Christine O'Donnell

Christine Therese O'Donnell was the Republican Party's candidate for Delaware in the Senate special election (to fill Delaware's Class II Senate seat, which was held by Ted Kaufman) of 2010, but she lost the race to Chris Coons, 57% to 40%. This was not her first time in a political race, and she did not win the previous ones either.

She can be described as conservative when it comes to political and social matters:

• Pro-life and opposes abortion in ALL cases, unless the mother was going to die in which case her family members would decide which life to keep. Also opposes stem cell research and human cloning.
  
• Says she would never agree to raise taxes.
  
• Harder punishments for employers who hire illegal immigrants.
  
• Raising the age you can claim Social Security benefit.
• She revoked her original opinion of anti-masturbation. (1996) "I was a pundit. I was very passionate in my 20s and wanted to share my beliefs."
• Supports building more oil refineries.
• She signed the Tea Party's "Contract from America" which would change the Health Care legislative act to a system that is "competitive, open, and transparent free-market."

After revoking her comment from 1996, O'Donnell has stated that she would, if elected, make all political decisions based on the Constitution and not her own opinion or beliefs.



This is the 2008 Campaign ad for Christine O'Donnell entitled "I'm You."

In this ad she tried to use her own mistake, (in this case saying "I dabbled into witchcraft. I never joined a coven.") to relate to the public by trying to show that she is a normal person and that nobody is perfect.

Therefore as a 'normal person' she is going to act in the best interests of the American people if she is elected. However, this ad just increased the attention given to her declaration made over ten years ago on the TV show, Politically Incorrect. After this ad was aired, she was then quoted as saying in an interview, "I haven't publicly stated this, and I don't know if I'll get in trouble for saying that, but our intention was to kill it, and that's not what happened."

It also led to many parodies of the ad coming out, such as the one below from Saturday Night Live. (Embedding was not available for the full version.)



O'Donnell then released a second ad campaign, called "What I'm made of." It gave the same message as the first, that she is like the regular American, but this time it highlighted her stance on taxes and that they should not be raised, something that would be popular with the public.



Following on from O'Donnell's belief in following the constitution, here are some quotes I found from her on one of the major news network sites:

"A convenant based on divine principles."

"The agents of anti-Americanism who dominate the D.C cocktail crowd have disrespected the hallowed document."

"Republicans must champion the American values enshrined in our sacred text. There are more of us than there are of them."

However, it should be mentioned that the Constitution never once mentions Jesus or God.

Other sources:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/21/christine-odonnell-i-regr_n_771236.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/