Christine O'Donnell

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'''Christine Therese "Not a Witch" O'Donnell''' {{lived|1969}} was the [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate for the 2010 Senate election in [[Delaware]]. She scored an upset [[Primary election|primary victory]] over moderate Rep. Mike Castle, blowing an excellent Republican opportunity for a pickup and ultimately losing to Democrat Chris Coons by a wide margin.<ref>NYT:[http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/delaware Delaware results]</ref> She is not a witch.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160921112506/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christine-odonnell-angers-wiccan-community-with-witchcraft-comments/ Condon, Stephanie. "Christine O'Donnell Angers Wiccan Community with 'Witchcraft' Comments." CBS News. September 20, 2010. Accessed July 13, 2019.]</ref>

==Craziness==
O'Donnell was one of the [[Tea Party]]-endorsed wingnuts contesting the 2010 elections. She's a [[Young Earth Creationist]] and would like this to be taught in schools along with evolution.<ref>New York Magazine: [http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/09/the_gops_delaware_senate_nomin.html GOP’s Delaware Senate Nominee Christine O'Donnell Not a Big Fan of Evolution]</ref> In 2007, she claimed that evil scientists were crossbreeding humans and mice and had even created mice with "fully functioning human brains".<ref>TPM: [http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/odonnell-in-2007-scientists-have-created-mice-with-human-brains.php O'Donnell In 2007: Scientists Have Created Mice With Human Brains!]</ref> Unfortunately, O'Donnell never got around to making an appointment with them.

Facing strong opposition from the Republican establishment during her campaign, she exhibited symptoms of outright [[paranoia]], claiming that she was being "followed" and had her team regularly check the vicinity of her house for threats.<ref>Washington Examiner: [http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Mark-Hemingway-Delaware-still-looking-for-a-credible-Tea-Party-Senate-contender-102284344.html Delaware still looking for a credible Tea Party Senate contender]</ref> She also implied that her 2008 campaign office was vandalized by supporters of Castle &mdash; not Joe Biden, whom she was running against at the time &mdash; something which she didn't report back when it allegedly happened. 

According to her, [[Christianity]] is the correct religion because it allows the consumption of meatballs<ref>TPM: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_517bU9To_g&feature=player_embedded Christine O'Donnell Explains Her Conversion]</ref> though rationally she should have preferred the [[Flying Spaghetti Monster#Prayer|FSM]].

===The truth as she sees it===
She was caught lying on several occasions, among them her claim that she had won two out of three Delaware counties in her 2008 35-to-64% drubbing at the hands of [[Joe Biden]], and a claim made in a lawsuit against a former employer that she had enrolled for a Master's degree at Princeton, when she never even finished her Bachelor's degree.<ref>The [http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/citing-mental-anguish-christine-odonnell-sought-69-million-gender-discrimination-lawsuit-again?page=3 Weekly Standard] on O'Donnell's candidacy</ref> This despite her belief that lying is always wrong; when on ''Politically Incorrect'' she was asked by Eddie Izzard if she'd even lie to the Nazis about hiding Jews, she claimed that [[God]] always provides a way out and you never have to practice deception.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/15/flashback-gop-senate-cand_n_717936.html The Huffington Post: Christine O'Donnell On 'Politically Incorrect']</ref>

===O'Donnell on sexuality===
She's opposed to [[masturbation]], arguing that it's "lusting in your heart" (not in your hand, apparently) and thus on the same level as adultery.<ref>Newser: [http://www.newser.com/story/99652/tea-party-senate-candidate-opposes-masturbation.html Tea Party Senate Candidate Opposes Masturbation]</ref>

She is also the founder of "The SALT" (The Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth), a now-defunct advocacy group aimed at American youth.  The SALT railed against [[abortion]], [[sex education]] and [[homosexuality]].  According to Wade Richards, The SALT's only other known employee, O'Donnell ran the program out of her [[California]] apartment.<ref>Daily Beast:  [http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-16/christine-odonnells-gay-former-aide-speaks-out/full/ My Ex-Gay Life With the Tea Party Queen]</ref> At the time, Richards was a 20-year-old [[gay]] man who was trying mightily to suppress his sexuality.  He even tried to be [[ex-gay]], but couldn't keep up the charade. One of the people who helped him accept himself as he is was Christine's openly [[lesbian]] sister, so it seems ''something'' good came out of the group's activities.

O'Donnell is still as anti-gay as ever. Maybe more so. During her 2010 primary campaign, her supporters hinted that her opponent &mdash; a current nine-term congressman and former two-term governor of Delaware &mdash; was having a gay affair.<ref>Politico.com: [http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0910/ODonnell_backer_makes_sex_charge_in_Delaware_race.html O'Donnell backer makes sex charge in Delaware race]</ref>

Of course, who are we to judge a [[passing|41-year-old gay-basher with gay siblings]]?

===Witch===
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'''Christine O'Donnell''': I'm not a [[Witchcraft|witch]]!<ref>Ashley Parker, [https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/odonnell-ad-confronts-reports-on-her-past/ O’Donnell Ad Confronts Reports on Her Past.] ''[[The New York Times]],'' 4 October 2010.</ref>

'''Bedivere''': But you are dressed as one.

'''Christine''': ''They'' dressed me up like this.

'''Crowd''': No, we didn't… no.

'''Christine''': And this isn't my nose, it's a false one.

'''Bedivere''': Well?

'''Villager #1''': Well, we did do the nose.

'''Bedivere''': The nose?

'''Villager #1''': And the hat &mdash; but she is a witch!

'''Crowd''': Burn her! Witch! Witch! Burn her!|||With apologies to [[Fun:Monty_Python|''Monty Python's Flying Circus'']]<ref>[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/mphg/mphg.htm Monty Python and the Holy Grail], sacred-texts.com.</ref>}}

Yes, in 21st Century America, she had to state firmly that she wasn't a witch in an advertising campaign.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxJyPsmEask I'm not a witch!]</ref> The rumors that she was a witch (yes, an actual witch) began after a video of her saying she "dabbled" in witchcraft on [[Bill Maher]]'s ''Politically Incorrect'' in 1999 was rebroadcast on Maher's ''Real Time with Bill Maher''. It went a bit viral around the internet and sparked rumors that she was actually a witch.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nECxQUi_pr0 Christine O'Donnell: "I Dabbled Into Witchcraft"]</ref> Of course, Maher's rebroadcast was a little bit of a [[quote mine]] as O'Donnell at the time was saying how she got ''out'' of "dabbling" in witchcraft. So she's just an ''ex''-witch, which is different. Of course, since she proved not to know a thing about the practices of real witches, she was probably lying about that too (or, perhaps, had an idiosyncratic idea of what witchcraft is). Either way, trying to end the rumors with a campaign ad that starts out "I'm not a witch" [[Streisand effect|did not help her chances]].

==Republicans on O'Donnell==

Her insurgent candidacy and bleak chances in the general election didn't make her very popular within her own party. While she did score a late primary endorsement from fellow 
mama grizzly
 wingnut [[Sarah Palin]], the establishment was united in opposition against her. Her own party's state chairman judged that she "couldn't be elected dog catcher"<ref>Yahoo News: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100912/ap_on_el_se/us_delaware_senate GOP tries to take out tea party-backed candidate]</ref>, and [[Karl Rove]] accused her of saying "nutty things", [[Stopped clock|being on the side of truth for once]].<ref>Politico: [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42205.html Karl Rove: Christine O'Donnell 'nutty']</ref>

==Where is she now?==

In 2011, she wrote a crappy book about her Senate campaigns where she whines about the experience.<ref>Christine O'Donnell. ''Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again,'' St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-64305-5.</ref>

Since her political campaign, she has written opinion pieces for the [[Washington Times]]. Although still listed as a staff member, she hasn't authored any stories since February 2015.<ref>[https://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/christine-odonnell/ Christine O’Donnell]. Washington Times. Retrieved on 21 January 2018.</ref>

A 2020 snapshot of O'Donnell's "ChristinePAC" political action committee shows that between 2019 and 2020, the PAC raised no money, spent US$336, and reported over US$32 thousand in debts.<ref>[https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/C00492215/summary/2020 Christinepac PAC Profile, 2019-2020]. opensecrets.org.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Michele Bachmann]]

==External links==
*O'Donnell [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/19/christine-odonnell-church-and-state_n_767910.html fails] [[United States Constitution|Constitution]] ''forever''
*''I'm not a witch... I'm you. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqQJB8DR_Zo Except with bigger tits.]''

==References==
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