Well, Christine is still holed up in her bunker. Her team of geniuses decided to make themselves a story by throwing Rachel Maddow’s producers out of their campaign headquarters. They not only threw them out but insulted them and made a scene outside of their headquarters.
The O’Donnell braintrust then defended their new ad:
Christine O’Donnell’s startling new ad, which clarified that she’s “not a witch” and is instead, well, “you,” has been widely greeted today with puzzlement by the political classes. Now the O’Donnell campaign has put out a statement explaining the spot’s intent:
“I’M YOU.”
Christine O’Donnell, Republican candidate running for U.S. Senate in Delaware, is an average American that will go to Washington knowing what issues average Delawareans want addressed. She conveys her commitment to representing those views in a new ad that is being aired in the Philadelphia, PA and Salisbury, MD markets as well as on cable networks in all three counties in DE: New Castle, Kent, and Sussex.
This a substantial statewide buy that will run.
I’m no advertising expert, but if you need to put out a subsequent statement explaining your ad’s message, it seems safe to assume that it’s not a success. Yet the O’Donnell camp appears to be putting “substantial” resources behind it.
Yes, the braintrust is going to spend a lot of money on a commercial that everyone thinks is stupid. Well, people are talking about it so perhaps they think all publicity is good publicity. There is at least one thing the braintrust is doing right – keeping her away from microphones, cameras and voters.
Coons had a really good response to Christine O’Donnell’s ad:
My Tea Party opponent’s first television advertisement since the primary election hits the airwaves today and in it, twice she tells viewers: “I’m you.”
She’s me?
To be Christine O’Donnell, you’d have to think homosexuality was an “identity disorder.” You’d have to be anti-choice, anti-stem cells, but pro-outsourcing of American jobs. You’d have to want Creationism taught in public schools, but not sexual education. You’d have to want to expand offshore drilling but further de-regulate Wall Street.
Is that you? It certainly isn’t me.
That’s why this morning we launched a website, ChristineIsNotMe.com, to give folks the opportunity to tell Christine O’Donnell that she was not them.
You can also buy a Christine O’Donnell action figure:
Get ’em while they’re hot!