Thank you, Eugene. My thoughts exactly!
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/looney_and_thats_no_debate_20101014/Looney, and That’s No Debate
Posted on Oct 14, 2010
By Eugene Robinson
OK, I want to make sure I understand. Two years ago, with the nation facing a host of complex and difficult problems, voters put a bunch of thoughtful, well-educated people in charge of the government. Now many of those same voters, unhappy and impatient, have decided that things will get better if some crazy, ignorant people are running the show? Seriously?
I thought I had come to terms with the whole tea party thing, I really did. I convinced myself that it could be analyzed as a political phenomenon, an expression of disaffection, a reaction to economic, social and demographic change that leaves some Americans anxious and unsettled, blah blah blah. But then came Wednesday’s debate in Delaware—featuring Christine O’Donnell, uncut and uncensored—and all my rationalizations crumbled. This isn’t politics, it’s insanity.I know that O’Donnell is likely to lose to Democrat Chris Coons. But until Election Day—at least—we’re supposed to take her seriously as the Republican candidate for the United States Senate. Sorry, but I just can’t do it anymore.
Nor can I pretend that Carl Paladino, the raging bull from Buffalo, is qualified by experience or temperament to be governor of New York. Or that Sharron Angle, whose small-government philosophy is so extreme as to be incoherent, could possibly make a worthwhile contribution as a senator. Or that Rich Iott, whose idea of weekend fun is putting on a Nazi SS uniform and gamboling through the woods, is remotely acceptable as a candidate for the House.snip//
Four years ago, in a failed Senate campaign, O’Donnell claimed that China had a “carefully thought out and strategic plan to take over America,” and said she knew of this via “classified information that I’m privy to.” In Wednesday’s debate, she insisted that she had indeed received some “security briefs” while working with a humanitarian group that was planning a China trip.
There are only two possibilities: She needs to be fitted for a tinfoil hat, or she made the whole thing up.
I’ve had it. Let’s be honest. If she’s qualified to be a senator, I’m the king of Prussia. 
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