Reply #15: I'm not sure that the witchcraft thing is a serious problem [View All]

[karynnj]

The fact that she has spent more than the last decade as a professional Christian fundamentalist advocate, who spoke of such things in a cautionary way really means her base will not have a problem with this - she was (almost) lost and then she was saved. Worse things didn't hurt GWB. To be fair, Obama's drug usage and anything he did in college didn't hurt either. In fact, the similarity in the three cases was that they all personally disowned these things. (Remember "young and irresponsible" W. )

The other issues need to be raised very seriously and carefully - and likely NOT by the candidate. The problem is that to many, O'Donnell will seem a "nice girl" - and I intentionally use the word girl, in spite of her being a 41 year old woman. What is clear is her mannerisms when she dispelled the witchcraft thing were very little girlish. I know it is an effective defense mechanism.