Delaware Debate Highlights - "Oh Gosh, um..." don't ask me those fancy pants questions, I'm just a simple country Senate candidate! "What I believe is irrelevant"

The factually challenged Christine got a chance to show off her brain-smarts last night, and there's laughs aplenty for fans like us.


"Oh gosh... give me an example..."
You may have already seen the headline moment, when Christine couldn't name a single recent supreme court ruling that she disagrees with after she asserted that "activist judges" are generally causing havoc and wrecking everything. If she is so concerned with judicial overreach, should she not have an example? Should she not at least be able to name one?

She says the US "didn't finish the job" when we were "fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan".... and that "now we have a responsibility to finish the job." whatever that means. Defeating the Soviets? Killing every living thing in the country? What does she think "finishing the job" means?
Hmmmm.... well, what happened in Christine's imagination is pretty much the opposite of what really happened historically.

The Soviets pulled out in 1989, leaving our guys in charge. These US allies, "Freedom Fighters" (as Reagan called them) armed to the teeth with American weapons and money, did not disappear, nor were they defeated by the Soviet Union. Instead they stayed in charge, which was the US military objective under Reagan, and you might know them. At the time they were called "Mujahadeen" but you might know them better as "Al Quaida" or "The Taliban" both of which grew out of Reagan's "freedom fighters" movements, and today are fighting our soldiers over there with weapons supplied by our own government.

Another classic Christine whopper came in the midst of a confused and kooky tangent in which she continued to pursue her accusation that her opponent is a "Bearded Marxist". For one thing, Coons pointed out, he's "not now, nor have I ever been, anything but a clean-shaven capitalist!"

Apparently her argument is that he must be a Marxist because "when you look at his position on things like raising taxes, which is one of the tenets of Marxism, not supporting eliminating the death tax, which is a tenet of Marxism -- I would argue that there are more people who support my Catholic faith than his Marxist beliefs,"

Where to begin? Firstly, there are many Communist Catholics. I visited their large Catholic churches in Communist Cuba a few years back when Fidel Castro was still president. The worshippers I met there told me they love Cuba's communist system as it keeps them fed, housed, employed and medically cared for for life, and in todays modern world has long ago legalized their religious practices which despite being previously frowned upon are now officially considered a valued part of Cuba's cultural heritage.

Here in the USA you may be familiar with socialist and radically pacifist catholic groups that have been active and prominent for over a hundred years, such as the Catholic Worker, the Ploughshares movement, and many more.

Secondly, since when did "raising taxes" become "one of the tenets of Marxism"?!
I've read the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, and no-where in either of his classic works does Marx say anything about raising taxes.

Actually Marx called for worker ownership and control of all resources and production facilities. In a Marxist society, all profits from large scale organized economic activity are shared by the workers and allocated by their Soviet committees... oh well, no point trying to explain economic theories to someone who chooses to be anti-intellectual and rejects book-learnin' in general.


And here's a doozy. We all know Christine says women and girls who have been victims of rape and incest should not be allowed to get an abortion but should be legally forced to give birth to their rapists baby, their fathers baby or whatever. Equal rights for sperm! Menstruation is murder... ok, she didn't say that, but logically her ideas are equivalent to those extreme caricature statements.

So she says it's a "scare tactic" to bring up rape and incest because they constitute (according to her) "one percent of all abortions performed in America." So rape victims rights are not important because they are in the minority? 25% of all American women are raped in their lifetimes. So 25% of women, Christine says you are a "scare tactic"

I'll leave you for a moment with a pretty good little CBS summary, including some great quotes from naked transparent lies and idiocy such as on China's secret invasion plans she said on TV she knew about "They misquoted me at the time I believe"... you misquoted yourself?!
And the simply brilliant "What I believe is irrelevant" (regarding her belief that evolution is a myth) She and many of her opponents agree that her more whacky beliefs and factually questionable statements are "irrelevant" but here at CTTW we beg to differ.
When someone is a US Senator, their beliefs, their intelligence, their education and their honesty or dishonesty are of the utmost importance to all of us.
We need to know what our leaders think and believe because they make our laws.
How is this irrelevant?