I wish our side would STOP promoting Christine O'Donnell eveyday in the media

[bigdarryl]

All there doing is giving her free press and keeping her in the news.I know she's BAT SHIT CRAZY but all the crazy shit she's said over the years isn't going to stop her crazed supporters from voting for her.This is the same way the media started out on Palin if you remember with her nutty speeches and interviews like seeing Russia from Alaska.AND NOW LOOK after two years later the media is taking about her as a serious Presidential candidate I personally think keeping O'Donnell in the news like they are enhances her chances of winning in DE.They don't even mention the candidate on our side it's as if O'Donnell has no opposition thats my take on this.Anyone disagree

[opihimoimoi]

1. Its not as if the Dems are in control of the media....its vice versa

The GOP is going all out to discourage voting...knowing full well their side will comeout in full force...

Their mission is voting suppression by sullying the atmosphere with their neg outlook...playing the fear card,the there is no difference between red and blue card, the everyone does it card....

these dudes are slick in brainwashing the easy to fool crowd.....all 20 million plus of them

Our side seems lacking for now, but I suspect will still prevail come Nov and in 2012

[izquierdista]

2. Psst, it ain't us.

She only has two promoters: right-wing rags who take her seriously, and comedians, who know a joke when they see one.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

33. I disagree. Ed, Rachel, Keith have segments on this girl rather than have Chris Coons on...

I can understand why the rest of the M$M is obsessed with her, but I cannot understand why our side gives her so much credence through their coverage...

[ProSense]

3. Well

"the crazy shit she's said over the years isn't going to stop her crazed supporters from voting for her"

It might peel away the votes of some people who would believe her normal if not for the exposure.

It's called campaigning.

[tblue37]

25. Exactly. I read in several articles comments by voters who

admitted to not knowing anything about her, yet voting for her because they were bitten by the anti-incumbent bug.

They need to know what she is.

[doc03]

4. She is the new Sarah Palin. I think it makes the Democrats look

petty to portray her as crazy because of a few things she said years ago. Didn't we all do some goofy stuff when we were young, I sure did? I don't give a damn if she was against masturbation or was curious about witchcraft years ago. I frankly have no idea what she thinks today because of that stupid petty crap and it really doesn't matter to me since I can't vote for her anyway. In my opinion Sarah Palin was more of a Democratic product then she was from the media.

[ProSense]

5. People said the same thing about Palin

By the time the 2008 election was over, 80 percent of the country rejected her.

"Didn't we all do some goofy stuff when we were young"

How young? A person in their 30s declaring that she wants to stop everyone from having sex?

[doc03]

7. What is her stand on the issues that matter today? I don't give a

damn what she said about masturbation, sex or witchcraft last year or ten years ago. It's those childish attacks on her that make Democrats look petty and cheap. By the time the 2008 election was over 80% of the country rejected Sarah Palin. It looks to me like today Sarah Palin is the most influential figure on the Republican side and I think people are mistaken making a joke out of her.

[ProSense]

16. I don't give a damn about her stance on the issues.

She doesn't deserve to be elevated to a serious candidate.

"It looks to me like today Sarah Palin is the most influential figure on the Republican side "

You think this is good for Republicans?

[doc03]

17. We won't really know until November 3, but I think you

are in for a big surprise.

[doc03]

12. I see that logo the first thing I think of is

a diaginal line through it like a no parking sign. I can't help it that's what I see.

[golfguru]

28. Correction: Sex before marriage only, not all sex

Let us not be guilty by omission or out of context.
Especially you Prosense, because you are smarter than most.

[bigdarryl]

6. Well I disagree because for one the Democrats running for reelection in my opinion

are NOT running a good campaign right now there scared of there own shadows and afraid of what the rethugs are going to say about them.Why should any voter get excited about voting for these cowards except Grayson.I hate to say this but I think they have the potential to fuck up this whole election because there trying to run against EVERYTHING Obama has done the last two years

[doc03]

9. I agree with that instead of running on the issues

it's Democrats that are trying to make a joke out of her. They did the same with Palin and if it did anything it helped her. If she is wrong for the job tell us what she says about the issues, I don't care what she thinks about masturbation.

[ProSense]

14. Seriously,

"If she is wrong for the job tell us what she says about the issues, I don't care what she thinks about masturbation."

Her positions on sex, masturbation and monkeys are relevant to the issues. The woman is a poster child for the Republicans' regressive policies.

[ProSense]

15. Are you kidding?

"now there scared of there own shadows "

You're repeating Rachel Maddow's line? She may not have stated specifically that she was talking about blue dogs, but she was.

The fact is that Democrats are gaining in races where they were written off a couple of months ago. Many are leading when no one gave them a chance.

[Bluenorthwest]

22. We have to be right, because you and I agree

We are gaining, O'Donnell can not be mocked enough, and same goes for Palin, although they are both set on auto-mock, and frame themselves as idiots with little effort from others....
We agree for once!

[caraher]

8. Forget the witchcraft and sex

The only thing Dems should say about her is that she's been illegally living off campaign donations. She's a crook, pure and simple, and even the teabaggers shouldn't want her for a Senator!

[doc03]

10. Has she been convicted of any of those accusations or

even charged yet?

[golfguru]

Your are exactly right and you talk like an adult with sense.

[golfguru]

29. Your are exactly right and you talk like an adult with sense.

[applegrove]

11. At first I thought she would be the gift that just keeps giving but now I am worried that

she and palin will train people to vote for stupid. The right wing pundits and loony candidates just keep sharing the soft brained ones...they reinforce each other in the base's minds and no it isn't funny.

[lynne]

13. Our side? How are democratic politicians promoting Christine O'Donnell?

That's the only side we have. The Democratic party does not control the media.

[Xipe Totec]

18. I think the OP may be refering to us here, DU.

Rather than the media at large.

It is true that we spend quite a lot of time talking about what the other side does here at DU.

There is danger that we can become part of the echo chamber.

That's JMPO.

[doc03]

20. I would hardly even know of O'Donnel if it wasn't for all the free

publicity she has been getting on the left leaning shows on MSNBC, I don't watch Fox at all. Same way with Palin all kinds of jokes and accusations were made about her. I think the Democrats gave her more publicity than Faux.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. Our side is doing no such thing.

And 'cause I like you, here is a pearl of wisdom: the only people who say all publicity is good publicity are people who never had any publicity.
A person or thing simply being on TV does not mean it is being promoted. It just doesn't. Note that O'Donnell herself is running from the national publicity. Another thing dude, is that 'the media' is not some guy in an office. The same people who mocked Palin seeing Russia still mock Palin. Those who pretended she was more than crap still do. I defy you to find me even one media figure who mocked seeing Russia who now calls her a contender. There isn't one.
And, the kicker, I fully disagree that keeping her on TV helps her win. I think it harms her. Our side likes to indulge in the fantasy that 'on TV=instant success' but if that were the case, no product would ever fail, John McCain would be President, Ford would still make Edsels. What folks like to believe is not really true.
She got 30,000 votes. The last winner of that office in that state got over 125,000 votes. This is a spectacle, not an actual election.

[handmade34]

21. O'Donnell is promoted in the media...

Castle runs as a write-in and the vote is split... Dems win

[jesus_of_suburbia]

23. I really don't mind it... I think she is a horrible role model for Republicans.

Sure the 20-30% base loves her, but the rest of the country?


I doubt it.


Let her be the face of the Republican party. It hurts them in my opinion.



Why else would people like Rove and Krauthammer come out against her? They are WORRIED about her hijacking the party and causing massive hemorrhaging in Republican votes.


This can only be beneficial for us.

[DemocraticPilgrim]

24. In a fair world promoting her would end the GOP prospects forever, but... nope.

P

[Orsino]

26. She's trying to hide. I say shine a light on her. n/t

[DrToast]

27. What a load of crap. Palin is one of the least popular politicans in the country

Bringing attention to her craziness is what made it that way.

[Stinky The Clown]

30. If you can name a few Our Siders, I promise to go cuss them out in harsh terms.

They'll have to BLEEP me and all.

[themaguffin]

31. It's not her supporters that matter, it's the indy's. The crazies make it clear that the GOP is

batshit crazy.

Hell, just look at the DE polling with her in the race. Bring on Palin '12 (though she is too lazy to run a real campaign and the money is too good for her to actually do it)

[Paladin]

32. Yeah---Because That Shutting The Fuck Up About The Loony Right....

...stratagem has worked out so bloody well for us, hasn't it?


(Sarcasm alert, for the clueless who need one.....)

[Mz Pip]

35. The nonsense views

that come out about her need to be exposed. THere is no good reason to just ignore her and hope she loses of her own accord.

If that Macaca tape hadn't been played over and over again we'd be looking at George Allen in the Senate, probably planning his presidential run.

O'Donnell is a not very bright fundamentalist crackpot and the voters of DE need to be aware of what she stands for.

[Paladin]

36. Exactly So.

She's an embarrassing nut case, and yet, last I heard, 4 out 10 voters in Delaware---that's DELAWARE, for Christ's sake---are ready to vote for her. And we should just shut up about it? Not this Democrat.....

[Aramchek]

34. if O'Donnell and her ilk are the face of the GOP, then they will get fewer votes. simple as that.