This moment, when O’Donnell could not name a single recent Supreme Court decision that she disagreed with, captured the pure essence of O’Donnell.
She did not “debate” per se. She simply ticked off her prepared zingers and wingnut talking points. She didn’t have any sense of any of the downstream implications of any of the conservative tropes she regards as policies. There was no attempt to strive for any logic or consistency. (think endless war v. budget hawk) It was just a cascade of words and phrases tested and retested by the daily lunatic focus groups convened by Beck, Hannity and Limbaugh.