Anti-masturbation activist, witchcraft-dabbler, and GOP senate candidate Christine O’Donnell dodged her Sunday show appearances in order to attend a partisan fundraising picnic in Delaware today. She used the opportunity to try to laugh off the revelation that she “dabbled into witchcraft” when she was younger:

Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell is making light of comments she made more than a decade ago about having dabbled in witchcraft.

During an appearance Sunday at a GOP picnic in southern Delaware, O’Donnell said she was in high school when she dabbled in witchcraft. She asked the audience: “How many of you didn’t hang out with questionable folks in high school?”

O’Donnell’s strategy for the time being appears to be a concerted effort to avoid answering tough questions about her background by simply offering unchallengeable statements in public appearances at which media are present.

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