This is a quick diary as I have to pick my son up very shortly, but I felt like I needed to offer a perspective on Christine O'donnell. The perspective is very simple, she has been trying to become famous since the days when she appeared on MTV. She is just another version of the Kardashians, you know the show you watch, and chuckle at but then really wonder what exactly are they famous for.
Just like everyone else in this country I enjoy watching Christine O'donnell's reality show, aptly titled "Watch How I Trick Americans into Making Me Famous." She probably thought, "this might be good for a few months employment. I can live off the donations, maybe get a local interview, maybe Jon Stewart will even tell a joke about me." But, never in her wildest, fisher cat crazy dreams did she anticipate that she would actually be called a candidate for the US Senate by ALL the media as well as by a large number of people. I mean she was just trying to earn enough money to go to Sandals in Jamaica.
If the attention this woman has received does not re-boot our thinking then I don't know what will!! I mean seriously, I am talking about myself as well. I sit there glued to reality shows, Kate and Jon, Kardashians, The Real Housewives (Atlanta!), and yes I even catch myself flipping through the channels hoping to see a clip of Christine O'donnell give her weekly monologue on how bees carry AIDS and Mexicans have infiltrated the US government and are making The President and Mrs. Obama become secret drug mules. I can't get enough of this stuff! BUT, what I refuse to do is engage in a debate with anyone about her policy ideas or her future in our government, because every time one of us does that we actually legitimize her as a candidate.
Let me give an example. If I walked into a hospital with a white coat and clip board and said I am going to be the new doctor here people would be like "OK you got off on the wrong floor, crazy lady." I am almost 100% sure that they wouldn't say, "oh, well can you assist me in this heart surgery, or what do you think about the AIDS crisis in Africa." Unfortunately Christine O'donnell is soooo damn good at being a grifter that she has convinced us that she is a candidate. She has earned shit loads of money and offers to go on every news show there is.
I don't know maybe this country just enjoys watching train wrecks and saying "thank god my brain isn't firing those crazy bullets to my mouth," because we get she's a train wreck, we get she's a grifter, we get she goes to bed at night and rolls around on her donation money dressed in her old witch suit, laughing at all of us right? Do we?