Christine O’Donnell Says…
In today’s edition of Christine O’Donnell says crazy and/or stupid things, she did an interview with Good Morning America. Perhaps you’ll get a bit of insight into her mind.
She now regrets the “I’m Not a Witch” ad (duh):
In a pre-taped interview that aired Thursday on ABC’s Good Morning America, O’Donnell said the “I’m You” ad – intended to end the conversation over past comments about witchcraft – backfired.
“I haven’t publicly stated this, and I don’t know if I’ll get in trouble for saying that, but our intention was to kill it, and that’s not what happened,” the Delaware Republican Senate candidate said.
O’Donnell teased that she “certainly” would not be dressing up for Halloween as a witch, instead opting to go as Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz.”
“I was thinking about just going as Dorothy,” O’Donnell said. “I killed the witch. There you go.”
Well, the witch thing is going to follow her around forever now. Thanks Bill Maher!
Also, as we thought, she thought she was totally awesome in that Widener debate. She thought she was scoring points:
The media and most viewers of the Oct. 19 Delaware Senate debate thought Republican Christine O’Donnell’s question about the First Amendment directed at Democrat Chris Coons was a pretty epic gaffe for the hardcore tea party favorite and Constitution proponent.
O’Donnell did not see it that way, however.
“It’s really funny the way that the media reports things,” O’Donnell told ABC News this morning. “After that debate my team and I we were literally high fiving each other thinking that we had exposed he doesn’t know the First Amendment, and then when we read the reports that said the opposite we were all like ‘what?'”
I think at the time I called it an unforced error and it was egged on by her own people. Thanks wingnuts!
I know wingnuts think they have some killer argument in “the separation of church and state” is not in the text of the 1st Amendment. Steve Benen took apart that mess yesterday:
One can obviously read the Constitution and see that the literal phrase “separation of church and state” isn’t there, but a basic understanding of history and the law makes clear that the phrase is a shorthand to describe what the First Amendment does — it separates church from state.
Indeed, a variety of constitutional principles we all know and recognize aren’t literally referenced in the text. Americans’ “right to a fair trial” is well understood, but the exact phrase isn’t in the Constitution. “Separation of powers” is a basic principle of the U.S. Constitution, but it isn’t mentioned, either. More to the point, you can look for the phrase “freedom of religion” in the First Amendment, but those three words also don’t appear.
Ultimately, if you’re relying on extremist candidates and right-wing media personalities for constitutional scholarship, you’re going to be deeply confused.
O’Donnell is a Constitutional scholar because she took an 8-day course at a conservative wingnut welfare “think” tank. Coons took her to school, and she doesn’t even realize it. One funny thing, she was harping on Coons not getting into the weeds by stating the whole First Amendment but in the WHYY debate she named only 3 of the 5 despite carrying a copy of the Constitution with her.
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“….and then when we read the reports that said the opposite we were all like ‘what?’”. So telling. The ability to leave in a parallel universe is a vital teabag skill. For example, she thinks that she has revived a majority of her donations from small in state donors. If you showed her the evidence that 98% of her donors reside outside of Delaware, she’d be shocked.
Oh yeah….the parallel universe thing. If you look at her web-site (after you get through the first couple pages of DONATE), you will see that the results of the Rasmussen poll have her trailing by eleven points. By TBer reasoning, that is gaining ground, because apparently they are comparing it to the other polls where Coons was leading by nearly 20 points. They conveniently “FORGOT” that the previous Rasmussen poll had her down by 9 points……so by my calculations, she is losing ground – but who knows how TBers do their math?
“You’re telling me 98% of my donors reside outside of Delaware?”
You would think that as a “media and public relations consultant” for 20 years, COD would have a firm grasp of the way the media works. “It’s really funny the way that the media reports things.” Seriously? You’ve been in the papers and on TV and online every day for months, yet this still catches you by surprise?
She’s been exposed, over and over and over again, and I think this is finally getting through. To everyone but her and her diehards.
Sheesh, I could have told her an ad declaring herself not a witch was idiotic. It’s like opening an ad saying, “I’m not a pedophile.”
The word “G-D” isn’t in the Constitution either, but that doesn’t stop people like O’Donnell from using the Constitution to try to jam their G-d down American’s throats.
“You’re telling me they were laughing AT me?”
“You’re telling me having NO experience and holding views of Puritans is “wrong for America”?
The worst part for COD is she can’t even play victim and attack Coons for using the witch thing against her. We’ve only heard the “W” word uttered twice by the candidates, and both times it came from COD herself.
The media is usually pretty efficient at accepting wingnut absurdities at face value, and laundering them into the mainstream. Like “tax cuts create jobs,” etc.
But every once in a while, one of these kooky lies is so sudden or so over the top that it escapes the MSM control, and they are forced to acknowledge it for what it is. The Republicans were prepared to go full bore on the birth certificate, until they realized it wasn’t working. The memo went out on the wingnut network that the issue was radioactive and hurting them and they needed to lay off. If it was working they’d still do it.
O’Donnell’s First Amendment gaffe is another one of those issues. It was so sudden, so unexpected, and so public that the issue went rogue. The media didn’t have time to launder it and create a 50/50 public debate about whether the First Amendment provides for separation of church and state.
So now the public, possibly for the first time, has an unfiltered blast of the fantasy world the teabaggers live in.
Funny or Die imagines Christine O’Donnell’s draft of the Constitution:
http://www.funnyordie.com/stories/26f76ae640/if-christine-o-donnell-wrote-the-constitution