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Is Christine O’Donnell A Failed Witch?

That seems to be the thrust of reports over Christine O’Donnell’s past references to dabbling in witchcraft before she became the Republican nominee for Governor of Delaware. You have to love this country. Who needs an immigration debate when Delaware is debating whether one of its major candidates “is or was ever a practicing witch?” If true, this could prove an advantage with Sarah Palin going to Iowa to campaign this week. Palin has had prior experience with people working in the area since she has been given a protection from witchcraft. This could make for an interesting first meeting between President Palin and Governor O’Donnell. Indeed, Palin could argue that she is the only expected presidential candidate currently able to meet with O’Donnell without fear.

In the meantime, Republicans are asking if O’Donnell’s Democratic opponent Chris Coon is a failed bearded Marxist. If both allegations are true, voters appear to be favoring the alleged former Marxist over the alleged former witch by eleven points.

We previously discussed O’Donnell’s rather expansive definition of adultery. However, the video below has surfaced from appearances that O’Donnell made on Bill Maher’s “Politically Incorrect” show during which O’Donnell says that she dated a witch and went to coven meetings with blood-soaked alters.

“I dabbled into witchcraft — I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. … I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do . . . One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn’t know it. I mean, there’s little blood there and stuff like that. … We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.”

That quote does allow some wiggle room in that O’Donnell at worse was a “pre-coven witch” or maybe even a “witch-wannabe.” Of course, the important thing is not the date with a witch or the evening spent around an alter with blood. It is that she is currently not a practicing witch and has no immediate plans to enlist the support of the wiccan lobby.

By the way, having a witch as a governor might have its advantages when suddenly the governor of Maryland’s head shrinks during coastal fishing negotiations. Of course, if Gingrich wins, she will have to be more specific about calling for an “eye of Newt” to avoid criminal complications.

With Halloween around the corner, this is going to produce an explosion of Christine O’Donnell costumes.

Update: O’Donnell cancelled a bunch of interviews over the weekend but did speak to a high school group and dismissed the story as basically a case of hanging out with bad kids in high school.

Source: Washington Post

43 thoughts on “Is Christine O’Donnell A Failed Witch?”

  5. Blouise,

    None of the Wiccans (practicing or otherwise) I’ve ever known called it “a satanic altar” or took dates there (I know the one I dated always just wanted to go to Italian Restaurants and maybe the movies). I think perhaps she knows just knows more about “The Craft” than most Americans.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115963/

  6. Karl Rove, political mastermind for former President George W. Bush, said Sunday that Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party insurgent who won an upset victory in Delaware for the GOP Senate nomination, “can’t simply ignore” the controversy stirred over the disclosure that she “dabbled in witchcraft” and has to find a way to “explain it and put it in its most sympathetic light and move on.”

    http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/09/19/karl-rove-says-christine-odonnell-needs-to-explain-witchcraft/

  8. “And in fact Thomas Jefferson said it’s good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years.” (from the link Swm posted above …quoting Angle)

    Such balderdash … these blimpheads have no idea what they are quoting.

    Jefferson was serving as Minister to France (1785 to 1789)at the time of that quote … here is what he really said and to whom he said it. In context, not teabagger speak:

    To Col. William S. Smith (serving at the legation in London).– “Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves! Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusetts? And can history produce an instance of rebellion so honorably conducted? I say nothing of its motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all and always well-informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon, and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” (Nov. 13, 1787. MR 6:372)

  10. I think even the men are witches….the term warlock only derived from the TV show Bewitched…..I was to young to play Darren……..but then again the first one was too gay…so they dropped him for the next one…..

  12. … correction: “Christine O’Donnell has a very good working knowledge of witchcraft … ” should read: “Christine O’Donnell has a very good working knowledge of the Craft …”

  13. carol
    1, September 19, 2010 at 2:56 pm
    Aren’t witches female? What is she really trying to tell us?

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    Most people not familiar with the practice of witchcraft think that, usually because female witches are in the majority. But males are also called witches. The word “Wicce” pronounced (Wik-kay) designates a female Witch and “Wicca” pronounced (Wik-kah) designates a male Witch.

    In other words, Christine O’Donnell has a very good working knowledge of witchcraft … better than the majority of her fellow Americans.

  14. culheath
    1, September 19, 2010 at 2:00 pm
    She’ll probably eventually claim she tried it but didn’t actually impale.

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    lol

  16. O’Donnell is not a failed with, she is a failed human being. I just hope the sensible voters of Delaware will recognize that she is a threat to anyone who believes in the separation of church and state and a threat to every woman in the state.

  17. Seems to me like O’Donnell might have cast a spell on Republican voters in Delaware. If so, I’d say she’s a successful witch. On the other hand, if she didn’t, I’d say the Delaware Republicans who voted for her in the recent primary are the ones who have failed.

  20. You have to be kidding me, right? Now if it starts with a B and rhymes with witch I think you’d be correct. But then again, I may just be playing with myself……lol

    Elaine, any suggestion on rhythm in rhyming?

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