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Why Christine O'Donnell's victory is scary

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Posted by Fred 2010-09-16 11:32|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 keep whistling past the graveyard

Posted by Frank G on the road 2010-09-16 12:58|| 2010-09-16 12:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Any Republican that talks about "bipartisanship" and "moderation" needs thrown out at this point. It has brought our country nothing but ruin and until the progressive-communist-socialist agenda is destroyed, it is not welcome.

Posted by DarthVader 2010-09-16 13:09|| 2010-09-16 13:09|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm all for bipartisanship if it means fiscal responsibility. If it means more of the same spending like drunken sailors than we are better off without it. Hopefully a few of the survivors after November will realize this and show a new spirit of restraint because although the Tea Party term might go away at some point I think the attitude is here for a long time.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-09-16 14:27|| 2010-09-16 14:27|| Front Page Top

#4 O'Donnell just finished an ugly primary. Coons sailed through unopposed. The numbers reflect that. Give Christine a chance to start running against Coons and lets see what happens.

Posted by Iblis 2010-09-16 15:02|| 2010-09-16 15:02|| Front Page Top

#5 She currently has 107% of the $1 million she was asking for. A number which is still subject to change, in a good way.

Importantly, her opponent also has about $1m for his campaign, but as his support is "normal", he probably won't get much more. All she has to do is ask for more.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-09-16 15:37|| 2010-09-16 15:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Boys and girls, there is nothing inherently wrong with bipartisanship. In fact, it can do a lot of good. If some Democrats want to join with the Republicans to repeal Obamacare and cut the budget and stuff like that, I say we let the groovy love vibrations flow.

Posted by Mike 2010-09-16 16:43|| 2010-09-16 16:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Here's the MTV video of a 1996 young evangelicals interview (including O'Donnell) on abstinence and masturbation:

Posted by Zhang Fei 2010-09-16 17:05|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com 2010-09-16 17:05|| Front Page Top

#8 I'd recommend this lovely young lady's future husband discreetly place a copy of the above video in a safe deposit box. It might just come in handy at some distant, future date.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-09-16 17:16|| 2010-09-16 17:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Goodness, Ruth Marcus must be on the A list for all the DC cocktail parties. She is the rare breed that can flit from a conversation about health care on to another about the virtues of fiscal responsibility. All without missing a puffed shrimp. You see, she is post-modern and loves the paradoxical. Ruth will suggest that she really believes in something and yet she has that innate ability to see the intrinsic value in the opposite. She is proud of her liberal courage even though she knows most view her as simply shallow. All of which makes her the non-threatening sap you can ask to help clean up afterwards. Best yet, she will then thank you for giving her a sense of duty.

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-09-16 18:44|| 2010-09-16 18:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Zhang Fei: Suddenly, I think this is the reason that she is eliciting such blind hatred from the elites of both parties, because she is a "real" Evangelical, and thinks like they do, and the elites hate and fear that.

Comparing masturbation to adultery is a purely moral, not ethical stance. That is, Evangelicals would never think of codifying it into law--it is a personal ethos, part and parcel with real Evangelicals.

And other things she has said are pure Evangelical. So what is it about Evangelicals that "makes the heathen rage?"

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-09-16 19:07|| 2010-09-16 19:07|| Front Page Top

#11 Evangelicals actually believe in the triune God and try to follow the moral pathway of the 10 Commandments. All of which is anathema to modern pseudo-liberalism -- which is actually a neo-Marxist philosophy that ignores Locke, Smith, and Paine.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-09-16 22:31|| 2010-09-16 22:31|| Front Page Top

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