Coons vs O’Donnell. Are You Kidding Me?

For all the hand wringing by the Republican establishment over Christine O’Donnell’s fitness for office two points must be made.  One, who is calling the kettle black?  Two, has anyone bothered to look at who she is running against?

In the desperate attempt to throw anything and everything they can find at Christine O’Donnell to try to derail her roaring comeback, her critics have gone all the way back to probe who her friends were in high school.  High school. If that is a criteria for being unfit for government office, how about these gems:

• President Barack Obama admitted using marijuana and cocaine in high school, but he is fit to be the chief law enforcement officer of the United States
• Vice President Joe Biden committed plagiarism and had to drop out of the 1988 Presidential race, but he is fit to be the “experienced statesman” to balance the Obama-Biden team
• President Bill Clinton lied under oath to a federal judge to prevent a woman with a legitimate case of sexual harassment from having her day in court.
• Senator Ted Kennedy left a woman in a submerged car to die rather than doing everything possible to help save her life and his Democratic colleagues called him the “Lion of the Senate”
• Timothy Geithner oversees the IRS, but didn’t pay his own taxes
• Charlie Rangel is under investigation for numerous ethics violations including not paying his taxes despite being the former chairman of the Congressional committee that writes the tax laws.
• Hillary Clinton, not as a high school student but as First Lady, held a séance so she could talk to Eleanor Roosevelt.

Is that enough or should I continue?  And these people and their supporters say, Christine O’Donnell is not fit for office?  Maybe she should rob a bank so that her resume would be more in line with these icons of the Democrat firmament.

What about Chris Coons?  In the midst of out of control spending and a dismal recovery burdened with the uncertainty of all that the Obama administration wants to pile on, this is from Coons’ own website:

• On the economy – “Chris Coons wants to focus on the millions of Americans who have suffered from the crisis.”  Great. More government programs.  Let’s not try to get government out of the way and let the economy create jobs and come roaring back, let’s make government bigger.
• On education – “performance in the classroom depends on more than teachers and curriculum. Housing, health care, crime and poverty all have a direct impact on a child’s development and their ability to learn.”  So if you think education is expensive now, wait until Mr. Coons starts trying to ramp up all these ancillary programs.  How about competence and getting rid of teachers who can’t teach?
• On energy – “He also is calling for a nationwide cap and trade program that will help establish a price on carbon.” Jacking up the price of energy is sure to boost the economy.
• On financial reform – no mention whatsoever about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, just applause for the Dodd-Frank act.
• On health care – supports ObamaCare
• Offshore oil drilling – Coons is opposed.  He favors offshore wind farms and also has this gem on his web site, “Our state’s success in bringing Fisker Automotive to build innovative, sporty electric cars at the former GM Boxwood facility is a testament to the commitment of the federal, state, and county governments to alternative energy and building a green manufacturing economy in Delaware.” While it is commendable that Coons brought this company to Delaware, does he know that the starting price for these cars is north of $80,000.  Is he so clueless to believe that this is going to make us energy independent?  If he does, he better call Mr. Obama and tell him to lay off the “tax the rich” mantra, because it is only the rich who could possibly afford to buy these cars.

We’ll leave aside that as a college student he authored a paper titled: “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist.”  His current views are consistent with bigger government, more spending, less liberty.

So on the one hand we have Christine O’Donnell, who believes in the free market; that jobs are actually created by private industry; that the crushing debt burden that Obama and Coons want not only to continue but to accelerate; that taxes should be lower; and that government should be accountable.  All the other crap that the progressives are throwing at her will have no bearing on these positions that will get our country out of the mess we are in.  On the other hand you have Chris Coons who wants to double down on everything that Obama has done and make the debt even worse.

There couldn’t be a clearer choice.  Ignore the attacks from the left.  Do you like having your government crammed down your throat or do you want your government accountable to you?  Harry Reid’s “pet”, Chris Coons, wants you to open wide and say, “ahhh”. Christine O’Donnell thinks you’ve had enough.  What do you think?

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