Think Progress started this list of descriptions of Christine O’Donnell by members of her own party. Let’s see if we can add to it.
Krauthammer calls O’Donnell supporters “disruptive and capricious.” On the September 13 edition of Special Report (retrieved from Nexis), Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer criticized endorsements of O’Donnell by Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) as “disruptive,” “capricious,” “irresponsible,” and “a big mistake.” He added, “O’Donnell is very problematic, she probably will lose.”
“One thing that Christine O’Donnell is now going to have to answer in the general election that she didn’t have to answer in the primary is her own checkered background.” He later said: “I’ve met her. I’m not — I’ve got to tell you, I wasn’t, frankly, impressed as her, you know, abilities as a candidate. And again, these serious questions about how does she make her living, why did she mislead voters about her college education, how come it took her nearly two decades to pay her college bill so she could get her college degree. How does she make a living? Why did she sue a well-known and well-thought-of conservative think tank?” Rove went on to criticize “candidates who, at the end of the day, while they may be conservative in their public statements, do not evince the characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character that the voters are looking for.”
GLENN BECK: “It’s creepy. … If you’re at a satanic alter, that’s a couple steps beyond witchcraft, dabbling in witchcraft. Is it just me?”
REP. MIKE PENCE (R-IN): “Certainly, she has some explaining to do about that.”
KARL ROVE: “[Delaware voters] are probably going to want to know what was that all about. … My view is she can’t simply ignore it. She’s got to deal with it and explain it and put it in its most sympathetic light and move on.”
JOE SCARBOROUGH: “You know, usually I like to say, ‘It happens,’ but this is just in a new realm. I’m a live and let live kind of guy but this is out there even for me.”
MICHAEL GERSON: “I think the reality here is that this adds to an aura of oddness.”
Let’s also not forget Delaware GOP leader Tom Ross’s description “delusional.”
According to Republicans, the following adjectives can be used to describe Christine O’Donnell: