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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (45976)	9/21/2010 9:07:57 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

A Brief Political Observation September 16, 2010, 3:40 pm I know nothing about Christine O’Donnell and since I don’t vote in the state of Delaware, I probably won’t expend much effort trying to figure her out. She is accused of being a flake and of making some crazy statements. Again, I can’t say one way or the other. But I did have this thought: Since when did making crazy, nonsensical public statements in the heat of a political campaign become a disqualification for a Senate seat held by Joe Biden for three decades? coyoteblog.com

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (45976)	9/21/2010 9:12:54 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Dems Hope Voters Will Focus on O’Donnell & Not on Chris Coons’ Marxist Past Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, September 17, 2010, 12:01 PM The democratic-media complex is doing all it can to focus on Christine O’Donnell’s “tainted” past of late payments and abstinence hoping that voters don’t avert their attention at the former(?) Marxist she is running against in Delaware. Self-professed Marxist Chris Coons hopes he can blend in with the Senate Democrats. It shouldn’t be a problem. Democratic senatorial candidate Chris Coons is a self-professed Marxist. The Politico reported, via FOX Nation: An article Democrat Chris Coons wrote for his college newspaper may not go over so well in corporation-friendly Delaware, where he already faces an uphill battle for Vice President Joe Biden’s old Senate seat. The title? “Chris Coons: The Making of a Bearded Marxist.” In the article, Coons, then 21 years old and about to graduate from Amherst College, chronicled his transformation from a sheltered, conservative-minded college student who had worked for former GOP Delaware Sen. William Roth and had campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1980 into a cynical young adult who was distrustful of American power and willing to question the American notion of free enterprise. Coons, the New Castle County executive who is running against GOP Rep. Michael Castle for the state’s open Senate seat, wrote of his political evolution in the May 23, 1985, edition of the Amherst Student. The source of his conversion, Coons wrote, was a trip to Kenya he took during the spring semester of his junior year—a time away from America, he wrote, that served as a “catalyst” in altering a conservative political outlook that he was growing increasingly uncomfortable with. “My friends now joke that something about Kenya, maybe the strange diet, or the tropical sun, changed my personality; Africa to them seems a catalytic converter that takes in clean-shaven, clear-thinking Americans and sends back bearded Marxists,” Coons wrote, noting that at one time he had been a “proud founding member of the Amherst College Republicans.” “[I]t is only too easy to return from Africa glad to be American and smugly thankful for our wealth and freedom,” added Coons. “Instead, Amherst had taught me to question, so in turn I questioned Amherst, and America.” He sounds like their dream candidate. gatewaypundit.firstthings.com H/T Brumar89