Christine O'Donnell Claims Access To Secret Chinese Takeover Plan

[babylonsister]

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_10/025974.php

O'DONNELL CLAIMS ACCESS TO SECRET CHINESE TAKEOVER PLAN.... When it comes to keeping up with extremist Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, one of the problems is that it becomes harder to surprise us. We've come to expect bizarre remarks, so more routine madness, which might be more interesting if applied to a different candidate, barely registers. Note, for example, that Bill Maher's latest revelation barely made a ripple.

But even for a Senate candidate who's lied repeatedly about her educational background, is suspected of campaign embezzlement, is suspected of tax fraud, rejects modern science, hates gays, has crusaded against masturbation, has talked about stopping Americans from having sex, and embraces a hysterically extreme political worldview, this is pretty extraordinary.

Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware said in a 2006 debate that China was plotting to take over America and claimed to have classified information about the country that she couldn't divulge.

O'Donnell's comments came as she and two other Republican candidates debated U.S. policy on China during Delaware's 2006 Senate primary, which O'Donnell ultimately lost.

She said China had a "carefully thought out and strategic plan to take over America" and accused one opponent of appeasement for suggesting that the two countries were economically dependent and should find a way to be allies.

"There's much I want to say," she said at the time. "I wish I wasn't privy to some of the classified information that I am privy to."

Note that this came from 2006. Some of the evidence of O'Donnell's nuttiness comes from the 1990s, which makes it at least slightly easier for her backers to dismiss as errors of youth. But in '06, O'Donnell was seeking a major-party nomination for the U.S. Senate, claiming to have access to "classified" information about a Chinese "strategic plan to take over America."

At a certain point, this stops being funny and starts being sad. I've long assumed that O'Donnell is just a ridiculous right-wing activist who managed to win a low-turnout primary. Given her delusional claims about access to classified Chinese intelligence, and her outlandish lies about her own educational background, I'm starting to think there may be something deeply wrong with Christine O'Donnell, which really isn't funny at all.

—Steve Benen

[COLGATE4]

1. She's taking her cue from Palin, who is another who says whatever

nonsense comes into her little pea-brain at the moment her mouth moves. Angle, Bachmann, Gomert, the list just goes on and on. They can do it because they know that they will pay absolutely no price for doing it. Get called on it and the litany goes:

1- No, I never said that
2- Maybe I said it but it was taken out of context
3- Well, I didn't MEAN to say it

Followed by a victory lap on Fux with Hannity, O'Lielly and Beck rehabilitating her and reinforcing the lie.

[Yavapai]

2. Are we sure that Christine O'Donnell isn't Glen Beck in Drag???

Just asking...

[Iggo]

11. Glen Beck was never that pretty.

[L0oniX]

3. Big deal. I have secret information about aliens controlling our government.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Will she sell Magic Decoder Rings after the elecxtion?

[sakabatou]

5. Lemme guess, UFOs are involved?

[KamaAina]

6. Oh noes!!! The ChiComs are coming to stock all our stores with their cheap crap!!

oh, wait a minute...

[Scurrilous]

7. K & R

:thumbsup:

[elleng]

8. 'CLAIMED!' Lets try accuracy in headlines, WashMonthly, please!

[RedCloud]

9. It can't be secret if she knows about it!

I bet they are going to take over Wal-mart with their never ending stream of half assed products.

[Viking12]

10. I wonder if that's the same classified document that Michelle Bachmann has

you know, the one that documents the plan to partition Iraq.....

[thereismore]

12. A privy.

[Iggo]

13. She can see China from her house.

[tanyev]

14. Do NOT wear a queen of diamonds playing card costume for Halloween, ok?

:scared:

[MrScorpio]

15. I heard of this secret Chinese plan too...

It's called "Operation: Feng Shui"!

The Chinese are poised to rearrange America when we're not looking

Here it is:



They'll rearrange my furniture when they take it away from my cold, dead chakras!

[toddwv]

16. Well, the course of action is clear.

She needs to be taken to an undisclosed location where she can be properly interrogated to reveal this information which is obviously pertinent to national security.

[Kievan Rus]

17. Wolverines!

[Motown_Johnny]

18. I'm betting on mice with fully functioning human brains sneaking past security

and taking over our nuclear missile silos

[robertpaulsen]

19. "Ancient Chinese secret, huh?"

Calgon, take Christine O'Donnell AWAY!!!

[theothersnippywshrub]

20. She is going to wok the vote with this bat shit stir fry. n/t

[Binka]

21. George Carlin Cheer For Loony Wombat

Rat-shit, bat-shit, dirty old twat,. Sixty-nine assholes tied in a knot. Yaaaay... Lizard-shit... Fuck!