The O'Donnell Upheaval

The more we read of Christine O’Donnell, the more we see just how pivotal and symbolic her race for the Delaware Senate seat really is.

The real reason she’s a lightning rod to elitists on both sides of the aisle is really very simple: she reaches her tea party convictions via her Christian faith, and she hasn’t been afraid to wear her faith on her sleeve.

If there is one thing that all elitists of all kinds can agree on, it’s that proper sophistication and intellectual refinement in government, business or academia cannot be found in anyone who openly professes a living, abiding faith in God, and especially in anyone who speaks publicly on the subject of God-given morals. That’s just not cool; in fact, it’s just plain icky.

To the elitists, it’s okay to have such yokels in the military because it tends to make them fight hard and be willing to lay down their lives to protect and defend America (and the elitists ability to be elitists), but everywhere else, faith is just not something to be talked about, especially if any element of that faith—i.e., moral teaching—gets in the way of an elitist doing whatever he or she wants to do.

These observations arose after reading yet another take-down of O’Donnell (and the people who voted for her) by a ‘conservative’ writer, Rick Moran. Among the items he cites to prove that O’Donnell is ‘loony’ are a couple of soundbites from the early 1990’s in which O’Donnell is openly a spokeswomen for something called the “Savior’s Alliance for Lifting Truth” or S.A.L.T.

In one of the snippets, O’Donnell appears on MTV denouncing sex outside of marriage, and discouraging masturbation among children. In another, she decries the piling on against then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich while so little was being done at the time to investigate Bill Clinton’s affairs and sexual harassment incidents and rape allegations. She also mentions a failure at the time to fully investigate the death of Clinton’s White House counsel Vince Foster (which was officially labeled suicide).

It’s easy enough to know the Pravda line on all this. MTV is arbiter of all things cool; speaking out on MTV against porn and masturbation is so ‘out of it’ as to be cringeworthy; alliance with anything mentioning a ‘Savior’ makes one a hopelessly weird “Jesus-freak”; and anyone who questioned the circumstances around Vince Foster’s death was and is a conspiracy nut.

Count us as contrarians, but we think the more these incidents in O’Donnell’s past are more widely known, the better are her chances of winning in November.

First, it takes guts to speak out against any prevailing line of political correctness, and she has shown she has those guts dating back almost twenty years. It’s going to take a lot of guts in the next Congress to make the hard decisions that are going to be necessary to turn this country around—so it’s great to see she’s demonstrated she has them.

Second, the heart and soul of America knows full well that MTV is a poster child for cultural rot; for the relentless portrayal of youth in an all-sensual, all-of-the-time quest for sexual gratification in any and every form imaginable. It has not been a blessing to America and America’s youth—and any honest person with a conscience knows this. The elites love the license MTV gives them for their own behavior, and so they employ every means available to align the show’s themes with what should be considered hip and cool and modern. The fact that O’Donnell stood up to them makes her a heroine to the tea partiers—who happen to be the majority of engaged Americans in every state of this nation, including Delaware.

Third, the Vince Foster case was an amazing, relatively early display of Pravda’s now complete (and completely recognized) sell out to the leftwing view of the world. The top lawyer advising the President of the United States—a President in the middle of being investigated for a variety of scandals—commits suicide. Happens all the time, doesn’t it? Another day, another suicide at the top level of the executive branch of government. And besides, don’t we all have friends who place pistols in their mouths and fire? How incredible that anyone would suspect anything other than the official stress-related, bad-day-at-the-office suicide explanation?

To be doubtful of Clinton’s motives and morals and explanations in the 1990’s did not mean you believed Bill Clinton pulled the trigger on Vince Foster. It didn’t mean you were a conspiracy nut or, as Moran would put it, ‘loony’. It just meant you were a normal human being with a moral compass, and not a dumbed-down, numbed-down elitist who wants desperately to be included in the next round of free drinks, and knows he can be so long as he voices the approved ‘nothing to see here, let’s move on’ mantra. O’Donnell didn’t go along; she simply voiced what millions of Americans felt at the time. Again, she showed guts and a moral conscience that the godless left hates.

No doubt the radical left and their Pravda enablers will glory in bashing her as the kooky religious right, but in America in 2010, this just won’t fly. As Glenn Beck demonstrated so clearly, a huge element of the tea party movement involves the recognition of just how far America has drifted from her Judeo-Christian roots—and how damaging that drift has been for the entirety of American society.

O’Donnell represents the rare American who has seen it happening for decades, and is willing to step up regardless of how she may be raked through the mud. She’s another new American heroine. The guts and conscience she has demonstrated would be more than enough for most Americans to rally to her cause, and to cut her some slack for her shortcomings.

By the way, last time we checked—in less than three days after winning the Republican primary in Delaware, O’Donnell’s campaign had received over $1.5M in new donations from Americans all over the country. (Care to join them? Click here). We won’t be surprised if she wins in November. Delaware is still populated overwhelmingly by Americans--including Democrats, Independents and Republicans--who love their country.

Paul Gable

September 17, 2010