With about six weeks to go before the election I think we’re all pretty exhausted already by the drip drip drip of the crazy life and times of Christine O’Donnell. Now she admits to “dabbling into” witchcraft and it’s almost like, ‘this is surprising’? I mean who among us has not drunk deeply from a human skull filled with goat blood just before a black candle-lit orgy involving leggy supermodels who sold their souls for a Vogue cover?

Hey. Guilty. Sure I was 20 at the time. Also when I was 24, 27, and three times when I was 29. But that was it. Until last Tuesday, right after watching Parenthood. But, you know, it was just a phase. A really awesome phase.

For demonologists like myself, Christine is  exhausting us with laughter and heavy eye-rolling ( a smirk burns up 13 calories, you can look it up). In the case of conservatives, she has them doing major cardio work, what with the twisting and turning and back flips and rhetorical twists and turns. Take former Time magazine blogger of the year and potty-mouth John Hinderaker for example:

Christine O’Donnell’s campaign went off the rails today when Bill Maher announced that he has previously-unseen clips of O’Donnell from the late 1990s when she appeared several times on his show. In one clip, she says that she once “dabbled into witchcraft.”

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Good grief. Maher says there is a lot more where that came from. Not coincidentally, I’m sure, O’Donnell’s staff today canceled her scheduled appearances on Fox News Sunday and Face the Nation tomorrow. It seems apparent that O’Donnell was not properly vetted as a candidate and that she will be more the butt of jokes for the next six weeks than a serious candidate. This is not what the conservative movement needs.

Okay. Wait for it…

Here we go:

Lest there be any doubt, if I were a resident of Delaware, I would vote for O’Donnell. That is because she is far preferable to her “bearded Marxist” opponent. But O’Donnell is, nevertheless, a lousy candidate. I’m sorry, but politics is not about snatching random people out of the crowd and making them one of 100 United States Senators. Those who seek high office need to be qualified as leaders. They must be thoughtful and intelligent; they must have accomplishments in the public, or, better yet, the private sphere.

Christine O’Donnell has none of the above qualities. If the best we can say about her is that her “dabbling in witchcraft” is excusable, I rest my case. She will be a laughingstock for the next six weeks, I fear, and then will be clobbered in the general election. Whether this is better or worse than having Mike Castle as a Senator is a legitimately debatable point. But I don’t see how any conservative can deny that it would be better if the Republican Party had nominated a stronger and more qualified conservative to represent Delaware in the Senate.

Fellow Powerlinista Paul Mirengoff closes with possibly the funniest line ever written at Power Line:

PAUL adds: It’s great to hear that O’Donnell learned from her experiences dabbling in witchcraft. You wouldn’t want a U.S. Senator who dabbled in witchcraft and learned nothing from it.

To put this in even simpler terms that even Dan Riehl could understand

By now it it is pretty obvious that you go to war with the financially insolvent lunatic anti-masturbationist that you have, not the financially insolvent lunatic anti-masturbationist  you wish you had. Quite frankly, if it came out tomorrow that Christine O’Donnell had given herself a home abortion and sold the fetus to cannibals so she could buy meth, many Tea Baggers and conservatives would be falling all over themselves complimenting her plucky can-do attitude and her entrepreneurial spirit.

Because that is how they roll.