As you have probably heard, Christine O’Donnell won the Republican primary in Delaware for the Senate seat. The story for the first few days after her victory was about how establishment Republicans have it out for her (they do).
But now professional leftist loudmouth Bill Maher has tried to undercut and embarrass the candidate by releasing a video of her back in the 90’s talking about some tenuous connection she had with witchcraft in high school. High school.
Now of course, such things are never to be dabbled in, no matter what your age. But Maher is not concerned for her soul; he does not believe she has a soul. Rather, Maher seeks to embarrass her and maybe disqualify her in the eyes of voters—in particular, the Christian voters O’Donnell is counting on in order to win in November.
The issue for Maher is not that O’Donnell crossed paths with witchcraft in high school, but rather that she is now a conservative Christian. O’Donnell has sought to downplay this incident and joke her way out of it. However, it remains to be seen if this will permanently and negatively impact her campaign.
If the joking doesn’t work, there is one other thing she could try. She could tell people she is still a witch. Then what Maher have to say?
Witches reject God in favor of some pagan or atheistic drivel, they prefer the earth over actual people, and legend tells us they kill babies. Maher’s problem with O’Donnell is not that O’Donnell may have once been a witch, his problem is that she is not still one today. Among a certain crowd in Washington, such a witch would fit right in. If she was from San Francisco instead of Delaware, there is no telling how far she could go in politics.
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Actually the dems will not try to disconnect her from the evangelical base that voted for in the primaries, why bother, they arelready have voted for her. They are going to STICK her TO the right-wing fundementalist meme at every opportunity. That is what she is. A dumb fundemenatalist - for example she stated that the earth is 6,000 years old and radiometric dating science is a fraud. That is PLAINLY stupid and untrue.
She also as been on TV continously into the recent years making other stupid statements.
And no she would not work in SF or anyplace with a sizable share of non-religious voters (NE, NY, NJ). She is YOUR candidate. Enjoy the ride.
There are no witches - please PROVE your claims.
dch: Actually, there are plenty of witches—not the ride-a-broomstick kind, but the kind of women who are into “wicca” and do “spells” with candles and salt, and all sorts of silly “spiritual” things that they think are much more enlightened than actual religion. If Bill Maher wants to bring that up, he will find out that hundreds of thousands of girls dabble in this in high school and/or college, thinking it is cool and woman-centered and spiritual.
I do not know anything about the woman and frankly I am sick of invective like that from dch. Either she would make a good politician or she wouldn’t. But I do know that what Maher has pointed out is not likely to be a problem for that kind of Christian voter, who is precisely the sort (unlike Maher) to believe that witchcraft is real and dangerous. They are much more likely to think she was lucky to find God and get away from evil spirits, and thus a good role model, than they are to think she was either stupid—as dch does—or a kid who got carried away with wacky feminist stuff—as Maher probably does.
I agree that Christine O’Donnell’s reputation is being smeared because she is currently a Christian who takes her faith seriously. Never mind about her politics or political experience - it is her belief in absolutes with morality that she is being bashed for.
Whether she would be a good senator is a different question altogether and that is up to the voters of Delaware to decide. Since I do not live in Delaware, it would be inappropriate for me to tell the good people who THEIR senator should be. I need to be concerned about MY state’s senators first.
Witches say that the accusations of killing babies are false and offensive. Although it is an attempt to reconstruct the Celtic/Germanic/Norse paganism of Europe’s past, modern witchcraft foregoes the violence of the original; witches or druids prefer to sacrifice things like fruit. Witches are mistaken, but they are also created in God’s image and deserve our honesty and respect.
quote by dch:
“That is what she is. A dumb fundemenatalist”
Before calling someone dumb, please learn how to spell- fundamentalist.
Personally I’d rather be governed by a dumb fundamentalist than an intelligent Marxist. And that is what the choice is for voters in DE. You decide.
Pat—“. . . legend tells us they kill babies.” Legend tells us that Jews drink the blood of Christian babies. Legend is a liar. Even as a snide allusion to Democratic endorsement of abortion, such a slander is unworthy of you. Please strike it.
Who of us didn’t do stupid things in high school while exploring the crazy world around us? How many use Ouiji boards, get into astrology, delve into the occult, etc? Why are vampire movies so popular today? And, finally, how many of those currently interested in thoese things will still be into them as adults?
People like Bill Maher can always find something on everybody out there, and that’s why redemption and conversion are foreign to them. Fortunately, God “forgets” our pasts when we repent and change.
What’s that old saw: God always forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives. (The latter a reference, I think, to when we suffer physical effects from bad habits/sins we had when we were young.)
dch: Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA, down by 25 six weeks before his election) would not work in SF or anyplace with a sizable share of non-religious voters (NE, NY, NJ) either, right?
Enjoy your own ride.
I was wondering how long it would take for this site to start contriving some defenses for O’Donnell. We are so selective in how we decide to dole out our Christian charity.
Now let me think about this. I have often looked at Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, and Nancy Pelosi and thought: witches! But that would be due to their utter disregard for human life especially the unborn child in the womb. They have no trouble gleefully clapping their hands and abandoning their consciences when it comes to the protection of innocent life in the womb. Therefore, I naturally thought they would be most comfortable in the company of a coven of witches rather than in the company of Christians.
With Christine ODonnell, I do not see the same excitement about the slaughter of innocent children. Would she feel comfortable in the company of Boxer, Feinstein, Pelosi, and Clinton? I doubt it. Does she share their anti-life values? I doubt it. Is she likely to squander public funds to the extent that these aforementioned women politicians have done? I doubt it. Does she value consitutional principles of restraint on big government? Yes. Is she a breath of fresh air? Yes. Has she renounced her high school dabblings with the occult? Yes. It is not her soul I fear is lost. It is the souls of the foolish Clinton, Boxer, Pelosi, Feinstein crowd that seem lost in a haze of cultural bias.
So, if we can forgive the adult Bill Clinton for blatant moral failures, why do so many insist on picking up their stones and casting them at Christine ODonnell? Perhaps precisely because she would drive a stake through the heart of their liberal, progressive plans for destroying our nation? Go Christine, go!!
You know, you don’t have to make excuses for her just because she’s a Republican and happens to say all the things that good Christian conservatives like to hear. The lady obviously has issues (even before the witchcraft stuff came out). Political affiliation alone should not lead you to drink the koolaid.
Jimmy Carter’s ineffective leadership brought conservatives victory’s in unexpected places for several election cycles and I see Obama doing the same thing since he’s worse than Carter, I think she has a good chance of winning and even if she doesn’t , that fellow she beat in the primary is as bad as a liberal demacrat anyway..
I was wondering how long it would take for this site to start contriving some defenses for O’Donnell.
So Bill Maher’s swipe is fair game?
As far as selectiveness. Note the taking issue with the killing babies part.
Scott, you talkin’ to me? The other things said about (most) Wicca, are, alas, true, based on my knowledge. That babies are killed in Wiccan rituals is a lie. That’s why I singled that out… if that’s what you were somewhat obliquely referring to.
Scott, you talkin’ to me?
No. I was agreeing with you. Not agin’ you. :)
Just for the record, Christine O’Donnell is a devout Catholic. I am in Delaware and I vote! Go Christine!
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