If O’Donnell is the fix, we are forever broken

by YankeeJim | September 17, 2010 at 01:27 pm

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We should consider candidates on a case by case basis. Do they have the skill, knowledge, experience, and proficiency to address specific sets of problems and needs that we have before us?

Are they equipped with exceptional academic certification? Have they proven private sector success in their profession with a track record? Do they possess extraordinary knowledge about energy, job creation, national security, and diplomacy? Have they been employed by government too long?

These are things to ask, and for many incumbents and candidates, they don’t cut it. American voters have yet to ask the right questions and to demand higher quality representatives. Picking people like the folks next door who rag on government without a clue about solutions should not be on anyone’s yard sign.

“Christine O'Donnell: 'We're not trying to take back our country, we are our country'

By Felicia Sonmez

Three days after she toppled long-time Rep. Mike Castle (R) in Delaware's Senate primary, Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell made her debut on the national stage, delivering a defiant speech on the stage of the Family Research Council's annual meeting of social conservatives in Washington, D.C.

O'Donnell was greeted with a standing ovation Friday afternoon as she took to the same stage that had been graced earlier in the day by a cadre of potential White House 2012 hopefuls including former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R).

O'Donnell spent the bulk of her 18-minute speech taking aim at critics of conservatism and of the "tea party" movement. She kicked off her remarks by asking the crowd to remember back to a year-and-a-half ago when the conservative movement was "told to curl up into fetal position and just stay there the next eight years, thank you very much."

"How things have changed," O'Donnell said, to loud applause.

O'Donnell, whose long-shot bid against Castle received the heavy support of national tea party groups, spoke of a "grassroots groundswell, this revolution of reason, this love affair with liberty" and warned the group to gear up against those who would oppose them.

"Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, name-call and try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it?" O'Donnell asked.”

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YankeeJim

at 13:31 on September 17th, 2010

"It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be be abstinent alone. The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery, so you can't masturbate without lust." Christine O'Donnell

Yuck

t k kidwai

at 17:46 on September 17th, 2010

O'Donnel has crossed threshold of craziness and is knocking at the door of insanity.YJ,I know people generally reject voice of reason,and on the basis of my observation I assure you that your sound advice will fall on deaf ears.Had we ever had stuck to some prescribed standard of selecting candidates,things would have been different.

The voice of reason is submerged when tide of emotions,sentiments rises.And Hitler wasn't wrong when he wrote in Mein Kampf:"The great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning....".

Sentiments:nationalism,patriotism,regionalism and worst of all religious sentiments,and equally devastating hoax of threat to national security;none can solve a single problem of any society,country.But candidates garner votes on non-issues by putting real issues on the back burner.Is is not an appeal to sentiments by O'Donnel when she thunders:'We're not to take back our country,we are our country'.A perfect feminine appeal to feminine sentiments.

YankeeJim

at 03:06 on September 18th, 2010

You are waxing poetically again TKK.

"She crossed threshold of craziness and is knocking at the door of insanity."

"The voice of reason is submerged when tide of emotions, sentiments rises."

"Nationalism, patriotism, regionalism and worst of all religious sentiments ,and equally devastating hoax of threat to national security"

Put the real issues on the back burner, wink and a nod, we're taking back our country.

nanute

at 04:14 on September 18th, 2010

And yet, we're told by those that are enthralled with this "movement" that we're a bunch of mean spirited folks for having the never to point out the obvious: candidates such as Ms. O'Donnell are anything but ordinary American's. If this is the new mainstream American thinker, we're in much deeper shit than I'd imagined.

From Digby:

"We are our country. We have always been in charge. This is America." Christine O'Donnell, 9/17/10

Uhm, no. Please read Michael Tomasky's excellent essay about the 230 years of American tea bagging. As those who read my blog know very well, this is also my view of the contours of American politics. And no, they have not always been in charge. Indeed, they have rarely been in charge, thank goodness.

Of course, these observations will be summarily dismissed by supporters of the "movement" as unworthy of consideration because, well Shut Up is Why.

nanute

at 04:39 on September 18th, 2010

Here's an exchange between Bill OReilly and O'Donnell from 2007:

O’DONNELL: Bill, if we — if we approach this complicated bioethic issue with our heads in the sand, the other end is in the air.

O’REILLY: My head isn’t in the sand, Christine. I have the biggest head in the world. There isn’t enough sand on the beach in Hawaii for my head to be in there.

O’DONNELL: My point is, we’re approaching this issue with the other end in the air.

O’REILLY: No, no, no. Hold it.

O’DONNELL: By their own admission…

O’REILLY: No.

O’DONNELL: … these groups admitted that the report that said, “Hey, yay, we cloned a monkey. Now we’re using this to start cloning humans.” We have to keep…

O’REILLY: Let them admit anything they want. But they won’t do that here in the United States unless all craziness is going on.

O’DONNELL: They are — they are doing that here in the United States. American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. So they’re already into this experiment.

Totally "normal" mainstream American, right?