Dowd on Christine O'Donnell: Myth and Madness
To me, Christine O’Donnell is just another in a long line of politicians with the same happy disconnect with the issues. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about. She doesn’t know what the words she’s saying mean. And when she compares herself to mythical elf creatures (“I’m a fighter, like Eowyn”), no one else knows what she means either.
Her website’s section for “Christine O’Donnell on the issues” is nothing more than a collection of one sentence, bite-sized nuggets of nothingness. She believes “our country was founded on…freedom,” but not for those terrorists who shouldn’t even hope for “precious Constitutional rights.” Let’s also prevent “government meddling in the doctor/patient relationship,” as long as you’re not even thinking about getting an abortion. And by all means, let’s support a “market-based approach to energy solutions” because there’s never been a market for energy before. After all that, let’s flap our wings and fly to Never Never Land.
But her inability to say anything that actually means anything doesn’t seem to trouble her followers. In fact, they seem perfect happy to support her because she’s just like them — uninformed and disdainful of people who actually are informed. She’s the sort of person you’d want to meet at a NASCAR race, therefore she’s the sort of person you’d want to elect.
