# 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:** 7
**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 24, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/121 "2010-09-24T02:17:40Z")
Perhaps they can realize some efficienceis by combining these studies. I think there needs to be a control group, that, uh, er, drinks as opposed to sucks, so specific parts of the activity can be isolated and studied separately. And the drinking tests will need supplies. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/122 "2010-09-24T04:31:34Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > > [@silenus](#): > > > > All the better for a little frottage. In that case I’ll save her the space in front of me. 😛 > > There’s cheese in hell? > [@jayjay](#): > > Yeah, but they only have Velveeta. Sounds like a case of Vulveeta. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/123 "2010-09-24T05:35:41Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Oh well, IIRC the fellatio item was a prank, what was not a prank was the study pointing out that masturbation was actually beneficial in helping prevent prostate cancer, later studies however point that it may not be as beneficial, so… > > More research is needed! 😃 I’m on it! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/124 "2010-09-24T05:54:35Z")
This could be the seminal research for a whole new scientific discipline! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/125 "2010-09-24T07:20:23Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Oh well, IIRC the fellatio item was a prank, what was not a prank was the study pointing out that masturbation was actually beneficial in helping prevent prostate cancer, later studies however point that it may not be as beneficial, so… > > More research is needed! 😃 The incidence of prostate cancer in teenage boys is very low, so Q.E.D. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/126 "2010-09-24T16:00:42Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > …a natural sense of logarithm. I thought that’s what Obama had because he’s, well, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/127 "2010-09-24T16:49:16Z")
… Muslim. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/128 "2010-09-24T16:54:14Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > … Muslim. Then, wouldn’t that mean he has a sense of [algorithm](http://www.flickr.com/photos/heathendawn/169138578/)? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/129 "2010-09-25T01:31:25Z")
… algomusic, algomygal, who could ask for anything more? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/130 "2010-09-25T01:37:32Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > > > … Muslim. > > Then, wouldn’t that mean he has a sense of [algorithm](http://www.flickr.com/photos/heathendawn/169138578/)? I just realized my original link died. Here’s what the original was referring to. Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī: His contributions had a great impact on language. “Algebra” is derived from al-jabr, one of the two operations he used to solve quadratic equations. **Algorism and algorithm stem from Algoritmi, the Latin form of his name**. His name is the origin of (Spanish) guarismo[9] and of (Portuguese) algarismo, both meaning digit. > **[Al-Khwarizmi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_M%C5%ABs%C4%81_al-Khw%C4%81rizm%C4%AB)** > > Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi\[note 1\] c. 780 – c. 850, or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a mathematician active during the Islamic Golden Age, who produced Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820, he worked at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the contemporary capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate. One of the most prominent scholars of the period, his works were widely influential on later authors, both in the Islamic world and Europe. > His popularizing treatise on... ---
**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 25, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/131 "2010-09-25T03:10:06Z")
Bill Maher showed another clip of O’Donnell tonight claiming that “evolution is a myth,” and asking “why aren’t monkeys still evolving into humans?” America is moving backwards at an accelerating pace. I’m glad I’m already close to Canada. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/132 "2010-09-25T09:16:21Z")
No, Al Goreism is the false doctrine that breathing is more important than making money. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/133 "2010-09-25T14:47:02Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > > [@BlankSlate](#): > > > > She’ll probably be elected. :smack: > > She’ll probably get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and elected I think she’s on the record as having been injected a couple of times in college.😃 ---
**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 25, 2010, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/134 "2010-09-25T14:56:24Z")
And only the school nurse knows for sure if she’s been infected. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/135 "2010-09-25T16:51:16Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > > [@jayjay](#): > > > > Yes, but Greene is not considered a serious candidate even by the Democrats. We don’t have whole organizations acting like he’s the great savior of liberalism or even has any chance of winning. Frankly, most of us have no idea how he even managed to get on the ballot. > > > > It’s a completely different situation. > > Yes, it is. > > But then a correct statement would not be, “She is the least qualified candidate to run for a Senate that I can recall.” > > It might be, “She is the least qualified candidate to run for a Senate seat and get any kind of serious support from her party that I recall.” Well, [I believe I have you both beat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_H._Taylor). (And he **won** , and ran for Vice President, albeit unsuccessfully and on a third-party ticket, but getting 2.4% of the vote nationally.) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/136 "2010-09-25T16:59:45Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > 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. Sure they do. Granted, they don’t _think_ they do, but any born-agin Fundy can spell it out for you: they worship a [deep dramatic voice] False God [/ddv] who is neither the Judaeo-Christian Lord God Almighty nor one of His acknowledged servants/messengers. Therefore it must be a Fallen Angel – and since it is not one that acknowledges a Higher Power than Itself, there can be only one being whom it is. You’re just not thinking like a Fundy. ---
**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 25, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/137 "2010-09-25T17:13:31Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > > [@Bricker](#): > > > > Yes, it is. > > > > But then a correct statement would not be, “She is the least qualified candidate to run for a Senate that I can recall.” > > > > It might be, “She is the least qualified candidate to run for a Senate seat and get any kind of serious support from her party that I recall.” > > Well, [I believe I have you both beat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_H._Taylor). (And he **won** , and ran for Vice President, albeit unsuccessfully and on a third-party ticket, but getting 2.4% of the vote nationally.) I don’t see anything in that cite that makes a case that he was any less qualified than either O’Donnell or Greene. Greene seems the dumbest, O’Donnell seems the craziest, and Taylor? Perhaps the most violentist? ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/138 "2010-09-25T18:51:13Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > > [@Bricker](#): > > > > [I can think of another one.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Greene) > > I can think of two. [One of them](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama) is no longer a Senator, but [the other](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_clinton) still is. Wow. I’ll ignore Hillary Clinton, but please explain how Barack Obama was less qualified to run for the senate in 2006 than Christine O’Donnell is now. Not why you like her better, but why her life experiences up to this point make her an objectively more qualified candidate for the Senate that his up to that point. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/139 "2010-09-25T19:04:22Z")
Well, she has seen the light, and is chaste! Not like you and me, celibate by popular demand, but by choice! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499/140 "2010-09-25T20:09:17Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Bill Maher showed another clip of O’Donnell tonight claiming that “evolution is a myth,” and asking “why aren’t monkeys still evolving into humans?” Saw it last night, too. Maybe someone should tell her that she could help the cause by climbing out of the trees and doing a little evolving herself. I liked the fake one better, though. The one where she talks about taking up the ass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christine-odonnell-has-replaced-palin-in-my-heart-of-hearts/554499.md?page=8)