O’Donnell Talks to AP, Vows to Control Her Political Message
Associated Press
Posted on October 1, 2010 at 3:00 PMWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — After nearly disappearing from public view following her upset victory in Delaware’s GOP primary, Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell re-emerged Friday vowing to control her political message and saying she is not concerned with how the national media portrays her.
In an interview with The Associated Press after opening her Wilmington headquarters, O’Donnell denied she had been ducking the media or had gone into hiding.
Instead, she said the campaign took some time to reorganize and take care of necessities as fundamental as telephones.
Probably a skeleton hiding, “My Fair Lady” style, intensive “stop saying stupid shit all the time” training marathon. AMIRIGHT?
“We asked for time to regroup and reassess because people were telling us their phone calls weren’t being returned, and that’s not my heart,” she said. “I want everybody to feel like they’re a priority, so now our office is up and running and phones are being put in.”
GAH! I hate that born again phrasing, “it wasn’t in my heart.” PUKE!!
Since her primary win, media reports have questioned whether O’Donnell misspent campaign contributions and misled people about her educational record. She also has been the target of late-night comedy show barbs about things she said years ago as a frequent guest on TV talk shows, including that she dabbled in witchcraft as a teenager and believes that evolution is a myth.
You see, this would have been a place for the AP to mention that media reports have not only “questioned” her educational credentials, but has answered those questions. Yes. She lied. It is a plain fact.
O’Donnell said she has stopped paying attention to what the national media was reporting about her, and she declined to say whether she believes she has been treated fairly by the media.
“It is what it is,” she said. “I’m not concerned about that. We’ve got a great media team in place and we’re going to control our own destiny and make sure that our message gets out there the way we want it to.”
You see? It is that liberal media…that’s the problem….it isn’t the LYING.
O’Donnell greeted a crowd of about 100 supporters who turned out Friday for the invitation-only dedication of her Wilmington campaign headquarters.
O’Donnell also granted interviews to local reporters, who had seen and heard little from her in the past two weeks. She had said shortly after the primary that she would not to speak to members of the national media but instead would focus on Delaware voters.
Is Ginger Gibson off the blacklist?
O’Donnell said she has been out in public. She presided over a coin toss at a community football game over the weekend and shook hands at local restaurants and a shopping mall. She also said she has been making the rounds of local talk shows and meeting with editors of weekly community newspapers. She said she would be more visible in days to come.
“You should definitely expect to see a lot more,” she said.
If anyone sees her at any of these events please note it here. I’m curious to find out if she has fleshed out her talking points beyond: “Cut taxes, eliminate regulations, stimulate the economy, America is #1!”
O’Donnell, a conservative activist, rode a tide of tea party support and advertising dollars to upset longtime congressman Michael Castle in the GOP primary.
Matt Schlapp, a GOP strategist and former political director at the White House under President George W. Bush, said he doubts O’Donnell is executing some “master strategy” to stay behind the curtain. Instead, he said, it probably reflects “that this is a grass roots campaign that won a surprise victory, and probably did very little strategic planning on what they would do if they won.”
Ya think?
Since O’Donnell’s primary win, e-mails and telephone messages from the media often have met with no response. Schlapp said a sudden emergence on the national stage commonly creates communications problems for upstart candidates. Usually, they have months to hire new staffers, set up campaign offices and get organized. But he said Delaware’s late primary put O’Donnell at a disadvantage. “This is a candidate who literally has hours and days to make those decisions,” he said.
Golly. When your whole primary campaign is based on a California consulting firm coming in and dumping $1 million dollars and a bunch of high profile endorsements two weeks before primary day – it leaves you at a disadvantage.
Delaware GOP Chairman Tom Ross said it’s not surprising that O’Donnell’s campaign has had difficulty moving quickly from the primary campaign to the general election contest against Democrat Chris Coons, the New Castle County executive. While trying to rapidly ramp up the number of staffers and find new office space, O’Donnell’s campaign has been bombarded with questions from the media about her background.
Tom Ross is the biggest wussy douche bag in Delaware. I guess turning on a dime and being an obsequious quisling is a vital skill for a GOP operative these days.
This week, questions were raised about whether she had falsely suggested on two online business networking sites, LinkedIn and ZoomInfo, that she had attended Oxford University in England, when in fact she had simply attended a summer program there under the auspices of the Phoenix Institute. “I know I never created a LinkedIn profile for myself,” O’Donnell said. “I don’t even know what Zoom is.” “I’ve never intentionally misrepresented my educational records, and I don’t know what the latest allegations are,” she added.
Sure.
Pristine O’Donnell never intentionally does anything, she seems to have spent most of her adult life falling ass-backwards.
I told ya – it’s all a conspiracy to make her look bad. It’s been going on for years! Tonight the conspiracy continues when Bill Maher shows another tape of O’Donnell saying something dumb.
I guess I’m not getting this whole “she’s an inexperienced candidate” thing. She’s been running for Senate since 2006. She’s supposedly some kind of media & PR professional and they can’t figure out how to answer the friggin’ phones?
Good point. You have to wonder what here “clients” get when they hire her.
The people who voted for her will have serious regrets the day after the election.
Without Castle a lot of the GOP team will not be part of the election and many in the state legislature will be losers.
She will pocket tons of left over campaign money, start a non profit and mooch off of it.
This conspiracy was hatched by those same people who planned long ago to have a pregnant woman come from Kenya and go to Hawaii after giving birth and falsify the birth records so one day that baby could grow up to lead the great socialist-fascist takeover of the American government.
I love how the opening was by “invitation only”–controlling access to her and only showing the media proud supporters–this is going to be quite a dog and pony show for the next month. I can’t say I know one republican who is voting for her, they’re either voting for Chris or not voting at all which I can respect–I just hope other R’s don’t feel obligated to vote for her!
Oh my. Its so horrible. I’ve lived here for 40+ years and I never knew… You always know about the underbelly but this…Up until this point I worried about my nieces and nephews being prey to predators but to have to acknowledge that fully formed adults are swallowing this tripe is horrifying. Any chance we can get Iran and Kim Jung Il to put a rush on those nukes?
Does this blog ever actually involves itself in real discussions of the issues? It’s like Rush Limbaugh for the left: identity politics and partisan whackoffery. Just sayin. Oh, and Obama a fascist? Yeah, that’s completely ridiculous. Completely, utterly ridiculous, and only a sub-human tea bagging, bible thumping, sister boning, inbred republican racist would ever even entertain that idea. Right?
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/21/bagram
Few issues highlight Barack Obama’s extreme hypocrisy the way that Bagram does. As everyone knows, one of George Bush’s most extreme policies was abducting people from all over the world — far away from any battlefield — and then detaining them at Guantanamo with no legal rights of any kind, not even the most minimal right to a habeas review in a federal court. Back in the day, this was called “Bush’s legal black hole.”
.What you are pointing to is scary and I did post it on my blog a few days ago. But, it won’t get covered over here. It’s not how they do things.
http://thewageslave.com/?p=1189
Don’t make me regret linking to you. I think there is a way to make your points without blanket personal attacks.
Just follow Jason’s many examples, DV. 😉
Yes, only dv is the one true liberal and now that he’s been declared king of all liberals he gets to decide what to talk about and who’s in the club.
I just know that I’m not afraid to write about things on my blog and not get kicked off for writing them.
Can the same be said over here? No. It can’t.
Take it personal all you want. Take shots at me all you want and how I’m being holier than thou.
It’s fine, it is. I get it. Just don’t try to act like you guys/gals don’t pull punches and only attack one side most if not all of the time.
If you are going to wear the liberal name, then represent it.
Or I guess this site is sort of like “Salad Works”? Fast food, that can sometimes be good for you
“If you are going to wear the liberal name, then represent it.”
Is that the sound of mosquitoes I hear?
There’s no tactic lamer than saying, “Stop talking about this. Talk about what I prefer instead.” You’ve taken the first step by starting your own blog. Those people who want to read purist liberal criticism of the administration can find it there. By definition, you ought to have something better to do. As it is, you’re a good working definition of hypocrisy.
Bill Maher controls COD’s political message.
The audaciousness of the Republican tea party thinking she can win is just laughable.
It’s like a joke they’re not in on.
Yo, Cracker! That’s what the Castle people said. And now she’s got the money behind her. Wait until all these women and conservative Dems hit the polls next month after the COD machine makes a clown out of Coons in TV attacks.