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The Spectacle Blog
This post is going under the fold, because it will be of interest only to people angered by the latest hit piece on Christine O’Donnell.
A hugely influential gossip blog posted a detailed and humiliating (but not actually especially damning) personal account of a Philadelphia man’s sexual encounter with Christine O’Donnell a few years ago, complete with pictures of O’Donnell allegedly drinking with the man in a bar. Although the piece is unverified and petty, it has already generated a ton of traffic for the site and will probably gain at least several hundred thousand views.
The particular blog, Gawker, has always made it clear that there is nothing they won’t publish, so it’s hard to get mad at them for publishing this guy’s shameful and slimy betrayal of O’Donnell. And it wouldn’t even be so bad if the story centered on any one of the thousands of celebrities for whom sleazy, intrusive journalism is the name of the game, who trade on notoriety, and whose lifestyles naturally captivate people with regular lives and jobs.
Instead, what bothers me is the huge audience of political watchers and voters who will likely reward Gawker by reading the post with glee and passing it along. We are a few days away from an enormously consequential election. Christine O’Donnell is one doomed candidate among thousands of other candidates, and a fringe participant in an event that will shape peoples’ lives in real ways. The amount of educated, politically knowledgeable people who find titillation in the eccentricities of harmless candidate who happens to have an unusual background and a lack of political polish is a sad commentary on the nearly absolute debasement of American discourse.
O’Donnell is a crazy and incendiary character. But she’s irrelevant. Question: how many of the people who read that post and revel in her humiliation have heard of Rick Snyder? He’s poised to take Democrat Jennifer Granholm’s seat as governor of Michigan. He is a successful businessman and CEO of a venture capital firm he founded, and earned a JD/MBA from the University of Michigan at the age of 23. If the gratuitous shaming of Christine O’Donnell delights you and yet you don’t know about Rick Snyder’s campaign, think hard about why that might be. Most likely, it’s because you’re a clown.
Lastly, the Gawker item doesn’t reveal the name of the guy who claims to have hooked up with O’Donnell, and it crops him from the photos of her. If this guy thinks that he can preserve his anonymity after selling his story to a popular blog, complete with tons of identifying and corroborating details, he’s got a rude surprise in wait. I’m guessing it’s only a matter of hours until he is identified, and a rival blog puts up a post about him. The damage to his personal reputation will exceed whatever payment Gawker gave him, and rightfully so.
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Nick Hudson| 10.28.10 @ 3:56PM
So the lady was in a bar with a man...so what? Happens all the time. Has she no right to a social life? What kind of stupid nonsense is this?
DRed| 10.28.10 @ 4:10PM
It's very stupid nonsense. Gawker is making people like me look bad.
Willey| 10.28.10 @ 5:05PM
You mean it makes you look "worse" right?
SeattleBruce| 10.28.10 @ 5:26PM
"You mean it makes you look "worse" right?"
Worse than what? All we know is that some anonymous huckster sold some salacious story to a gossip website.
That is - we know NOTHING. So worse than what? It's the idiot RATs and the slanderous socialist propagandists that will lap this up. And CO continues to absorb the blows, the Sound and Fury signifying nothing.
So if Coons wins, he was supposed to win.
RINO Castle is exposed and gone. Victory.
On to greater victory in 5 days.
Willey| 10.28.10 @ 6:06PM
I was referring to the libtard troll, DRed. Get a clue.
Yosemeti Sam| 10.29.10 @ 5:17AM
" ... RINO Castle is exposed and gone. Victory...."
Indeed!
Indeed!
Did I mention - INDEED!
Thanks loads though - Turd Rove for stomping on Ms. O'Donnell early on. Clearly you preferred a self-proclaimed bearded Marxist to slide into Bidens' oily senate seat; never you mind his casting specious political spells.
Turd Rove - right up there with dunce Steele.
Siegfried X| 10.28.10 @ 3:59PM
The masks are off. Now people can see what hypocrites the Democrats are, and how vicious and fanatical they are.
thesushi | 10.28.10 @ 4:11PM
Speaking of irrelevance...What does Rick Snyder have to do with Christine O'Donnell? Elevating her complete ineptness to a very decent candidate?
Are you serious? Are their qualifications the same? Did Rick do something wrong to get tied to the sideshow of political candidates?
To have Rick Snyder, a candidate who transformed Michigan's political balance for 2010 compared AT ALL with O'Donnell...
That's clown shoes right there.
Interested Conservative| 10.28.10 @ 5:25PM
An uncommon pairing - you both miss and make the point of Mr. Lawler's comments.
SeattleBruce| 10.28.10 @ 5:29PM
"compared AT ALL with O'Donnell..."
Did you ever study or write compare and contrast? *Contrast* was the point!
thesushi | 10.28.10 @ 5:41PM
oh fail. my bad. bandwagoning off Snyder is the real contrast, because AmSpec's candidate is sinking.
SeattleBruce| 10.28.10 @ 6:01PM
"how many of the people who read that post and revel in her humiliation have heard of Rick Snyder?"
This is what was posted. AmSpec supported CO knowing what they knew, which is really all of us can do, and I'm sure you're perfect in your perceptions just as you expect them to be - right?
It's up to the people in any state to vet their candidates. We need to take that job seriously, and to the degree that CO is flawed, we need to get that much better at the vetting process.
To the degree CO is flawed is the starting point for the entire flawed socialist party - btw - so let's bear that in mind.
Willey| 10.28.10 @ 6:08PM
I'd take CO over that damned Marxist Coons any day of the week.
The American Left is evil--just ask Sarah Palin
Okey-dokey| 10.28.10 @ 4:12PM
Who cares. Christine is yet one more embarrassment to our country. The Republicans can be proud that they have made the US look ridiculous not only to the rest of the world, but even to our own citizens.
That she may or may not have had an encounter with some man a few years ago is the least of it.
Lesser Weevil| 10.28.10 @ 5:27PM
How so, Okey? If I were making a list of people who make the US look ridiculous, I think that I'd easily put down several thousand names, starting with our current President, before I came to Christine O'Donnell. In fact, your smug content-free sneering puts *you* way above her on my list.
Warrior | 10.28.10 @ 5:38PM
You nailed it moron. After all, it's nothing like the President of the United States obstructing investigations, committing perjury, and stating on the record that he did not have sex with that woman.
SeattleBruce| 10.28.10 @ 6:03PM
"they have made the US look ridiculous not only to the rest of the world, but even to our own citizens."
Oh, that's rich. Back to reality now...who's in charge of the entire executive and legislative branches of the US gubmint? Who's that?
Oh yes, the socialist democRATS....that's who...
Willey| 10.28.10 @ 6:10PM
Embarrassing? How about the unqualified clown in the White House. Now, that's embarrassing!
John Schuh| 10.28.10 @ 6:28PM
O'Donnell's faults are nothing compared with those of Ted Kennedy who was lionized by the "Ruling Class," and protected like a Charlie Sheen because he was, after all, one of THEM.
AdamL| 10.28.10 @ 4:13PM
Are you a clown if you think that Rick Snyder is going to "unseat" a governor who isn't running because of term limits?
thesushi | 10.28.10 @ 4:30PM
I gave him that, cause Virg ain't even Granholm....
nickj| 10.28.10 @ 4:26PM
It is indeed irrelevant if a man and woman hook up in a bar... even if either of them is a Senator.
In this case, however, you have someone campaigning and building a base largely on her superior moral, conservative character -- certainly not the content of her ideas or experience. Therefore, this tale becomes more than titillation... it exposes a core hypocrisy. Which is expected, of course, but not unwelcome.
Personally, I would like to see a socially liberal, fiscally conservative candidate win something with an agenda of logic and truth. Alas, that seems in short supply in both parties.
Mdepie| 10.28.10 @ 7:34PM
I think this comment misses the point. O'Donnell is not calling herself morally superior to anyone at any point in what is passing for a campaign. She basically ran a campaign based on an argument that Chris Coons will support Obama's liberalism. She is not getting beat because she is socially conservative . She is getting beat because she has no relevant experience beyond being a perennial candidate, this makes her look a bit loony. Other candidates like Carly Fiorina are openly pro-life and although California is a very blue state, she is close to Boxer, so socially conservative is not the problem. Being socially conservative does not mean you think you are "morally superior" in ones personal behavior, it means you favor and advocate some policy choices over others because you think they are better, perhaps more just. So in terms of abortion, A prolife candidate might not consider themselves morally superior in terms of personal behavior, but think that allowing unborn children to be killed at any stage of pregnancy for any reason is bad social policy ( it is unjust to those killed, and diminishes the value of human life in general. etc. You do not have to agree with that argument to understand that someone making it is not making a particular statement about their own moral state. In particular one can still be pro- life, and favor policies that promote marriage, or chastity in teenagers, but still not make any particular claims that you have lived the life of a monk. In fact someone who has lived a "wild" life might end up being more socially conservative if their experience suggests that promoting these kind of choices via socially liberal public policy ultimately does damage to people and society,. Witness Star Parker candidate for a house seat in Orange county California.
Jeremiah| 10.29.10 @ 4:44AM
Better check your facts--O'Donnell's internals are looking very favorable. Why else would scumbag liberals spew these vicious lies about her?
Randall T. Bhagger| 10.28.10 @ 4:34PM
You are lambasting a well known trashy website for the end of productive discourse in America, yet on this very website, an article basically states the rand paul protester who got head stomped had it coming???
Also, you forgot to mention the most important aspect of the Gawker peice - O'Donnell has a huge bush.
Odumbo| 10.28.10 @ 5:09PM
The Rand Paul stalker you mean, libturd.
Valle deserved more than she got.
Frosty| 10.28.10 @ 6:15PM
You probably have a tiny dick, Bhagger.
randall t. bhagger| 10.28.10 @ 7:57PM
I find it kind of creepy that the genetalia of random men on the internet are on your mind.
something tells me you have a little larry "toe tapper" craig in you and you want to be hate-fooked by a poorly endowed "libturd".
Frosty| 10.29.10 @ 2:08AM
Oooh. The flaccid, tiny weiner fat boy is thin-skinned, too. Truth hurts, huh? LMAO!!
Who tea-bagged you today, limp-wristed, sad sack bhagger?
Ian| 10.28.10 @ 4:46PM
Listen:
I agree that the gawker story is rather pointless. I read it becuase the link was sent to me by a liberal friend. I think the article is stupid, but I also disagree with this article. I am a political novice, but I keep up with nation politics a bit. I don't know who Rick Snyder is becuase I don't live in Michigan. Pretty simple. I know who Christine O'donnell is becuase she is a bonafide lunitic who actually won the senate primary of one of the two major political parties. This person could actually be invloved in making federal laws if she wins. If anything is news worthy it is Christine O'Donnells candidacy.
DRed| 10.28.10 @ 5:05PM
Even more to the point, people who read American Spectator know who Christine O'Donnell is because this web site ran article after article promoting her candidacy. Rick Snyder? Not so much.
thesushi | 10.28.10 @ 5:27PM
Holy Win.
SeattleBruce| 10.28.10 @ 5:45PM
"bonafide lunitic"
Really? Check the dictionary, or run through spell check!
Is she a lunatic because she has sexual idealism, or because you disagree with her? Just curious. Thanks in advance.
Warrior | 10.28.10 @ 5:52PM
Another genius in our midst. All your liberal friends should be making these laws like Richard Blumenthal telling huge lies about his military service, Charlie Rangel cheating on his taxes for all these years and being in charge of writing tax law, Maxine Waters funneling TARP money to save her husbands investment in a bank, Barney Frank having his gay boyfriend run a prostitution ring out of his house, Barack Obama taking contribtuion money from Norman Hsu, the friends of Angelo, Alcee Hastings the impeached judge, etc. I guess O'Donnell should be the one who has her judgement questioned.
J4140| 10.28.10 @ 4:48PM
Just following in Ted Kennedy & Chris Dodd's footsteps, I guess.
Odumbo| 10.28.10 @ 5:10PM
She didn't kill somebody like slimeball Teddy, libtard.
Sir Bedevere| 10.28.10 @ 5:05PM
But she turned him into a newt!
patsy| 10.28.10 @ 6:49PM
...it got better though.
Randy| 10.28.10 @ 5:11PM
Oh I hope she wins so I can watch the literal head explosions..... it would be the sweetest thing to happen on election night to have to see one of the big three say "We are calling Delaware for Chri.... errrr Christine O'Donnell????" and then their head would explode on national TV, come on now tell me it wouldn't be just a little bit of a guilty pleasure..... come on... admit it...
matthew s harrison| 10.28.10 @ 5:12PM
Okay-let me get this straight......
Libtards have come here to call O'Donnell an embarrassment?
Bill Clinton-impeached for lying to congress-"I did not have sexual relations........"depends on what your definition of "is" is"...
Barney Frank-male prostitution ring busted in his house? Pot growing in his house?
Ted Kennedy-Former aide said he had to brush the cocaine particles from his nose before most, if not all sessions-a man who MURDERED a young woman who was carrying his love child-who regularly went out with CHRIS DODD to bed every whore in DC?
Hillary Clinton-lied about taking sniper fire
Alexi Giannulious-Gave 20 Million Dollars in loans to known MAFIA MEMBERS
Nancy Pelosi-You will have to pass the bill to see what is in it.
Melissa Bean-had conservatives roughed up at her town hall meetings
Alan Grayson-There isn't enough room here to cover every thing that bat-shit crazy dude has done.
Jack Murtha-convicted a bunch of INNOCENT MARINES in public, before their trial that CLEARED THEIR NAMES-and WAS UNDER FEDERAL INVESTIGATION FOR TAKING BRIBES WHEN HE DIED.
Robert Byrd-KKK MEMBER
Harry Reid-"I saved the whole world economy"
John Edwards-Had a love child with a really, really ugly chick while his wife was dieing of cancer.
Is it necessary to say more? Al Gore-"I invented the internet"....I am a global warmis liar toolbag"
Seriously-the woman was not a congress person/senator at the time, unlike Chris Dodd who has had dalliances with more prostitutes than Charlie Sheen!
Seriously all you democrats are too funny! Thanks for the best laugh I have had all day. You should all be so lucky to be with a woman as attractive and driven as Ms. O'Donnell-and I don't blame you for being jealous.....why with democrat women being as horrid as Maddow, Clinton, Pelosi, Boxer, Waters, Reno, Behar, Winfrey, it is no wonder you aren't jealous of Bachman, O'Donnell, Palin, and all of the other beautiful, professional, and intelligent members of the conservative ranks.
When you stop having pains in between your legs, and want to have adult discussions, come on back. Until then-attacking someone just because you are terrified of them is juvenile and well, Democrat-esque. GROW UP.
Randall T. Bhagger| 10.28.10 @ 5:24PM
Wait, you're telling libtards to grow up? Are you gonna give them a wedgie too if they don't give back your little interwebs blog?
Let's be fair, there's a really long history of politicians of ALL parties acting the fool, and being corrupt.
Frosty| 10.28.10 @ 6:11PM
Yeah, but you garbage on the Left are evil, slimeball.
matthew s harrison| 10.29.10 @ 10:09AM
RTBhagger-
Your moniker alone just shows the depth of the juvenile ends your ilk will stoop to, to make your point(albeit an incoherent point most of the time).
While I have no idea what you are talking about "my little interwebs blog", I will just say that your demeanor, just by way of your name is coarse, rude, and detrimental to any opportunity for adult discussion and discourse with any civility.
As for the being fair part-while our guys can be scumbags too-your party has the patent on filth.
My list above is far from comprehensive-but is indicative of most of the dems who have held office for decades.
Lastly-about that name......for a guy from a party who claims to be the party of inclusion, the party of compassion, and the party of tolerance, you sure are a homophobe to be using that same old tea bag term. That makes you a joke, if you don't understand what I am saying.
I always wondered, how do all of the gays on your side feel about guys like you and maher, using their sexual orientation to attack your opponents?
Just wondering.
Patriot| 10.29.10 @ 1:44PM
The soulless Left has no decency; they are scum of the earth. That's what happens when you don't believe in God.
Seek| 11.1.10 @ 1:23PM
Plenty of people on the Right don't believe in God as well. Many are known as libertarians. In any case, "scum" pretty much describes those who invoke God to justify crime.
Randy| 10.28.10 @ 5:19PM
And as an aside, Mr. Lawler, my mom always taught me, if you can't say something nice about someone you should keep your mouth shut..... maybe you should have kept this article in the "I'm gonna shut up now" file....
MeredithHC| 10.28.10 @ 5:21PM
If this article and the majority of these comments are typical of the American Spectator and its readership, may it soon sell for a dollar. Christine O'Donnell is a once-immature (as we all tend to be for a period in our lives) human being who is now a well-informed, clear-thinking, stunningly well-spoken, deeply Christian and deeply conservative woman enduring--with astonishing grace--the brutal, demeaning, shameful, shameless media woodchipper reserved for beautiful, smart, charismatic, conservative women.
When such treatment comes from pond scum like Bill Maher I can shrug it off; when I read it on a "conservative" blog I almost hope the Dems retain control of Congress. Your world and welcome to it.
Matthew| 10.28.10 @ 5:29PM
It's a disgusting piece and irrelevant but...look, we've brought this on ourselves. When the right decided to elevate the Delaware Senate race to "THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEST ON THE PLANET WHICH WILL FORTHWITH SERVE AS A DEMARCATION BETWEEN THE TRUE CONSERVATIVES AND THE FECKLESS ESTABLISHMENT" they guaranteed that the race would get an obscene amount of attention. We haven't heard of Rick Snyder (although I have), and the country isn't poised to judge the attractiveness of the conservative resurgence by the Rick Snyder, because we haven't promoted him. We've been too busy attacking anyone and everyone that dared to express a less than flattering opinion of Christine O'Donnell.
thesushi | 10.28.10 @ 5:34PM
It's a great sign that comments are more insightful than the post.
SeattleBruce| 10.28.10 @ 5:55PM
'"THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTEST ON THE PLANET WHICH WILL FORTHWITH SERVE AS A DEMARCATION BETWEEN THE TRUE CONSERVATIVES AND THE FECKLESS ESTABLISHMENT"'
I never heard the CO race described like this exclusive to all the hundreds of other races around the country where people are fighting tooth and nail to push back socialism. But perhaps you have the inside scoop?
Snyder, Rubio, Toomey, Paul, Buck, Miller, etc. etc. etc. etc. will have the last laugh. CO has played her part perhaps. Best wishes to Conservatives in DE.
All Hail The Stupid Party!| 10.28.10 @ 5:40PM
Meredith, don't let the ruling class Stupid Party trash get you down. They don't care who they slander to elect the "most electable" candidate (re: RINOs like Mike Castle) & are only interested in a numerical majority, not a majority that will actually do something other than compromise with Obama & the Democrats. The same people slamming Christine O'Donnell are the same idiots who tear their hair out after the RINOs they helped elect sell out the country & vote for more & more left wing b.s. legislation from Democrats. They may post their garbage on a conservative blog, but they are anything but conservative themselves. Take care Meredith & GOD bless!
jayne| 10.28.10 @ 6:05PM
Character assassination? That would mean she had character would begin with.
And what's Rick Snyder got to do with it?
jayne| 10.28.10 @ 6:06PM
That was supposed to say "That would mean she had character TO begin with".
Frosty| 10.28.10 @ 6:14PM
Playne Jayne, you're stupid and you're nasty--what a lovely combination.
Steven Yoder| 10.28.10 @ 6:18PM
I'm not sure why O'Donnell was called crazy. She seems like a common sense conservative to me. She was right in her debate with Coons, no matter what the crowd reaction. It says more about their lack of education than it says about her.
John Schuh| 10.28.10 @ 6:32PM
There are rules, and unfortunately those who rule our society get to make them. How do we know what they are? They will tell you went you cross the line they have drawn in their head.
Bo| 10.28.10 @ 6:37PM
I agree with Mr. Lawler. It is too bad that Christine O'Donnell is blotting out the sun from shining on good candidates like Mr. Snyder. That's probably why some people supported her opponent in the GOP Primary.
Tyler| 10.28.10 @ 7:36PM
I still haven't given up on this race. Even in blue Delaware I don't want to believe that the majority would rather support a Marxist than someone they think is eccentric. I really do not know what it will take for some people to realize what the stakes are- especially some so called "conservatives" who are too worried about being associated with a "nut-case." If it wasn't Christine O'Donnell they would've just been piling on candidates like Sharron Angle and Joe Miller. When your goal is the absolute destruction of the country your worst enemy is the people trying to save it. At least the bad guys know what team they are on.
Christopher Scott| 10.28.10 @ 7:53PM
First, I think Christine O'Donnell is beautiful and smart. Any man who manages to sleep with her is very lucky. This guy described in the Gawker story is either a liar or an extraordinarily vicious guy who is probably bitter that she dumped him.
Second, I think Christine O'Donnell has been treated shamefully by both the institutional parts of the GOP and the establishment media. She is not a buffoon, and I am very unhappy to read an article on this website that describes her as a "crazy and incendiary character."
Third, I wonder how many people who routinely condemn Christine O'Donnell can withstand a similar level of scrutiny and derision.
Fourth, everything I hear from Christine O'Donnell's campaign addresses public policy issues facing our country. I have yet to hear anything other than personal insults directed toward her from her detractors.
Fifth, Christine O'Donnell has already done our nation a great service by defeating Mike Castle in the GOP primary this year. It is important to realize that Mike Castle (and his enablers like Karl Rove) is precisely the type of Republican politician who has so damaged the country and the GOP. If the country wants liberal policies, the electorate should elect Democrats. Every sitting Republican senator now knows that he or she could face a serious primary challenge if he goes too liberal. This sort of party discipline is long overdue within the GOP.
CalMark| 10.28.10 @ 10:36PM
Re: Christopher Scott's5 points (see above)
BRAVO! BRAVO! BRAVO!
Beautifully said!
MeredithHC| 10.29.10 @ 1:12AM
Right on every point. I am esp. struck by your #4: "Everything I hear from Christine O'Donnell's campaign addresses public policy issues facing our country. I have yet to hear anything other than personal insults directed toward her from her detractors."
Precisely. Including Mr. Lawler's hit piece here.
Yosemeti Sam| 10.29.10 @ 5:26AM
Here! here!
Tim*| 10.28.10 @ 9:16PM
We Tea Party Rebels Play Four Quarters.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong woman stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the woman who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends herself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if she fails, at least she fails while daring greatly, so that her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
We Tea Party Rebels Support & Honor Christine O'Donnell Valiant Effort.
Rise Up In Rebellion!
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
CalMark| 10.28.10 @ 10:34PM
Nice job, Mr. Lawler, violating Reagan's 11th Commandment.
I stopped reading this post when it called Christine O'Donnell "crazy." Christine O'Donnell is "doomed," eh? Well, The One and VP Gaffemeister have been spending an awful lot of time in Delaware shilling for a foregone conclusion.
As for Gawker, nothing surprises me. Gawker is vicious, rabid, often-unbalanced left-wing sleaze. In the same consortium is Deadspin, a profane but sometimes funny, sports-y site (formerly a guilty pleasure of mine). Yesterday, a Deadspin headline linked to Gawker, where I happened to see a headline for another piece, one attacking Sharon Angle.
I didn't read the story because the headline, throbbing as it was with hate and, it seemed, a bit of madness, said everything. The intensity and viciousness made me wonder whether there isn't something psychiatrically (no need to wonder about morally) wrong with the folks at Gawker.
At that point, I immediately zapped Deadspin from my "Bookmarks." Even websites are judged by the company they keep.
WL| 10.29.10 @ 1:57AM
Lawler, I like your characterization of her as a "harmless" candidate...because it's true...she would not "harm" any of us...or her state...she is just a lady who wants to run for an office...however, I don't think you still get the point of her candidacy...and why the Voters of Delaware selected her....We can't take any more Christ's, MURCUEKOWSLSJHS (lisa), Castle's, Mccains....etc etc....WHAT PART OF "THEY HAVE NEARLY DESTROYED OUR PARTY"; DON"T YOU GET???????????????? I DON"T CARE IF KERMIT THE FROG RAN AGAINST THESE LYING SORRY LOW-DOWN DEMOCRAT WANNABEES....FOR ONCE...I WOULD GO GREEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And for you liberals...JUST KEEP IT UP...keep it all up...keep doing what you people are doing...there is a day or reckoning coming in this country...and the most effective, productive, driven, convicted, and powerful assembly of people EVER TO OCCUPY THIS PLANET...THE CONSERVATIVE POPULATION...HAS JUST ABOUT HAD IT WITH YOU.
Roger K| 10.29.10 @ 4:00AM
Some of you people (and only some) seriously make me ashamed to be a conservative.
O'Donnell might be a lovely person for all I know, but the moment she started telling everyone she was a constitutional expert based on her 'Graduate fellowship in constitutional politics' (which turned out to be a one-week course), and then did not know what the first, 12th or 15th amendments were, she lost all credibility. Not to mention he laughable 'If evolution is real, then why are there monkeys' idiocy.
I dont care about her dabbling in witchcraft as a kid, I care about actually electing someone qualified and intelligent to a position of power. Reagan would have laughed his ass off at her, and so should any sane conservative.
But the problem is not with O'Donnel. She is a harmless lunatic, probably good intentioned, but completely out of her depth. The media does not harp on her because of her self-destructive stupidity, they harp on her because she is the kind of candidate the tea party seems to want in power, and got elected as a Republican candidate in Delaware. They dont harp on her because she is an embarassment to herself, they harp on her because she is an embarassment to the Tea party.
Jeremiah| 10.29.10 @ 4:39AM
Roger, get off your RINO high-horse. The only one who should be embarrassed is you for shooting off your ignorant mouth.
The LameStream Media harp on O'Donnell because she's socially conservative, moron.
Roger K| 10.29.10 @ 5:27AM
No you whining child, they attack O'Donnel for the very reasons I mentioned, for her ignorance of the subject she claims to be an expert in, for not even knowing our own constitution, for being a perrenial candidate for anything without having really ever done anything, for being completely and utterly unqualified for the position, for claiming there is no such thing as evolution in the same breath as revealing she doesnt understand the first thing about evolution. Isn't that enough?
And by the way kid, just because I dont agree with your shrieking illogical rantings does not make me any less Republican or conservative. I have spent more time and donated more money to the GOP than I suspect you have ever seen. So keep your infantile insults to yourself and the other inmates in your little asylum.
Jeremiah| 10.29.10 @ 2:05PM
Troll.
Only a worthless troll would defend the LameStream Media. The Left hates her because she's pro-life and socially Conservative.
Nice try,moron.
Seek| 11.1.10 @ 1:25PM
O'Donnell simply isn't qualified to serve as a U.S. Senator. To make that point is not to smear her, but to note an obvious fact. Standards do matter.
Yosemeti Sam| 10.29.10 @ 5:36AM
Ms. Christine O'Donnell as:
" ... harmless lunatic ...."
How - ad hominem of you!
Speak to the self-proclaimed bearded Marxist who the PEN1 deigned soul-mate is championing to slide into Bidens' oily senate seat.
At least Ms. O'Donnell would degrease that senate seat.
Roger K| 10.29.10 @ 6:04AM
No actually, it would be an ad hominum attack if I were trying to invalidate one of her arguments by attacking her character. In fact I have simply pointed out her intellectual weaknesses by using her own words and claims against her.
And I wanted to see Castle back in power, a nine-term senator with a trong track record of conservativism and getting things done, even though I dont agree with all of his policies. O'Donnell is being held up as a joke because she is a joke, and the Tea Party elected her as their candidate. Would she 'degrease' the senate seat? We will never know. Firstly because since she is effectively a perrenial candidate and has never actually accomplished anything, we have no idea what kind of senator she would be. And secondly, because by electing her, the Tea party have guarenteed that the Democrats will take that Deleware Senate seat.
Yosemeti Sam| 10.29.10 @ 6:35AM
" ... we have no idea what kind of senator she would be...."
Sadly, we know EXACTLY what kind of senator Coons would be - given his own HISTORICAL huggybear embrace with Marxism philosophies.
Clearly Coons has never - in his Yale 'enlightened' academic-enhanced-epiphanies - read the Black Book of Communism:
The definitive hitchhikers guide to the scourges of Marxism, Leninism, Maoism ( BTW, still want to know the whereabouts of that Mao Zoo Dung White House Christmas tree ornament)
Castroism, Mugabism, Chavezism, Iranianism etc etc etc.
Aw, shucks Coons might offer - it was in my early years of 'dabbling' in youthful indiscretions of embracing totalitarian concepts.
Yeah, right - Marxists, instead of burning heretics averse to their propagandized 'faith'; simply shot them. An enlightened approach of higher edu.
Yo, the Biden seat IMO now seems unworthy except for a Democrat of Coons' ilk.
Go for it - Delawareans!
Roger K| 10.29.10 @ 7:33AM
Hey, preaching to the choir here. I am no fan of Coons either. But sadly, by voting for this uneducated perpetual failure O'Donnell, the Tea party has guaranteed that Coons is what Delaware will get, whereas this man didnt have a ghost of a chance against Castle.
Yosemeti Sam| 10.29.10 @ 7:49AM
LOL.
" ... whereas this man didnt have a ghost of a chance against Castle."
You would agree though, Castle was not - Gasper the friendly Ghost?
Aw, well, Ms. O'Donnell has done a - Batman-like sign-in-the-sky public service in sending a spotlight message to RINOs at large!
May that breed LEARN that if they persist in their RINOism - they'll end up in a political cemetery and BOO to them.
Happy Halloween Day!
Roger K| 10.29.10 @ 8:46AM
Actually, quite the opposite has happened. The Tea party has sent up a Batman-like sign-in-the-sky saying that they dont care about 'honesty', or 'integrity' or 'education' or 'qualifications' or 'knowledge' in their candidates, all they care about is that the person says 'Jesus' often enough in their speeches.
I mean, for the love of God, look at this woman! Her highest academic qualification is High School, she has been flagrantly caught lying about her University (She claimed to be working towards a masters at princeton, lie). She has never actually held a proper job in her life, she has just spent it running for things and losing. She admitted in pu8blic that she doesnt know what the first, 12th or 15th amendments to the constitution are. She is a bad joke, and the Tea party savaged themselves by electing her.
Jeremiah| 10.29.10 @ 1:51PM
Stupid fool. Latest polling shows O'Donnell cutting Coomie Coons' lead in half. If you really are a Conservative (and I doubt it) why aren't you outraged by the Left's disgusting attacks on her?
You have no decency, moron, and even less integrity.
I'm so tired of whiny weiner RINOs like you who never pass up a chance to attack one of their own.
Gutless RINOs like you are responsible for the weakness of the Republican party. Tool.
Dr. Botkin| 10.29.10 @ 4:24AM
Yes, the mask is off. The American Spectator has dipped in the gutter by printing this disgusting piece by some nobody by the name of Lawler, calling Country Class Miss O'Donnel "crazy," among other slurs. Trying to suck up to the "elitist" Beltway snobs? The Tea Party will prevail, whether the establishment squishes like it or not. More garbage like this and it is Lawler who will the the irrelevant one, assuming he is not already there.
Jeremiah| 10.29.10 @ 4:41AM
Lawler is a nobody and never was relevant.
Roger K| 10.29.10 @ 5:31AM
Is this another attempt at 'If you aren't with us you are against us'? So, for someone to call themselves Conservative, or even Tea-Party, they thus are somehow (in your world) not allowed to ever say anything bad about anything having to do with the movement, no matter how true it is?
O'Donnel is crazy. And unqualified, and terribly ignorant of the very things she claims to be an expert in, based on her deceptive claims about her educational background. Thats not slander, that fact backed by her own words, her own public admission that she doesnt know what the 1st, 12th and 15th amendments of the constitution are. The truth is not a 'slur' my friend.
wodiej| 10.29.10 @ 7:58AM
you are either a leftist troll or a far right sexist conservative. which is it? Is there some mystery files out there from a psychiatrist who claims to have tested O'Donnell's psyche and confirmed she is in fact crazy? Sounds like more of the same garbage recycled from what is flung at Sarah Palin daily. Stuff it.
Roger K| 10.29.10 @ 8:49AM
No, with all due respect, you can stuff it. I'm not troll, leftist or sexist (seriously? calling me sexist? How nice to see you instantly adopt the Obama-tactic. She is a woman, I dont like her, ergo I'm sexist, right? loser.). What I am is sane.
She is utterly unqualified and has nothing but humiliate herself in public every chance she gets. I dont want a high school grad who claims to love the constitution but doesnt even know it, a caught and proven liar, and anti-science hypocrite in public office. She is staggeringly unqualified, and the tea party just gave a Republican seat to the democrats by electing her.
Tim*| 10.29.10 @ 9:31AM
First Order of Business, We Tea Party Rebels Purged The RINO-CINO's Arlen Specter & Mike Castle from Office.
We Ain't Buyin' Your "Lesser Evil RINO-CINO" Crap.
That's exactly how RINO-CINO's Specter & Castle stayed in office election after election.
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.
Rise Up In Rebellion!
Jeremiah| 10.29.10 @ 1:55PM
Roger's not only an ass, he's a stupid ass: O'Donnell has cut Commie Coons' lead by half.
Purge the useless RINOs!
MeredithHC| 10.29.10 @ 9:29AM
O'DONNELL doesn't know what the 1st Amendment is???
I'm beginning to suspect that Roger K. is an embarrassed Widener Law School student.
Lucius| 10.29.10 @ 6:06AM
I took a quick look at the post and the photos. Christine drunk? I can't tell that from the photos. I worked with her 10 years ago for a few months and she could be pretty silly without drinking. I have my share of funny photos of her; big deal. Everyone has funny photos out there. She was at a party. We only have the writer's assurance that his version of the story is true. This is a non-story.
Bo| 10.29.10 @ 12:13PM
Yeah, I'm wondering if this story is 100% true. Seems fishy and we're taking some anonymous guy's word. Sounds like he just wants people to think he had a chance with his roommate's girlfriend before his roommate did.
wodiej| 10.29.10 @ 8:02AM
Well unlike Castle the RINO, we at least know which team O'Donnell is really playing for. Her win in the primary is a success even without a win in November because it is setting an example to purge the party of infidels.
Saint Ives| 10.29.10 @ 8:56AM
Ironic comment, since the majority of those in the Republican party tend to look upon the Teabaggers as the infidels... Ronnie is turning over in his grave at you guys...
Jack Bauer| 10.29.10 @ 9:45AM
What do you know about the "majority" in the Republican party?
Eff all, by thin gruel in the rest of your post.
It appears you know even less about President Ronald Wilson Reagan.
But then, you actually hate the Gipper, doncha?
Tea Party Guy| 10.29.10 @ 12:10PM
The Gipper was a RINO!
RINO| 10.29.10 @ 1:57PM
Ronnie was a Tea Partier!!
Michael L. Hauschild| 10.29.10 @ 8:44AM
This week, the uber-conservative Ben Stein described Republican Alaska Senate and Tea Party nominee Joe Miller as a “dangerous, stupid clown” in the Alaska Dispatch.
How about the "charactor assassination" of tea party candidates by AS contributors.
Jack Bauer| 10.29.10 @ 9:41AM
Amazing... under the GUISE of condemning the relentless character assassination of Christine O'Donnell (initially led by Rove)
Joe the Lawler indulges in the character assassination of Christine O'Donnell.
Talk about gutless.
Bo| 10.29.10 @ 12:15PM
Can this woman do any wrong in your eyes?
Jeremiah| 10.29.10 @ 1:58PM
Can she do anything right in yours?
Jack Bauer| 10.30.10 @ 3:11AM
Bo -- when did you stop beating your wife?
JP| 10.29.10 @ 9:49AM
The Tea Party didn't nominate O'Donnel -the Deleware GOP did. And they prefer to lose the seat than have a liberal in a GOP suit win it. The days of the Mike Castle's are over. Coons and Castle vote would essientially be the same. Let the people of Delaware suffer the ramifications. That's what democracy is all about. O'Donnel wouldn't have won the seat even if she was pure as the wind driven snow. Conservatives do not win elections in New England. But, for decades New Englanders have enjoyed the economic fruits of national GDP growth while undermining the foundations of sustained freee markets. This is about to end no matter who sits in open senate seat.
Gawker is an operative with all the morals of a pimp. There is an old expression that contains a large meausre of wisdom - What goes around comes around.
What out for the Karma Bus.
Jeremiah| 10.29.10 @ 2:01PM
Gawker's vicious attack of lies on Christine O'Donnell is already backfiring big time. It was their last gasp effort to destroy another Conservative woman.
Her internal polling must be good or why would they lash out at her like this? Demoncrats are scared.
Seek| 11.1.10 @ 1:29PM
Whatis wrong with pointing out the obvious fact that Christine O'Donnell is physically beautiful and sexually available?. Of course, she wants a man -- and of course any normal hetero man wants her. That doesn't make her Senate material in and of itself, but it does make her normal. Good for Gawker for making Christine more human.