Meghan McCain: Christine O'Donnell 'Seen As Nutjob'

Meghan McCain sharply criticized Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell on Sunday, calling the GOP nominee someone "seen as a nutjob." Speaking on ABC's "This Week," McCain blasted O'Donnell and expressed deep concern that she was able to capture the Republican nomination.

"My problem is that, no matter what, Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office," McCain said on Sunday. "She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business."

Continuing the attack, McCain added that "what [O'Donnell's success] sends to my generation is: one day you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much of] a lack of experience you have. And it scares me for a lot of reasons. I just know, in my group of friends, it turns people off because she's seen as a nutjob."

"This Week" anchor Christiane Amanpour said during the show that she saw McCain "sort of holding [her] head in [her] hands" as a segment on O'Donnell aired.

O'Donnell stunned longtime congressman Michael Castle in Delaware's Republican primary, a victory that dramatically changed the dynamics of the state's general election. She recently debated Democratic nominee Chris Coons, during which she was stumped when asked to name a recent Supreme Court case. Earlier on "This Week," O'Donnell complained that the Republican establishment was not giving her sufficient help.

Comments

[Oilygarch]

05:19 PM on 10/24/2010

I agree with Meghan McCain's stance on Christine O'Donnell.

Too bad Meghan's dad is seen as a war criminal.

[Guitarsandmore]

10:57 PM on 10/18/2010

I have never seriously considered running for congress, but if they are going to start electing people like Christine O'Donnell, I am going to through my hat in the ring and the rest of you should, too.

We can't let someone like that get in there and make decisions about important issues when she hasn't a clue what she is talking about.

I would be a better Senator, and that too is a scary thought.

[MmeFlutterbye]

10:41 PM on 10/18/2010

I want to apologize to Meghan McCain for a disparaging remark I made about her. I honestly had her mixed up with another personality. I want to state here that she seems like a very sensible woman. I realized my mistake when I saw her on the Rachel Maddow show this evening. Immediately when she appeared on the show, I realized my mistake. I won't rewrite the crummy remark that I made about her. I just want to iterate how sorry I am that I made it.

[Keith Reavis]

07:43 PM on 10/18/2010

I think the title of this article says it all.

[happypatb]

05:01 PM on 10/18/2010

"She has no history, no real success in any kind of business." Meg could have been looking in the mirror. Having Ms. McCain on "This Week" as an expert political commenter shows just how far "This Week" has fallen since Stephanopolis left . . . very sad.

[Carolyn LeBeauf]

03:35 PM on 10/18/2010

O'Donnell is worst than Palin. Did anyone ever think that could be possible?

[stonewiki]

04:49 PM on 10/18/2010

It's a high bar but there are a whole bunch trying to get over it.

[Hayseuss]

03:23 PM on 10/18/2010

Meghan McCain will one day be a Democrat. She shows the potential for rational, logical thinking, and as her father continues to lose his mind, and the rest of the GOP continues its slide to the right, she will find herself all alone with nowhere to run but the Democratic Party.

[Oilygarch]

05:22 PM on 10/24/2010

And you can thank the two party system for that. ;-P

[blueken]

02:43 PM on 10/18/2010

Chirstine is the perfect choice if you believe that government doesn't work. It most certainly will not work if she is at the wheel. Maybe after 4 years of O'Donnel the GOP can drowned the government in a bathtub. Boy, Republicans have great slogans. Here's hoping that Megan is the start of a new GOP that is willing to govern and earn that government pay check.

[Oilygarch]

05:22 PM on 10/24/2010

It may be hard to run in her dad's shadow.

[chazmanr]

02:33 PM on 10/18/2010

I give Meghan credit for being a rational conservative. However, her dad is to blame for all of these candidates. Crazy, uneducated and unqualified became the new GOP standards after he gave Caribou Barbie a national megaphone.

[jetskier]

02:14 PM on 10/18/2010

Thank you Meghan..you broke ranks again with your dear old dad..KUDOS
So...if you seen O'D anytime soon, please tell her jetskier called and said the following:
""Just because you received a certificate from the
'RETS SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW'
advertised on the pack panels of match books doesn't make you
an expert in anything but perhaps fixing a transistor radio ,
while reading the radio it's MIRANDA RIGHTS..

This mental case O'D doesn't reserve to receive full pay and benefits for life.
THIS IS ALL SHE WANTS ....the money!!! Remember ..
she never has had a serious adult job..
Also, please remind her that riding around on a broom stick in certain cases, depending
on how bumy the ride is may in vace be masturbation...ooh..and..
Harry Potter is not a biography but a fantasy movie....

[wecanonlyhope]

02:03 PM on 10/18/2010

Meghan has a right to be scared, I wish her father felt the same way.

[Oilygarch]

05:25 PM on 10/24/2010

Her father, each day, is getting more and more comfortable with a sense of criminal immunity.

[wolfiegirl]

02:01 PM on 10/18/2010

I agree with Meghan up to a point. I don't discourage people for running for Senate, per se, simply due to inexperience. I'd point out to her that what actually makes a mockery of our system is these lifetime political hacks, who have served in Congress for years and are in the back pockets of the wealthiest special interest they can find. I'd rather see someone with no experience run and get elected to Senate, albeit one with some actual common sense and a few rational thoughts.

[MmeFlutterbye]

10:50 PM on 10/18/2010

I agree with you up to a point. the Teapublican Party disparages anyone with an education. I object to anyone running who can't name the three branches of government and their functions. I object to anyone running who cannot name the Justices of the SCOTUS. I object to anyone who screams CONSTITUTION and then has no idea of the amendments that have been made to it. I object to anyone who thinks that the early 1900's were the "good old days" when there were still lynchings, no unions to protect workers rights, Jim Crow, and no ACLU to protect our rights. I could NEVER vote for such persons who know nothing of how our Democracy should work.

[wolfiegirl]

08:40 AM on 10/19/2010

No, I think we're on the same page; see my last sentence. I want new blood, but I want it sane.

[Oilygarch]

05:28 PM on 10/24/2010

I sense that the Tea Party is actually a very top-down organization that picks its candidates carefully for malleability. Oftentimes malleability's bi-product is lack of education and lack of any original thought. As long as top-down talking points can be expressed, and even then some... ...then come the top-down endorsements from people like Palin.

[MYSTERIOUS]

01:43 PM on 10/18/2010

They ran this segment on Morning Joe today. Mika stated, "I'm not sure that was the right thing to ask her..." or something equally as absurb.

The MSM spends countless hours driving down on President Obama and the Democrats and one Republican questions one of her own, and this is what takes place.

So far, Meghan McCain and Colin Powell seems to be the ONLY voices of reason on that side of the road.

[Badmax]

02:22 PM on 10/18/2010

Frankly, I really don't care what Meghan McCain says. I feel the same about her speaking out as I do having Cheney's daughter on the Sunday Talk Shows. I am not a Republican, I'm you.

[LameDuckHunting]

01:20 PM on 10/18/2010

Excuse me, Ms. O'Donnell, but the Aqua Buddha just called and he needs you back in the canoe, pronto..............

[Pam Herman]

01:06 PM on 10/18/2010

I want to like Meghan McCain. I want to think that she's a thinking conservative, not a knee-jerk conservative. I want to think that while she parts company with other conservatives on GLBT issues, she won't change her mind when it becomes politically expedient to do so, the way her father did.

[kylennblack]

01:40 PM on 10/18/2010

I do too. I don't mind a fiscal conservative who is thoughtful and socially progressive and I'm hoping she fits the bill and, like you said, doesn't flip-flop like daddy deare$t.

[MmeFlutterbye]

01:43 PM on 10/18/2010

In your dreams!!!!