{"id":10693,"date":"2013-07-24T03:45:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10693"},"modified":"2013-07-24T03:45:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:45:46","slug":"odingbat-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/24\/odingbat-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Dingbat Returns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican party has \u2026um\u2026 graced us with a plethora of absolutely absurd candidates for public office.&#160; Sadly, far too many of them sucked Koch all the way into office.&#160; However, few have come close to the entertainment value of Christine O&#8217;Donnell, aka O\u2019Dingbat, Republican candidate for the US Senate from Delaware.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"24ODonnell\" style=\"float: left; display: inline\" alt=\"24ODonnell\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/24ODonnell.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"299\" \/>Christine O\u2019Donnell is considering a new bid for the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative activist who rode a tea party wave to victory in a Delaware special election primary four years ago is interested in challenging Sen. Chris Coons (D) in 2014, the Wilmington News Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareonline.com\/article\/20130723\/NEWS02\/307230058\/Republicans-wait-O-Donnell-weighs-another-campaign?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell would have difficulty winning over skeptics in the Delaware GOP, many of whom see her as a liability. After beating moderate Republican Rep. Mike Castle in the 2010 primary, O\u2019Donnell lost in a landslide to Coons\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2013\/07\/23\/christine-odonnell-might-run-for-senate-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Who could ever forget this famous ad?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uxJyPsmEask?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Frankly, This one is more credible.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uqQJB8DR_Zo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope O\u2019Dingbat runs and gets the nomination again.&#160; The comedians will have a field day!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican party has \u2026um\u2026 graced us with a plethora of absolutely absurd candidates for public office.&#160; Sadly, far too many of them sucked Koch all the way into office.&#160; However, few have come close to the entertainment value of Christine O&#8217;Donnell, aka O\u2019Dingbat, Republican candidate for the US Senate from Delaware. Christine O\u2019Donnell is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/24\/odingbat-returns\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}