In today’s edition of Christine O’Donnell says crazy and/or stupid things, she did an interview with Good Morning America. Perhaps you’ll get a bit of insight into her mind.
She now regrets the “I’m Not a Witch” ad (duh):
In a pre-taped interview that aired Thursday on ABC’s Good Morning America, O’Donnell said the “I’m You” ad – intended to end the conversation over past comments about witchcraft – backfired.
“I haven’t publicly stated this, and I don’t know if I’ll get in trouble for saying that, but our intention was to kill it, and that’s not what happened,” the Delaware Republican Senate candidate said.
O’Donnell teased that she “certainly” would not be dressing up for Halloween as a witch, instead opting to go as Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz.”
“I was thinking about just going as Dorothy,” O’Donnell said. “I killed the witch. There you go.”
Well, the witch thing is going to follow her around forever now. Thanks Bill Maher!
Also, as we thought, she thought she was totally awesome in that Widener debate. She thought she was scoring points:
The media and most viewers of the Oct. 19 Delaware Senate debate thought Republican Christine O’Donnell’s question about the First Amendment directed at Democrat Chris Coons was a pretty epic gaffe for the hardcore tea party favorite and Constitution proponent.
O’Donnell did not see it that way, however.
“It’s really funny the way that the media reports things,” O’Donnell told ABC News this morning. “After that debate my team and I we were literally high fiving each other thinking that we had exposed he doesn’t know the First Amendment, and then when we read the reports that said the opposite we were all like ‘what?'”
I think at the time I called it an unforced error and it was egged on by her own people. Thanks wingnuts!
I know wingnuts think they have some killer argument in “the separation of church and state” is not in the text of the 1st Amendment. Steve Benen took apart that mess yesterday:
One can obviously read the Constitution and see that the literal phrase “separation of church and state” isn’t there, but a basic understanding of history and the law makes clear that the phrase is a shorthand to describe what the First Amendment does — it separates church from state.
Indeed, a variety of constitutional principles we all know and recognize aren’t literally referenced in the text. Americans’ “right to a fair trial” is well understood, but the exact phrase isn’t in the Constitution. “Separation of powers” is a basic principle of the U.S. Constitution, but it isn’t mentioned, either. More to the point, you can look for the phrase “freedom of religion” in the First Amendment, but those three words also don’t appear.
Ultimately, if you’re relying on extremist candidates and right-wing media personalities for constitutional scholarship, you’re going to be deeply confused.
O’Donnell is a Constitutional scholar because she took an 8-day course at a conservative wingnut welfare “think” tank. Coons took her to school, and she doesn’t even realize it. One funny thing, she was harping on Coons not getting into the weeds by stating the whole First Amendment but in the WHYY debate she named only 3 of the 5 despite carrying a copy of the Constitution with her.