Delaware's O'Donnell is a 'tea party' hero, but controversy casts a shadow
By Sandhya Somashekhar and Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, September 18, 2010
WILMINGTON, DEL. - In her opening remarks during a debate that came just two days after her stunning victory in this state's Republican primary for Senate, Christine O'Donnell acknowledged what had already become apparent.
"There's no secret," she said, "that there's been a rather unflattering portrait of me painted these days." But, she went on, "as we approach the general election this next month and a half, it is my goal for you to find out who I am."
Who O'Donnell is has suddenly become one of the most important questions in politics, as leaders in both parties try to figure out whether she is the fresh face of a burgeoning movement or a fringe figure who will soon fade.
She has been introduced to the country through a dribble of unearthed video footage of her comments on Christian morality. In one widely circulated clip from a 1996 MTV documentary, she decried masturbation on religious grounds. In another previously unreleased clip from 1999, she laughingly told a television audience that she'd once "dabbled into witchcraft" and unknowingly had a picnic on what she called a Satanic altar.
(More here.)
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, September 18, 2010
WILMINGTON, DEL. - In her opening remarks during a debate that came just two days after her stunning victory in this state's Republican primary for Senate, Christine O'Donnell acknowledged what had already become apparent.
"There's no secret," she said, "that there's been a rather unflattering portrait of me painted these days." But, she went on, "as we approach the general election this next month and a half, it is my goal for you to find out who I am."
Who O'Donnell is has suddenly become one of the most important questions in politics, as leaders in both parties try to figure out whether she is the fresh face of a burgeoning movement or a fringe figure who will soon fade.
She has been introduced to the country through a dribble of unearthed video footage of her comments on Christian morality. In one widely circulated clip from a 1996 MTV documentary, she decried masturbation on religious grounds. In another previously unreleased clip from 1999, she laughingly told a television audience that she'd once "dabbled into witchcraft" and unknowingly had a picnic on what she called a Satanic altar.
(More here.)
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