Christine O'Donnell looking a lot like Sarah Palin!
Sarah Palin could be Christine's sister!
I must admit I don’t know much about Christine O’Donnell and I truly don’t care. Since I live in Michigan she really isn’t on my radar. However, I am having a good laugh watching the two parties, Republican and Democratic fall all over themselves in disgust at her Republican Senate primary win in Delaware.
It all started with Karl Rove when he came out and said she says some crazy things. He seemed quite upset that she won. The Republicans thought they had a sure bet with Mike Castle. What I find humorous about all of this is the fact that the Republicans “hand picked” candidate wasn’t selected by the voters! Imagine that! The voters decided they would pick their candidate. The Republicans can’t get over the fact that the voters have the right to choose who they want to represent them.
On the Chris Matthew’s show he went on to ask some Republican, who I cannot for the life of me remember the name of, if Christine was “qualified” to be a senator. I thought that sounded pretty elitist. The truth is there are only three things necessary to qualify to be a senator.
Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution sets three qualifications for senators: 1) each senator must be at least 30 years old, 2) must have been a citizen of the United States for at least the past nine years, and 3) must be (at the time of the election) an inhabitant of the state he or she seeks to represent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate#Qualifications
There is no IQ test to be a senator. Otherwise, people like David Vitter would never have been elected!
To top all of this hand wringing off by the Republicans is the behavior of the Democrats. MSNBC has been a huge supporter of Barack Obama. Many of the people on that network are like Chris Matthew’s when he got that tingle up his leg. The morning after she won, I watched “Morning Joe”. When they showed the “masturbation video” I knew there was more going on than meets the eye. The Democrats would have everyone believe that she will go down easily in defeat. I suspect that they really don’t know what will happen as they are protesting far too much. She looks and sounds a lot like Sarah Palin. Some people find that very appealing! During the whole Morning Joe show Joe was quite upset about her win. Everyone else kept trying to put her down and make fun of her. Joe kept saying something about her lack of income. I think I heard a figure of $5800 or so. He mentioned bankruptcy. He said she lied about going to Princeton. Then they played a video of her on the Bill Maher show. By this time I was laughing like crazy because I suspected all of them, from both parties, gave way too much away by protesting so much.
They have made this into such a big issue that it is obvious that they are both worried. The Republicans don’t know how to “handle” her and the Democrats are afraid that she might be stronger than they think.
Both parties are owned and operated by the corporations. Maybe this is the problem. She seems to be a “nobody”. I’ve suggested on here that we should vote for the Democrats because they are slightly better than the Republicans. However, there is no reassurance from where I sit that this is remotely true. These parties are like brothers. They play games with the rest of us pretending to be at each others throats. We suspect that they don’t even like each other. This is a game to keep us “commoners” thinking they’re actually trying to do something for US! It’s just like “good cop, bad cop” episodes.
If you watched the memorial service for Teddy Kennedy you would have noticed that many Republicans obviously loved Teddy. They were friends. They even joked about which one would be the “bad” one for the press. If you think I’m making this up go back and watch it. It’s probably on YouTube. The point is that “We the people” are the ones that actually vote and these senators “play” us all the time!
Christine O’Donnell managed to get the vote, “the vote from the people”, without an elitist pedigree. She got Republicans to vote for her. Whether she can get the votes that she needs to become senator in Delaware remains to be seen by all of us. All I know is that not one vote has been cast yet. There is a lot of time between now and the election. If Democrats want to win, they better stop trashing her. They’re just going to piss off a lot of women. Women are already fed up with the Democratic Party because of their treatment of Hillary Clinton. I can imagine if Christine gets the Hillary/Sarah treatment, women may vote for her in protest.
Republicans started turning around after the twenty four hour gripe period. However, most people can see through the façade of bullshit they are selling. They don’t like Christine because she is a Tea Party person. I guess that’s code for “bat shit crazy right winger.” You would think they’d be happy with her. NO! Both parties want to control everything. They don’t want US to have a choice. Christine is the Republican Party choice in Delaware. The national Republicans will have to live with that.
My thinking is that the current senators aren’t doing such a hot job any way. What difference will it really make if she wins? I think people are just fed up with Washington. It isn’t just Tea Party people. It’s people like me. I think a pink bunny could do as well as some of the current senators. They are vacillating over extending the tax cuts. They supposedly can’t get it done unless they include the wealthy. This is just bullshit. They don’t want to get it done and they don’t want anyone new to come play the game.
As I said in the beginning I don’t know much about Christine and I don’t even care. However, I do care about the loss of what used to be my Democratic Party. I’d like my party to embrace women in general. I’d like to not see them go ape every time a woman, much like Sarah or Hillary, runs for office. I’d also like to see more Democratic women running for office. However, it seems like this is the year for Republican women. Like it or not, if you want to vote for a woman, you may have to vote Republican. The Democratic Party needs to get out of the dark ages and start encouraging women to run for office. I’m fed up with these macho, elitist, mostly white, men that make all of the laws that pertain to the rest of us. Remember half of us are WOMEN! So the only dog I really have in this fight is the fact that Christine O’Donnell is a woman! Go figure!
I wasn’t going to add anything to this. However, Daniel Maxso sent me a video from Newsy.com. which shows conservative pundits firing back at Karl Rove on this issue. It’s a good video so I’m adding it. I also am providing a link below it to an article that I read last night that was really interesting on the subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbMcO07iQUQ&feature=player_embedded
This is a good op-ed article:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/09/17/conservative-feminists-grizzlies-or-not-come-out-roaring/