re: #66 moderatelyradicalliberal

The people defending her should hate her. Don’t they even care that they might have been swindled? If they sent her money and she used it for her own personal reasons, they are the people she took advantage of. Don’t they want to make sure they didn’t get conned?

I think people who support/ed O’Donnell, by and large, are motivated by pure partisanship, and often a real hatred for both the bogey-man liberals and the evil RINOs. She wasn’t a rational or defensible candidate.*

When you’re in a frame of mind like that, you have no way to be angry at, or even critical of, O’Donnell for misusing campaign money. If you admit she did something wrong, the whole house of cards starts falling. So your mind rejects it, and immediately fills up the gap. Democrats have also been found guilty of financial malfeasance, so it doesn’t matter. It’s just revenge, so it doesn’t matter. They’re all out to get her/me. This is proof. The other guy is worse.

* I’m sure some sane Republicans voted for her, but I’m also sure they did it muttering, “Oh my God, she’s nuts.”