Evan Q over at Delaware Politics, he’s having a stroke.
Comment by anon on 11 March 2010 at 12:51 pm:
I will be tuning in to hear what Mr. Keegan has to say! The delusional cloud she wanders around in is truly disturbing.
Comment by Jason330 on 11 March 2010 at 12:51 pm:
Hold the phone. Keegan is working for Castle. Get me some popcorn.
Comment by Scott P on 11 March 2010 at 12:52 pm:
*She just referred to a “liberal blog” (that Allan is supposed to be more plugged into) who has been talking about Mike Castle flip flopping his positions for this race. Wonder what blog that is?
Cool. Do the kids still call that a “shout out”? I think we should make it very clear to Ms. O’Donnell that we’d be more than happy to help her in her fight against the Lords of the Bathroom, or whatever that was.
Comment by anon on 11 March 2010 at 12:52 pm:
agreed Jason!! HA HAA
Comment by Jason330 on 11 March 2010 at 12:55 pm:
Naturally Jensen will be the Castle water carrier here and work to undermine O’Donnell. I wonder if he’ll get push back from his nutbag callers?
Comment by just kiddin on 11 March 2010 at 1:15 pm:
Meeting with the nutjob Tom Coburn?
Comment by just kiddin on 11 March 2010 at 1:16 pm:
She’s a moocher!
Comment by cassandra m on 11 March 2010 at 1:17 pm:
I just heard that (I cannot believe I’m listening to Jensen) about the meeting with Coburn — gets a meeting with a real Senator on how to get going and can’t execute.
And people are using their own credit cards to buy stuff for her campaign. Some of which were not paid back….
Comment by just kiddin on 11 March 2010 at 1:33 pm:
Well, she’s done! That interview went statewide. Next.
Comment by anon on 11 March 2010 at 1:52 pm:
Her campaign is going nowhere-she should enjoy the attention she is getting today, because this is it!
Comment by Unstable Isotope on 11 March 2010 at 2:06 pm:
If Coburn gives her his seal of approval she might get somewhere.
Heh, does Christine read Delaware Liberal? Heh, I hope they’re passing DL posts around in the nuttosphere.
Comment by cassandra m on 11 March 2010 at 2:11 pm:
That was a strange interview — Jensen wrapped this thing up asking Keegan why this was such a big deal. And he had a caller or two saying the same thing — that this guy should have known better than use his own funds to help her OR to believe that he would be paid.
The other day I noted that there are wingnuts of a certain stripe who are perfectly accepting of their own pulling dishonorable stunts like not paying people (or paying themselves using other people’s money. And apparently all of this dishonorable behavior is always someone elses’ fault too.
Comment by Delaware Dem on 11 March 2010 at 2:46 pm:
I am sure Christine does not read Delaware Liberal. But David Anderson does. And he is the mind behind her campaign.
Comment by cassandra m on 11 March 2010 at 2:50 pm:
Oh I don’t know. It would not surprise me one bit to find that Christine googles her own name every night before bed.
Comment by Jason330 on 11 March 2010 at 2:50 pm:
Oh my. The mind behind her campaign.
Comment by Delaware Dem on 11 March 2010 at 2:51 pm:
Cassandra, that assumes Christine can read and type.
Comment by cassandra_m on 11 March 2010 at 4:06 pm:
Well this is fun — “Founders Values” in action, apparently:
So according to this EvanQ, “Founders Values” would mean that you have no right to question a candidate for a public office unless you are a journalist or a supporter. How very amusing — especially since the people you can actually see working up a scheme like this would be Lenin and Dzerzhinsky working up their lists of enemies of the people. Yep, I got your Marxism, right here, buddy.
Comment by Unstable Isotope on 11 March 2010 at 4:14 pm:
Wait – I thought yelling at Congressmen was patriotic dissent. Now only supporters get to attend events? What’s up with that?
Comment by V on 11 March 2010 at 4:27 pm:
it’s only patriotic when it’s about anti-health care or anti-whatever weird nebulous cause the tea party cares about.
Comment by Unstable Isotope on 11 March 2010 at 6:24 pm:
I just read in the NJ – O’Donnell is a Fox News contributor?!?
Comment by Delaware Dem on 11 March 2010 at 6:38 pm:
I never watch Fox News (actually block it on my Teevee using Parental Controls to prevent surfing to that cesspool by accident). So I wouldn’t know.
Comment by Joanne Christian on 11 March 2010 at 6:45 pm:
UI–thanks for the Explorer suggestion…again, I’ll grab a kid. Thanks….
Comment by Nancy Willling on 11 March 2010 at 6:45 pm:
WDEL O’Donnell campaign employee: I wasn’t paid: Now that Republican Christine O’Donnell has announced her Senate bid… http://bit.ly/a8GaAg
Now that Republican Christine O’Donnell has announced her Senate bid, a former campaign worker is speaking out saying, “Show me the money.”
WDEL’s Amy Cherry reports.Audio Here
Dave Keegan tells WDEL he worked as an independent contractor for O’Donnell’s last campaign.
He says he was promised a salary, and never got more than $1,000. On top of that, he says he shelled out his own money to help the campaign, and he says it was not a donation.
He says he was told more money would come his way as campaign contributions came in, but he says as that happened, the money was spent elsewhere instead of on reimbursements.
O’Donnell and her lawyer were both invited to speak with WDEL, but in a written statement O’Donnell says she’s never taken a dime of salary from any of her campaigns.
Comment by koolaid on 11 March 2010 at 11:44 pm:
That Kool Aid(r) looks mighty tasty in these trying times of the overuse of hyperbole. Can I get that to go?
Comment by koolaid on 11 March 2010 at 11:53 pm:
and thanks for the link to the full blown kool aid(r) party at delawarepolitics.
I like my tea party, like I like my kool aid party. Real sweet, possibly spiked, and without any nutritional value. Fortified with vitamin C (for Conservative).
Can you hire Mike Matthews as a special correspondent to cover this very self important breaking news story?