# Christine O'Donnell has replaced Palin in my heart of hearts... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 21, 2010, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499 "2010-09-21T02:35:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/41 "2010-09-21T14:12:30Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > > [@BigT](#): > > > > After claiming last election that lack of experience was a reason not to vote for Obama. > > You’re expecting consistency? Consistency is easy. Thinking rationally to the point of taking contradictory positions is more mental effort than typical people can handle. Of course, here at the SDMB (and its offshoot fora), we tend to have more capacity for mental effort than the norm. And we use much of it for Pit threads, kittehpix, and discussions instead of starting a movement. Anybody got any kittehpix? And now for my $.06. I used to think that Sarah Palin was just as qualified for the position of VPOTUS as Dan Quayle had been – then someone (probably a Doper) pointed out that Quayle was a career politician with several years of service in the US Senate. So then I thought Palin was the worst politician of our time to go on the national stage. C O’D is pushing Palin out of the inane politician spotlight. As far as I can tell, C O’D has no platform, no agenda, no experience (Palin was at least a small-town mayor and a state governor), pretty much no nothing except that she found a parade heading for nobody-knows-where and got in front. ETA: **Captain Midnight** , that almost made sense. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/42 "2010-09-21T14:14:46Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > > [@Bricker](#): > > > > [I can think of another one.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Greene) > > I’ll agree that Alvin Greene is even less qualified than O’Donnell. The telling difference between them is: The SC Democratic party actually put out a statement saying that their internal laws prohibit them from offically endorsing and giving money to the Green Party candidate. > > I am a little pissed at Bill Maher for dropping the witchcraft bomb so early. It gave her a chance to back out of the Sunday Morning Talk Shows. Now the only place we’ll see her is on Sean Hannity. Thanks, Bill. I’m waiting for Bill to throw out another dead body from O’Donnell’s past this Friday. Who knows, perhaps she will summon up the powers of Satan and show up on his show. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![theR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@theR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theR)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/43 "2010-09-21T14:24:31Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > m a little pissed at Bill Maher for dropping the witchcraft bomb so early. It gave her a chance to back out of the Sunday Morning Talk Shows. Now the only place we’ll see her is on Sean Hannity. Thanks, Bill. Maher said he is releasing a clip per show until she agrees to come on as a guest, so no need to be angry. I doubt he used the best one first. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/44 "2010-09-21T15:23:16Z")
O’Donnell is just a genetic creation using DNA from Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/45 "2010-09-21T15:26:01Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > O’Donnell is just a genetic creation using DNA from Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin. So that means **she’s** the mouse with the human brain? Or was that a human with a mouse brain? I get so confused ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/46 "2010-09-21T15:33:25Z")
> [@theR](#): > > > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > > > m a little pissed at Bill Maher for dropping the witchcraft bomb so early. It gave her a chance to back out of the Sunday Morning Talk Shows. Now the only place we’ll see her is on Sean Hannity. Thanks, Bill. > > Maher said he is releasing a clip per show until she agrees to come on as a guest, so no need to be angry. I doubt he used the best one first. Yes - but he could have waited a week. She was booked on two shows until the showed that clip. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/47 "2010-09-21T15:38:19Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > > [@theR](#): > > > > Maher said he is releasing a clip per show until she agrees to come on as a guest, so no need to be angry. I doubt he used the best one first. > > Yes - but he could have waited a week. She was booked on two shows until the showed that clip. But she had to go to that church thingy on Sunday! They was having a [picnic](http://www.salon.com/news/christine_odonnell/?story=/politics/war_room/2010/09/20/odonnell_cancels_sunday_shows) too. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/48 "2010-09-21T15:50:14Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > O’Donnell is just a genetic creation using DNA from Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin. I do find it interesting that all three members of the Axis-of-idiocy are women. I wonder if this is due to random chance? Sexism on our part? or some special derangement that is required for a woman to become a Republican candidate? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/49 "2010-09-21T15:52:05Z")
Add Ann Coulter, too. Suspect the reason is they get fans because of their appearance. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/50 "2010-09-21T15:53:48Z")
> [@Trion](#): > > “She is the least qualified candidate to run for a Senate that I can recall.” may be an entirely correct statement (discounting that extra “a”) as you have no idea what he can recall. > > Amateurs. Of course. And I, public-spirited person that I am, am helpfully reminding him of someone he may have forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/51 "2010-09-21T15:59:47Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Add Ann Coulter, too. Suspect the reason is they get fans because of their appearance. But she’s not an idiot. Evil - Yes. Stupid - No. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/52 "2010-09-21T16:15:25Z")
People, people, people. We are forgetting the most important qualification: Would I do her? The answer would be yes. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/53 "2010-09-21T16:24:32Z")
I have to think that Palin must be getting a little jealous of the attention O’Donnel is getting. For the past two years, Sarah has been the darling of the extreme right, the teabagger princess, the center of attention. Now, all of a sudden, here’s this piece of fluff who’s younger, prettier and crazier than she is, and the PYT is getting all the attention that Sarah is supposed ti be getting. That can’t sit well with Sarah. There’s not enough room for two princesses at this tea party. I think there’s only one way to settle this. Jello fight. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/54 "2010-09-21T16:31:28Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > If she blew Ted Nugent and repented that would be cool. > That’s how the crazy fundamentalists operate. It’s all about lip service. In case you’re waiting expectantly for someone to groan at your pun … G :rolleyes: R ☹ O :o A :mad: N! :smack: Posters seem gleeful that Demos have one easy win this November. I wish I shared your confidence. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/55 "2010-09-21T16:32:09Z")
I said this in another thread, but the the thing that struck me about O’Donnell’s withcraft story was not that I care if she ever did it, but that I thought she was clearly making it up. That was really odd. She spoke of going on a “date” on top of a “Satanic altar,” but witches don’t have Satanic altars. None of the Wiccan/neo-pagan groups worship Satan or even believe in Satan. “Covens” with “satanic altars” are the stuff of fundy mythology, not reality. Either she was making it up, or she totally didn’t understand what was going on (e.g. she saw a standard Wiccan altar and thought they were sacrificing babies on it), or maybe (I don’t think we can rule this out) some people were just totally dicking with her. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/56 "2010-09-21T16:45:01Z")
Speaking as someone with intimate knowledge about Wicca and other esoteric forms of ceremonial magick, there are at least a few forms of Western Ceremonial Traditions that do employ an altar upon which a young woman is laid (literally) by the priest. This provides the sacrifice of her sexual energies during a ceremony. This isn’t actually ‘Satanic’ in that that particular entity is not deliberately invoked. It sounds quite a bit like an Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) ceremony. For what it is worth, it is most distinctly not my cup of tea, but your mileage may vary. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/57 "2010-09-21T16:45:46Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > > > If she blew Ted Nugent and repented that would be cool. > > That’s how the crazy fundamentalists operate. It’s all about lip service. > > In case you’re waiting expectantly for someone to groan at your pun … > G :rolleyes: R ☹ O :o A :mad: N! :smack: > > Posters seem gleeful that Demos have one easy win this November. I wish I shared your confidence. I had that confidence, but I am slowly losing it. I figured – the fringier the Republican candidate, the better for Democratic candidates. But the crazies are not getting laughed at as much as I expected, and I am starting to be scared. ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/58 "2010-09-21T16:46:01Z")
Most likely some horny college geek trying to impress her enough to put out, but from her other statements he needn’t have tried so hard. ---
**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/59 "2010-09-21T16:49:01Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Speaking as someone with intimate knowledge about Wicca and other esoteric forms of ceremonial magick, there are at least a few forms of Western Ceremonial Traditions that do employ an altar upon which a young woman is laid (literally) by the priest. I think the figurative aspect is more interesting. Is she (or Bill Maher) saying that that is what happened? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/60 "2010-09-21T16:51:40Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > Speaking as someone with intimate knowledge about Wicca and other esoteric forms of ceremonial magick, there are at least a few forms of Western Ceremonial Traditions that do employ an altar upon which a young woman is laid (literally) by the priest. This provides the sacrifice of her sexual energies during a ceremony. This isn’t actually ‘Satanic’ in that that particular entity is not deliberately invoked. It sounds quite a bit like an Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) ceremony. For what it is worth, it is most distinctly not my cup of tea, but your mileage may vary. And to a non-inquisitive person of Christian background, that indeed might have seemed Satanic – that is, even if not explicitly referring to Satan, a religious practice with neo-pagan aspects would seem Satanically-inspired. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499.md?page=4)