O’Donnell's Followers See the Light

Christine O’Donnell, Delaware’s thrice-failed United States Senate candidate and Tea Party diva, has officially jumped the shark.

By all indications, sales of her recently released book Troublemaker are anaemic at best.  There is no interest and no oxygen in the room. Her moment has passed.

Moreover, O’Donnell continues to be haunted by many of the same problems that plagued her candidacy in 2010, including questions about her veracity and difficulties getting along with the media, particularly when the media dares to ask hard questions.

As a result, even some local Tea Party leaders in Delaware have magically seen the light and have to begun back away from their associations with O’Donnell.

Take, for example, Eric Bodenweiser.  Bodenweiser is himself a failed candidate for local office.  He is also a former leader of a now-defunct conservative group called the “Sussex County Community Organized Regiment,” known as SCCOR for short.  After the election of President Obama, rather then marching south to join the forces assembling under General Beauregard on the Plains of Manassas, the Regiment merged with other groups to become the Sussex County 9-12 Patriots.  And Bodenweiser continues to be a prominent local conservative activist.

Yesterday, in a local radio interview, Bodenweiser distanced himself from O’Donnell and opined that her book is coming out at the wrong time.

Criticism from local Tea Party leaders and “conservative activists” is something new for O’Donnell.  It is a sign of her imminent disappearance from the national scene.