Editorial: O'Donnell Embarrasses Delaware
Ron Williams writes:
Has there ever been a time in Delaware political history that's been more embarrassing for the state?
We all take without thinking twice the "Dela-where" jokes and the obscure, tiny state comments. Delaware, Ohio? It's because that's all true and we know it.
Delaware finally made the national political big time when Joe Biden was named the vice presidential candidate to run with Barack Obama.
Well, Joe Biden never created the kind of international hysteria that Christine O'Donnell has, even with his telltale gaffes and verbal fumbles, which we here have been hearing for more than three decades.
This O'Donnell thing has taken political ridiculousness to a new high, or low, depending on your point of view.
In my view it's a low because it makes Delaware Republicans look like nincompoops for selecting an unemployed, inexperienced, former New Jerseyan as their nominee to run for the United States Senate. Mike Protack is more qualified, and that's coming from a longtime Protack basher -- me.
Several of us in the newsroom here have had to blow off requests for interviews from around the country just because there aren't enough hours in the day. I've had about a half dozen interview requests myself, from Denver to Washington to Philadelphia.
This is occurring not because of a serious threat to the seat of VP Joe Biden by a Republican -- which would have been the case if Mike Castle had run -- but because Christine O'Donnell is an off-the-wall candidate who has said silly things and has weird platform planks like maintaining masturbation is infidelity.
Her recent and previous comments to media outlets display a clear lack of fitness for the U.S. Senate.
I figured, wrongfully, that with her newfound money from out-of-state contributors and tea party zealots, that her high-end political consulting team of Shirley & Banister would put a new spin on the O'Donnell image.
So what do they do? They come out with a new TV ad that starts out with her saying "I'm not a witch," replete with black background and black shirt, long black, straight hair and white pearls. It even looks like they put pancake makeup on her face to make her pale. She reminds me of Lily from the old TV show "The Munsters."
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