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[No one in the political class (20% of the pop.) has used the term
"ruling class" without irony since the last SDSer gave up and took a
teaching job. <br>
Something may be happening here ... but do we know what it is?]<br>
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Christine O’Donnell Slams The ‘Anti-Americanism’ Of The ‘Ruling
Class’<br>
September 17, 2010 4:55 PM<br>
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ABC’s Michael Falcone reports:<br>
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Speaking to an adoring crowd at the Values Voters Summit in
Washington on Friday, Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell
cast herself as an enemy of the “ruling class” and took aim at the
“anti-Americanism” that she said taints the establishment.<br>
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“The small elite don’t get us. They call us wacky, they call us wing
nuts,” she said, “we call us ‘we the people.’”<br>
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O’Donnell who has been the focus of attention for her surprising
defeat of Rep. Mike Castle in the GOP Senate primary in Delaware
earlier this week as well as her outspoken views on abstinence,
condom use and masturbation, among other issues, called herself a
member of the “values movement” and a defender of the Constitution
(from which she quoted during her remarks).<br>
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“Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture our
legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize and tear her
down,” O’Donnell said. “In the diners and at the pig roasts, in the
town halls and the church halls I hear people embrace for the first
time a vibrant conversation about American values. They reject the
narrative that’s been imposed on them from the DC cocktail crowd.”<br>
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O’Donnell, who began her speech with a indictment of the Obama
administration -- a reoccurring theme at the event, organized by the
conservative Family Research Council -- said that the “incremental
assault on our freedoms, our values, our free enterprise, our
property rights our economic stability” had gone on too long.<br>
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“We’ve watched the tentacles of big government weasel their way into
every part of our lives,” she said. “Bureaucrats and politicians in
Washington think they should decide what kind of light bulb we use,
what kind of toilets we flush, what kind of car we drive.”<br>
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She added: “They’ll buy your teenage daughter an abortion but they
won’t let her buy a sugary soda in a school’s vending machine.”<br>
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The Delaware Senate hopeful recalled events that shaped her own
political views, such as the fall of the Berlin wall, and celebrated
the spread of free enterprise, including the rise of businesses like
Walmart and Home Depot.<br>
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“Only in America could that happen,” O’Donnell said, adding: “We saw
what freedom can do. We saw what happens when people have control
over their own money, their property, their labor, their ideas,
their risk and their reward.”<br>
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O’Donnell also wove religious themes into her speech, referring to
“the shining city on the hill” and “constitutional repentance.”
Family Research Council official Gil Merz who took the podium after
O’Donnell finished speaking implored the audience to pray for her:
“This woman of faith is going to be under severe attack.”<br>
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O’Donnell, who was played in and out of her speech to the tune of
Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin,’” still has a tough road ahead in
her quest to capture the Senate seat. A recent Public Policy
Polling survey showed O'Donnell trailing her Democrat opponent,
Chris Coons, by 14 percentage points.<br>
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