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Erose999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:26 AM Original message |
Christine O' Donnell and N.O.W. respond to one-night-stand story: |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
1. Sorry, but it's hard for me to stick up for a woman who wants to take... |
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Trocadero (892 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:31 AM Response to Original message |
2. those complaining are the same people (other than NOW) who have said horrible things re Obama kids |
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Lochloosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
3. Hummmm...that's not a denial from Christine. |
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tyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:39 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. WTH cares if it's true? |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
4. Why is she blaming Coons? Gawker is not the Coons Campaign. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:55 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. Puzzling, isn't it? |
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SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:56 AM Response to Reply #4 |
17. She's trying to smear Coons with this - but her accusation has no basis in fact |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #4 |
22. She planted this story just so she COULD blame Coons. It's obvious. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
5. No. It was misogynist, disgusting, and wrong, and probably will backfire. |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:43 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. What's wrong is for O'Donnell to set up a false public persona |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:55 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Wrong as that may be, the misogynist attack was more wrong. |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:05 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. I agree with you and it was bound to backfire, which makes me |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:08 PM Response to Reply #15 |
26. And why isn't O'Donnell misogynist? |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:33 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Why would that matter in a discussion of whether that article was right? |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:01 PM Response to Reply #27 |
43. First Joby, I respect what you are saying I really do. But O'Donnell isn't a normal person |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 02:27 PM Response to Reply #43 |
52. So you're saying the article is acceptable but that it's so bad O'Donnell must have planted it? |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 03:28 PM Response to Reply #52 |
54. You're half right (with my intentions) |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 03:56 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. But that's not what I was talking about. The OP thought the article was a good tactic |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:20 PM Response to Reply #27 |
48. That's what this is designed to do. It IS helping her. |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:42 PM Response to Reply #27 |
50. O'Donnell has made her sexual virtue a centerpiece of her political persona. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 02:38 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. So half the people are blaming it on her, and the other half are saying it's a good strategy. |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 04:56 PM Response to Reply #53 |
60. Again: O'Donnel made her sexuality an issue. That makes it "fair game". |
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Erose999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:34 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. You hit the nail on the head Baldguy!!1! nt |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:03 PM Response to Reply #5 |
44. So Vitter's sexapades are fair game? Spitzers? |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:07 PM Response to Reply #5 |
46. That's a false comparison. What the 'Pukes did was misuse their power to go after |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 03:28 AM Response to Reply #5 |
64. I agree |
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LawnLover (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 10:16 AM Response to Reply #5 |
73. Not misogynistic at all |
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Cass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
6. I wholeheartedly agree with the NOW statement. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:43 PM Response to Reply #6 |
33. Because she released the story. She 20 points behind and desperate. |
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PRETZEL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:04 PM Response to Reply #33 |
45. Absolutely, |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
8. NOW needs to be reminded of the old adage: People who live in glass houses |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:43 PM Response to Reply #8 |
34. +1. And Ms. O'Donnell throws stones outward, besides. nt |
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NoNothing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
9. Privacy for me but not for thee |
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LLStarks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
10. The revelation is hilarious, but one's sex life has no place in a race for office. nt |
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Erose999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:37 PM Response to Reply #10 |
29. But she seems to think the sex lives of other people, and their decision about their own lives are |
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LLStarks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 04:41 PM Response to Reply #29 |
56. It's easier to just be immoral than pretend to have morals and be exposed as a hypocrite. nt |
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Erose999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 08:30 AM Response to Reply #56 |
68. Exactly. Bill Maher is probably a womanizing hard drinking lout, but I don't judge him for it cause |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:54 PM Response to Reply #10 |
40. As long as politicians keep making everyone else's sex life part of the agenda |
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CC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
12. Christine's attacking Coons for the article |
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Cosmocat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #12 |
23. Not a fricken chance Coons had ANYTHING to do with it ... |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
13. Anybody who doesn't think the O'Donnell camp paid for that story |
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one_voice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:58 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. I was just thinking the same thing... |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:59 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Yep. She's just that desperate. And disgusting. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:42 PM Response to Reply #13 |
32. +1111111 She did it, not Coons |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:46 PM Response to Reply #13 |
36. the whole thing smelled a bit too perfect; I think you've got it. nt |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
14. This was O donnells October surprise |
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DevonRex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:01 PM Response to Reply #14 |
24. At least some of us realize this. I was beginning to think |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:39 PM Response to Reply #14 |
30. Bullshit. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:45 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. She did it. She already looks like a joke, so this can only make her look better |
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hugo_from_TN (895 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:57 PM Response to Reply #35 |
51. Completely ridiculous |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 03:28 AM Response to Reply #30 |
65. She did it! nt |
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joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
19. All this proves is what O'Donnell is...her response is "Classless Coons Goons" |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
21. Isn't NOW a tax exempt org like churches? (nt) |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
31. If you ever met Chris Coons you would know he didn't do it. I think she did. |
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truebrit71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
37. So NOW rushes to defend a woman that wants to take away a womans right to choose... |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
38. Many well qualified Democratic women who have considered running for office ... |
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southernyankeebelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
39. Buck up Christine and put on your panties. |
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bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
41. “Now, did you want to ask me about whether or not Mike Castle is gay? |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
42. The Minute The GOP stops running these crazy fundy fuckers who want to outlaw sex |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
47. man up, man up, man up..... |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
49. Step into public life with a message about Gay's being sexual abominations |
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BrentWil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
57. To me the issue is more that the story is Sexist... |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 03:16 AM Response to Reply #57 |
63. If it was about a man |
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BrentWil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 10:09 AM Response to Reply #63 |
71. I don't know. All I know is we shouldn't be making this about sex |
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BlueIdaho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
58. But what is her position??????? |
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Erose999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 08:35 AM Response to Reply #58 |
69. If she's anything like Palin she probably quits halfway through and expects the other partner to do |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
59. I agree with everything you said in your OP. |
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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
61. That story is clearly politically motivated and thus lacks credibility. |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-29-10 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
62. Pristine Christine ain't so clean....she got Grifter Litter language...all moot shit |
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FirstTimeVoterAt37 (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 07:22 AM Response to Original message |
66. I'm a big supporter of NOW... |
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alphafemale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
67. Oh...puh..leaze. Men in the public eye are called out when caught in embarrassing "sexuations" |
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Kurovski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 10:44 AM Response to Reply #67 |
74. I remember one PARTICULAR blowjob.... |
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GodlessBiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
70. This is like outing a closeted politician who votes against gay rights. It's acceptable. |
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LawnLover (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-30-10 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
72. DOUBLE STANDARD |
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