Christine O'Donnell, Delaware's Tea Party Candidate, Has GOP Spooked

[onehandle]

The results have not even been finalized in the quirky Alaska Republican Senate primary and already the political world is bracing itself for another instance in which an out-of-nowhere Tea Party candidate derails the highly-favored establishment contender.

On Monday, Democratic and Republican operatives alike expressed interest and consternation (respectively) over the possibility that Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) could be the next victim of the purity purge inside the GOP tent.

Christine O'Donnell has, by and large, campaigned outside the media and political spotlight so far this election. But on Monday her efforts to take out Castle in the mid-September primary got a major boost when the Tea Party Express, which spent roughly $600,000 on Alaska Republican Joe Miller's challenge to Sen. Lisa Murkowski, pledged to do the same on her behalf.

The announcement was just the latest in a wave of Tea party momentum to build around O'Donnell's candidacy. The right-wing blogosphere has, likewise, either trumpeted or expressed intrigue in her campaign, disturbed, primarily, by Castle's moderate voting record. O'Donnell herself has pushed the meme, going so far as to pursue the endorsement of Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) -- the Tea Party validator in the U.S. Senate -- and to include a picture of herself alongside the poster boy of Tea Party-ism: Florida Republican candidate Marco Rubio. This past weekend, in fact, O'Donnell shot footage at Glenn Beck's Lincoln Memorial rally for future use in her campaign ads.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/30/christine-odonnell-delewa_n_699509.html

[one_voice]

1. I live in Delaware...

and she scares the shit outta me. I read last week (local paper) that she planned on using Glenn Beck's rally as background for ads she wants to run.

[KingFlorez]

2. I hope she wins the primary

Running Castle is the only way the Republicans get this seat, if O'Donnell wins, it becomes an easier hold for us.

[Beetwasher]

3. Sweet

Love it.

[JBoy]

4. She seems to have quite a track record of unpaid debts, of course never her fault.

Just google any of the following:

"Christine O'Donnell" + "unpaid student debt", or "withheld degree"
"Christine O'Donnell" + "IRS tax debt"
"Christine O'Donnell" + "mortgage debt" or "foreclosure"
"Christine O'Donnell" + "campaign debt"
"Christine O'Donnell" + "using campaign donations to pay half of her rent"

[Winterblues]

5. Who do you think cares about such things as that..., Tea Baggers?

Laws are meaningless to these people. So are morals.. The ONLY thing they care about is their side winning at all costs..

[Ikonoklast]

6. The Teabaggers are in the driver's seat of the Republican party now, and like the lunatics

they are, are careening the entire mess towards a cliff at a hundred miles an hour, laughing maniacially.

The nutjobs are winning their primaries, and nutjobs ALWAYS scare the swing voters, without whom the Republicans cannot win.