The Whole Nation Ponders: Whither Christine O'Donnell Next?

Elizabeth Montgomery she'll never be, but crackpot anti-masturbation teabagger Christine O'Donnell, who has been threatening to run for public office again, also says she's open to a TV show. Many had expected her to go right from her landslide defeat in Delaware on November 2 to a Fox News position. O'Donnell, an unemployed gadfly with a demonstrably false resume, claims to have been getting offers to write a book and be part of a TV reality show.

She was "not necessarily interested" in the reality show offer unless it was a "watchdog-type show," she said, noting she ran a 30-minute TV ad during the campaign. "I would like to do something like that."

If they do decide on a remake of Bewitched, Palin could certainly take on the Agnes Moorehead role, but, wonderers and wondering, who would play Darrin? Jim DeMint? Actually, almost anyone from Right Wing Watch's Ten Scariest Republicans Heading For Congress could play across from O'Donnell. Looking down the list so far, it's clear that Allen West is most likely to be a one-termer so maybe he's meant for the part. Joe Miller will probably be looking for gainful emplyment soon as Lisa Murkowski racks up more and more votes in the Alaska election canvas.

O'Donnell's definitely too old if they decide to remake Sabrina but she could certainly fight it out with Virginia Foxx for the lead role in The Bell Witch when they finally make that into a movie. For now though, she can continue to be an empty celebrity, kind of a political Paris Hilton while Republicans fight amonst each other over whether she cost the GOP control of the Senate and if she's destroying the party's reputation.

[I]mmediately following the results of Delaware’s Republican primary, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina remarked, “If you think what happened in Delaware is a ‘win’ for the Republican Party then we don’t have a snowball’s chance to win the White House. If you think Delaware was a wake-up call for Republicans then we have a shot at doing well for a long time.”

O’Donnell has been a point of contention for the GOP establishment since her victory on September 14. After her defeat of Mike Castle, a politician who served the state of Delaware for two decades in multiple capacities, both the media and the establishment targeted her as a weak and ultimately extreme candidate for the senatorial race. The Tea Partiers, however, asserted that O’Donnell represented the core values of the Tea Party movement, pointing to Mike Castle’s multiple failures to adhere to conservative principles.

Tea Party Express chairman Amy Kremer defended the Tea Party’s nomination of O’Donnell following the GOP primary:

If Mike Castle is not the most liberal Republican in Congress right now, he is one of them. He voted for TARP and cap-and-trade, ‘cash for clunkers,’ I could go on and on. If we send him back to Washington, he’ll vote with Obama-Reid-Pelosi the majority of the time. At some point you have to stand on principle and stop playing these party politics.

On Meet the Press, Senator DeMint, an active supporter of Tea Party candidates in the 2010 elections, said he believes that the Tea Party did not cost the GOP the Senate as stated by Meet the Press host David Gregory, and in fact, “is responsible for every Republican win this election.”

“I supported all the Republican candidates including Christine O’Donnell," declared DeMint. "Unfortunately, she was so maligned by Republicans, I don’t think she had a chance. But we had historic gains in the Senate.”

Gregory responded, “Senator, you’re not really saying it was really lack of Republican support that tanked her candidacy, are you? This is a woman who said in a national ad that she was not a witch.”

To this, DeMint replied, “I think we did see in the wake of her primary win that a number of Republicans suggested she was not a viable candidate. That did make it difficult for her to start on the right foot.”