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O’DONNELLPHOBIA! Media Discovers Dreaded Gay-Hating Extremist Theocrat Is Related to People Who . . . Uh, Aren’t

Posted on | September 16, 2010 | 65 Comments

In the famous words of the most successful politician in Delaware history: Big f***ing deal.

Christine has a lesbian sister named Jennie, whom I’m pretty sure I met Wednesday while I was filing from the lobby of the Fairfield Inn in Dover. I also met Christine’s father, her mother, her brother-in-law, etc.

True confession time: Two of my cousins are Democrats.

I’m not going to name them, because I’m not sure whether they’re out of the closet. It’s disgusting to think that my own flesh and blood would vote for the Party of Evil but, after all, I was myself a Democrat until I was 35 years old. There but for the grace of God . . .

Did I mention that a distant relative of mine is a vicious backstabbing RINO? (Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Bob Barr!)

Please notice that progressives automatically assume that Jennie O’Donnell’s sexuality somehow discredits Christine. The MSM would never dream of employing this tactic — what shall we call it? hypocrisy by association? — against a Democrat. Surely there must be at least one liberal Democratic member of Congress whose close relative is an NRA member, a Southern Baptist, or a Tea Party activist. But you will never see the liberal media do a feature story portraying a Democrat’s right-wing kin as being some sort of a rebuke of their relative’s liberal politics:

STUMPWATER, Mississippi — His beer-drinking buddies call him “Catfish” and think of him as a regular good-ole-boy, but none of them know that Arnold Frank has a famous brother, the gay liberal congressman from Massachusetts . . .

Never going to happen, you see? The media’s unquestioned assumption is that all intelligent people of goodwill are liberal Democrats. So people who aren’t liberal Democrats are therefore automatically objects of suspicion, whose views and associations must be investigated and exposed.

It is only Republicans who ever receive this kind of treatment. A Democrat’s family history and career associations can never be used to discredit them. Say, for example, that a Democrat’s father was a foreign socialist, that he went to Indonesia with his mother whom he subsequently described as a “secular humanist,” and he spent 20 years in a church with a radical preacher while palling around with terrorists in the most notoriously corrupt city in America . . .

Not a story. Nothing to see here. Move along.

O’Donnellphobia is like Palin Derangment Syndrome, where anyone who’s ever had a disagreement with Sarah Palin becomes a credible source for a hit piece.

Oh, look, there’s Christine’s ex-ex-gay disgruntled former employee dishing dirt!

And – O’MGasm! — Christine has known men in the biblical sense:

It was in college at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey that O’Donnell did things she regrets — drinking too much and having sex with guys with whom there wasn’t a strong emotional connection.

That’s right, folks: Christine O’Donnell is a sinful harlot, a fallen woman who probably wears push-up bras and lipstick like a cheap hussy.

And if she was a liberal Democrat or Meghan McCain, this would make no difference whatsoever.

Only because Christine O’Donnell is a conservative Republican do these thing get reported. Why? Because conservatives are evil and dangerous and lurking in your children’s closets!

It’s just like the “raaaaacism” thing: Left-wing fear-mongers keep beating that drum to remind everyone that America is always just one GOP victory away from The Dark Night of Fascism, when the stormtroopers come goose-stepping down Main Street, rounding up the masturbators and homosexuals and brown people and anyone else who doesn’t swear the Blood Oath of Eternal Allegiance to Newt Gingrich.

You know: Like 1959 all over again, when Eisenhower was president and Richard Nixon ate nine Jewish babies for breakfast every morning and liberal college professors were routinely burned at the stake.

(Hat-tip to Daffyd ab Hugh for coining “O’Donnellphobia.”)

Category: Christine O'Donnell, Delaware, Election, Gays

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65 Responses to “O’DONNELLPHOBIA! Media Discovers Dreaded Gay-Hating Extremist Theocrat Is Related to People Who . . . Uh, Aren’t”

  1. nathan hale
    September 17th, 2010 @ 2:08 pm

    The Harrison Act and the Volstead Act, were accretions of early 20th Century progressivism,
    although Richmond Hopkins, no progressive by any bodies lights, really started the ball rolling in the former. You did get around to reading
    Epstein’s “Agency of Fear” right.

    Now what this has to do with O’Donnell toppling
    a bastion of the establishment, much like Sarah
    did with Murkowski, some years ago, is kind of
    off the mark. What she has figured out, is that
    the way to win is to mobilize all those who wouldn’t ordinarily turn out, imagine that

  2. nathan hale
    September 17th, 2010 @ 10:08 am

    The Harrison Act and the Volstead Act, were accretions of early 20th Century progressivism,
    although Richmond Hopkins, no progressive by any bodies lights, really started the ball rolling in the former. You did get around to reading
    Epstein’s “Agency of Fear” right.

    Now what this has to do with O’Donnell toppling
    a bastion of the establishment, much like Sarah
    did with Murkowski, some years ago, is kind of
    off the mark. What she has figured out, is that
    the way to win is to mobilize all those who wouldn’t ordinarily turn out, imagine that

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  4. M. Simon
    September 17th, 2010 @ 2:22 pm

    zf September 17th, 2010 @ 8:28 am,

    You have no idea of where I’m coming from. I grew up Jewish in the 50s and was FORCED into assemblies where praise to Jesus was the order of the day. I hated that. Just hated it. So blame it on the socons of my era and previous eras.

    And you know public schools as indoctrination centers was a socon idea. You can look it up. They favored public schools as indoctrination centers because they feared the Catholics and Jews flooding in from Europe. That one kind of got away from them.

    The socons are not blameless for the mess we are currently in. Suck it up. Neither am I blameless. I suck it up every day. Proudly. Because I am working as hard as I can to correct my errors. In so far as I am convinced my former position was in error. And I do not regret for one nanosecond my ’04 vote for Obama. If the Right runs another socon with statist dreams I will vote Communist again. I have no objection to socons (I like Palin). It is the one’s with statist dreams (“there ought to be a law”) that I object to.

    I have yet to see a socon apologize for alcohol prohibition, the drug war, or public schools. Maybe here, today, will be a first. I’m not holding my breath.

    BTW you might find this of interest:

    Cornyn: Independents keep telling me we should focus on fiscal, not social, issues

    I’m down with that.

  5. M. Simon
    September 17th, 2010 @ 10:22 am

    zf September 17th, 2010 @ 8:28 am,

    You have no idea of where I’m coming from. I grew up Jewish in the 50s and was FORCED into assemblies where praise to Jesus was the order of the day. I hated that. Just hated it. So blame it on the socons of my era and previous eras.

    And you know public schools as indoctrination centers was a socon idea. You can look it up. They favored public schools as indoctrination centers because they feared the Catholics and Jews flooding in from Europe. That one kind of got away from them.

    The socons are not blameless for the mess we are currently in. Suck it up. Neither am I blameless. I suck it up every day. Proudly. Because I am working as hard as I can to correct my errors. In so far as I am convinced my former position was in error. And I do not regret for one nanosecond my ’04 vote for Obama. If the Right runs another socon with statist dreams I will vote Communist again. I have no objection to socons (I like Palin). It is the one’s with statist dreams (“there ought to be a law”) that I object to.

    I have yet to see a socon apologize for alcohol prohibition, the drug war, or public schools. Maybe here, today, will be a first. I’m not holding my breath.

    BTW you might find this of interest:

    Cornyn: Independents keep telling me we should focus on fiscal, not social, issues

    I’m down with that.

  6. M. Simon
    September 17th, 2010 @ 2:46 pm

    The anti-abortion movement has always tried to change the culture while at the same time trying to get abortion banned.

    Well it is the last (bolded) part I object to. I don’t like black markets. And if you drive abortion underground you will have a much harder time reaching women who want one. And then there is RU-486 (did I get the number right?). Do you really want another drug war?

    The drug is currently a very minor factor in the abortion question. It will be LARGE if you succeed in driving the practice underground.

    It is very hard to change people’s minds if you make criminals out of them. This is America and no one obeys laws they don’t believe in (drugs are illegal and yet kids – fookin kids – can get them easier than beer).

    Once you outlaw abortion you will loose any chance at regulation.

    I can’t figure out why socons believe that prohibited means unavailable. It just means provided by criminals. In fact socons are the criminals best friends. Ever hear of the bootlegger/Baptist coalition?

    Take drug prohibition. It is what makes a pile of vegetables worth its weight in gold.

    You might also want to look up the menstrual extraction movement. Very popular in the late 60s. You want to revive that?

    You might also want to look up Richard Cowan’s Iron Law Of Prohibition. I’ll give you the short version. Stronger enforcement of prohibition brings stronger drugs to market.

    Socons are supposed to be so smart about human nature. I’m not seeing it. They have statist dreams just like the socialists. Just different ones.

    And if I have to vote Communist to send the socons a message? I’m down with that. As are quite a few other Rs. I have the numbers in case you are interested:

    Obama/Keyes vs Kerry/Bush

  7. M. Simon
    September 17th, 2010 @ 10:46 am

    The anti-abortion movement has always tried to change the culture while at the same time trying to get abortion banned.

    Well it is the last (bolded) part I object to. I don’t like black markets. And if you drive abortion underground you will have a much harder time reaching women who want one. And then there is RU-486 (did I get the number right?). Do you really want another drug war?

    The drug is currently a very minor factor in the abortion question. It will be LARGE if you succeed in driving the practice underground.

    It is very hard to change people’s minds if you make criminals out of them. This is America and no one obeys laws they don’t believe in (drugs are illegal and yet kids – fookin kids – can get them easier than beer).

    Once you outlaw abortion you will loose any chance at regulation.

    I can’t figure out why socons believe that prohibited means unavailable. It just means provided by criminals. In fact socons are the criminals best friends. Ever hear of the bootlegger/Baptist coalition?

    Take drug prohibition. It is what makes a pile of vegetables worth its weight in gold.

    You might also want to look up the menstrual extraction movement. Very popular in the late 60s. You want to revive that?

    You might also want to look up Richard Cowan’s Iron Law Of Prohibition. I’ll give you the short version. Stronger enforcement of prohibition brings stronger drugs to market.

    Socons are supposed to be so smart about human nature. I’m not seeing it. They have statist dreams just like the socialists. Just different ones.

    And if I have to vote Communist to send the socons a message? I’m down with that. As are quite a few other Rs. I have the numbers in case you are interested:

    Obama/Keyes vs Kerry/Bush

  8. M. Simon
    September 17th, 2010 @ 2:54 pm

    nathan hale September 17th, 2010 @ 10:08 am,

    Billy Sunday.

  9. M. Simon
    September 17th, 2010 @ 10:54 am

    nathan hale September 17th, 2010 @ 10:08 am,

    Billy Sunday.

  10. Karen S
    September 17th, 2010 @ 3:15 pm

    “Please notice that progressives automatically assume that Jennie O’Donnell’s sexuality somehow discredits Christine.”

    Funny how Dems can suddenly switch gears so fast from the usual boilerplate of “not that there’s anything wrong with it”…

  11. Karen S
    September 17th, 2010 @ 11:15 am

    “Please notice that progressives automatically assume that Jennie O’Donnell’s sexuality somehow discredits Christine.”

    Funny how Dems can suddenly switch gears so fast from the usual boilerplate of “not that there’s anything wrong with it”…

  12. wombat-socho
    September 17th, 2010 @ 6:12 pm

    Guys! Guys! The firing squad is supposed to be forming in a straight line, FACING THE DONKEY. All of you who are facing each other are WRONG. Get your fingers off the damn triggers, lower your rifles and line up properly, damn it!

  13. wombat-socho
    September 17th, 2010 @ 2:12 pm

    Guys! Guys! The firing squad is supposed to be forming in a straight line, FACING THE DONKEY. All of you who are facing each other are WRONG. Get your fingers off the damn triggers, lower your rifles and line up properly, damn it!

  14. Liber Tarian
    September 20th, 2010 @ 3:48 pm

    “The liberals crack me up. It’s okay for the government to control our health and run our finances, but we can’t lose our precious Five Knuckle Shuffle rights!”

    Confused Republicans crack me up even more. It’s okay for the government to offer and provide our old, retired Americans (Democrats AND Republicans) with Universal healthcare ala Medicare, but we can’t provide our young, uninsured, under insured, WORKING class Americans with a similar brand of universal health care because that would mean a bigger government.

    Give me a break.

    I say we cut off Medicare and social security completely. Give these Old Fools a run for their retired savings, if they have any left, that is.

  15. Liber Tarian
    September 20th, 2010 @ 11:48 am

    “The liberals crack me up. It’s okay for the government to control our health and run our finances, but we can’t lose our precious Five Knuckle Shuffle rights!”

    Confused Republicans crack me up even more. It’s okay for the government to offer and provide our old, retired Americans (Democrats AND Republicans) with Universal healthcare ala Medicare, but we can’t provide our young, uninsured, under insured, WORKING class Americans with a similar brand of universal health care because that would mean a bigger government.

    Give me a break.

    I say we cut off Medicare and social security completely. Give these Old Fools a run for their retired savings, if they have any left, that is.