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Christine O’Donnell, who is backed by the Tea Party Express, is running in this week’s Delaware Senate primary against Rep. Mike Castle. Castle, a former governor, has been winning elections in Delaware by large margins since 1966, and in any normal year his victory would be assured. But this year, nothing can be taken for granted.
O’Donnell’s views appear to be particularly extreme, even by Tea Party standards. In 1998, she told an MTV interviewer that masturbation is the same as adultery because “the Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can’t masturbate without lust.”
In an article written about the same time, the fiercely Catholic O’Donnell declared, “When a married person uses pornography, or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his (or her) purity, but also compromises the spouse’s purity. As a church, we need to teach a higher standard than abstinence.”
O’Donnell’s
charactersanity has also become an issue in the campaign. She recently told the Weekly Standard that she doesn’t give out the location of her house because it was broken into and vandalized during the 2008 campaign — even though there is no police report of any such incident.“They’re following me,” O’Donnell claimed. “They follow me home at night. I make sure that I come back to the townhouse and then we have our team come out and check all the bushes and check all the cars to make sure that—they follow me….They knock on the door at all hours of the night. They’re hiding in the bushes when I’m at candidate forums.”
She’ll fit in well with the rest of the Republican Party.
You must be joking? Is that meant as some form of dead pan sarcasm (i.e. paying taxes).
Do you consider it your patriotic duty to not support the system that is there for you (gov. services, common defense) and the like because your “special?”
I would agree that it is a poor choice of words, and like Joe Biden seems to always do, he puts his foot in his mouth at every opportunity, but this is by no means the craziest statement made in the past week even. At least their is a rational for it.
Bill Buckley never followed his rule as some sort of iron law. He supported Joseph Lieberman on the grounds that at least you don’t get irritated every time he opens his mouth, though Lieberman sounds physically irritated every time.
Supporting ODonnell even if it loses the seat may have strategic value since it would signal that the Republicans are breaking from their big spending past.