The Way Christine O'Donnell's Campaign Had To End

Hah - fooled you!  Christine O'Donnell's campaign NEVER ends, because "campaigning" for a U.S. Senate seat she is incapable of winning is what she does for a "living".

And besides, her REAL campaign isn't against the Democrats and never was:

People can lie about numbers, but numbers cannot lie about themselves.  And CO'D's general election numbers were brutally clear from a month before the Delaware GOP primary.  Which is why I never got roped into being even a reluctant cheerleader for this gorgeous scam artist.

DrewM was one of the many who did, however, so since I've already said this stuff two months ago, I'll reiterate the "See, I told you so" with his mea culpa:

The most glaringly stupid thing about her making the disunity excuse is that she ran as a write-in candidate two years ago after losing the primary. (Sound familiar?) I really don't want to hear about a lack of unity from a person who demands it but never gets around to giving it.

Yes, according to exit polls she did come close to matching Coons in independents (she ran three points behind him) but close isn't good enough in a state where Democrats are an overwhelmingly large part of the electorate.

Look at how voters identified themselves by ideology...23% liberal, 66% moderate, 17% conservative. Coons cleaned up with liberals and moderates winning those groups 88% and 66% respectively. Do you really think those two groups were simply waiting for the ok from Karl Rove and John Cornyn to vote for O'Donnell?....

Karl Rove and the NRSC had nothing to do with O'Donnell's defeat. In fact, as bad of a candidate as I think O'Donnell is, she had little to do with her defeat. It's a deeply blue state that actually likes liberals. We had a chance to get a moderate-liberal Republican and passed on it. To me, that was tactically stupid. Yes, Castle would have been a pain in the ass but not as big a one when there were forty-seven or forty-eight Republicans in the Senate. The power of the moderates is when they are all the deciding vote, add a cushion and they are manageable. Personally, I would have liked to have had another no vote on HCR in the Senate but others didn't think that was important enough.

Here's what really bothers me about this race and people's positions on it...every party and movement is going to nominate a stinker every now and then. It happens. Usually though you just politely turn away and ignore them. In this case a lot of folks not only didn't want to ignore O'Donnell (that was RINOism!) but embraced and promoted her.

That was a mistake, not because of what it meant in Delaware (a lost cause without Castle on the ballot) but what it means nationally. O'Donnell was a lousy candidate. She had a sketchy personal story, no record of achievement before coming to the race and no real ability to further the conservative message. We spent a lot of money and time on a candidate that had no shot. If you were a Democrat and wanted to hurt conservatives or the tea party by making someone the face of those groups, you'd pick Christine O'Donnell. The fact that a lot of conservatives willingly did that is simply an unforced error we should not repeat.

And how did that CNN interview segment begin?  By pointing out that only Barack Obama received more national press attention over the past two months than Christine O'Donnell.  Coincidence?  I think not.

And mark this well, folks: She's not going away.  This was her third Delaware Senate race in four years, and there'll be another one two years from now.  Think she won't launch a rematch with Tom Carper in 2012?  And challenge Coons again in 2014?  And in the mean time, she's a celebrity, which means that she'll be hip deep in vanity media opportunities.  No mere fifteen minutes of fame for the Samantha Stevens of the twenty-first century, my pretties; she's got a Tea Party movement to keep "bewitched," and all that nose-twitching won't pay for itself.

And if you're not down with that, she's got four words for ya: "RINO Ruling Class Bastard!"

In essence, Christine O'Donnell is what the Obamedia has relentlessly tried to smear Sarah Palin as being.  Which makes Sarahcuda's last-minute endorsement of her that much more ill-considered.

What's next for Christine O'Donnell?  Probably shaving her head and photoshopping Karl Rove's face into a papal costume.  Heck, we're already jealous because we can't get on Saturday Night Live like she can, right?  Salt in the wound, my friends, salt in the wound.