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Delaware Senate Race: Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist
Dem Candidate Coons Comes Under Scrutiny in Delaware Senate Race

Published September 17, 2010 FoxNews.com

While most of the attention in the Delaware race to win Vice President Biden's old Senate seat has focused on the Republican candidate, Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell, her Democratic rival, Chris Coons, is now coming under scrutiny -- a development that could give O'Donnell's lagging campaign a boost.

Coons, 47, has already been targeted by Republicans for an article he wrote for the Amherst College newspaper when he was 21 -- a piece entitled "Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist."

Coons wrote about his political evolution from a conservative college student who founded the Amherst College Republicans into a Democrat suspicious of America's power and ideals. The transformation, he said, came during a trip to Kenya.

Coons alluded to his past in a debate Thursday with O'Donnell, saying Delaware residents are interested in what candidates will do to create jobs, reduce the national debt and fix what he called a broken political system in Washington, and that they're not "particularly interested in statements that either of us made 20 or 30 years ago."

Coons is banking on his experience as New Castle county executive -- with an estimated population of 542,000, New Castle is the largest of Delaware's three counties -- and the endorsements of big-name Democrats to defeat O'Donnell, who has no government experience but has the backing of Sarah Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C..

Biden was heading to Delaware Friday to stump for Coons at an event in Wilmington. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who also supports Coons, may have done more harm than good when he referred to Coons as his "pet."

"I'm going to be very honest with you – Chris Coons, everybody knows him in the Democratic caucus. He's my pet. He's my favorite candidate," Reid told the Hill newspaper.

But Coons' campaign shows no signs of damage yet; a Rasmussen Reports poll shows him leading O'Donnell by 11 percentage points.

"Well, it's always great to be up in the polls," Coons said. "But, frankly, what matters is whether or not I'm addressing the real concerns of working Delawareans. As I've gone up and down this state over the last six months, I've been up in the polls, I've been down in the polls. What really matters is Nov. 2."

O'Donnell doesn't appear fazed by poll, especially since she trailed veteran Rep. Mike Castle before shocking him in the Republican primary on Tuesday.

"Eleven points is a very – a gap that we can certainly close," she said. "You know, about a month before the primary, I was at least 15 points behind my Republican opponent, so I'm very confident that we can win."

O'Donnell, who came under withering criticism from Castle and the state GOP -- whose chairman said she couldn't be elected dogcatcher -- said her goal was for voters to get to know her between now and November.

O'Donnell has been criticized by GOP officials for lying about her background, leaving a trail of unpaid bills that included an IRS tax lien and a mortgage default and misusing campaign contributions for personal expenses.

O'Donnell stepped into the public spotlight in the 1990s as a conservative activist speaking out against abortion, homosexuality and premarital sex.
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(09-17-2010 09:18 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who also supports Coons, may have done more harm than good when he referred to Coons as his "pet."

"I'm going to be very honest with you – Chris Coons, everybody knows him in the Democratic caucus. He's my pet. He's my favorite candidate," Reid told the Hill newspaper.

I don't care what you think about the politics involved, that's just creepy.
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In DE, people won't be voting for O'donnell but against Coons. (Reid's Pet)

Rush Limbaugh Gets It on O'Donnell

Sunday, 19 Sep 2010 11:13 PM

By: Christopher Ruddy

Perhaps the biggest earthquake of the political season already has happened.

The aftershocks of Christine O'Donnell's surprise win in Delaware are still being felt. Election Day in November may just turn out to be one of those aftershocks.

The Washington political establishment, including GOP insiders, appears to be completely befuddled and beside itself that an unknown newcomer with the political sensitivities of Ann Coulter just won the GOP nomination in a very blue state, beating a moderate Republican House member who had served as governor of the state.

There must be some mistake!

But there was no mistake . . . because there was a "little" thing we call an election.

And in this election there was no goof up, no accident that caused O'Donnell to beat the establishment favorite.

Indeed, voters knew clearly who she was, what she stood for, and all of her apparent liabilities.

Despite the fact that opponent Mike Castle outspent her, that the state party backed Castle, and the local media gave him favorable coverage, O'Donnell not only won but also won big — beating Castle handily by more than six percentage points.

This upset has caused much handwringing in Washington.

The Beltway insiders may not like the result, but Delaware Republicans are no country bumpkins.

They are like many Republicans in the New England states, fiscally conservative, a tad liberal on social issues, and sophisticated.

And in a hotly contested primary, they went strongly for the upstart.

Few seemed to grasp the significance of O'Donnell's win. One person who did was Rush Limbaugh.

Limbaugh immediately pounced on Karl Rove and other Republicans for sniping at the GOP's Delaware Senate nominee.

"Why not fight for it?" Limbaugh asked on his show the day after Rove hit O'Donnell hard on Fox News.

"Why not fight for it? Castle's OK as the 51st vote, but this woman isn't?" Limbaugh asked.

"Everyone I know that saw this was just — they were perplexed and said, 'What's going on? Why is he so mad at a Republican?'" Rush complained of Rove's move.

"Where was this anger directed at a Democrat ever?" Rush asked again.

Can you ever remember a Democrat leader urging fellow Democrats not to support Al Franken when he won his Senate seat — despite a blizzard of oddities he provided over his long career?

The media seems intent on smearing O'Donnell. The latest "revelation" — she admitted to a little "witchcraft" as a teenager while appearing on Bill Maher's comedy show more than 10 years ago.

If this was a criteria for public office, almost every teenage girl in America who touched a Ouija board or played tarot cards would be ineligible for office.

Fortunately, many in the heartland saw the double standard, and conservatives like Rush exposed it.

Rush urged his radio audience to back O'Donnell and visit her website to donate to her campaign.

After his call to arms, O'Donnell's site crashed as it was swamped with visitors. O'Donnell's campaign coffers swelled to more $2 million this past week, thanks largely to Rush.

When Rush first gained prominence in the '90s, there was no Fox News, no Web, no nothing, except Rush. Today, there are many more conservative outlets, but as Rush's stance in favor of O'Donnell proves, he remains the most relevant conservative on the national scene today.

The day after O'Donnell's win, Barry Goldwater Jr., the former congressman and son of the conservative legend, visited Newsmax. Barry reminded me that, when his dad won the 1964 Republican primary for president, many Republicans said the same things about him that are being said about O'Donnell.

Barry Goldwater Sr. didn't win that election, but his efforts laid the groundwork for the rise of Ronald Reagan.

You can never go wrong backing the true conservative in the race.
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a change is coming, but this time it's actual change, not "change" with quotes and as asterisk
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(09-20-2010 03:03 PM)cb4029 Wrote:  

You idiots realize this was years ago when she was a teen, right?

BTW, your God dabbled in Communism and continued on. I'll take a f'n Wiccan High Priest over that ******* Obama.
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(09-20-2010 03:03 PM)cb4029 Wrote:  

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!! SOMEONE ISN'T PERFECT!!!!!!!!!! THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I say if Christine O'Donnell weighs the same as a duck... we burn her. Otherwise we vote for her.

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(09-20-2010 03:05 PM)Rebel Wrote:  
(09-20-2010 03:03 PM)cb4029 Wrote:  

You idiots realize this was years ago when she was a teen, right?

BTW, your God dabbled in Communism and continued on. I'll take a f'n Wiccan High Priest over that ******* Obama.

Who is this god you speak of?

I wonder why she canceled her show appearances Sunday? 05-stirthepot
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Better a witch than a communist.
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(09-20-2010 03:28 PM)cb4029 Wrote:  I wonder why she canceled her show appearances Sunday? 05-stirthepot

Would you go sit at the table with a few Klan members wanting to destroy you? No? Then why would she want to do an interview with someone who had already made up their mind and who opposed everything the Republicans stand for to the point of manipulating stories to help Obama?
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"Coons? Well raccoons tried to get in our back porch, Momma just chase 'em off with a broom!"
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A long time ago, in a Galaxy far far away, I voted for a Democrat a few times. And I have been to the infamous "Red Bluff Drive Inn."

What does that make me?

Hey, I got a "Pass" for voting for Democrats in the past.

Christine should get a "Pass" for "dabbling in witchcraft" when she was in Hgh School. (But that's not the smartest thing to announce on National Television.)

And remember Obama got a pass for his "dabbling in cocaine" back in College as he admitted in his Book.
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(09-20-2010 07:52 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  A long time ago, in a Galaxy far far away, I voted for a Democrat a few times. And I have been to the infamous "Red Bluff Drive Inn."

What does that make me?

Hey, I got a "Pass" for voting for Democrats in the past.

Christine should get a "Pass" for "dabbling in witchcraft" when she was in Hgh School. (But that's not the smartest thing to announce on National Television.)

And remember Obama got a pass for his "dabbling in cocaine" back in College as he admitted in his Book.

Democrats get a pass for EVERYTHING. That tinkerbell Barney Frank had a brothel being ran out of his campaign HQ.
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I feel bad for her. Something was said years ago. Just more politics of personal destruction. I care about her views and how she is going to vote. Could care less if she's a buddhist, hara crishna, or a wiccan.
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(09-20-2010 08:23 PM)Machiavelli Wrote:  I feel bad for her. Something was said years ago. Just more politics of personal destruction. I care about her views and how she is going to vote. Could care less if she's a buddhist, hara crishna, or a wiccan.

Thank you. That's mighty conservative of you. She's not, however, a Wiccan. That was in HS. As WMD stated most kids today want to be vampires because of that Twilight BS. It's a youthful phase.
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I could give two ***** what she is or what she dabbled in. I saw this live Friday night and I knew it was bad for her. He has her on tape 22 more times and he's threatening to trickle things out every week til she goes on the show. Just feel bad for her.
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Hate to see a sound byte bring anyone down. Even teabaggers.
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This isn't bad for her. Not going to bring her down. You and Obama, so out of touch.
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For the campaign a pet leopard can change his spots.

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