News links: Christine ‘I am not a witch’ O’Donnell under investigation

Federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation of would-be senator and maybe witch Christine O’Donnell. They believe O’Donnell may have broken the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses, including rent.

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  1. CarlGottsteinJr. says:

    Enough of the use of the feds to abuse and intimidate honest citizens who stand up for the people.
    And the tag line “I am not a witch”? A leftist media creation formulated to marginalize.
    This is a good person who was on her way to victory before the media conspired to destroy her.
    Nice people these liberals.

    Silent no more.

  2. iknowtruthismine says:

    CarlGottsteinJr. – She made the statement “I am not a witch” in an ad she paid for, or weren’t you watching when they showed it over and over? Christine O’Donnell is the measure of how low the political process can deteriorate, and supporters of people like her are the measure of the stupidity and ignorance that has infected our society.

  3. Mike Lieman says:

    Christine O’Donnell: Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!

    Johne Boehner: Given that he spent the weekend campaigning for a Nazi-fetishist/cosplayer, he should be ashamed of himself…

  4. Mike Lieman says:

    Gak.. Boehner spent the weekend BEFORE THE ELECTION….

  5. Tim B. says:

    “and maybe witch …”
    Wow, would this nonsense even be mentioned if this is a liberal?
    The actual AP story throws in the
    “..including that she’d “dabbled into witchcraft” when she was young”
    for what reason? Then that is the headline for the here on the TU link?

  6. Tim B. says:

    “For the last two years, the Senate has blocked many of President Obama’s appointments.”
    What the story this links to is actually about the appointment of a top-level ambassador to Syria, a known terrorist state.

  7. Getting Fridays Off says:

    Took them long enough.

  8. They All Lie!!! says:

    She’s not a witch? But she looks like one, and she’s dressed like one! So, how do we know she’s not a witch? Is this a Monty Python moment in politics, or is this just a typical right-winger’s (just the sort who would re-visit the Salem witch trials if they had complete control of US politics) poor attempt at being witty (a witty witch)?

    I know I can’t be the only one to notice how much the rightists, no matter what they call themselves (tea-partyists or conservatives) look so much alike. Pat Buchanan, George Bush, Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnel, every conservative Fundamentalist preacher who ever walked this earth, and a huge proportion of the Southern Appalachian population all have similar facial features, as if they are from the same gene pool. They all have almost the same dull, and squirrelly facial features which would be comical if they didn’t reflect such fierce determination in the absense of intelligence, or sincere humanity.

  9. They All Lie!!! says:

    Tim B – the reason why allegations of witchcraft matter with a Republican candidate, especially a conservative is that Republican voters tend to be afraid of witches. Democrats and independent voters are too intelligent not to know better. It’s analogous to allegations of racism bringing down a Democrat candidate – it would take a lot more than allegations of such to sink a Republican, if his voters even hear about it.

  10. The Long-Nosed Reindeer says:

    Is John Boehner actually pronounced “Boner”? Maybe he should keep a low profile!

  11. Upstate says:

    She claimed that she did this in High School and you obviously believe that about as much as others believe that President Obama did not know what Reverend Wright was saying at his church on Sundays.

  12. Bob says:

    Again, the right’s hypocrisy is put on display for all to see. O’Donnell, the tea party darling and so-called fiscal conservative, is revealed to be a corrupt money-grabber, stealing from her supporters.

  13. cfoote says:

    Bob.. That made her the perfect candidate. A corrupt money grabber, just like all other polticians in Washington. Some even grow up to be president. Even if you are a presidential nominee, do you really have to pay your taxes? Maybe should should take the Charlie Rangel defense and say she didn’t know she couldn’t use the money that way.

  14. iknowtruthismine says:

    “She’s a witch, she’s a witch”, how do we know she’s a witch? She turned Carl into a newt and he didn’t get bettah.

  15. Getting Fridays Off says:

    Or cfoote, she could claim the John Ensign defense and say …what? Even republicans couldn’t defend him.

    Of course, neither Rangel or Ensign have anything to do with the story at hand here.

  16. Bob says:

    @cfoote: my criticism of O’Donnell pertains to her abject hypocrisy — stealing money from her campaign while campaigning as fiscally responsible. Here’s a quote from her campaign website: “Voting to spend money you don’t have has become an appealing option for too many politicians and common sense men and women of America know this is not sustainable.” Well, I guess O’Donnell knows a thing or two about spending money she doesn’t have.

  17. iknowtruthismine says:

    The Long-Nosed Reindeer – “Boehner” is pronounced “Bainer” the same way “Bucket” is pronounced “Bouquet”.

  18. Bob says:

    Failed U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell said Thursday that accusations she is a witch are politically motivated and stoked by disgruntled former campaign workers. Federal law prohibits candidates from practicing witchcraft for personal benefit during a campaign. The Delaware Republican appeared on several network morning shows to defend herself a day after it was reported that federal authorities have launched a criminal probe to determine whether she broke the law by using prohibited supernatural powers in an attempt to win a US Senate seat. “There’s been no impermissible use of magic whatsover,” O’Donnell told ABC’s ‘Good Morning America.’ “Sure, I used a few spells here….an incantation there….but it was all routine sorcery. You have to look at this whole thug-politic tactic for what it is,” she said Thursday, “a witch hunt.”

  19. Bovine Excrement Odor Detector says:

    Carl, Carl, Carl i thought you were moveing from NY?

    The witch nonsense was not some leftist creation as you would have us believe. It was merely using her own words against her. When she mentioned dabbling in witchcraft in high school as a member of a panel on a political talk show, no one made that up. When she said she was not a witch in her own commercial using her own campaign money (appropriately,) this was not a liberal contstruct.

    Why this is so interesting is that she portrays herself as a champion of the people who somehow would reform washington and then allegeldy uses campaign money in a manner not consistent with the law or good judgement. Just like Palladino, it did not take anyone in the opposition to insert her foot in her mouth.

  20. CarlGottsteinJr. says:

    Its a witch hunt, again.

    Nothing to see here just another abuse of the system by the leftists.

    Dirty deeds done dirt cheap.

  21. Bob says:

    “Dirty deeds done dirt cheap.”

    Yup. That’s Christine O’Donnell in a “nutshell.”

  22. CarlGottsteinJr. says:

    BEOD~ Why is the media in the business of “useing her words against her”?

    BOB~ You are confused and bass ackward…again.

    .’.TEA party people standup to this liberal media construct,

    Silent no more.’.

  23. iknowtruthismine says:

    CarlGottsteinJr. – “Why is the media in the business of “useing (sic) her words against her”?, because she is like a big old zit on the end of their nose, begging to be popped, and just about as intelligent. She is the standard by which the Tea Party can be judged and, once judged, found not even worthy of a mercy killing. The question we are all asking is why do you persist in defending and supporting the worst that the political process can produce.

  24. CarlGottsteinJr. says:

    THE MORAL MAJORITY RISES to defend the process.

    WE TEA PARTY POWER peeps defend her right to stand up and be heard.

    WE think and speak our thoughts.
    So does she.

    WE like that.

    WE are TEA party kinda people.
    WE TEA POWER TYPES don’t like liberal politic$.

    Clue to IKTIM/Bob: Neither does most of America anymore.

    WE of the TEA took Congress and most of the Governors seats: )

    p.s.You ain’t seen nothing yet.

    Silent no more.

  25. Bob says:

    Umm…….CarlGotts……I hate to break the news to you, but “tea partiers” did not win Congress. First, “tea partiers” didn’t take anything – Republicans did. Second, the Republicans took only the House – the Senate is still held by Democrats. While I sometimes find your posts mildly amusing, please try to be a little more accurate, if you can. You’re just embarrassing yourself. As an aside, the use of either “moral” or “majority” in reference to Christine O’Donnell is just sad and self-delusional.

    And you may want to check your keyboard – your “caps lock” key in stuck again.

  26. iknowtruthismine says:

    What Carl doesn’t realize (among many many other things) is that the “Moral Majority” he is so fond of identifying with, is neither. The “WE” he keeps shouting, seems to be the most clueless and simplistically doctrinaire portion of the population, who have made themselves available for exploitation by the forces of great wealth, now in the process of carrying out an invisible (to the clueless) coup d’ etat. Christine O’Donnell is just one of the candy coated manure bits they are trying to sell us and Carl seems to be one of the most easily conned buyers.

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