O'Donnell placed doubt with witchcraft confession

A figure of no small controversy, Tea Party prospect O’Donnell of Delaware has drawn more than her fair share of negative publicity of late. Lying about her education was one thing. The born-again Protestant has also gone embarrassingly public with her anti-masturbation views. The Christian Science Monitor accounts that O’Donnell has included even more color to the quilt, so to speak. O’Donnell brought up witchcraft on a 1999 episode of the Bill Maher talk exhibit “Politically Incorrect”. Specifically, she claims to have “dabbled in witchcraft”.

O’Donnell may mean Wicca, rather than witchcraft

O’Donnell may not know witchcraft, according to the Wiccan data accessible at the Australian website Witchcraft.com. Her claim that she saw a “Satanic altar” when on a date may be a dead giveaway that her grip on the nomenclature was rather loose. Wicca, as outlined by Witchcraft.com, is rather different than some fever dream of primordial evil. It celebrates nature and its cycles when abandoning the silly pretenses society prescribes on the faith via superstition. As nature takes no sides, Wicca is also neutral. O’Donnell’s wide-eyed exclamation merely adds fuel to the comedic fire burning under her farcical candidacy in Delaware, and also the GOP would like all the baggage to disappear.

'I never joined a coven,’ O’Donnell meekly exclaimed

So-called “witchcraft” was apparently a teenage phase for Christine O’Donnell. She does not currently profess to practice witchcraft, which would likely not sit well with O’Donnell’s current deity, who professes in his own sales literature to be “a jealous God”. Karl Rove does not even have a strategy to pull her out of this. ”She cannot win” has passed Rove’s lips. Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana has called for O’Donnell to clarify her witchcraft statements. While Delaware voters are the ones who’ll ultimately decide whether O’Donnell is fit to serve the state within the Senate, Rove is seriously concerned about her “background, character, statements and previous actions,” as he most recently told “Fox News Sunday”.

Governmental policies as floor show

Now Raw Story accounts that witchcraft may even less essential than the latest scandal for Christine O’Donnell. Reported by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, O’Donnell allegedly used $ 20,000 of campaign cash for her own personal needs. If O’Donnell is indeed guilty, such would not be unheard of within the game of politics. However that certainly doesn’t make it right. The concept of Christine O’Donnell claiming that she’s all about responsible government spending is interesting in this case, to say the least.

Additional reading

Christian Science Monitor

csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/0920/Latest-challenge-facing-Christine-O-Donnell-witchcraft-TV-clip

OpEd News

opednews.com/articles/Good-Gag-Delaware-GOP-Le-by-Robert-S-Becker-100920-9.html

Raw Story

rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/watchdog-christine-odonnell-criminal/

Witchcraft

witchcraft.com.au/