Christine O’Donnell Holds The GOP Hostage

Filed in Delaware by on October 14, 2010

The Huffington Post has a scoop on Christine O’Donnell. In private she’s told the Delaware Republican party that she has Sean Hannity in her back pocket:

Specifically, according to two top GOP insiders, she said at a strategy meeting with DC types last week: “I’ve got Sean Hannity in my back pocket, and I can go on his show and raise money by attacking you guys.”

And that was precisely what she was doing on the radio today. On Hannity’s popular afternoon drive-time show, the Tea Party-inspired Senate contender acidly criticized the party, specifically the National Republican Senatorial Committee, for not funneling any serious cash (beyond a pro forma $43,000) into her race against Democrat Chris Coons.

(The O’Donnell campaign did not respond to a request for comment.)

Hannity, who earlier in the show warned GOP officials not to criticize Tea Party leader Sen. Jim DeMint, expressed sympathy with O’Donnell’s fiscal plight and gave a glowing review of her performance in last night’s televised debate with Coons. Hannity criticized party insiders for not backing her with cash or endorsements.

Oh my. Pass the popcorn.

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  1. Aoine says:
    October 14, 2010 at 7:36 pm

    isn’t he a little big for her back pocket – although the camera did have a shot from behind her

    and trust me – its has spread considerably……maybe he will fit after all

    the camera must have added…50 lbs…

  2. jason330 says:
    October 14, 2010 at 7:36 pm

    Such transparent BS. She is clearly looking to fund her post election PAC and live off that pile a cash like a fat tick on a dog’s neck. The people who send her money are truly dupes and idiots.

  3. Unstable Isotope says:
    October 14, 2010 at 7:48 pm

    Hmmm…hearing via Twitter that Mike Castle told CNN that he won’t vote for Christine O’Donnell.

  4. pandora says:
    October 14, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    Oh my. I didn’t think he’d vote for her, but (if true) I didn’t think he’d announce it. Them’s some big man pants.

  5. Pumpkin says:
    October 14, 2010 at 8:49 pm

    All right, everybody be cool this is a robbery…

    Put your wallet and your trust fund on the table and nobody gets tea bagged.

  6. Aoine says:
    October 14, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    Did you all hear what keith Olberman just called O’Donnell??

    “a ignorant, uninformed deadbeat witch”

    she just got Ripped apart by Countdown!!! and the whole holding the GOP hostage thing was mentioned…

    she just bit that hand that was holding her back from starvation at least…

  7. Another Mike says:
    October 14, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    “(The O’Donnell campaign did not respond to a request for comment.)”

    Of course it didn’t. I guess that’s because she was busy with that local media personality, Sean Hannity.

  8. Dana Garrett says:
    October 14, 2010 at 9:21 pm

    On Sean Hannity’s NATIONAL radio show? I thought she was only doing local media.

  9. jpconnorjr says:
    October 14, 2010 at 9:27 pm

    sean ha a condo in Pettinarro’s spot on the Brandywine, He’s been there for years. His kids go to Red Lion Wing nut Academy. Everybody knows this, c’mon!

  10. Blu_Coq says:
    October 15, 2010 at 12:25 am

    Lead story on Huf Post right now. Waving the red cape at…? Fox? Old School Republicans? Who else?

  11. alyn pearis says:
    October 15, 2010 at 1:20 am

    Does that not make Sean Hannity her pet? I’m surprised that there’s any room back there for anything,let alone a rat as big as Hannity.

  12. pls louise says:
    October 15, 2010 at 8:04 am

    The advice of Palin, Angle et al nut jobs is to avoid all networks except Faux. Christine obviously is losing so can she keep all these millions she is collecting? Our elections are a sham and a scam.

  13. Trurh Teller says:
    October 15, 2010 at 8:39 am

    So Christine has finally come clear all that miss i am a Virgin crap and now we find that Hannity (that shill) is in her pants

  14. Unstable Isotope says:
    October 15, 2010 at 8:56 am

    Speaking of virginity…Christine O’Donnell used to practice loud chastity according to her neighbors.

    She would lounge on her front porch in her pajamas some weekends, smoking cigars and drinking wine with a girlfriend. She doted on her cats, but was not always fastidious about her housekeeping, according to neighborhood gossip passed along by her former housekeeper, Pam. She feuded bitterly with the woman next door. And, neighbors couldn’t help but note, for a candidate who’s been so vocally opposed to any pre-marital sexual activity, O’Donnell had frequent overnight visits from her boyfriend Brent, a Philadelphia lawyer who bought her house just before it went into foreclosure and still owns it to this day.

    …

    Benedetto, a life-long Democrat with reverence for the vice president (who walks every year with his family in the Procession of Saints), has a long list of complaints about O’Donnell. She once left soup on the stove and started a fire, Benedetto said. She used to miss the trash can when she disposed of her cat litter, leaving a mess on the porch. Most gallingly, in the neighbor’s view, O’Donnell had frequent visitors, “and the walls upstairs are very thin.”

    Both Benedetto and another neighbor who asked to have her name withheld said they saw O’Donnell lounging, clothed, with a man on top of her, on O’Donnell’s bright yellow and orange flowered couch. Both said these events happened during the daytime, when O’Donnell would sometimes leave her front door open. Neither minded in the slightest at the time, they said, and the latter of the two neighbors thinks generally well of the candidate. Both said they get a little chuckle on hearing her strict stance against sexual activity outside of the confines of marriage.

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