Tea Baggers and Republicans both have a penchant for NOT vetting their candidates. And it's certainly evident with Christine O'Donnell who, if she's smart, will drop out of the race. But that's the problem: she isn't smart.

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Poor Delaware. It's a beautiful state that nobody seems to remember - Perhaps because nobody has ever been there. But that will all change if Christine O'Donnell becomes senator. Because she'll make sure that you remember her. The state's reputation will hang on to her or rather, be dragged by her kicking and screaming. For what Michele Bachmann has done to a district in Minnesota, O'Donnell is determined to do to Delaware.

Some people call O'Donnell avaricious. Some people call O'Donnell a liar. Some people call O'Donnell an unmarried, silly prude. Some people call O'Donnell a complete fraud.

Karl Rove thinks she has a "character problem."

But Tony Perkins loves her:

"We are pleased to announce that Christine O'Donnell will join us to speak at the Values Voter Summit. We applaud her for valiantly defending faith, family and freedom throughout this campaign.

Typically, Tea Partiers and Republicans are not supporting O'Donnell for what she's for as much as for what she's against: condoms, gay rights, masturbation, pornography, big government, feminists, teaching evolution, and anyone who doesn't worship J.R.R. Tolkien. You can wear yourself out googling, and reading wikipedia, but you will not read about O'Donnell being for very much, unless it's a totally sterilized, "Leave It To Beaver" society.

The scary part of O'Donnell's victory over Castle is that it re-affirms the idea that Republicans and Tea Baggers never properly vet their candidates. For example, did they know that she makes the Puritans look positively hedonistic? Did they know that her "ministry" - Saviors Alliance for Lifting the Truth - sponsored an abysmal failure of an ex-gay ministry and was a spokesperson for NARTH? And were they aware that as spokeperson for Concerned Women of America, she staunchly supported Jesse Helms' anti-AIDS-funding campaign?

In O'Donnell's world, righteousness trumps everything. She's against abortion, even in the case of rape or incest. She's against condoms because she think they promote a destructive lifestyle and actually help the spread of AIDS. She's against lying in any form and had this exchange with Eddy Izzard on Politically Incorrect:

IRONY #458:

Unfortunately for Miss Christine O'Donnell, people in her past are speaking out, and there may have been dozens of instances where she "practiced deception."

Politico:

Kristin Murray, a Republican who served two months as O'Donnell's campaign manager in 2008, called the candidate a "complete fraud." Murray said she quit working for O'Donnell in 2008 after discovering that she didn't have a college degree, had failed to make payments on her mortgage and was using the campaign debit card for personal expenses.

Quotes from O'Donnell

Masturbation:

"If he already knows what pleases him and he can please himself, than why am I in the picture?"

Truth:

"There's only truth and not truth," she said. "You're either very good or evil ..."

Psychics:

"Psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm."

Obama:

He's soooo liberal. He's anti-American," said O'Donnell. "He's beating the 'change' drum. But let's look at the change. He did not vote for English as the official language. What does that say?"

On J.R.R. Tolkien:

"You see Tolkien's wisdom applied to just about everything: Tolkien and communism, Tolkien and industrialization, ...In researching this topic I even found a book on Tolkien and sexual fetishes."

It's unfortunate that O'Donnell's negativity blinds Tea Baggers who see it as meaning less government. It's a negativity that harms (like NARTH) and even kills (no funding for AIDS).

O'Donnell's rhetoric (such as it is) is shallow: her buzz words are only an half-notch up from Sharron Angle's. She's trying to remedy her show of faults by expunging everything from her website and re-inventing herself. It won't work: her moments of shrill stupidity will be exposed, and her supporters will have to accept the fact that her entire campaign will bear the brunt of lies, disception, and fraud. And endorsements by Sarah Palin, Tony Perkins or the rest of the fringe Right will not stand against her past actions and associations.

If, however, she does win the election, it will show the rest of America and the world that some of our citizens prefer form over substance. Then again, maybe ...

Sarah Benincasa of Comedy Central's website, INDECISION FOREVER, said it best:

Please, for the love of God, let there be a Palin/O'Donnell ticket in 2012. Real America needs an anti-gay, anti-orgasm, anti-condom, anti-choice duo of stupid, attractive brunettes to lead this nation to true greatness.

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Rev. Dan Vojir is has been writing/blogging on religion and politics for the better part of ten years. A former radio talk show host (Strictly Books €" Talk America Radio Network) and book publisher, Dan has connected with some of the most interesting people of our time: Steve Allen, William F. Buckley, Alan Ginsburg, Armisted Maupin, Anne Rice, Grace Slick, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Patricia Nell Warren, and Betty White.

He is also an ordained minister in the ULC and has studied extensively on the subject of the Bible and homosexuality. Additional articles can be read on his blog, The Devil and Dan Vojir.

Future goals and activities: a new ministry focusing on reaching personal spiritual levels without the outside influence of proselytism or evangelism called The Church of the Inner Preacher. This ministry will be included in a new website The Devil and Dan Vojir.

Vojir's main goal: to root out hypocrisy in religion and politics. "If only one person is saved from being killed or bashed by inane bigotry, then I'll have accomplished what I was put on earth to do: To Live and Help Live."
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