people were huge this year with o donnell, angle, everybody else. i know. it was you know, it was crazy. the amount of tea party fervor and most of it landed in a splash because americans actually saw better. who was your favorite of them, though? that s the question. you know, i think, like people like somebody like angle was dangerous but o donnell was too much fun. the whole witch thing, you can t beat that, you can t beat it with a broomstick. i know. i know, i loved angle too because what i loved the most about the angle story is that the chicken lady was too crazy for nevada. that remember the woman who had chickens and they replaced her with angle. they ratcheted up the nuts. but i think when you have, i m not a witch, it s pretty awesome. but my favorite really think about christine o donnell was she she launched herself out under the platform with her antimasturbation platform and it s kind of like, honey, in this economy, do not fry to end
joe johns joins us from washington the with the political pop. joe, what s the big news? what s the skinny about christine o donnell. oh we know christine o donnell is writing a book. she actually she got a publisher. going to touch on her recent race for the senate. she said it s time to set the record straight. no doubt it will deal with her run-ins with the republicans, with the democrats, with the media. i asked my friends and followers on facebook and twitter for suggestions on what the book should be. what do you think? what do you think the book should be titled? what should i m not a witch, i m you. there you go. very nice. i was surprised how many people went there on the i m not a witch thing. well, it s the ad seen round the world, right? oh. i asked people on facebook and twitter for suggestions on what the book should be titled. some of those entitled, which are you, do you believe in magic, hocus-pocus.
fred davis next time she sees him. did she say, are you sure, what s the point, or, oh, boy, this one is going to cause a stir. we had that conversation when i gave her the script. she said i m so sick of the witch thing, i would like to put it behind me. i said this is the way to put it behind you. you have to draw a line in the sand. say that s the past, now we re going to talk about things that are important to the people of delaware and how i compare to chris coons. christine o donnell and the ads, straight to camera, looking the voters in the eye. you used the same approach with a candidate in arizona who has a famous last name, people knew his last name, ben quayle. this was one of the more provocative ads of the primary season. let s listen and talk about it. barack obama is the worst president in history. in my generation, we ll inherit a weakened country. drug cartels in mexico, tax cartels in d.c., what s happened to america? take me behind the scenes of that one. o
living through in the delaware valley. they will be introduced to chris coons. right now christine o donnell has overshadowed him, wolf. do you think this is going to come up in the debate. are you going to talk about the witch thing or is that part of it? it will come up in the course of the debate. we don t know how he ll response to that issue. we know that commercial that she did, i am not a witch. i am you. so we know where she s coming from. it will be very interesting. how will chris coons deal with this issue. she s going to come back and rail against him for raising taxes as a county executive among other things. this will get heated.
and foremost that she s not a witch? that s the kind of candidate delaware hasn t had since 1692. wow. there you go. christine o donnell. again, the witch thing keeps coming up. she acknowledged being a witch 10 or 12 years ago on a politically incorrect show. she ended up cutting a commercial last week trying to tell delaware voters she s not a witch. and saturday night live spoofing her. wolf blitzer will be moderating the delaware senate debate on wednesday here on cnn. we re going to be down there in delaware on thursday morning, by the way. what s your sense of what paladino said on the today show this morning? it s something of a walkback? something of a walkback. i think regarding the governor s race, he s already down in the polls to andrew cuomo the democrat, but this could be devastating. and the fact that we have all of these hate crimes, all of this attention being brought to hate crimes, we saw several more