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Delaware GOP/Tea Party Senate Candidate O’Donnell Opposes Women in Military
Christine O’Donnell, GOP U.S. Senate Nominee for Delaware
- So, do we still think the Tea Party movement is a secular uprising? -
Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party candidate who won Delaware’s G.O.P. nomination for U.S. Senate doesn’t think women belong in the military. And Ovide Lamontagne, who [lost a close race] for the U.S. Senate Republican nomination, thinks the teaching of creationism — the biblical story of human origins — as science in public schools is a fine idea. This is not your father’s G.O.P.
At Religion Dispatches, Sarah Posner unearthed C-SPAN video of O’Donnell from the ’90s — back when the Republican Senate nominee was press secretary for the Concerned Women for America — in which the candidate says that women have no place in the armed forces because their presence “distracts” men. O’Donnell’s comments were made during a 1995 discussion of the forced gender-integration of the Citadel, a publicly-financed military academy in South Carolina. “By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense,” O’Donnell said. “Schools like The Citadel train young men to confidently lead other young men into a battlefield where one of them will die. And when you have women in that situation, it creates a whole new set of dynamics which are distracting to training these men to kill or be killed.”
And as my colleague, Tana Ganeva, blogged, O’Donnell believes that the creation of the earth happened in six days, just as it says in the Bible. And she’s not the only creation-booster on the G.O.P./Tea Party Senate slate.
In New Hampshire, the candidacy of Ovide Lamontagne is still being decided, so tight is the vote count between establishment candidate Kelly Ayotte (who had the backing of Sarah Palin) and the former G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate. In 1995, when religious right forces from outside the state helped stage an electoral coup in the school board of Merrimack, a large suburb of Manchester, Lamontagne was the chairman of the State Board of Education.
The New York Times reported in 1995 that Lamontagne said “he had no objection to a local district ‘teaching about creation science as an alternative to evolution’ and that the Bible could appropriately be used in class as ‘anecdotal evidence’ to support the lesson.”
I was on the ground in Merrimack in ‘95, reporting the creationism flap and the ascendancy of the religious right for Mother Jones. The fight was bitter, and staged by national-level religious-right players, including the Christian Coalition, quite deliberately to coincide with the onset of the campaign for the New Hampshire presidential primary.
At that time, Ralph Reed was the Christian Coalition’s executive director. Today, he heads the Tea Party movement’s get-out-the-vote operation through his new Faith and Freedom Coalition, which he said that God, speaking through Sean Hannity, urged him to create.
And for O’Donnell, Reed’s support is a given.
So, do we still think the Tea Party movement is a secular uprising?
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The “Tea Party” is a very big joke on Americans …. more like a “PEE” Party
once again pulling the emotional weak down a blind road only to once agin hit a DEAD END ….and then start again…….real change will take GUTS and EFFORT not a “PEE” Party
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for starters I believe having a standing military is a mistake. We should be a militia. no massive military complex needed.
next, I think it would be better if there was gender seperation. back to the women having thier own corps. Most women do not join the military for the purpose of going in the battlefield but rather for career or support positions. those positions were filled well by the women’s coprs prior to the policies that changed all that.
It’s not only that women are a distraction to the men but also the men are a distraction to the women as far as attraction goes. The old classic tales of the nurse falling in love with her patient is still true.
sometimes the old way was the better way.
Personally, I think rachel’s idea is short-sighted. I was a journalist in the Army. I interviewed women soldiers about combat positions. Some of them wouldn’t back away from fighting and some of them were eager to fight. As for support positions, nurses are as close to the fight as any soldier. And now with drones, along with missles, etc. There is no safe position for women. Ask any civilian woman if there is a safe place for her to be when there’s fighting going on. Let’s face it women are a distraction to men because they’ve never been taught to control themselves. Women are interested also. But they have more control. Telling someone where they can be because of their gender is the same thing that had black soldiers doing garbage duty and clean up duty before the military was intergated.
she us right
The Tea Party is obviously under attack…and the average Republicrat-Tea Partier is too imbecilic to know it!
Christine O’Donnell recently revealed that she has “dabbled in Witchcraft”…and that “One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn’t know it. I mean, there’s little blood there and stuff like that. … We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.”
O’Donnell was clearly a ringer…sent in to smear and discredit the Tea Party, which she has now effectively done. Mission accomplished, Agent O’Donnell! And congratulations to you Republicrat-Tea Partiers for blindly accepting, as a leader, any lump of sh!t that floats your way! Way to go!
http://mark1marti2.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/controlled-opposition-the-tea-party-turds-and-the-house-of-rothschilds-coming-war-with-iran/
To add insult to injury, the blonde in this video, the one standing next to the other “Tea Party darling”, Sarah Palin, is Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild…she’s the wife of top Jewish Bankster, and OWNER of the Federal Reserve, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z1QtQETfZU&feature=player_embedded
And where, O where, is your iconic leader, Dr. Ron(I’m not a Freemason, I just shake hands like one!)Paul while all of this is going on? I thought he started the Tea Party…err, wait…no, that was the Jewish billionaire Koch Brothers, Charles and David.
It’s looking like the Tea Party was just a sadistic joke on us…something meant to demoralize and humiliate us.
Tea Party Twits
Fall in, dress right…far right…
O’Donnell, Palin, Rove, Cheney, his daughter, Hannity Beck, Limbaugh, Coulter…
More to come…
All under General Murdoch’s command-and, guess what? He wasn’t born in the USA.
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I served in the military for 21 years, my wife served for 20 years. My wife served in the Persian Gulf, in the desert, and served with honor and valor. As a retired soldier, she thinks Christine O’Donnell and her ideas on women in the military, as well as the entire Tea Party philosophy, are complete lunacy. We actually sacrficed and served, yet they are against the very American values and goivernment we represented and defended. They talk about the Constitution, but refuse to honor it, or to accept the fact other American see things differently than they do – and are STILL LOYAL Americans! Worse yet, these extremests want to change our Constitution to meet their narrow, extreme right wing political agenda. We pray to God everyday that the American people wake up and realize the truth before they make a terrible mistake at the ballot box in November.
Allen,
Brilliantly stated.
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