I read in the Daily Sun that Christine O'Donnell is going to be in The Villages to sell her new book. Amazing that people who make statements like the following actually get others to buy their books. I cannot say for sure the book is ghost-written but I would bet on it - and uber-conservatives will buy the book and O'Donnell will laugh all the way to the bank. It's your money, guys.
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''Oh gosh. Give me a specific one ... I'm very sorry right off the top of my head, I know that there are a lot but, uh, I'll put it up on my website I promise you.''
—Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, unable to name a Supreme Court case she disagrees with during her debate with her opponent, Democrat Chris Coons, Oct. 13, 2010

''American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.''
—Christine O'Donnell, discussing cloning with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, 2007

Originally Posted by buggyone

I read in the Daily Sun that Christine O'Donnell is going to be in The Villages to sell her new book. Amazing that people who make statements like the following actually get others to buy their books. I cannot say for sure the book is ghost-written but I would bet on it - and uber-conservatives will buy the book and O'Donnell will laugh all the way to the bank. It's your money, guys.
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''Oh gosh. Give me a specific one ... I'm very sorry right off the top of my head, I know that there are a lot but, uh, I'll put it up on my website I promise you.''
—Delaware GOP Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, unable to name a Supreme Court case she disagrees with during her debate with her opponent, Democrat Chris Coons, Oct. 13, 2010

''American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.''
—Christine O'Donnell, discussing cloning with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, 2007

Here we go again, a post that is surely heading for a tit for tat.

I think it is time for me to take a vacation from Political. I'm out of here. Bye.

She is short of a full load, but she is very pretty. I have watched her in a few different interviews and feel she is a nice lady and means well, just not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

OK, it's time for more bashing of Republican women. Let's have at it.

Originally Posted by RichieLion

OK, it's time for more bashing of Republican women. Let's have at it.

It is getting old, predictable and very very tiring ! This board is being used.....again, for about the same reasons, I think I need a vacation also.

I think the problem is that almost all the Republican women WHO TAKE A SHOT AT NATIONAL POLITICS lately are *easy* pickings.

Let's look at the list.

We have the Alaska governor who quit her job partway through to go on her publicity tour. Amazing how she "coincidentally" showed up in NH when Romney announced and withing bicycle distance of the Iowa Straw Poll when that happened.

We have the woman from Minnesota who said God told her to marry her husband and that her husband told her to get into law school. She rallies against government subsidies while profiting from them to say nothing of her laundry list of quotes that are the verbal equivalent of lighning rods.

O'Donnell is yesterday's news. But she gets huffy in an interview with Piers Morgan. He asks her about stuff SHE WROTE IN HER BOOK that she was promoting - and then says HE was out of line with the questions! But, like I said, she's in the history department now.

For whatever reason, the GOP isn't coming up with *credible* women. Now, I don't agree with a lot of the policies but name me one woman on the GOP side who could at least compete for the title of "smartest person in the room" with the likes of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul or even those who's campaigns were jokes like Gingrich.

So far, the women of the GOP are more like female versions of Donald Trump.

Why don't we hear from someone with gravitas - like maybe Condi Rice or someone who has staying power like Olympia Snowe?

Why? Because they don't have something that Bachmann, Palin and O'Donnell have. Looks. And, evidently, that's what counts to make the cut if you're a woman.

Heck - look at the GOP PR department - otherwise known as Fox News. Megan Kelly goes on maternity leave (something she called "the first step to socialism" back around 2008) and is replaced by three successive blonde women.

That's what this is - it's a PR and/or beauty contest.

Men aren't excused from it. Pawlenty? Gone. Romney? The leader. Paul? He finished second to Bachmann and NOBODY mentions it. It's like they (the news media on BOTH sides) don't want to admit that he's even IN it! Huckabee? Nope. Christie won't get in.

Right now, although I have many concerns about him, I'm looking at voting in the NH primary for Ron Paul. This wouldn't be the first time I voted for him (that would be the 1998 general election).

Originally Posted by The Villager II

She is short of a full load, but she is very pretty. I have watched her in a few different interviews and feel she is a nice lady and means well, just not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

She walked off an interview show with Piers Morgan because he was asking her questions!

djplong, I have to agree with you on this topic. Where is Condi Rice when we really need her?

Originally Posted by djplong

I think the problem is that almost all the Republican women WHO TAKE A SHOT AT NATIONAL POLITICS lately are *easy* pickings.

Let's look at the list.

We have the Alaska governor who quit her job partway through to go on her publicity tour. Amazing how she "coincidentally" showed up in NH when Romney announced and withing bicycle distance of the Iowa Straw Poll when that happened.

We have the woman from Minnesota who said God told her to marry her husband and that her husband told her to get into law school. She rallies against government subsidies while profiting from them to say nothing of her laundry list of quotes that are the verbal equivalent of lighning rods.

O'Donnell is yesterday's news. But she gets huffy in an interview with Piers Morgan. He asks her about stuff SHE WROTE IN HER BOOK that she was promoting - and then says HE was out of line with the questions! But, like I said, she's in the history department now.

For whatever reason, the GOP isn't coming up with *credible* women. Now, I don't agree with a lot of the policies but name me one woman on the GOP side who could at least compete for the title of "smartest person in the room" with the likes of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul or even those who's campaigns were jokes like Gingrich.

So far, the women of the GOP are more like female versions of Donald Trump.

Why don't we hear from someone with gravitas - like maybe Condi Rice or someone who has staying power like Olympia Snowe?

Why? Because they don't have something that Bachmann, Palin and O'Donnell have. Looks. And, evidently, that's what counts to make the cut if you're a woman.

Heck - look at the GOP PR department - otherwise known as Fox News. Megan Kelly goes on maternity leave (something she called "the first step to socialism" back around 2008) and is replaced by three successive blonde women.

That's what this is - it's a PR and/or beauty contest.

Men aren't excused from it. Pawlenty? Gone. Romney? The leader. Paul? He finished second to Bachmann and NOBODY mentions it. It's like they (the news media on BOTH sides) don't want to admit that he's even IN it! Huckabee? Nope. Christie won't get in.

Right now, although I have many concerns about him, I'm looking at voting in the NH primary for Ron Paul. This wouldn't be the first time I voted for him (that would be the 1998 general election).

Let someone say something positive about Hillary and you will hear the same rhetoric from the repubs.

I would have to say that the posting by DJPlong is probably the best I have read at anytime on this forum.

All of his points are on-point and correct. Good going!!

I just would like to know why anyone would go to O'Donnell's book signing and pay out their money to her. It is obvious that The Villages is a bastion of conservatives so the conservative book-sellers (note I did not say authors) use it as a major money making stop on their tours.

Originally Posted by djplong

I think the problem is that almost all the Republican women WHO TAKE A SHOT AT NATIONAL POLITICS lately are *easy* pickings.

Let's look at the list.

We have the Alaska governor who quit her job partway through to go on her publicity tour. Amazing how she "coincidentally" showed up in NH when Romney announced and withing bicycle distance of the Iowa Straw Poll when that happened.

We have the woman from Minnesota who said God told her to marry her husband and that her husband told her to get into law school. She rallies against government subsidies while profiting from them to say nothing of her laundry list of quotes that are the verbal equivalent of lighning rods.

O'Donnell is yesterday's news. But she gets huffy in an interview with Piers Morgan. He asks her about stuff SHE WROTE IN HER BOOK that she was promoting - and then says HE was out of line with the questions! But, like I said, she's in the history department now.

For whatever reason, the GOP isn't coming up with *credible* women. Now, I don't agree with a lot of the policies but name me one woman on the GOP side who could at least compete for the title of "smartest person in the room" with the likes of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul or even those who's campaigns were jokes like Gingrich.

So far, the women of the GOP are more like female versions of Donald Trump.

Why don't we hear from someone with gravitas - like maybe Condi Rice or someone who has staying power like Olympia Snowe?

Why? Because they don't have something that Bachmann, Palin and O'Donnell have. Looks. And, evidently, that's what counts to make the cut if you're a woman.

Heck - look at the GOP PR department - otherwise known as Fox News. Megan Kelly goes on maternity leave (something she called "the first step to socialism" back around 2008) and is replaced by three successive blonde women.

That's what this is - it's a PR and/or beauty contest.

Men aren't excused from it. Pawlenty? Gone. Romney? The leader. Paul? He finished second to Bachmann and NOBODY mentions it. It's like they (the news media on BOTH sides) don't want to admit that he's even IN it! Huckabee? Nope. Christie won't get in.

Right now, although I have many concerns about him, I'm looking at voting in the NH primary for Ron Paul. This wouldn't be the first time I voted for him (that would be the 1998 general election).

Are you kidding me? Boy, oh boy. What a post. So you obviously have problems with blond women. But, I am confused. You don't like Megyn Kelly because she is blond, attractive, smart or a woman? Or is it the fact that she is not only a journalist, but a journalist with a law degree and children on top of that.

Name you one with the smarts to go against Romney or Paul? How about US Rep. Kristi Noem, R-SD. Oh, she's attractive too. Or Florida US Rep. Sandy Adams, R, or one of my favorites; Republican Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers.

Originally Posted by djplong

I think the problem is that almost all the Republican women WHO TAKE A SHOT AT NATIONAL POLITICS lately are *easy* pickings.

Let's look at the list.

We have the Alaska governor who quit her job partway through to go on her publicity tour. Amazing how she "coincidentally" showed up in NH when Romney announced and withing bicycle distance of the Iowa Straw Poll when that happened.

We have the woman from Minnesota who said God told her to marry her husband and that her husband told her to get into law school. She rallies against government subsidies while profiting from them to say nothing of her laundry list of quotes that are the verbal equivalent of lighning rods.

O'Donnell is yesterday's news. But she gets huffy in an interview with Piers Morgan. He asks her about stuff SHE WROTE IN HER BOOK that she was promoting - and then says HE was out of line with the questions! But, like I said, she's in the history department now.

For whatever reason, the GOP isn't coming up with *credible* women. Now, I don't agree with a lot of the policies but name me one woman on the GOP side who could at least compete for the title of "smartest person in the room" with the likes of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul or even those who's campaigns were jokes like Gingrich.

So far, the women of the GOP are more like female versions of Donald Trump.

Why don't we hear from someone with gravitas - like maybe Condi Rice or someone who has staying power like Olympia Snowe?

Why? Because they don't have something that Bachmann, Palin and O'Donnell have. Looks. And, evidently, that's what counts to make the cut if you're a woman.

Heck - look at the GOP PR department - otherwise known as Fox News. Megan Kelly goes on maternity leave (something she called "the first step to socialism" back around 2008) and is replaced by three successive blonde women.

That's what this is - it's a PR and/or beauty contest.

Men aren't excused from it. Pawlenty? Gone. Romney? The leader. Paul? He finished second to Bachmann and NOBODY mentions it. It's like they (the news media on BOTH sides) don't want to admit that he's even IN it! Huckabee? Nope. Christie won't get in.

Right now, although I have many concerns about him, I'm looking at voting in the NH primary for Ron Paul. This wouldn't be the first time I voted for him (that would be the 1998 general election).

Regarding "Why don't we hear from someone with gravitas - like maybe Condi Rice or someone who has staying power like Olympia Snowe?"

Well apparently the Democrats don't want a woman "with gravitas like Condi Rice" and "staying power like Olympia Snowe".

Hillary Clinton has more gravitas and ESPECIALLY "staying power" than all those others combined, and her party threw her under the bus in order to flock adoringly to the feet of a younger MALE with looks and shiny smile.....and the "right color" too.

Gimme a break.

And good luck with the part about supporting Ron Paul.....who claimed in the debate last week that Iran isn't even in pre-school yet when it comes to nuclear weapons.....and having no motives to use one. (They don't really want to wipe Israel and us off the face of the earth.)

Hey - let us cherish the hot and cute...Hotncute were an honored civilization before the sinking of Atlantis. When the Knights of the Grail were on their quest...it was not for Jerusalem...it was for the Hotncute. Sweet, dumb but always purely Hotncute.

I am not a witch.

Originally Posted by ladydoc

Let someone say something positive about Hillary and you will hear the same rhetoric from the repubs.

The critics and comedians make fun of her looks, (she's a little older); her 'bitchyness', (she's emotionally strong and a good decision maker). And then, of course, they ridicule her moral compass, for remaining nominally attached to that most despicable Bill, who's talents and accomplishments are nothing, because of his unspeakable sexual crimes. (she has the right to decide how to live her life, thank you very much!)

So it seems to be the lot of the woman in the public eye, and certainly those in politics, to be judged by wrong-headed stereotypes. And it is tragic that women especially are still treated this way.

But interestingly, the 'repub rhetoric', (or whatever you call it) doesn't say much about Hillary's intelligence, because, like Condi Rice, she's well educated, stable and experienced in the ways of the world. And that is the issue. Intelligence, experience and stability are key character traits our leaders need. And while I see it as only a coincidence that they are Republicans, at least these three female aspirants; Bachmann, Palin and O'Donnell are lacking in those areas.

Hilary is emotionally strong and a great decision maker? Surely you jest.