Failed Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell has a new book out in which the Delaware Republican admits she brewed herself up a disaster when she made her now infamous “I am not a witch” campaign commercial.
Our Corky Siemaszko reports:
That, O’Donnell wrote, was “my lowest moment of the 2010 campaign.”
“It was a wrong-headed move, made for all the wrong reasons, but it was mine,” O’Donnell wrote in “Troublemaker: Let’s Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again.”
O’Donnell, a Tea Party favorite, wound up being trounced at the polls by Democrat Chris Coons last November despite the support of Sarah Palin and other arch-conservatives.
The Associated Press obtained a copy of O’Donnell’s book, which hits bookstores on Aug. 16.
A conservative activist best known for advocating abstinence, O’Donnell stunned the Republican establishment by beating former Delaware governor Michael Castle in the GOP primary.
O’Donnell wrote she was blindsided when comedian Bill Maher aired an old clip of her admitting
She claims
pushed her to film the “I am not a witch” commercial. She said the ad was leaked and posted on the Internet before she could put her foot down.
As a result, O’Donnell
was skewered by “Saturday Night Live”
and subjected to so much ridicule that it sank her already troubled campaign.
Reached by the AP, Davis said only: “I wish her well with her book, and her future. That was a very unusual campaign.”
Also, the AP obtained emails that suggest the O’Donnell campaign actually approved the witch commercial and planned to post it on YouTube the same day it hit TV.
O’Donnell, 41, also rips some of her fellow Republicans in the book. She accused Castle of pressuring people to not donate to her campaign – a charge he denies. And she claimed Karl Rove, who was President Bush’s political guru, undermined her.
Rove was one of the leaders of the “liberal influences” that “severely tarnished Bush’s legacy among true Constitutionalists,” she wrote. “It was Karl Rove’s style of Machiavellian, unprincipled realpolitik that destroyed the Republican brand.”
During the campaign, Rove called her a kooky candidate who had a track record of saying “nutty things.”
