More O'Donnell wisdom: "Out of control" sexual harassment caused by "songs and sitcoms"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Newly elected Republican Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell has raised eyebrows in her brief turn in the public spotlight by promoting a position on cultural issues that borders on the extreme or the bizarre. By and large, however, her political platforms have been characterized as, basically, movement conservatism.

In the New York Times's profile of her candidacy, for example, the authors meandered through some of the crazier quotes from O'Donnell's past (such as her screeds against masturbation) before noting her desire to "repeal the health care law, create health care vouchers for veterans and block any attempts at cap-and-trade legislation."

Dig a little deeper into her past record, however, and one gets the sense that O'Donnell's legislative outlook is basically scripted by her social and religious views. In a C-SPAN appearance the Huffington Post unearthed from December 1996, the Delaware Republican said it was a "misconception that you, quote unquote, can't legislate morality."

"The reality of that statement is that if you don't legislate one morality then you are legislating somebody else's morality," she said. "So you can't get around legislating morality."

To her point, she offered a lengthy denunciation of the government's implementation of welfare and food stamps, blaming the two programs for fostering laziness and encouraging drug use.

"I think that drug use is out of control here and there is something called tough love and what has happened with the liberal welfare program implemented in the last decade is they have cultivated an attitude of dependency," O'Donnell said. "The reality is, especially in my own city here in D.C., is that a lot of those people who do deal drugs are using federal money that they get from welfare programs. We need to implement a tough love program.

"We know that people will abuse the system. They will find a recovery program that can enable them to continue in their drug use as long as they get federal funding. We see the same kind of abuse with food stamps... people are abusing our compassion."

More broadly, she condemned lawmakers for fostering a pop culture that encouraged sexual harassment.

"We sit there and scratch our heads and wonder why sexual harassment is out of control in this country. It is because we are setting a precedent through our pop culture, through the songs that penetrate the airwaves and the sitcoms that are on television that are just saturated with sexual themes, that respect no boundaries," she said. "We need to just do a U-Haul of our pop culture. I think legislators, Hollywood film producers all need to reevaluate why they are doing what they are doing... We end up feeding a demon, feeding a monster and we are feeding this appetite so much that our generation is going to self-destruct quite honestly."

It's far from rare for a lawmaker to bring his or her religious or cultural convictions into politics. O'Donnell's theories on Hollywood and welfare, moreover, are echoed by others within the conservative movement. But the totality of her remarks -- coupled with her seeming skepticism of the need for a filter -- make it clear that she would find herself firmly on the periphery of the GOP tent should she end up in the Senate.

HERE IS VIDEO OF O'DONNELL'S C-SPAN APPEARANCE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/16/christine-odonnell-slams-_n_719201.html

[blondeatlast]

1. "We need to just do a U-Haul..."

No further comment.

[sakabatou]

2. WTF?!

[GreenTea]

3. "She is against sex before marriage-Against masturbation so we are dealing with a 41 year old virgin

that has never even pleasured herself?

Sounds like she would be the worst lay in the history of mankind... actually in the history of all procreating species".

Godlike productions.com

[LibertyLover]

7. Not hardly -

a virgin that is. She has already copped to having been sexually active in college, which she now says she regrets. She is however what the conservative religious folk call a born-again virgin, which for them is almost as good as the real thing.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. In my 20s, I BRIEFLY attended a church that included a few born again druggies...

...that's why the stay was brief. I don't care if they were no longer using or not. They each had a creepy, sanctimonious Manson family vibe and repeatedly DEMANDED to know when I as going to baptized in their church.

In short order, enough was enough and I was outta there.

The same holds true for born again virgins. Don't tell me how to live my life if you've dropped several rolls of quarters in the mechanical bull and have since had a "change of heart."

[blondeatlast]

10. I know some BAVs. Had fun in college, got married, now divorced,

some even with boob jobs--and now they act like they are pure as the driven snow.

Creepy--I've lost a couple of close friends to it. (shiver)

I guess that's why my interest in COD--she reminds so much of that (altough she actually uglied up to mimic Lady BlahBlah).

[bullwinkle428]

4. Is there anyone out there who DOESN'T think this is going to end

with the revelation of a solo sex tape, ala Carrie Prejean?

[valerief]

5. She's as soft as a sneakerful of shit. nt

[Blue Owl]

6. And her agenda smells like 100 sneakerfuls of shit

n/t

[Lance_Boyle]

9. "PENETRATES" the airwaves, eh?

Another Freudian glimpse into the psyche Ms. Dunno Physics.