Harry Themal Endorses Chris Coons
In a rather unusual column, the News Journal‘s Harry Themal endorses Chris Coons. Themal barely mentions Chris Coons in his column, but expresses his absolute contempt for Christine O’Donnell.
I usually make my own decision of what to do in the voting booth on Election Day to make sure I have seen and judged the value of each candidacy. I am registered as an independent because that’s what I really am, always splitting my vote between candidates for both parties.
The 41-year-old O’Donnell has made so many outrageous statements and told so many half-truths while avoiding being questioned by the Delaware media that I couldn’t in good conscience not write about O’Donnell as the Phantom Candidate nobody really knows.
Her primary triumph over a veteran legislator, Mike Castle, who has served the country and particularly Delaware so well, is one of the disgraces Republicans will have to live with.
The fact that one of the editors of the Wilmington Mike Castle News Journal doesn’t like Christine O’Donnell is not a great surprise. The surprising part is how Themal doesn’t pull his punches.
In part, O’Donnell has gotten under my skin the way she has made Delaware the laughingstock of not just comedians but national columnists as well.
I’m ready to forget her saying she dabbled in witchcraft (David Letterman almost nightly calls her the Witch of Delaware); or that she identifies with J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis characters; or that her résumé listed three colleges, at two of which she took but a single short adjunct course; or that she thinks she was being spied on from the bushes or had her phone tapped during a campaign; or that she has had her share of financial problems, although paying personal expenses out of campaign funds is now being investigated.
What must be considered whether to vote for the Phantom Candidate are many of the positions she has voiced over the years, some of which are frighteningly inane or even insane.
Please, Harry, stop holding back. Tell us how you really feel.
Tags: Christine O'Donnell, DE-Sen, Harry Themal, The News Journal
It’s interesting how many journalists and editorialists are registered as independents. I wonder if it’s considered professionally wise to do so.
Of course, it sometimes becomes laughable as in the case of WDEL’s Rick Jensen. He’s nearly a total shill for the GOP.
I figure they probably don’t want their name to show up in the voter rolls as one party or the other. Of course, I think this whole concept of “balance” is past its time.
I have to agree that by default she’s made Delaware something of a laughingstock.The best we can send her back to the Tea Party with a swift kick in the voting booth.
I think I speak for all of us when I say: 1) Harry Themal is still alive? 2) Who knew Harry Themal could write?
The guy does make me feel young. I remember when he was the theatre critic.
I think he was particularly inspired this time, anon.
Dana, being a registered rethuglican is something the Curly at WGOP down here wears like a badge. And he vacillates between calling himself a newsman and a talk show host. He’s neither.
Curley is only registered as a Rethuglican coz hate mongering, race-baiting Tea Baggin idiot is not a registered party in Delaware..
course he does fit right in to s certain demographic – the cross-eyed. buck-toothed in-bred demographic…
oh – thats right, he’s from Cuba, New York…
UI: As to your surprise about Harry Themal expressing his opinion on this: He is neither a current editor of the News Journal nor a member of its editorial board. He was managing editor for many years, but writes now as an independent columnist.
Ta asshole from Cuba is well welcome in the current GOP. Being a flaming asshole appears to be a membership requirement. Look his home town up on a map. He is bewtween Erie and Horseheads:)
He is bewtween Erie and Horseheads:)
Just west of Horseheads… if the horse is facing East.
Being a demented Dem is pretty sad. You pile up debt, kill jobs and raise taxes.
O’Donnell is wacky but Themal is a joke, who cares what he thinks?
This entire Editorial Board needs to go.
I find more insightful commentary from Kavips, Hube and Steve Newton.
I don’t always agree with them, but they make you think and laugh.
The NJ’s Editorial Board just comes across as a bunch of angry middle aged men.
Being a demented Dem is pretty sad. You pile up debt, kill jobs and raise taxes.
So Repubs get to cut taxes, and Dems get blamed for the resulting debt?
I would laugh at you, but I have to admit Dem leadership is totally letting you get away with it.
Dems don’t even have the balls to go out and take credit for the $288 billion of tax cuts in ARRA. They are content to let Repubs characterize it as “spending.”
And job-killing – well the job record of the Bush economic policies speaks for itself.
Being a demented Dem is pretty sad. You pile up debt, kill jobs and raise taxes.
The writer is dumber than dirt. His income tax bill was reduced by last year’s stimulus bill.
Jobs were created in the Clinton administration; government debt was created in the Bush administration.
“The NJ’s Editorial Board just comes across as a bunch of angry middle aged men.”
You have a very generous definition of “middle aged.” They’re in the middle only if humans live to 120.
I could care less what Harry Themal thinks. However, I DO agree with his characterization of COD 100%. The whole debacle is sad history for the State of Delaware.
I’m pretty sure Harry Themal would feel the same way about you. Of course, the difference is that he has a name and a career, and you don’t.
Thermal spoke for all normal people in our State. Anyone thinking of voting for her just because she has an R next to her name should pause and think again- at the very least, consider taking a pass on the Senate race all together.
Sorry about getting so protective of Harry, but it annoys me to see ad hominem criticism of him by people who aren’t fit to lick his balls.
I love that all the TPers think Nov. 2 is going to be their Christmas. Looking forward to what type of rhetoric they have the day after when Chris crushes her.
i am sooooooooo waiting for what happens when it all implodes on Nov 2nd at 8 pm for the T baggers
what will DP do??/ where will they go???
can we have a special session of drinking liberally at Returns Day?…maybe at one of our fine advertisere here in this site??
Rope a Dope Dept. The GOP just sent this to its spam list:
“Did you hear the one about the Bearded Marxist?
“That’s Delaware’s Democratic candidate for US Senate, Chris Coons.
“Click here to read how Chris Coons described his formative college years abroad, and his return to the United States as a ‘Bearded Marxist’.”
The spam recipient is then asked to click here:
http://www.delawareonline.com/assets/pdf/BL1652601010.PDF
The sound you just heard was 10,000 Delaware Republicans singing, with Peggy Lee, “Is That All there Is?”
I think the fact that the GOP is still pushing the “Bearded Marxist” thing shows you how very little they have to work with. Coons has not made any gaffes, as far as I can tell.
Geezer, ever the pejorative provocateur. Wow, nice language. Olbermann would be proud of you.