I saw the devil in congress with the Goody O’Donnell!
/I fapped to it.
I don’t think you guys understand - it’s O’Donnell’s very lack of qualifications that makes her an appealing candidate in the minds of many of her supporters.
William F. Buckley famously said that he’d sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty at Harvard University - the sentiment obviously being that ordinary people can be better trusted to do what’s right than the liberal elite.
In the minds of many Tea Partiers and others of a like mind, the Republican establishment has become about as bad as liberal Democrats in being members of the elite ruling class which is driving this country into a ditch.
So experience and qualifications no longer matter much. What matters is to get people into office who have the right philosophy and who will fight to lessen the size and scope of government, reduce the national debt, shore up the economy and lessen unemployment through policies that benefit business, etc. In other words, people who will return to true Republican principles rather than govern as the “Democrat light” version of the party which has existed for some time now.
Everybody knows that much of the populace is unhappy with the Democratic party, and everybody knows that much of the populace doesn’t think Republicans nowadays are much better. So why it comes as a surprise that so many of the country’s populace are beginning to want people in office who have no experience and who have no qualifications and who will do what they think is right instead of what’s politically expedient is a mystery to me.
SA for Prez!!
Sorry, I’ve been busy.
Apart from that, it’s a low-level background noise of terror in my brain that the likes of her and Angle might actually get elected. What that says about her country is terrifying and depressing.
-Joe
Anyone else think that her “witchcraft” is just like Starving Artist’s’s “sex ed turned me into a child molester but then I got better” story? Just an attempt to show how ‘even someone as good as me’ can fall from grace…but instead it blows up in their face totally.
-Joe
That’s what O’Donnell said!
After claiming last election that lack of experience was a reason not to vote for Obama.
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.
You’re expecting consistency?
No, it’s not. As far as the Republican establishment is concerned, O’Donnell climbed out from under a rock just a few weeks ago.
Since the nomination, the Pubs have exercised more party discipline to get behind her and push money in her direction, though. Karl Rove and his objections have been shouted down.
A false equivalence, as Obama clearly lacks the right kind of non-experience, and has yet to usher America into another Gilded Age despite having over a year and a half to do so.
The Tea Party, meanwhile, offers change you can believe in! (Well, nobody’s stopping you…)
The latter paragraph is what I’m comparing, though. The Democrats aren’t doing crap to help Greene. It’s a pointless candidacy (did anyone really expect a Democrat to win against DeMint in this political climate, in that state?) of a mystery man who nobody even knew existed prior to primary night and we’re not wasting money or time on it. The establishment Republicans in Delaware knew about O’Donnell well before primary night…Castle had been getting blowback for his moderation for months, and O’Donnell was on the primary ballot for a long time. She didn’t just appear last Tuesday out of thin air. She’s also run as a candidate for Senate before. She was not an unknown.
I can understand it, I just think it’s retarded.
So you want someone who is a political outsider and is willing to do what they think is right? That’s a grand idea, but does that person really have to be a grandstanding idiot with no experience AT ANYTHING? And ‘doing what they think is right’ becomes a bit of problem when what they think is right is fucking moronic!
Or maybe the only people that are willing to do what the exreme right says they want are morons or opportunists. In that case what does that say about the merits of the proposed policies?
In short, find someone credible or fuck off. All your defense of this woman and those her support her accomplishes is to make you look like a twat.
Well, like more of one, technically.
This chick is like Palin’s little sister.
For the record, she said all that witchcraft stuff when she was in her 20’s. I don’t know why she just doesn’t brush that off as comedy. If I was on Bill Maher, I would try to say some stupid shit too. The deal about jerking off as a sin, when the hell do women talk about that? Yes, yes, Christine, just because I jerk off to porn doesn’t mean I don’t need you. You have a vagina and know how to cook.
But her opponent once claimed in college that he was a Marxist. His last name is Coons. That’s a silly family name. Coons. Either a raccoon or a racial slur. See the Tea Party rally around and say, “Do not elect that Marxist Coons!”
I still think she is sexy. She’s single too. I wonder why that is? Delaware is so small that she probably dated Coons for a little whie. Coons probably took her to the coven, and probably both pray to the alter of Obama now.
My dick is bigger than Delaware. Yours is too. Stand on the Maryland/Delaware state line, pull out your dick and pee in the ocean. It is that small. Some conspiracy theorists believe that Delaware is a non existant entity, basically a tax shelter. The state has nothing in it but banks, insurance companies and government agencies.
Smithers, bring out the hounds.
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.”
Agreed.
Goodness, it’s like you people don’t even know how to be pedantic anymore.
“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.
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.